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Third time lucky as Re-use Littleborough is

Christmas 2023 granted charity status

at The Royal Toby Local community group
Re-use Littleborough has
been granted charity status
after two unsuccessful
applications.
Celebrate the festive season with us this Christmas. The Royal Toby Hotel and Restaurant in Rochdale is the perfect place to get
together with your family, friends and colleagues for a perfect celebration.
Leave the cold outside and enjoy a warm welcome, roaring fires, excellent food, and a comfy bed. The outcome came just
Party Nights - Tribute Acts - Bingo - Motown - DJ’s days after the group’s move
to a new venue in
Littleborough in October,
with a meeting of trustees
following the week after.
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Re-use Littleborough exists
to provide an eco-friendly
solution to prevent people
from throwing perfectly
usable items away and help Founder and trustee by support workers that
those in need, such as Michael Bamford said: “The have identified a family in
women fleeing violence, move to our new location real need; we can provide
the homeless, those has been a massive success, from our donations
discharged from long-term and then we had a phone call much-needed furniture to
hospital care, the elderly, to say we have been granted help a family that have an
asylum seekers and charity status. empty property.”
refugees.

“Although we were waiting The group was originally
The group first applied for for the outcome it was still a started eight years ago after
charity status five years massive shock to us all. This Michael noticed a
ago, but has now been was our third attempt, discrepancy between the
accepted, meaning Re-use having been rejected twice waste we have in our
can apply for funding where for some very unreal country and those in need in
needed and help even more reasons. poorer countries.
people and families.
“But we now have our It began with an online post,
The eco-friendly cause charity number that will asking for donations of
Local delivery butchers
reopened at its new venue open so many doors. We unwanted baby items to
– 111 Church Street – on have no plans as yet to apply send to the Forever Angels
2 October, after closing the for grants as we class Baby Home in Tanzania and
hub at the former Royal ourselves as ‘volunteer led’ grew into a larger
Oak Hotel in September. and ‘self-funded’. movement, with the main
Restaurant quality meats, hub in Littleborough, a
delivered to your door. The new premises has “Our main project at the second-hand baby and
central heating, laminated moment is financing the children’s clothing shop and
order your christmas bundle now! flooring and more space Resource Centre we run in its resource centre for
than the former pub. Rochdale. It is only accessed support workers.

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