Lancaster & Morecambe Freegle

Go along to the Repair Cafe each month to tackle your mending pile and help reduce waste! Bring along your electronics, bikes, textiles, clothes, etc for mending assistance. In most cases a team of knowledgable volunteers will give you directions and assistance in helping you do the repair work. In some instances the volunteer might do it for you.
Please consider making a donation to the repair cafe or volunteers who assist you - these donations help keep us running! If any n...ew parts or materials are required, you will be responsible for the cost.
- Tech support (phones, computers, etc) - Small household electronic repair - Textiles, clothing (darning, mending by hand and machine) - Bike (tuneup and cleanup, advice and quotes for more extensive work)
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Well this is beautiful! A sculptor has created a 6ft-tall (1.8m) statue of an angel entirely from driftwood. Exeter-based artist Brendan Rawlings created the piece to help fundraise for the @RNLI charity. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dev on-51473389
... #ChooseToReuse #Upcycle
The sculpture, hewed mostly from an old railway sleeper, weighs nearly 13 stone (80kg) and took a week to make.
Mr Rawlings plans to tour the angel around beaches in Devon and Cornwall, where he collects the wood, starting in Exmouth on 29 February.
He said he was inspired to create the sculpture after recalling a painting of an angel he had forgotten about for nearly a decade.
"I was just lying in bed one night and it popped into my head... I thought that would look amazing in driftwood.
"You can use the natural form of the wood, once you've sliced [the driftwood] it looks like a feather," said Mr Rawlings, who runs the Zen Wood Design company.
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Love your planet for #ValentinesDay and join our #ReuseRevolution here http://ow.ly/DbOu30nyjdj

Roses are red. Violets are Blue. Some flowers can be made of waste plastic too. @recycleuse
... Find materials and odd wot nots to upcycle and reuse via our free sharing communities http://ow.ly/DbOu30nyjdj
#ZeroWaste #ChooseToReuse
pics: beautiful flowers made by Cicia Hartmann - Artiste recycleuse du plastique from waste plastic bottle tops!
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We love this creative #reuse ! One designer’s trash is this designer’s treasure. Zero Waste Daniel uses cloth scraps from other companies to create his styles and eliminate waste.
What do you do with leftover fabric or unwanted clothes?... Freegle makes it easy to find a new home for your unwanted things. Join our reuse revolution here http://ow.ly/DbOu30nyjdj
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This event is for community repair activists to gather, learn from each other and build a movement together. We have a limited number of places, reserved first for community repair activists.

The very amazing @elvisandkresse rescue waste fire hoses and make beautiful bags from them. Not only do they repurpose a huge amount of waste - keeping it out of landfills and incinerators but they also donate 50% of profits back to The Fire Fighters charity!
Just wonderful.

How cute are these minature pubs for hedgehogs!
If you can't get your hands on one of these mini pubs available via @CamdenBrewery you can support @HedgehogSociety in lots of other ways #BritishHedgehogPreservationSociety
.. . ‘Hedgehog populations have declined by half in rural areas and by a third in urban ones in the last 20 years so they need all the help they can get. The funds and awareness that this collaboration raises will help us, help hedgehogs.’
For more info on how to help hedgehogs go here >> https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/ British Hedgehog Preservation Society
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#FreegleFebruary Join our 2.8 million strong #REuse community to keep good stuff out of landfill + incinerators!
Go here http://ow.ly/DbOu30nyjdj to #ChooseToReuse
... #WasteNot #ClimateEmergency
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Are your old jeans past being worn? No need to bin them! Denim is really tough fabric and can be easily repurposed. Not arty or crafty? then be sure to pass on unwanted things so someone else can get creative http://ow.ly/DbOu30nyjdj #upcycle #reuse #fashion

Would you like to make some small changes to be more sustainable? We humbly steer you to this brilliantly useful book by @sustainableish https://www.asustainablelife.co.uk
Lots of easy to do things for anyone wanting to be a little kinder to the planet!
... Remember if you don't want to buy a new copy, then please ask your local library to stock it so lots of other people can borrow it too.
Thanks to Sustainable-ish for writing such a lovely, down-to-earth and easy-to-use sustainability bible suitable for everyone.
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Isn't it amazing what can be made from waste! Flip-flops proved to be an invaluable resource in this boat’s construction.The colorful craft is 9 meters in length and is made of more than 10 tons of plastic waste!
#UnplasticThePlanet

Would you like to make some small changes to be more sustainable?
We humbly steer you to this brilliantly useful book by @sustainableish https://www.asustainablelife.co.uk
... Lots of easy to do things for anyone wanting to be a little kinder to the planet!
Remember if you don't want to buy a new copy, then please ask your local library to stock it so lots of other people can borrow it too.
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This Dalek made by @SarahEcoDesign with upcycled materials is amazing! Watch this little video to see how it's done https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved &v=526386987987907
Well done Sarah Turner - Eco Art & Design for taking recycled art to a whole new level