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About RAW Social Enterprise

RAW Social Enterprise is far more than a furniture supplier. Based in Oxford, RAW designs, manufactures and sources high-quality commercial furniture for workplaces, education and public spaces, helping clients achieve a design-led finish without compromising on standards.

Alongside this, RAW Harvesting delivers circular economy furniture services, including reuse, refurbishment and remanufacturing, so existing furniture can stay in use for longer rather than entering the waste stream.

As a social enterprise, RAW also creates wider community value, with 75% of its workforce having overcome some of life’s toughest challenges, including addiction and mental health issues.

What We Can Offer Your Project

Through our partnership with RAW, Q3 can support clients in two practical ways.

First, we can source new furniture with social value built in. RAW manufactures high-quality, design-led products that can be tailored to suit your workplace, including corporate branding and a range of finishes and colour schemes, which give you a responsible alternative to standard office furniture procurement.

Second, where a project includes existing furniture, RAW Harvesting can identify items that can be reused, refurbished or remanufactured. This helps create office fit outs with a social enterprise approach while reducing waste and improving sustainability across the supply chain.

Supporting Your ESG and Social Value Goals

For organisations focused on ESG performance, sustainable office furniture procurement can deliver benefits well beyond the fit-out itself.

Reusing or remanufacturing furniture helps avoid the embodied carbon associated with manufacturing new items, supporting lower-carbon projects and improved environmental reporting. This approach also aligns with circular economy furniture principles by keeping materials in use for longer and reducing landfill, resulting in CO2 savings of anywhere between 40 and 90%, compared to new furniture.

Just as importantly, working with a social enterprise furniture supplier creates tangible social value office fit-out outcomes that can strengthen Social Value Act credentials and wider social value procurement goals, particularly if you are bidding for public sector and framework-based tenders.

Talk to Us about your Next Project

If you are planning a fit-out, refurbishment or furniture procurement project, Q3 can help you explore a more sustainable, socially impactful approach.

Talk to us to find out about how RAW furniture, reuse opportunities and circular economy solutions could benefit your workplace, your ESG strategy and your wider business goals.

I would say that this section needs a specific CO2 or carbon saving figure from RAW, as currently the emissions reduction claim ifeels abit vague for an ESG audience. Has RAW provided any data on this yet?