We have been on the news in the East Midlands Today section on BBC on thursday the 27-March-2009.
Stride’s highly successful furniture business, based in the centre of Leicester is about to expand across the East Midlands with new stores and warehouses in Nottingham and Derby. New staff are being employed in supervisory positions to work with a large workforce consisting of long term unemployed adults and adults from the probation service, helping them to re-engage with the working environment. The workforce assembles returned flat pack catalogue furniture which is then sold through a network of shops; the furniture is all new and very affordable. The alternative destination for the flat packs would be landfill. In many ways therefore it is the ideal recycling model, with many people benefiting from a simple idea.
