A PROJECT set up by a homeless charity in Ayr is looking for people to help donate unwanted items of furniture.

SeAscape’s “Pass It On” initiative allows the public to give unwanted house hold furniture and appliances to help those who need it most.
Established in 1999, the charity is also expanding into East Ayrshire to help former prisoners.

Speaking to the Ayr Advertiser Series, Niven Rennie, the CEO of SeAscape, said: “The big thing that we have just started a new South Ayrshire Council contract.

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"We have expanded and are also responsible for people who have just come out of prison, which means we are taking on new staff. We have a c-ordinator, Eric Benn, starting with us in January to run the project.

"We are also now renting an industrial unit up at Mosshill Industrial Estate  we have outgrown what we have currently used. 

“Pass It On is something that has been very successful, and it has expanded – so people who are getting a new washing machine or a new bed and it is still in a reasonable quality, can, instead of putting it on Gumtree, give it to SeAscape. We will uplift it and allocate it to someone has got nothing. 

“It is very often that people in a home that have nothing but the clothes that they are standing in which is one of the reasons we get repeat homelessness in South Ayrshire, so we need to do something to tackle that and Pass It On is one way that we can do that.

"The generosity of the public has been over whelming and even then, there are many people that don’t know about the project.”

Items that have been donated are wardrobes, beds, mattresses, curtains and blinds - that make a house a home.

May Gilchrist, Fundraising Manager for SeAscape, added: “We have got over 550 individuals we work with and we did a break down – with those individuals, there is over 200 children up to the age of 17 so we are trying to get Christmas gifts for everybody, including the parents.

"It is fantastic – the gifts we have - from the Salvation Army, St James Place and Helping Handbags. We are now trying to get them wrapped and sent out to the clients before Christmas.”

If you would like to help, volunteer or donate to SeAscape, you can contact them on www.seascapeayr.co.uk/