Wiltshire charity presented with The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainability

Westbury-based office furniture recycling charity Waste to Wonder Worldwide has been formally presented with The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainability.

At a ceremony held on Friday 25th September at Fairfield College in Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Dame Sarah Troughton, presented the charity with its engraved award and an official scroll signed by His Majesty The King. 

The presentation was attended by the whole Waste to Wonder Worldwide team, including Alan Cooper OBE, alongside clients, partners and representatives from charities and recipient organisations.

Waste to Wonder Worldwide received the accolade in recognition of its achievements in sustainability and its work transforming unwanted workplace furniture and equipment into measurable environmental and social value. 

As one of the organisations to have received furniture through Waste to Wonder’s ethical reuse programme, Fairfield College provided a particularly meaningful setting for the presentation. Rather than allowing redundant furniture to become waste, Waste to Wonder works with organisations throughout the UK and internationally to reuse and redistribute it to schools, charities and community organisations.

The award allows Waste to Wonder Worldwide to use The King’s Awards Emblem for five years.

Michael Amos, Managing Director of Waste to Wonder Worldwide, said, “Receiving The King’s Award for Enterprise is an incredibly proud and emotional moment for all of us. Waste to Wonder began with a simple belief: that good-quality furniture should be helping people, not heading to landfill. To see that belief grow into something that has reached communities across 50 countries is extraordinary. 

“This award belongs to our entire team. Their care, determination and commitment are behind every clearance, every delivery and every piece of impact we create. It also belongs to the clients and partners who have trusted us to find a better way, and to the charities and recipient organisations that turn these resources into opportunities for others. 

“Over the past 23 years, we have seen unwanted workplace furniture become classrooms, training centres, healthcare facilities and spaces where communities can thrive. Behind every statistic is a person whose life has been touched by something that might otherwise have been treated as waste. 

“To celebrate this achievement here in Wiltshire, surrounded by our team and so many of the people who have been part of our journey, makes it even more special. The award recognises how far we have come, but it also strengthens our determination to do even more.” 

HM Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Dame Sarah Troughton DCVO, said, “Waste to Wonder takes a seemingly complex recycling concept and creates a simple and hugely effective operation. The social enterprise and everyone involved should be rightly proud, and I am delighted for them and for Wiltshire as a whole that they have been awarded a Kings Award for Sustainability. Bravo!” 

Over the past 23 years, Waste to Wonder’s work has supported more than 1,700 schools, charities and community organisations across 50 countries.

Pictured: His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Dame Sarah Troughton presents The King’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainability 2026 to Waste to Wonder Worldwide Managing Director Michael Amos and Co-Founder Alan Cooper OBE at Fairfield College in Dilton Marsh [IMAGE: Tom Holdsworth/Waste to Wonder Worldwide]