| Project and organisation |
Area |
Material focus |
Project summary |
| Swap Shop – Vibe Charitable Incorporated Org |
Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton & St Helens |
Textiles |
Working with young people (11-17) across various youth councils to create a travelling textiles project. The core group and van will move across districts offering education sessions linked to fast fashion, second hand clothing, upcycling and sewing skills and hosting swap shops with donated/repaired/upcycled clothing. |
| Scouting Towards Zero Waste – Merseyside Scouts |
Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens & Wirral |
Food & Plastic |
Food waste skills delivered through trickle down training. Supporting 30 unit leads to learn the skills and access equipment to support up to five sessions in each area. |
| Waste Not, Dance Lots – Alchemic Kitchen |
Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton & St Helens |
Food |
Large scale educational food sessions providing Disco Chops (active musical cook-alongs) focusing on utilising unwanted to wasted veg stock. As well as a community event day offering apple gleaning utilising unharvested stock for juice, baking and more. |
| School Uniform & Clothing Reuse Project – Roberts Recycling Ltd |
All |
Textiles |
Pilot Supporting five schools in the reuse and redistribution of uniforms and other textiles, through educational session, assemblies and resources. |
| St Marks Waste Less Community Programme – St Stephens Gateacre PCE |
Liverpool |
WEE, Textiles & Food |
Ambitious community church project covering multiple reuse/repair and waste reduction projects including – launch of a monthly repair cafe & lending library, 3 clothing swaps (2 uniforms, 1 coats), and a range of cooking and composting sessions utilising their community garden. |
| Reuse, Restore & Repair – Lets Talk2Day CIC |
Knowsley |
Food, Textiles & Furniture |
Project focusing on repair and reuse across multiple sessions including repair workshops, sewing skills lessons and food waste workshops. These sessions aim to generate core volunteers or champions to help continue the work long term. Supported by quarterly swap shop events and a final showcase. |
| Threads for Change – Amber Button Community CIC |
Wirral |
Textiles |
A Wirral based repair and revive workshop focusing on sewing skills, garment altering and care advice to extend product life. As well as two larger swap shop events and a final celebration event. |
| Reduce and Reuse at Micah – Micah Liverpool |
Liverpool |
Food & Textiles |
Splitting their focus over two areas Micah will offer 8 sewing skills workshops working on repairing and repurposing clothing and home textiles, followed by 10 food waste sessions around utilising ‘waste’ kitchen products and showcasing skills such as batch cooking, freezing and storing. |
| Waste Less the Eco Way – The Eco Therapy Garden CIC |
Knowsley |
Food & Textiles |
Sessions held at a local community garden focusing on food growing, waste prevention and composting know as from plot to plate. Aswell as hosting textile swap shop and sewing skills sessions, providing repair skills, and sessions on utilising ‘scrap material’ such as reclaimed yarn and wool. |
| Renew, Reuse & Recycle Waste Wood – Walton Vale Community Shop |
Liverpool |
Furniture, WEE & Other |
Utilising scrap furniture, pallets and wooden boxes in hands on woodwork sessions creating, ornaments, bird boxes and planters. As well as the creation of a scrap library to support future projects. |
| Switch & Stitch – The Hearth Network |
Sefton |
Textiles |
Offering 6 clothing swaps across Sefton parallel to a 4 hour repair skills session to support those accessing the project. Session will focus on a range of skills from basic stitch to tailoring and upcycling and will be shaped for each venue and the time of year. |
| Save & Store – The Venus Charity |
Sefton |
Food |
A six month project focusing on food skills around cooking, storage and meal planning to support long term waste reduction. |
| Sewing Connections CIC |
Sefton |
Textiles |
A sewing specific organisation providing additional days free of charge to the local community to support sewing skills, repair and reuse. Mainly focusing on repair skill sessions and repurposing scrap material into items to donate to charities including mastectomy cushions & IV bags. |
| Reuse, Recycle and Repair with Mencap – Mencap Sefton & Liverpool |
Sefton |
Food, Textiles & Other |
Building off a 2024/25 project looking to run workshops in their cafe around repair and food waste reduction, as well as hosting 2 swap shops to help launch an onsite charity shop. |
| Growing Sustainable Futures – Kindling Farm |
Knowsley |
Food |
A local farming co-operative offering a 6 week seasonal growing and cooking course and 6 week furniture repair and upcycling course. Alongside school visits around the food cycling and access to locally grown produce. The project aims to end with a Zero Waste Food Event celebrating season, local food, composting and more. |
