Donate your scrap

Would you like to create a better environment for future generations, while at the same time reducing your carbon footprint and meeting your corporate social and environmental responsibilities?

Resourceful Community Scrapstore can take a variety of waste and surplus, as long as it has the potential to be reused for creative purposes.

This might include production off-cuts and by-products, rejected quality control batches, bankrupt and redundant stock, raw materials, components and packaging, and promotional items.

Have a look at our list below for the sort of items we can use. But get in touch if you aren’t sure or have something that isn’t on the list. Who knows what someone might make from your waste?

We can make sure everyone knows about your lovely donation, or we can keep it between ourselves – it’s up to you.

Perhaps you needed two of a particular item to complete a project but they only come in a pack of 10, so now you have a eight of them sitting unused in your cupboard.

Maybe you bought, or were given, a craft kit, and it’s not bringing you joy – but you would feel guilty just throwing it away.

And what about those activities that your children have outgrown? Is there a drawer full of coloured pencils, glitter, plastic beads and loom bands waiting for someone to rediscover their creative possibilities?

Then there all those other random things we sometimes end up accidentally stockpiling – free chopsticks from the takeaway Chinese restaurant, curtain rings that you took off an old rail and thought you would keep “just in case”. Or perhaps those fake flowers that are looking a bit past their best, or don’t fit in with your décor anymore?