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CleanConscience

CleanConscience is a unique charity that assists UK hotels, restaurants, pubs, and offices to deal with challenging waste streams, like redundant or surplus office furniture, mattresses, linen, bedding, curtains, furniture, mirrors, framed pictures, small electrical equipment, etc. Items that are salvaged are donated to the other charities we support, or offered back to the public in exchange for

28/11/2023

Our partnership with PPHE Hotel Group is going from strength to strength 💪💪💪

76 single mattresses and 76 mattress toppers were redistributed from Park Plaza County Hall London, and 13 wooden baby cots were redistributed from Park Plaza Westminster Bridge London

We dropped a Luton load to three British Heart Foundation furniture shops - Brixton, Old Kent Road, and Woolwich ♻️♻️♻️

Thank you for the call Alexandra Apopei & Lili Seul!

Thank you to our team for always giving your best - Eddy, Alex, William, Hendir, Carlos, and Brendon, and of course Aleks, Dennis, and Gwen 💚💚💚

23/11/2023

Another 10 sofa beds were given a second chance at being useful ♻️♻️♻️

The CleanConscience Team got a call from Park Plaza Riverfront at 16:58pm on Tuesday, and by 17:30pm it was all arranged for collection to happen on Wednesday morning 💪💪💪

Well done Michael Curtin for the last minute arrangements and Adrian Escobar for being so organised on the day!

Daniel Pedreschi FIH MI
PPHE Hotel Group

08/11/2023

Couldn't be more chuffed with this two page spread in the Housekeeping Today UK magazine ♻️♻️♻️

Thank you to the Dream Team that rallied together at such short notice 💪💪💪

Elna / Gwen / Dennis / Aleks / Ejell / Viktorija / Kony / Sarah / Joe / Laura / Eddy / Alex & all the guys

Imperial London Hotels / Park Plaza

19/10/2023

Welcoming The BoTree to the CleanConscience soap & toiletry recycling programme

05/10/2023

It’s not just the big decant and soft strip jobs we do, we also assist when hotels are swapping over their sofa beds, mattresses, bedding and linen.

Here’s the team at Park Plaza London Waterloo, assisting with the swap of their old sofa beds for new ones 💪💪💪

The old sofa beds will all get a new lease of life, helping families that live in poverty.

https://timeforbed.org.uk/about-time-for-bed-end-furniture-poverty/life-without-a-bed/

20/09/2023

So So Proud!!! Georgie is still volunteering with CleanConscience, one day a week, and her development is testament to Elna’s commitment 💚💚💚

17/09/2023

This time we packed a 40 foot articulated lorry, destined for Lithuania 🇱🇹

A group of volunteer firefighters, from a small village called Viešvilė, will benefit from the washing machine and tumble dryer, to enable them to wash their uniforms on site, rather than taking it home 🫶🫶🫶

Thank you to our Team of ‘marabunta’ 🐜 🐜 🐜

11/09/2023

FOUR down ONE to GO 🚛

Now 27 days into the decant and soft strip and our third and fourth shipping containers also went to Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

The third one was packed on the 2nd of September and will benefit the Kori Women's Development Project, and the fourth one was packed on the 9th of September and will benefit Buildaid Norge.

Ole & Ingfrid are already looking forward to the container’s arrival, as they will be able to use some of the inventory to finish a school and help restore an orphanage.

We are looking forward to hearing some of the outcomes and to receive plenty of photos.

Thank you Joe & Sarah for joining the dots 💞💞💞

31/08/2023

TWO down 💪💪

15 days into the Imperial Hotel decant (clearance) and soft strip we loaded our second container destined for Sierra Leone, this time benefitting our long standing sister charity, the Kori Women's Development Project, based in Taiama, Kori Chiefdom.

I’m time to come, Rose Simbo will report back on all the outcomes achieved from this container, and she has many things planned, so we are looking forward to hearing back from her ♥️

Here’s todays feel good outcome from Team CleanC:

VOLUNTEER ‘LABOURERS’

Yes, the bulk of our team on this project are volunteers - residents from the ‘dreaded’ Holiday Inn Maidenhead/Windsor.

For those that didn’t know, asylum seekers are prevented by bureaucracy from being able to work to provide for themselves and their families, so I can’t pay them for this backbreaking job 🥹

These are proud husbands & wives, mothers & fathers, that have taken the big risk to leave their countries of birth to seek a better life for themselves and for their children - something that I as an immigrant did myself 25 years ago but I was lucky, I had ancestry through my maternal line, so my journey was smooth 😌

It is not an easy decision to leave your country of birth, but if the government is corrupt or the police or military is looking for you, because you belong to an opposition political party (which is illegal in many countries) and you have taken part in protests (again illegal), and given the opportunity to leave, then YOU would also get on a boat or, if you’re one of the lucky ones, on an aeroplane 😌

What CleanConscience is offering them, is the following (we call them benefits, but NOT as you know them, we are NOT the government, we ARE CleanConscience 😌):

1. Dignity and pride
2. Something to get out of bed for
3. Aches and pains in return for high spirits and smiling faces (look how beautiful they are!)
4. Stories to tell their families and friends about the ‘TREASURES’ that they find in the hotel, and bring to me for ALL of us to get excited about
5. Learning at least ONE English word per day, with NUMPTY being the latest one 🤣🤣🤣
6. Two square meals with all the snacks and drinks they can fit in during their short breaks
7. One family meal on a Friday or Saturday, to take back to the hotel to spoil their families with
8. A character reference from CleanC to strengthen their case with the Home Office

Gwen Powell on behalf of CleanConscience

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Our Story

CleanConscience is a unique charity that has worked alongside London hotels and toiletry manufacturers since 2015 to ensure that the maximum amount of partially used hotel soap and toiletries are recovered, re-purposed and redistributed to those who need it most in the South East of England, Greater London, and in Sierra Leone.

