City Homemakers is the banner under which a number of projects will be delivered across the city.

These will be rolled out gradually over the coming months and will focus on different aspects of how people can make small improvements to their homes, no matter what their budget and without spending a fortune.

Too Good to Chuck

This was the first project to be launched under City Homemakers in May 2025. 

It enables residents to give their unloved items a whole new life and help other local families in need at the same time.

Anyone using the Household Waste and Recycling Centre (HWRC) at Shaw Road can now single out items they believe are ‘too good to chuck’ and staff will advise and store them in dedicated Too Good to Chuck containers.

It can be wooden furniture, old beds, decorative items, anything which can be re-purposed or restored and ultimately re-loved by someone else.

You might have no more use for a piece of furniture or see it as junk, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have another life enhancing someone else’s home. 

A network of skilled partners has been brought together by the council to match items with families who need them and restore old or damaged items and give them years more use in a new home.

Here’s a checklist of what you can put in the Too Good to Chuck containers and what you can’t – but check back as we’ll update this regularly to reflect what is most needed:

What we want:

  • Wooden furniture
  • Metal furniture
  • Bed frames - with or without screws and fittings
  • Curtain poles - With or without screws and fittings
  • Children’s furniture
  • Bicycles or non-electric scooters
  • Kitchen plates, bowls, cutlery and utensils
  • Decorative items, mirrors, pictures 

What we don’t want:

  • Anything electrical
  • Soft furnishings
  • Soiled or heavily damaged items

Small electrical items, while not right for Too Good to Chuck, can be recycled using another of the council’s services, to find out more visit Small electricals recycling.

Read the full media release when Too Good to Chuck was launched.

Do you know somebody who could benefit from items donated through Too Good to Chuck?

Residents 

If you’re a Wolverhampton resident, who would like to access pre-loved items through Too Good to Chuck, then please make a request through one of the trusted partners below:

Partners/Council employees

If you’re one of our partners in City Homemakers or you work anywhere in the council or Wolverhampton Homes, you can match items with local people in need by filling in the 'Too Good to Chuck Application Form', which can be found in the downloads section, and send to Ed Bridgewood at edbridgewood@gmail.com

Wolverhampton Tool Library

This City Homemakers project launched in September 2025, giving Wolverhampton residents the chance to give their homes some love and attention  without having to splash out on expensive new tools.

Leader of the council, Councillor Stephen Simkins launched Wolverhampton Tool Library with partners All Saints Action Network (ASAN) at their All Saints Road base. 

Residents can borrow anything from power drills and screwdrivers to larger items like carpet cleaners and electrical saws, as well as garden tools to make their homes look great inside and out.

There’s a nominal subscription fee to join the Wolverhampton Tool Library, but users can access up to three tools for four days at a time, potentially saving hundreds of pounds on buying new equipment to improve their homes. 

To celebrate the launch, the first 50 residents to sign up will receive their annual membership free of charge.  

ASAN’s talented volunteers have also made a number of wooden donation boxes, which will be located with City Homemakers partners across the city, for people to donate surplus tools they no longer require, but which are still in good working order.

 See ASAN’s webpage for details of tools available and to sign up to the tool library.

Read the full media release.

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