Local businesses support Meningitis Research Foundation

A number of local Bristol businesses have donated old office furniture and equipment to international charity Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) as it relocates its head office from Thornbury to central Bristol.

Veale Wasbrough Vizards (VWV), Collecteco, and Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) have all been instrumental in facilitating and organising the donation of office equipment and furniture.  

The donations mean that Meningitis Research Foundation will have upgraded furniture for its new office on Baldwin Street.

VWV has recently relocated its Bristol office from Orchard Court to Narrow Quay House.  

The refurbished building is equipped with new furniture and equipment, meaning there were some items surplus to requirements.  

It has donated chairs, pedestals, cupboards, crockery, coat stands, clocks, thirty-five wide screen monitors with keyboards and mice, and general stationery items to the foundation.

In addition, Collecteco has assisted MRF in acquiring thirty-eight desks from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Southampton office. 

Collecteco work with businesses and other organisations to redistribute furniture and other equipment to good causes.

Working in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers to redistribute kit from their Southampton offices, Collecteco were keen to donate desks to MRF even though they were slightly too wide for the planned space.

Having donated furniture to Knowle West Media Centre from Bristol City Council’s City Hall clearance in January, Collecteco were able to put the foundation in touch with KWMC’s new digital manufacturing enterprise, KWMC: The Factory, to get the desks remanufactured to the right specification at low cost. 

Of course, the desks are 100 per cent reused. 

Collecteco hope to donate other kit, ranging from a meeting room table from the BBC to matching mugs from DNV GL.

Mike Taylor from Meningitis Research Foundation said:

“We are very grateful for the support we’ve received from these businesses. 

“Bristol is renowned as a dynamic, creative city with a strong network of organisations committed to working together for social improvement locally and globally. 

“We are extremely excited and proud to be becoming a part of this community and look further to finding other ways of working with our new neighbours.”