Our Mission
HJEM is on a mission is to deliver traditional, modern and heritage skills necessary for the renovation and restoration of furniture and related skills for the furnishing of interior spaces. This includes carpentry, re upholstery, soft furnishing, frame making etc. HJEM is on a mission to pass on the ever decreasing traditional skills which need to be re-taught. People need to be re-skilled for the future in caring for beautiful antique and contemporary furniture, often discarded for the need and local of skills for a minor repair. As well as reducing our carbon foot print by turning furniture away from landfill. HJEM has a mission to support the individual through their barriers to work in the North east and beyond. Using training workshops in preparing for work. Partnering with other agencies and community groups. Engaging with those who are most vulnerable and far from the labour market. Building up their soft skills in the process.
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HJEM was established to create jobs and partner with industry leaders in building social value in their workforce. HJEM’s mission is for trainees to discover their creativity, encouraging design practice and planning for their own home. HJEM is dedicated to working on furniture and furnishings with trainees to keep for their own needs at home. Educating and making wise, economic home furnishing choices making and mending for their future and for the benefit for their families. The trainee learning skills in DIY for home making.
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HJEM has a mission to challenge purchasing habits of artefacts for home interiors, education around the positive environmental practice of buying a fair traded, ‘Green’ , environmentally friendly product instead of mass produced, plastic based or MDF manufactured, which is not easily repaired. HJEM has a purpose to deliver quality produce to encourage these purchase of second hand, revived and hand finished items. Offering high end quality stock and client commissions worked on by our staff.
HJEM is on a mission to deliver a ‘Repair Shop’ as sen on TV experience on the high street for all, taking repair commissions into our workshop.
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HJEM is driven to mission, reaching into communities for change. This begins with ‘The Small House Project’. This is a fun introduction to the theme of work and home, renovation and manufacture in miniature, creatively engaging people, building positive relationships through group work. It has proven to be a very popular course and a keen referral route for engagement in the larger workshops.
'Restoring Dignity
Producing Quality,'
for People Product and Planet
As a further education programme, HJEM has a dedicated mission to partner with Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Using the vehicle of mass, unwanted furniture in the West to create twin workshops across the world to solve a problem of a lack of work, furniture and skills in Africa. Building up their local economy and community. The First world working with the Third world in building bridges for a positive whole world environment and economy in sharing what we have.
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Ultimately HJEM’s aim and mission is to make beautiful homes, regenerating near forgotten skills, much like William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Building up the trades and encouraging a cottage industry workforce. Encouraging traineeships and aiming for apprenticeships in the economically, environmentally beneficial world of work, here in the North East and beyond.