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Community Reuse Fair 2023
Saturday 16th September 2023, 11am-3pm
The Community Reuse Fair is taking place at our charity’s home in Scrapstore House, 21 Sevier Street, St Werburghs, BS2 9LB. The event is free to attend and welcomes children and adults, individuals and families – come along and join the momentum of Bristol’s growing reuse community!
Join the Facebook event, and follow Community Reuse Bristol on Facebook if you would like to be engaged with the reuse community and kept up to date with event details as they come. Below you will find some information about workshops and activities, the exhibitors taking part, and a site map.
Whilst the event is totally free to attend we will have donation buckets around the site if you would like to support our charity to help provide free play opportunities around the city. We can take donations by card but do bring some cash with you!
Don’t forget to bring some clothes, toys, and books for our swap!
Programme
Find our online programme below! In the spirit of reuse, we are encouraging everyone to refer to this programme as an alternative to a physical copy. In order to remain accessible for all, we will have some physical copies available on the day, but these will be in limited numbers for those who need them, so please use this digital version if you are able to.
Site Map
Food and drink
Better Food’s store and café is located below Children’s Scrapstore and it offers organic and fair trade groceries, fresh produce and more. On the day, they will be providing drinks, pastries and cakes.
Jim’s Pizza is fresh Neapolitan-style pizza that is made from locally-sourced ingredients, where possible. Expect traditional pizzas like a Margherita, a vegan option, a special for on the day, and desert pizzas! All cooked in 90 seconds!
Exhibitors
Bristol Waste is your local recycling, waste collection and street cleaning company. They push for sustainability and are committed to working in partnership with the people of Bristol to help all communities recycle more, throw away less and waste nothing.
There are three Bristol Waste Reuse Shops located at Avonmouth, St. Phillips and Hartcliffe Way Recycling Centres. They sell a wide variety of things such as furniture and bric-a-brac, using items that are donated and found in scrap to refurbish and sell on.
City to Sea are an environmental organisation campaigning to stop plastic pollution. They focus on providing practical, solutions-focused initiatives and advocating reduce and reuse over single-use. Their campaign ‘Refill’ has gone global and helps people reduce single-use plastic waste.
DigiLocal is a charity that empowers and helps young people who are marginalised in the technology industry by primarily, but not exclusively, supporting free tech clubs. They will only accept PC laptops, no MacBooks, printers, tablets, phones, etc.
Ecotribo takes abandoned and lost fishing nets from British beaches and turns them in to plant pots, carabiners and other sustainable products. The products are made in a solar-powered workshop in Bristol. 10% of profits go to coastal clean-up charities for marine conservation and outreach.
Oat Float is a zero-waste shop that delivers straight to your door, or you can fill up your containers at one of their regular stops. They stock pantry staples and household essentials - all you need is tubs and containers and they can even refill when you’re not there if you leave them out.
Baby Bank Network Bristol is a charity that collects pre-loved and unused donations of baby equipment, clothing, toys and other essentials to give to families experiencing poverty or crisis in Bristol. It is a free service which reduces waste and promotes reuse.
Share Bristol makes it easy to borrow the things we need to live our lives, keeping it affordable and accessible. Whether it’s a drill for a DIY project, a tent for a family holiday or a karaoke machine for a party, you can borrow this and much more from the Library of Things.
SPARKS Bristol Reuse and Resources department is created by No Small Thing. They host events such as a repair café on Sunday, Circular Bristol meetings and ways to recycle things. You can buy things there, donate your old electricals, walk through their exhibitions, and more.
Emmaus Bristol is a charity that helps people out of homelessness and poverty by providing a home, support, training and work experience. They also sell donated items that have been collected, upcycled and refurbished - such as furniture and household items.
Repair Cafés are located in different locations around Bristol and happen on Saturdays at different times. They were set up to help reduce waste and reuse products by repairing them rather than throwing them away! There are volunteers who offer free help to repair things. On the day, come and find out how to get involved at their stall!
Wear My Wardrobe Out is sustainable fashion as a service, through their Fashion Rental, Repair, Alterations and Made to Order Services. A mixture of vintage and modern, pre-loved and good as new, all carefully handpicked and rescued just for you!
Selling Artists
Check out which artists will be selling some fabulous reuse art!
Emalolabella is an artist an seamstress who takes sustainable and reused materials, and turns them into fabulous creations, such as dungarees, bags, necklaces, and more. Her work has a retro feel, often using vintage materials. Emily’s creations are also all size inclusive, gender inclusive, and fabulously ethical.
Pip Ralph creates curious characters and surreal scenes from the leftover scraps and second-hand treasures she stumbles upon. The work focuses on re-using and re-imagining old, unused materials to create something entirely new and fresh.
All is Sun Eco Creations handmakes upcycled creations, celebrating the beauty & colours of nature with harm to none. Using eco conscious techniques and preloved & salvaged materials, they create a range of unique items including accessories, slow fashion, jewellery, homeware & decor.
Quint’s Prints is ran by Maria Quintin, a Bristol-based artist and printmaker specialising in creating artwork from refuse and scrap materials. Mainly working in the medium of print, her work is inspired by nature, folklore, and science. She also regularly runs workshops with a large focus on using alternate and otherwise discarded materials.
Find more reuse art inspiration in our online reuse art gallery here.
Partner Workshops
We have some amazing workshops and activities running all day by some of our talented partners. See below for what reuse activities you can get stuck into!
Drum Runners centre around creating rhythym and music from reused materials, and creating positive play and performance. They will be hosting a scrap instrument making workshop, as well as a drumming and song workshop.
Mys. Tree is a multimedia artist, music producer and writer who will be hosting a mask making workshop, and performing a puppet show within a self designed Dome Theatre, which uses 90% recycled and sustainable materials. The puppetry harkens back to ancient traditions of storytelling to inspire wonder and creativity for the young and old alike.
Big Heart Art Club is volunteer run and here to bring fun and inspiring art activities to communities and events around Bristol. They are running a book making workshop using scrap card and paper. This is a drop in session so join us any time to fold, sew and decorate your own sketch book, note book or even a colouring book.
Re-Cyborg The Art of Waste is an art display that has been created almost entirely from waste to raise awareness on how our actions impact the environment, and the importance of recycling. It will be an art installation at the fair and it is made by artists Emma Beat and Tufty Rising.
Clothes, Book, and Toy Swap
Craft Ideas
If you’d like to check out some reuse themed craft ideas, and download some sustainable craft sheets, click here!