The Chrysalis

DOES YOUR ORGANISATION NEED LOW COST, GOOD QUALITY FURNITURE, SCENERY, TIMBER AND SO MUCH MORE?

Reusable items and materials that we collect enter The Chrysalis. The Chrysalis is a not-for-profit, social enterprise that is committed to reusing items and materials. Metamorphosis within The Chrysalis, sees otherwise unwanted products turn into valuable resources for charities, voluntary groups, schools, SMEs and a host of other good causes.

Based in South Bristol and bordered by three communities where high unemployment and lack of aspiration is a problem, The Chrysalis is developing training and work programmes to help us reuse even more of the “waste” that we collect, whilst addressing another dreadful waste in our society:  Wasted Talent.

These programmes will provide real opportunities for users to achieve and start their journey onto a life where they can play a part in society. Collecteco feed so many interesting and good quality reusables into The Chrysalis, from 1000s of square metres of modern office furniture to the more quirky and weird and wonderful that is collected from all over the country.

If you are looking for something, please email or call and you’d be most welcome to pop over and browse The Chrysalis, but please contact us first. Otherwise, please email a wishlist and we will check this against our stock. New stock arrives daily and we never know what is coming in, so if we don’t have your desired items now, we will log your wishlist and inform you when something comes in.

Please call 0117 941 5887 or email TheChrysalis@collecteco.co.uk

Examples of items leaving The Chrysalis recently:

  • Numerous small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) kitting out their premises with everything from desks, filing cabinets, chairs, whiteboards and cupboards to ceiling tiles, carpet tiles and sheet timber for installing a new floor
  • Over 50 metres of modern metal library shelving which was exported to kit out the library of a university in Somalia
  • Classroom furniture for a school near Swindon that is expanding rapidly
  • Sheet timber, lighting gantries, sheet plastic and more passed onto a community pantomime group in Bristol
  • Beer crates and bottles (mostly still full!!!) dating back to the 1930s to collectors all over the country
  • Over 5 tonnes of rope passed on to the Scrapstore
  • Props, including furniture for the dull probabtion office in Public Enemies, nursing home furniture used in Skins and quirky furniture and other items on Dirk Gently.

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