Green Business Award

This award went to the organisation that promotes sustainable development, pollution prevention including waste reduction or recycling, alternative fuels, energy.

The award was presented to Doncaster Re-Furnish.

Doncaster Re-Furnish is an entrepreneurial social enterprise that combines the delivery of social, economic and environmental targets. Currently, Re-Furnish works in partnership with DMBC and SITA UK under contract arrangements to deliver a borough wide collection service for unwanted furniture.

These goods are diverted from landfill and provided to the most vulnerable members of the community at a reasonable cost. The company also remanufactures damaged furniture from national retailers and retails them along with new furniture and other products. Doncaster Re-Furnish also provides accredited training to disadvantaged individuals paid for by private and public sector organisations.

Andrew Simonds, of Polypipe, who judged the award said: "After visiting several organisations around Doncaster, from large to sole traders, we chose an organisation that goes a long way to meet the three principals of environmental sustainability with action; gives support to the local community, is a strong laudable and profitable company and, in terms of the environment, is an organisation that reduces waste going into the environment by reusing and recycling unwanted, damaged goods.