The routine operation is formed of two main steps:

Hotels are provided with green empty recycling crates, which their housekeepers use when cleaning rooms. On a three weekly basis they carry out a collection round for the soaps and other toiletries using a hire vehicle, to collect the filled recycling crates, and supply clean empty crates. They also collect any other end-of-life items (e.g. towels & linen) that hotels might choose to donate. Hotels pay a programme fee in the sum of £1 per room per month for this service.

Volunteers reprocess the toiletries and distribute the materials to partner charities such as foodbanks, homeless shelters, asylum support and the Sierra Leone project.

The beneficiaries most in need of hygiene support are:

Vulnerable UK families and individuals in need of foodbank supplies, shelter support or care facilities for their daily living. Hygiene products can be as essential as food, bedding and clothing when times are tough. It is estimated that 35,000 individuals have benefitted from our donations of toiletries and other items to partner charities in the last 24 months.

The Kori Women’s Development Project in Sierra Leone. The bars of soap collected from participating hotels are sorted in the small industrial units they rent near Maidenhead. The volunteers manually clean the bars of soap individually and then put them through a mechanical chipper which creates soap powder or soap noodles. These are sent in 10kg sacks to the Kori project where micro-enterprises have been set up for women to turn the soap noodles back into bars of soap, using a manual press, so as to sell the powder and the bars of soap at local markets. This enables local women to support themselves and their families. The Kori project is supported by other UK charities, most notably the Thames Valley branch of Soroptomists International, which sends other much needed items to Sierra Leone routinely by ship.

The beneficiaries most in need of engagement support are:

The repurposing element of the operation is carried out by some volunteers from local community groups and corporates but mostly by severely marginalised individuals. 21 adults with severe learning disabilities, and varying in age from 19 to 76 years old, from three different day centres in Maidenhead, Windsor and Slough, attend the units on Mondays and Tuesdays. Three young autistics adults from Maidenhead together with various able bodied volunteers attend on Wednesdays, and two adult males with mental health issues from Slough assist on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and also accompany our Logistics Manager when he services our London hotel partners. The work is ideal for disabled volunteers because much of it involves simple, manual, repetitive tasks, which can be adapted to suit the needs of those with physical disabilities, learning difficulties and mental health challenges. CleanConscience provides a safe place to be involved in a productive and meaningful activity, develop confidence, socialise and learn a little independence. Tasks can help restore, maintain or increase manual dexterity and attention span. Working within a small group can also create a low-stress sociable and engaging environment. Research shows there is a severe under-supply of suitable and meaningful work-type activities for such disabled individuals and many find they are limited to activities within their care centre, such as singing and colouring-in, which doesn’t help them feel like the adults they are. A sociable, productive day with CleanConscience is often the highlight of their week with carers reporting benefits including increased confidence, focus, interpersonal skills, self-worth and hand eye co-ordination.

CleanConscience supports 27 community organisations and charity partners:

Holyport Cares (Holyport), Cookham SOS (Cookham), Dorney School (Dorney), Driven Forward (Windsor), Oakbridge Centre (Windsor), Boyn Grove Day Centre (Maidenhead), The Brett Foundation (Maidenhead), The Baby Bank (Maidenhead), Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice (Maidenhead), Thames Valley Hospice (Maidenhead), Thames Valley Adventure Playground (Maidenhead), Manor Green School (Maidenhead), Prior’s Day Service (Slough), Wexham Park Hospital (Slough), The DASH Charity (Slough), Sadaka (Reading), Refuge (Hounslow, Hillingdon & Richmond), Domestic Abuse Survivors (Iver & Hillingdon), North Paddington FoodBank (London), Euston FoodBank (London), CentrePoint (London), PL84U AL-SUFFA (Walthamstow), Serving Humanity (Newham), We-STAP (Newbury), Saint Vincent De Paul (West Norwood), The Mulberry School for Girls (Tower Hamlets), The Kori Women’s Development Project (Sierra Leone)

Fundraising and change in operations post COVID

All the CleanConscience hotel partners closed down at lockdown on the 23rd of March, and might not be able to re-open until the Spring of 2021, therefor causing an estimated loss of income in the region of £75,000. When the COVID pandemic struck the CleanConscience staff were all furloughed and only returned to work part time on the 7th of July.

With no soap and toiletries to collect from their hotel partners Gwen and her team had to think on their feet and decided to diversify CleanConscience’s income streams by offering a household textile, shoe and unwanted / unloved gifts recycling service. They are now able to offer a really cheap pop-up charity shop option for the disadvantaged residents of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough, Bracknell, High Wycombe and Wokingham.

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Telephone

+447941524222

Website

http://www.cleanconscience.org.uk

Address

Units 8 & 9, Thimble Farm Business Park, Stud Green, Holyport
Maidenhead
SL62JH

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 1pm
Tuesday	10am - 1pm
Thursday	10am - 1pm
Saturday	10am - 1pm

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