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Comment by Philip on February 1, 2010 at 9:46am

Hello, Recycle Western Riverside are having Love Food Hate Waste road shows; see below for dates and places.

Times may vary but generally cover 1pm - 4pm

Thursday 18.2.10 – Sainsburys Clapham
Friday 19.2.10 – Brixton Market
Saturday 20.2.10 – Oval Farmers Market

For more info about the Recycle Western Riverside campaign see www.recyclewesternriverside.org.uk

For more info about the Love Food Hate Waste campaign see www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Comment by Hannah Lewis on January 28, 2010 at 12:51pm

Hello friends of Remade in Brixton,

Just a quick reminder that tonight we'll be visiting the reuse organisation Furniture Aid South Thames followed by our own meeting in a nearby pub. Hope you can join us in Oval:

Visit to Furniture Aid South Thames
6.00-7.30pm at FAST, Block F Offley Works, 25-27 Clapham Road, London SW9 0JD (tel 020 7793 7787)

FAST was set up in 1994 to supply affordable second-hand furniture and white goods to vulnerable members of the community. Our visit is aimed at understanding how their service works to help us develop our own Reuse Centre plans, and is also an opportunity to explore common objectives and the potential for mutual support. We will be joined by Richard Featherstone from London Community Recycling Network, who is co-ordinating the planned Reuse Framework for London in which both Remade in Brixton and FAST are involved.

Remade in Brixton meeting
7.30-9.30pm at The Roebuck, 84 Ashmole Street, London SW8 1NE

Agenda to include:

* Update and discussion on Reuse Centre proposal at Paulet Road
* The Work-Shop – update and future plans
* Contract to recruit & manage Waste Prevention Adviser for Brixton Low Carbon Zone
* Future Jobs Fund recruitment
* Funding opportunities – BREW, WREF, Grassroots Grants, APE

If you have any items for the agenda please get in touch. Hope to see you tonight.

Best wishes

Hannah


Remade in Brixton Work-Shop
Unit 5, Brixton Village
+44 (0)791 903 8778

Website: www.remadeinbrixton.org
Wiki (meeting notes): http://transitiontowns.org/Brixton/RemadeInBrixtonGroupPage
Transition Town Brixton: www.transitiontownbrixton.org (click on "Remade in Brixton" link on left)

Comment by Hannah Lewis on January 15, 2010 at 2:02pm

Hello friends of Remade in Brixton,

Happy new(ish) year and welcome to our latest news... there's lots of it, maybe get yourself a cup of tea!


Remade in Brixton Work-Shop

The last month has seen us move into our new Work-Shop at 5 Brixton Village arcade – a hub for local reuse, repair, recycling and working towards a zero waste community. The Work-Shop hosts craft and design workshops and a give and take stall. We also stock local ‘remade’ goods including Velo-Re’s bike tyre belts, reworked garments from Rock U Later and Fishnet Fashions, skip-salvaged felt slippers and tetrapak wallets from Bo-Peep Kids, and compost from Aardvark. If you haven't visited yet, pop in and say hello and have a go on the amazing Re-Piano – a broken piano that's been reinvented as an interactive artwork (it has to be played to be believed!)


A Tasty January food event TOMORROW – with Focus on Food Waste at the Work-Shop

Tomorrow (Sat 16 Jan) you'll find lots of free food tastings, cookery demonstrations and other foodie events going on as part of the Tasty January event celebrating both new arrivals and old timers at the market (full details here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/London/Brixton-Village-aka-Granville-Arcade/277579055129#/event.php?eid=236545732205)

Here at the Work-Shop we'll have a Focus on Food Waste day including...
• food waste collection from market traders to be composted by Aardvark Recycling
• visit a wormery
• Zero Food Waste quiz
• make a Tetrapak Wallet

Volunteers to help on the day are very welcome – please contact remadeinbrixton@googlemail.com


Workshops – recent and upcoming

Recent workshops have included:

* Christmas Craft-Up with the Brixton Pound (12, 19 Dec) – which produced a very original Nativity scene featuring googly-eyed Harvey's Bristol Cream bottles clad in scrap fabric robes and foil crowns!
* Apron Sewing with WeFab (20 Dec) – 5 participants made stylish personalised aprons from reused fabrics using WeFab's super-simple design
* Zero Waste Design Lab with RCA (21 Dec) – students from the RCA's Innovation Design Engineering course examined rubbish from local businesses and homes and identified opportunities to create products and enterprises that would divert waste from landfill.


