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Taunton United Reformed Church recently took delivery of Alpha’s LAMU lightweight wooden chairs, and also Alpha’s SB2M high-stacking lightweight chairs with chrome frame. During a free sample trial, the church recognised that the ‘main chairs’ had slightly different priorities to the ‘back-up chairs’. The former needed to be a wooden framed, stacking chair, but still

New churches are popping up around the country, and around the world, and becoming very creative with their use of space. From futuristic, cutting edge, contemporary new builds, to conversions of warehouses, barns, and office blocks, as well as disused former religious buildings. This new blog series by Alpha Furniture will explore the creative uses

Funny, not so long ago a lightweight wooden chair was an oxymoron. Alpha have managed to bring affordability into the mix as well with our ‘LAM’ family of lightweight wooden chairs and its recent addition, the high-stacking ‘LAMS’ family of lightweight wooden chairs. Churches are becoming multi-use community spaces – which is brilliant. It doesn’t

How we worship has evolved, and churches are constantly on the lookout for new formats to appeal to the local community and grow their congregation, either as a second Sunday service or as a regular evening during the week to run alongside their more traditional Sunday morning service. While some differences are slight – for

Four out of five customers who contacted Alpha regarding padded folding chairs, bought high-stacking chairs instead. An un-padded folding chair is very space efficient and cost effective. For those wanting the comfort of some padding however, a padded folding chair is often still the de-fault choice in their mind for an efficiently stored chair. Well

TOUGH – LONG GUARANTEE Our range of one piece poly chairs come with a guarantee of up to 20 years in the case of the EEN1 chair – designed for tough environments. STACKING Crucial for almost any space these days is flexibility and efficiency of storage, and all of these chairs stack at least 8 high

The number and variety of upholstery options for care home chairs is vast. To simplify the process for you, we present a selected range of fabrics (including high performance vinyl) offering anti-microbial, anti-fungal, hard-wearing and water-resistant finishes at affordable prices. All of the colours in these ranges are visible on each product page by clicking

We find it’s extremely rare these days for churches to need non stacking chairs. As churches open their doors to more and more community use, the demand for a flexible seating solution becomes increasingly important. Our selection of stacking chairs and folding chairs stack anywhere between 3 and 45 chairs high, so finding the right

We frequently hear from people who say, “We need to replace our 25-year-old church chairs as the fabric has worn out. It’s a shame because the chairs are still solid”. This is when we point them in the direction of our reupholstery service. We can supply brand new seat and back pads, with new boards,