Department of Reuse
Want to shop and reduce waste all at the same time? Then you’ve come to the right place! Find preloved furniture and homewares, recycle your broken electricals in a giant toaster, turn your old CDs into furniture and even learn how to mend your broken items at the repair cafe.
SHOPS
Kooky Book Craft ORGANISERKooky Book CraftDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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Crafting new life into old books 📚 Pop by the Kooky Book Craft shop in the Department of Reuse & Resources to shop for clocks,
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Crafting new life into old books 📚
Pop by the Kooky Book Craft shop in the Department of Reuse & Resources to shop for clocks, jewellery, boxes, vintage illustrations and more!
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Marcie K Designs ORGANISERMarcie K DesignsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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Shop for beautifully upcycled furniture and homewares from Marcie K and explore her ‘Alice in Wasteland’ installation made from reupholstered and redesigned discarded furniture.
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Shop for beautifully upcycled furniture and homewares from Marcie K and explore her ‘Alice in Wasteland’ installation made from reupholstered and redesigned discarded furniture.
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GenXcess Walking Aids ORGANISERGenXcessDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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GenXcess seeks to change the way people seeing walking aids and their users. Ian makes his creations in his workshop, sourcing all materials, excluding
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GenXcess seeks to change the way people seeing walking aids and their users.
Ian makes his creations in his workshop, sourcing all materials, excluding tech items, from local stores, markets & charity shops; especially focusing on plastic toy reuse. He said, “When I found Society acted differently to me when I needed to use a stick: I decided I would not be put into the “Old” category before my time.”
Pop by the Department of Reuse & Resources to shop for unique, custom walking aids!
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Flaming Moth ORGANISERFlaming MothDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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Lydia of Flaming Moth Vintage (est 2013) promotes sustainable fashion in offering and acquiring genuine vintage clothing and accessories from 1920s-1990s. With a special interest
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Lydia of Flaming Moth Vintage (est 2013) promotes sustainable fashion in offering and acquiring genuine vintage clothing and accessories from 1920s-1990s. With a special interest in authentic pieces from the ‘50s -‘70s, Lydia loves to source and tailor a bespoke retro aesthetic within an ethically modern sustainable business model.
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Rose & Mary Cosmetics ORGANISERRosie AmeyDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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We hand make all our vegan products in small batches using ethically sourced and cruelty free ingredients from reputable UK companies. All our packaging is
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We hand make all our vegan products in small batches using ethically sourced and cruelty free ingredients from reputable UK companies. All our packaging is 100% recyclable – we are a zero plastic zone! Sustainability is at the heart of our ethos.
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Pet supplies and other accessoriesDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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Helping people get a better understanding of how our dogs see and understand life. I can help with answering all kinds of
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Helping people get a better understanding of how our dogs see and understand life.
I can help with answering all kinds of different questions related to dogs:
- Behaviour issues
- Feeding advice
- How to stimulate your dog
- Lead training
- Crate training
- Recall
- Basic commands
- Anything dog related
- Digital Photography
- Will be taking donations for the PDSA animal charity
- Dog Tarot cards
- Recycled dog accessories
- Some new
- Some old
- Will also be able to talk about mental health
- Crystal healing (Advice on how crystals might be able to help in certain circumstances)
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CLE Homeware ORGANISERCLE HomewareDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEShop
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Aromatherapy candles, soy wax melts & incense for mindful living. CLE Homeware specialises in artisanal aromatherapy soy wax candles, fragrant wax melts, exquisite incense, memorial
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Aromatherapy candles, soy wax melts & incense for mindful living.
CLE Homeware specialises in artisanal aromatherapy soy wax candles, fragrant wax melts, exquisite incense, memorial trinkets, and luxurious loungewear. All crafted with a focus on sustainability, eco-consciousness & mindfulness. Discover the essence of relaxation with CLE Homeware, where every item is thoughtfully created to enrich your living space.
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Workshops, events & services
Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
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Created by the amazing Marcie K Designs, our birthday cake will showcase some of the impacts that Sparks has made in its first year. Add
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Created by the amazing Marcie K Designs, our birthday cake will showcase some of the impacts that Sparks has made in its first year. Add you own ideas and thoughts to this interactive artpiece any time over our birthday weekend.
Sat11May12:00 PMSat4:00 PMRepairium Junk Art & Zine WorkshopDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEWorkshop
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“Waste is a lack of creativity” – This hands-on workshop aims to encourage and empower others to create one-of-a-kind zines from re-purposed and recycled materials.
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“Waste is a lack of creativity” – This hands-on workshop aims to encourage and empower others to create one-of-a-kind zines from re-purposed and recycled materials. A fun and creative way to learn how to express your ideas and reduce waste at the same time.
Sun12May11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Join us in the Re-use department and learn how to make your own books. We have a stack of reuse-ready fabric and card, and will
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Join us in the Re-use department and learn how to make your own books. We have a stack of reuse-ready fabric and card, and will teach you a beginner-friendly but impressive looking method to bind a book from scratch. They make great sketchbooks or journals.
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Sun19May11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Sun26May11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
Sun02Jun11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Sun09Jun11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Sun16Jun11:30 AMSun4:30 PMRepair Cafe ORGANISERNo Small ThingDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things! Every Sunday,
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Join us at our Sparks Repair Cafe in the Department of Reuse & Resources to mend your things!
Every Sunday, we’ll be holding two drop in sessions:
- 11.30am – 1.30pm- Repair Cafe
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm – Repair and Make Cafe
Both sessions will be focused on repair but with the afternoon offering a little more freedom and space for creativity.
If you have nothing that needs repair, we’ll have a lovely stash of items that can be reworked, dismantled and re-made, investigated, stripped for materials.
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Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
more
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
more
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
Recycle your old electricals ORGANISERRecycle Your ElectricalsDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster! This giant toaster doesn’t
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Recycle your old or broken cables, kettles, headphones, or any other small electricals… in Recycle Your Electricals’ giant toaster!
This giant toaster doesn’t make giant slices of toast (sorry to disappoint!) but will give your old, unwanted electricals a new lease of life.
Simply bag up anything with a plug, battery or cable, bring them down to Sparks, and pop them into the toaster to be reused or recycled.
Can’t get to Sparks? Use Recycle Your Electricals’ postcode locator to find all your nearest donation and recycling points. With over 7,000 drop-off points, there’s one closer than you think!
Electrical waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and the UK. Recycle Your Electricals is a UK-wide not-for-profit campaign, motivating and making it easier for everyone to reuse and recycle unwanted electricals.
more
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Recycle your old CDs ORGANISERReviveDEPARTMENTReuseTYPEService
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
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Do you or your business have a collection of CDs or DVDs? We will gladly repurpose those discs into unique and versatile furniture!
Pop by the Department of Reuse and Resources in Sparks to donate your old CDs and DVDs today.
About our department
What you can do
Shop secondhand or bring your broken items to be mended or repurposed at our repair cafe.
We are offering a unique opportunity to be part of the Department of Reuse and the international Repair Cafe movement, empowering and upskilling local communities. By sponsoring our Repair Cafe, you can help us build a more sufficient and resource conscientious society. Download our sponsorship pack to find out more and register your interest.
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