Starter Packs

The Starter Pack Service provides new tenants who have been homeless with essential items to set up their home.  The packs help relieve the financial burden that many new tenants face.  Around 2,000 new tenants benefit from this service each year.

Congregations and individuals throughout Edinburgh donate household goods or money that allow us to make the packs.  Volunteers at our two warehouses, Fresh Start and Edinburgh Furniture Initiative, make them up into six different packs - crockery and cutlery, pots and pans, cleaning materials , towels, curtains and bedding and linen.  Over 6000 packs are then distributed to new tenants across Edinburgh and Lothian via local furniture projects.

To request more information on the Starter Pack service please contact Ian McFadyen at ian@freshstartweb.org.uk

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