Tag: STARTER PACKS

Fresh Start needs starter pack items

📣STARTER PACK DONATIONS CALL OUT📣

With a new year now in full swing, we urgently need the following household items for our Starter Packs:

🛀Towels

🍽️Crockery / Dinnerware

🍳Pots & Pans

🛏️Duvets and Pillows

🫖Small Electrical Goods

For a full list of accepted items, visit our website 🌐

Donations of goods can be dropped off at our warehouse at 22-24 Ferry Road Drive, Edinburgh, EH4 4BR, from Monday to Thursday 9am-4pm and Fridays 9am-1pm.

Alternatively, you can order essential household items from our Amazon Wishlist, which will then be delivered directly to our warehouse: https://tr.ee/S8BHy0

Thank you so much – we appreciate your help! 💙

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Leith landlord addressing high cost of home essentials

Addressing high cost of home essentials

Harbour Homes is working hard to assist tenants with the high costs associated with moving into and running a home.

Since April this year Harbour Homes has:

  • Invested £30k in housing starter packs for new tenants to purchase high-quality used furniture from Four Square Edinburgh Initiative. Eligible tenants receive
    a voucher for up to £500 (the amount varies depending on what is needed) to choose their furniture and have it delivered for free. They may also purchase
    brand new items such as cot mattresses and bedding
  • Secured funding of £15k from the Turn2us Edinburgh Trust for tenants to access one-off grants for things like furniture, flooring and white goods, and to
    relieve the cost of living crisis
  • Set up a carpeting/flooring fund of £6k for tenants who cannot otherwise afford floor coverings
  • Allocated £3k to a white goods/washing machine fund for tenants

Fiona Whitelaw, Tenant Advice Team Leader at Harbour Homes, said: “With the cost of living crisis showing little sign of abating and changes to the Scottish Welfare Fund, unfortunately many more of our tenants are finding it increasingly difficult to pay for essentials such as flooring, furniture and white goods.

“We’re really proud of all the work we’re doing to secure and free up funding so people can have these essentials in their homes.”