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Gifts from our wood workshop
Furniture and hand-crafted gifts
from quality recycled and windfall wood
Choose from our selection of hand-crafted items ranging from small furniture items to candlesticks, chopping boards and signs. Or, commission your own piece from our wood workshop.
The woodwork team transforms unwanted church pews and other responsibly-sourced wood into beautiful furniture and home furnishings. From dining tables, smaller tables, cabinets, garden benches, lecterns, memorial plaques, notice boards, nursery furniture and many other items.
Here’s a taste of our current selection
Garden Signs: £20
H280xW240xD18mm
Designed in collaboration with Pesticide Free Balerno
5 available designs: Feeding the Bees No1, Feeding the Bees No2, Pesticide Free Garden, Wildlife Welcome, Wildlife Friendly Garden
Recycled Oak Serving Board: £30
L430xW280xD19mm, hand-engraved and treated with a food safe mineral oil
Windfall Maple Chopping Board: £25
L350xW230xD25mm, hand-engraved with our logo and treated with a food safe mineral oil
Mixed Recycled wood Chopping Board: £20
L350xW250xD18mm, hand-engraved with our logo and treated with a food safe mineral oil
Recycled Oak Candlesticks: £25 each/£45 pair
H305xW110xD110mm
Designed GCP Member Roy Williams, with due respect to Charles Rohlfs
Windfall Sycamore Candlesticks: £25 each/£45 pair
H305xW110xD110mm
Designed GCP Member Roy Williams, with due respect to Charles Rohlfs
Norwegian Maple Live Edge Stools: £100
L510xW330xH440mm
Made from locally sourced (EH7) windfall timber
Pop into The Grassmarket Centre or Coffee Saints to see our range of woodwork.
Or, if you would like to see some of our furniture pieces or discuss commissioning a piece, please contact our Woodwork Manager Jon Slight: [email protected]
Supporting employability through social enterprise
Our furniture workshop started in 2006 and was one of the first social enterprises at the Grassmarket Community Project. The furniture-making workshop is open four days per week and has eight to ten individuals volunteering as part of the team every day.
Each furniture sale helps us continue our good work. We believe every individual can make a worthwhile contribution to our community and wider society.
The woodwork team learn valuable woodworking skills and gain practical work experience. Through these placements vulnerable individuals increase their confidence and self-esteem, develop good work ethics, improve their social skills, reliability and resilience, and ultimately work towards further opportunities including formal qualifications and employment.