The Starter Packs 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, organisations and individuals throughout Edinburgh donate household goods that allow us to make the packs.

Volunteers make them up into eight different packs - crockery and cutlery, pots and pans, cleaning materials , towels, curtains and bedding & linen, electrical goods and toiletries.

Over 8000 packs are then distributed to new tenants across Edinburgh and Lothian via local furniture projects.

Every Pack helps to make a fundamental difference to the quality of people’s lives. For example: bedding to keep warm at night; curtains to feel secure; pots & pans to cook a hot meal; crockery & cutlery to eat the meal; cleaning materials and other items that all help to make a house a home.

If you would like to donate goods and require more information about the items we collect please click here. If you would like to access the service please give us a call or click here to fill in our contact form, and someone will be in touch as soon as possible.