Corporate volunteer partner

Oxford Properties

Oxford teams, building and refinishing furniture for families.

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100
Oxford employees
315
Items made home-ready
325
Families supported
Partner since 2023. These figures count every volunteer day in our records.
The partnership

Oxford Properties teams in our Workshop

Since 2023, Oxford Properties teams have come back to our Workshop again and again, building, upholstering and refinishing furniture for families moving into a home of their own.

Oxford Properties has invested in and managed real estate for 65 years, and describes its work as “strengthening economies and communities through real estate.” It is backed by OMERS, which serves 665,000 public-sector workers in Ontario.

Oxford’s first team came in August 2023, and two more followed before the year was out. In 2024 Oxford teams came four times, and in 2025 twice more. Over those days they have upholstered chairs, assembled shelving and wooden frames, and sanded and painted tables, as the photos below show. In December 2025, Oxford also donated a load of furniture for families.

Everything Oxford volunteers finish goes to the families we serve: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. A social service agency refers each family to us, and our team helps them choose what their household needs from our showroom.

A reupholstered chair or a freshly painted table is ready for a family’s first meal in a new home, and a sturdy shelf gives a household somewhere to put the things they brought with them. Thank you to every Oxford volunteer who has spent a day with us, and to the teams still to come.

In the Workshop

Oxford volunteer days

Oxford Properties volunteers at Furniture Bank: the team holding an oversized saw, wrench and mallet under the Furniture Bank banner, two volunteers fitting upholstery onto a chair frame, volunteers with a white upholstered sofa section, and two volunteers assembling a tall wooden frame

October 2025: upholstering chairs and building a wooden frame, and the team under the Furniture Bank banner.

Oxford Properties volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: volunteers sanding and painting tabletops at a workbench, a volunteer in an apron beside small tables painted red and blue, the team giving a thumbs up beside a dresser, and the team cheering with oversized tools

June 2025: sanding and painting small tables in our Workshop.

Oxford Properties volunteers in navy shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: three volunteers by a workbench, a volunteer holding a black metal frame, four volunteers with a black shelving unit and mallets, and the team with oversized tools

November 2024: assembling black shelving and metal frames.

Oxford Properties volunteers at Furniture Bank: the team in the warehouse holding oversized tools, two volunteers with a slatted wooden piece they built, volunteers building wooden frames, and two volunteers in navy Oxford shirts with a wooden frame

September 2024: building slatted wooden furniture, and the team in the warehouse.

Oxford Properties volunteers in white shirts in the Furniture Bank Workshop: two volunteers building slatted wooden shelves, a volunteer with a shelf frame, two volunteers with hand tools, and the team cheering at the workbenches

June 2024: building slatted wooden shelves in our Workshop.

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There is a family in Toronto sleeping on the floor tonight

Bring your team in for a Workshop day like Oxford's, or donate the furniture your business no longer needs. Either way, you help us turn empty housing into furnished homes.

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