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Teaming Up With Keep Britain Tidy

Teaming up with Keep Britain Tidy

The leading litter and waste reduction charity came to film our work reusing and repurposing donated items at Emmaus Bolton

Keve moves on

Keve moves on

“I have experienced so many blessings while I’ve been here, and it’s helped me be the person that I am.”

Buy Nothing New Day

Join Emmaus on Buy Nothing New Day

Thank you George

Thank you George

Meet A Trustee

Meet a trustee

Cook book

Meet the stars of new Bolton cook book

Helping the hospice

Helping Bolton Hospice

Visit from charity leaders

Visit from Emmaus charity leaders

Palace invite

Invite to the palace

20th Anniversary Spring Fair

Marking 20 years at the Anniversary Spring Fair

Reunited 40 years on

Reunited with childhood teddy 40 years on

Paint Prize Daw

Win £25 Off Your Next Purchase at Emmaus Bolton!

Repair Week 2025

Upcyclers get crafty at Repair Week workshop

20th anniversary supporters' badge

20 ways you can support

20 years of Emmaus Bolton

Solar panels

Solar panels

Honour for long service

Honour for our CEO

New Roof

New Roof

Skills boost

Volunteering boosts skills for students

MP visits

MP Yasmin Qureshi visits Emmaus Bolton

Bolton Film Festival

Guest screening

Golden Ticket

Find our Golden Ticket

Damien Hirst signed book

Rare book discovered - created and signed by artist Damien Hirst

Bespoke planters

Working with the RHS to help schoolchildren boost biodiversity

Peace Garden Planters

Our planters will help chapel reopen Peace Garden at Manchester Flower Festival

Buddi Benches

Specially-made benches honour memory of boy ‘who loved to make people feel better’

Emmaus Film Win

Film scoops bronze

Rough Sleeping

Rough sleeping figures 'do not show full picture'

Join the Uprising

Joining the Uprising Of Kindness

Ground-breaking RHS order

Ground-breaking order for RHS Bridgewater

BWFC Sleepout

Sleepout alongside Emmaus at Bolton Wanderers FC

New film

Vote for new Emmaus film in Charity Film Awards

Emmaus at Bolton Wanderers

Look out for Emmaus at Bolton Wanderers game

Hemingway Design

Making furniture for Hemingway Design

Artisan Scarf

Illustrator chooses Emmaus to benefit from limited edition centenary scarf

Garden Furniture for RHS Bridgewater

Simon delivers garden furniture to RHS Bridgewater

Making furniture in memory

'Honoured and privileged to have been asked'

Top ten most unusual list on eBay

Top ten most unusual list on eBay

Bolton Wanderers Kit

Emmaus named on the Bolton Wanderers third football shirt

Memorial bench

Memorial bench made for The Wanted star

Corporate Volunteering

Victorian Plumbing team volunteer

TV star’s volunteer blog

Sewing Bee Damien's volunteer blog

Online Shop

Charity shops and services now online

Volunteer appeal

Appeal for volunteers

Food bank donation

Supplier makes food bank curry sauce and noodle donation

Companies donate

Alarm companies donate to community safety

Prize draw winner

First prize draw winner announced

Signed Abbé Pierre book

Signed book discovered

Community refurbishment

New windows to the world

Prize draw

10% discount and free entry into prize draw

Royal Horticultural Society commission

Royal Horticultural Society uses our furniture-making service

Free recycled draught excluders

Recycled draught excluder give away

Corporate social responsibility

Volunteering was a real eye opener

Recycling

Our recycling attracts national attention

Creative Courses

Emmaus Bolton teams up to offer creative courses

Recycled paint

Reaching a milestone in recycled paint

Kilo Sale

Fashion influencers support charity’s first ever Kilo Sale

Lucie’s Pantry appeal

Help needed meeting rising food bank demand

Volunteering

Appeal for volunteers

100 commissions

Upcycling service puts the love back into preloved furniture

The Great Emmaus Bolton Sewing Bee

The Great Emmaus Bolton Sewing Bee

Sewing Bee star blog

Sewing Bee star goes Scrap Store shopping

Scrap Store opens

Celebrity opening

Life-saving training

Formerly homeless people complete life-saving training

Sponsored run

Raising money for hope from homelessness

Garden furniture chosen for top prize of UK competition

Garden furniture chosen for top prize of UK competition

Cash donation

Special cash delivery from Amazon

Charity founders receive special medals

Charity founders receive special medals

Bespoke bookshelf brings family joy

Bespoke bookshelf brings family joy

Volunteers’ Week appeal

Volunteers' Week appeal

New Recycling Centre arrives

New Recycling Centre arrives

Welcome back to Emmaus Bolton

Welcome back to Emmaus Bolton

Easter solidarity plant donation

Easter solidarity plant donation

Record-breaking month for garden furniture orders

Record-breaking month for garden furniture orders

Emmaus Bolton secures funding for new recycling centre

Emmaus Bolton secures funding for new recycling centre

We’ll be back soon

We’ll be back soon

Food Donations Needed for Lucie’s Pantry

Food Donations Needed for Lucie’s Pantry

Emmaus Bolton dishes out 20,000 food packs during lockdown

Emmaus Bolton dishes out 20,000 food packs during lockdown

Record-breaking reopening for Emmaus Bolton

Record-breaking reopening for Emmaus Bolton

Emmaus Bolton benefits from Bovis Homes donation