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Repair Café and Saturday Swap Shop

Wellingborough Swap Shop and Repair Café are on this Saturday!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Glamis Hall are hosting the Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop on Saturday 11th June, 9 -12. Both will be in the Community Room and we have a couple of other stalls with us outside too!

Repair Café

Repair Cafes are community events that match people who need stuff fixed with people who like fixing things. Repair Cafes are completely non-commercial. There are no promises and no guarantees, but if something can be saved the repairers will give it their best efforts. Repairers are always keen to teach you how to do the repair – or at least have you watch while they do it.

A bicycle, clothing in need of repair, small electrical or electronic appliances, lamps, toys, mobile phones, laptops, printers, items that need gluing, a clean/repair etc. You can basically bring anything you can carry that will not make a mess in the venue.

Whatever it is, it might not even be broken – just dirty, and you don’t know how to clean it without damaging it – or you can’t work out how to use it without the manual – bring it along! There is no charge for entry or repair but donations are gratefully received and help pay for costs.

See you on Saturday morning at Glamis Hall where we try to fix your broken items for FREE!

Wellingborough Swap Shop

We will be in the Community Room and all items will be available for swaps or a small donation to the group. You can bring something and swap it for something else or you can buy something on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis with a donation to the group.

Please can everyone keep toes, eyes, fingers, legs, arms – ANYTHING and EVERYTHING crossed for some good weather so we can get everything out and some bits outside for you to browse through. We’ll have the gazebos up for a couple of stalls that will be joining us too!

Food Sharers will also have a few bits for you and their ‘Bargain Buys’ table. All Bargain Buys items are items we have been offered to purchase, we always price them lower than the shops so that the low price we have paid gets passed on to you. Plus Wellingborough Baby Bank will have selected items out in return for monetary donations to their cause to purchase more nappies and milk.

So, pop along, grab a bargain or swap with us, get your broken items fixed for free and support the other stalls. See you there!

Plant Sale at Wellingborough Swap Shop!

Join Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles this Tuesday afternoon 2-6 at Glamis Hall in their Community Room for all of this:

Wellingborough Swap Shop has plants galore plus lots of clothes, toys, books and crockery. Much of the clothing and household items have been saved from landfill for the Wellingborough Ukrainian guests and sponsors but there’s still loads left! All available as swaps or for a small donation.

Tuesday Tidy Ups, why not have a go at litter picking? We have the pickers, hoops and bags for you to borrow, the parks have been busy which unfortunately usually means so have the litter louts.

Food Sharers has lots of fresh food, saved from local supermarkets and it’s all FREE! Our food club has drinks, popcorn and more, plus tomato and strawberry plants so you can join in the spirit of our Community Allotment and grow your own.

Wellingborough Baby Bank is a new service linked to the Swap Shop. We’re accepting Baby clothes and essential items to help young families who are finding their finances squeezed by the cost of living crisis.

Plus, if that wasn’t enough already, we have FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee available from Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough! Pop in for a hot drink and join in with everything else! See you between 2-6 in Glamis Hall’s Community Room

Wilby Indoor ‘Second Hand’ Market

Join bargain hunters for a Indoor Second Hand Market at Wilby Working Men’s Club, on Saturday 21st May from 9am till 12 midday. Wellingborough Swap Shop and many other used item stalls will be there with hundred of pre-loved items, why not give them some new love?

Refreshments available too from the bar, no alcohol, lots of soft drinks, tea and coffee and snacks available too. There is very limited parking at the rear, so please do arrive on foot or by bus if you can.

Stalls Available

We are looking for people who want to clear some space and raise a few bob too. Sell your old stuff at a friendly venue, our stalls just £5 a table! Please register for your table below or call 07311 705705

SWAP SHOP TOMORROW!

Wellingborough Swap Shop is at Glamis Hall‘s Outdoor Car Boot Sale tomorrow!

The Wellingborough Swap Shop Facebook group is run in the same way, with lots of new items going to be added by admins daily from various businesses locally. Swap Shops also take place every week on Tuesday afternoons, 2-6 in Glamis Hall’s Community Room, which will also be a collection point for items from the Facebook group too.

So, pop along, grab a bargain or swap with us, save items from landfill and support the other stalls at the Outdoor Car Boot Sale. See you there!

Swap Shop

Tuesday Tidy Ups, Swap Shop and Food Sharers Today

Join Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles this afternoon at Glamis Hall in their Community Room for all of this:

Wellingborough Swap Shop has lots of clothes, toys, books and crockery that we collected from Rushden Transport Museum as part of Nick Knowles Big House Clearout. Much of the clothing and household items have been saved from landfill for the Wellingborough Ukrainian guests and sponsors but there’s still loads left! All available as swaps or for a small donation.

Teddy Tombola 🧸 for the kids because it’s half term, just 50p for 5 tickets and 1/5 tickets could win you a Teddy or even an Easter Egg!

Tuesday Tidy Ups, why not have a go at litter picking? We have the pickers, hoops and bags for you to borrow, the parks have been busy which unfortunately usually means so have the litter louts.

Food Sharers has lots of fresh food, saved from local supermarkets and it’s all FREE! Our food club has drinks, popcorn and more, plus tomato and strawberry plants so you can join in the spirit of our Community Allotment and grow your own.

