Furnishing Futures Open Studio: Meet the Charity

At Furnishing Futures, you'll discover how beautiful homes can be a powerful tool for healing and recovery. This open house event offers a unique insight into their innovative approach to tackling furniture poverty. Through hourly talks, you'll learn about the devastating impact of living in empty social housing, and how trauma-informed design can support wellbeing and recovery for families who've escaped domestic abuse. Take a tour of their warehouse and studio to see how donated furniture from the interiors industry is transformed into healing homes. Meet the team who turn what might have been destined for landfill into beautiful, professionally designed spaces that raise self-esteem and support recovery. Be the first to experience their new events and sales showroom. Our homes have a huge impact on our mental health and wellbeing. Living in poor quality housing without proper flooring, curtains or furniture has a devastating effect on people's self-esteem – and yet most social housing is given to families completely bare. These might be houses, but they're not homes. Women and children who are rehoused in empty flats after leaving abusive relationships find themselves plunged into poverty at the most vulnerable time in their lives. Families already struggling to make ends meet cannot stretch their shrinking household budgets to afford basic items like beds, sofas or curtains. That's where Furnishing Futures steps in. They take furniture and homewares donated by the interiors industry and create healing homes that support women and children's safety, wellbeing and recovery. They support families by creating beautiful homes, designed well. You'll also be the first to experience The Atrium, their new events and retail space. This design-focused venue will host a curated programme of events for the caring and the curious, while selling high-quality furnishings to support the charity's mission. Come and discover how design can be a force for good, and learn about sustainability in interiors through a lens of powerful social impact.