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In the week commencing 17th February income reached £5000, which was the first time this figure had been reached. Sales over the last few weeks have been very good. 

The trustees of Resurrection Furniture are welcoming grant applications to help fund local charities and other projects. If your organisation would like to apply for a grant, please go to the Grant Applications page to download a grant application form which can be completed and returned to Resurrection Furniture.

Su, Gwyneth, Elaine, Alan, Natasha and Sue dressed the windows, one evening in November over a few mince pies and the odd beverage ready for the turnng on of the Christmas lights in Alton. The High Street (and the shop) were buzzing. An amazing number of decorations have been sold in the period,

Resurrection Furniture are very pleased to award Alton Arts Festival £2,500.

The Alton Arts Festival will take place from 5th-14th July 2024. The festival is a 10 day, multi venue, multi-disciplinary arts festival in Alton. The not-for-profit celebration of the arts, community and creativity. The festival is entirely organised by volunteers.

Part of the grant will go towards essential overheads to help stage the festival, and we are extremely excited that we will also be helping to fund the children’s programme

We were honoured to receive a visit from the Bishop of Winchester Philip Mounstephen and his delightful dog Noggin.

Bishop Philip, had a tour of the shop, including our PAT testing and furniture restoration areas. He also had chance to meet lots of our volunteers, followed by tea and cake.

Resurrection Furniture are pleased to announce that we have awarded CAP (Christians against poverty) £11,000 (payable in 2 parts over 2 years) to help to fund the CAP Team Administrator Post 

This will make a significant difference to the whole team set-up and help release the front line workers to deliver more Social Action support services in the Alton Community.   

Thanks to Linda Rutter and Kay Walker for attending the Dementia Friendly lunch on behalf of Resurrection Furniture recently where they presented a cheque for £1,000. Approximately 100 people attended and Kay and Linda gave out leaflets to those present.

Alton Town Council Mayor Ben Hamlin paid a visit to the Resurrection  Furniture shop on Thursday 11th January.

The Mayor had a tour of the shop, including our furniture restoration and electrical testing area. We also took the opportunity to update the Mayor on grants that Resurrection Furniture have awarded over the last 6 months. All of these have been awarded to good causes in Alton and the surrounding area. 

The Mayor kindly awarded certificates to Resurrection Furniture's longest serving volunteers. 16 people received awards, with each person being introduced by another volunteer, who told their stories and background. After the awards were handed out, there was a social event in the shop for the volunteers with tea, prosecco, sandwiches, cake and finally pizza.

Resurrection Furniture have been awarded a "Highly Commended" in the Alton Best Dressed Christmas window display competition. 

Well done to Gemma, Gwyneth and Su who dressed the windows and decorated the tree, its a great achievement to get "Highly Commended"

Natasha has  delivered presents donated at the shop to the Community Cupboard, ready for the official opening of the new shop on Christmas Eve. Some of the  presents are shown in the picture.

A big thank you, for all the kind donations and all the time spent wrapping the presents.

Sandy at the Community Cupboard couldn't thank us all enough, and she said it will certainly help to make peoples Christmas a little brighter

Resurrection Furniture  said goodbye to Ruth Randall with a farewell party in the shop. Ruth has been a trustee since 2019 with responsibility for pastoral care. Ruth's husband Gordon recently retired as vicar of Holybourne  church, and they moved from Holybourne on the following day. Everyone at Resurrection Furniture wishes them well in their new life.

Resurrection Furniture has donated £5,000 to help St Michael’s Hospice to continue with their work in helping to support local people who have a life-limiting illness, are facing the end of life or experiencing bereavement.

St Michael’s dedicated team of nurses, doctors and therapists deliver free and compassionate end of life care and support. With less than 16% of their funds coming from the NHS, Resurrection Furniture felt that St Michael’s Hospice was such a worthy cause.

The money that Resurrection Furniture has donated will help St Michael’s Hospice to provide, to provide home visits, telephone calls, therapy sessions and treatments and care in a specialist unit.

Christine Griffiths from the Pink Place (Cancer Support Group) came to the shop to receive a cheque for £1000 from Resurrection Furniture. 

The Pink Place has branches in Alton and Basingstoke, and they offer wellbeing services, information, counselling, support and social events for women and men affected by cancer. 

The £1,000 grant will to cover the cost of 1 year's hire of a small room at Alton Maltings for Complementary Therapies, including reflexology & massage, during their Cancer Wellbeing Support Sessions on the 1st and 3rd Friday morning of the month. The new therapies will commence at the start of 2024

The RF volunteers tea party was held on 3rd September in Jane and Robin Lees beautiful garden. All the volunteers and staff enjoyed the sunny weather sitting out in the garden eating a delicious tea.  This was the opportunity for the Trustees to say thank you to everyone for making RF such a good place to work.

We welcomed Natasha Perrin as our new shop manager on 24th July.  Natasha will be working 20 hours per week, usually Mondays to Thursdays. She will vary the days she works so as to meet all volunteers, at least from time to time. 

Natasha writes about herself:

I’ve lived in Alton for almost 20 years, though I’m originally from Worcester.

I’m married to Graham, I have two grown up step daughters and three little step grand children and a rather lovely and bossy cat called Colditz. (It’s a long story regarding his name.)

I love going to the gym and I’m a fair-weather runner. I also enjoy spending my time being creative, including flower arranging (I did the flowers for both of my step daughters’ weddings), making and decorating cupcakes and making bunting and other crafts.

Most of my career has been in sales and marketing and I also spent a few years as a buyer. I’ve been involved with a lot of trade shows and have considerable experience in visual merchandising.