Plus, if that wasn’t enough already, we have FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee available from Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough. Pop in for a hot drink and join in with everything else! See you between 2-6 this afternoon!

Easter Swap Shop at the Spring Fair

Do you fancy swaps and bargains? Do you fancy a Teddy Tombola? Of course you do! Well why not join us, lots of other stalls and our friends at Animals In Need, Little Irchester, 11-3 on Easter Sunday!?!

Join us to support our favourite animal rescue charity and to support our Wellingborough Swap Shop to help us to support Wellingborough Ukrainian refugees and sponsors with clothing and other essential items.

Lots of #veganfood available at the Vegan Cafe. Lots of fun too, see you on Sunday 🐰

Food Sharers and Swap Shop

Really busy Food Sharers, Swap Shop and more at Glamis Hall’s Community Room 2-6 this afternoon!

Food Sharers*, our new food reuse project offered surplus food from other food sharers including Redeem Funds and Glamis Hall. Wellingborough Swap Shop, a bring and buy sale where you can swap or give a small donation for all sorts of pre-loved items. Tuesday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles were there for all of your litter picking equipment and bags. We even made visitors a free coffee or tea at our Fairtrade Café, lots of fun for all, good news is we’re back next week!

*Links are to Facebook pages or groups, all content also available on this website, see menu.

New Swap Shop

We are relaunching Wellingborough Swap Shop at Glamis Hall‘s Indoor Car Boot Sale tomorrow! And it’s more than a lick of paint; we’re taking the food out of our Swap Shop events to concentrate on saving items that otherwise might end up in landfill.

We’re changing the way it works too, to make it simpler for everyone. All items will now be available for swaps or a small donation to the group. Tomorrow’s stall at Glamis Hall will be a ‘bring and buy sale’. You can bring something and swap it for something else or you can buy something on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis with a donation to the group.

All donations will be be split 50/50 between Wellingborough Eco Group and the venue, Glamis Hall. Donations received by Wellingborough Eco Group will go towards our other projects, including a new food project that we’re launching on Monday…

The Wellingborough Swap Shop Facebook group will be run in the same way, with lots of new items going to be added by admins daily from various businesses locally. New Swap Shops will also take place every Tuesday afternoon 2-6 in Glamis Hall’s Community Room, which will be a collection point for items from the Facebook group too.

So, pop along, grab a bargain or swap with us, save items from landfill and support the other stalls at the Indoor Car Boot Sale. See you there!

https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/swap-shop

Wellingborough Swap Shop

Today’s Advent Calendar Window opens for Wellingborough Swap Shop because we have two of these this week! Today as every Tuesday there is a Swap Shop in Glamis Hall’s Community Room from 2:00-6:00; and on Saturday there is another Swap Shop at Glamis Hall’s Christmas Festival from 9:30-4:00!

Wellingborough Swap Shop is a free and local exchange where members of the public can pass on things they no longer want, in exchange for something they need. You could describe it as a kind of cashless bring-and-buy sale. Participants do not need to bring anything in order to take away goods, and vice versa. Our ‘Swap Shop’ recognises that things no longer wanted by someone, might be another person’s treasure. By reusing things we cut down on the amount of waste that goes into landfill and reduce the amount of resources that we use in manufacturing of new products. And it saves you money!

Wellingborough Eco Group originally set up Wellingborough Swap Shop last year as a Facebook group (join in!) so items can be swapped or shared with others; and in February we started hosting Saturday Swap Shops at the Victoria Centre on Zoom with the One Wellingborough Plus project. In September we started hosting in person Wellingborough Swap Shops at Animals in Need’s Open day. This proved to be very popular, so we decided to have weekly Swap Shops in Glamis Hall’s Community Room during our Tuesday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles.

This Tuesday’s Swap Shop promises to be bigger and better than ever! With food surplus from Glamis Hall and Redeem Funds, plus produce from our Community Allotment there’s lots of stuff for all. In Glamis Hall’s Community Room from 2-6 it’s all for swaps or just take anything you want, it’s all free!

On Saturday we have another Wellingborough Swap Shop at Glamis Hall’s Christmas Festival, where we will have a selection of books and other items to swap or give away. We will also have pocket money games for everyone including a ‘reindeer race’ and a ‘find the seeds’ game, just for fun. Entry to the festival is free. You can meet Santa for just £5 and have your face painted for £2.50, plus there’s lots of other stalls, a café, a raffle and a tombola. Glamis Hall are requesting that you book Santa and face painting in advance to avoid disappointment.

Swap with Wellingborough Swap Shop, see you between 2 and 6 on this afternoon in Glamis Hall’s Community Room and from 9:30 until 4:00 on Saturday at the Christmas Festival in Glamis Hall; we look forward to welcoming you!

Tuesday Tidy Ups and Swap Shop

It’s Tuesday again tomorrow, our fun day in Glamis Hall. Come and borrow (or buy) litter pickers and hoops, plus get your NNC bags for free. Come and and have a Tuesday Tidy Up!

Wellingborough Swap Shop is back again with food and more from Redeem Funds, Glamis Hall and our Community Allotment . As always, bring what you want, take what you like it’s all free!

Energy Savers is there too to save energy and cut your bills, lots of info now on the website at www.energysavers.org.uk (available on Tuesday afternoons too!)

See you tomorrow, 2-6, in Glamis Hall’s Community Room 🙂