We are currently scheduling workshops until mid-March so if you have making skills you would like to share, please get in touch (remadeinbrixton@googlemail.com / 0791 9038778).

Individuals are also welcome to come and use the space as a workshop at any time (there are 2 sewing machines, an iron and a large table – other equipment can be provided on request).
Prices:
Individual maker: £3/hr 'pay as you go', £15 weekly membership (pop in anytime), £50 monthly membership
Hire for workshops: £10/hr (for whole space – prices for individual participants to be set by teacher)

Repair & alterations skills needed!

We have had several enquiries about whether we offer clothes repair and alterations services in the Work-Shop. Currently we don't, but would like to! If you have the skills, please get in touch.

Are you a maker? Contact WeFab

The Work-Shop is being developed in partnership with WeFab (wefab.org), a start-up social enterprise that is developing a new way of linking buyers and makers directly through a website where customers will be able to order products and select from a database of small-scale makers to produce them. WeFab is expanding its database, so if you have making skills – or would like to learn skills that could earn you income – contact info@wefab.org. WeFab are initially focusing on textile products (so sewing skills are a priority) but plan to apply the same approach with other production techniques in future.


Volunteering & work

If you are interested in being actively involved in the Remade in Brixton Work-Shop – or the wider running of Remade in Brixton as an organisation – there are lots of opportunities available! For more details please fill in this form to let us know your skills and interests: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFNMZUdyUmpKaG1DZUFISjNFa2pERnc6MA

If you want to help staff the shop please add your name to this Google Calendar to let us know your availability: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=oav5p56csh26l3houtm82ocl8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London


Zero Waste Brixton shopping bag competition

As part of Lambeth's upcoming Zero Waste Brixton project (part of the Zero Waste Places scheme funded by BREW), the council are holding a competition to design graphics for a printed cotton shopping bag that will be available through local retailers. The design must be on the theme of Brixton and the environment and is to be printed in one colour only (can be any colour). It can incorporate text and will preferably have the word Brixton on it somewhere. Bags will be unbleached cotton. The printed size on the bag will be approximately 30cm x 30cm (but larger or smaller designs can be scaled by the bag company).

The council are seeking one design from a sixth form / college student and one from a local artist / designer. There will be a prize (tbc) and the design can include the artist’s name and contact details. Deadline is 4th February. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.

Email entries to kcrook@lambeth.gov.uk or post to: Kevin Crook, Waste Strategy Manager, London Borough of Lambeth, 1st Floor, Serviceteam House, 185-205 Shakespeare Road, London SE24 0PZ


Upcoming Vacancy – Marketing and Engagement Co-ordinator (funded by Future Jobs Fund)

Remade in Brixton has applied to Lambeth's Future Jobs Fund to employ a Marketing and Engagement Co-ordinator. This will be a part time, 6-month position for someone with some experience of marketing, promotion and / or community engagement who is currently claiming Jobseeker's Allowance. More details will follow once funding is secured, but meanwhile if you are interested please get in touch (and if you are unemployed but not yet on benefit, please sign on!)


Reuse & Repair Centre proposal

Remade is developing plans for a Reuse & Repair Centre that aims to:
• reduce waste by extending the useful life of damaged or discarded products and materials
• cultivate skills of making and maintenance that will be key to the creation of local green enterprises, sustainable employment and a more self-reliant community

We have identified a suitable location – a disused garage block in the Loughborough Junction area – and are working with London Community Recycling Network to develop the proposal as part of a collective funding bid (with other community reuse organisations across London) towards a capital-wide Reuse Network.


Next meeting + tour of FAST – date to follow shortly!

We have been invited to visit FAST (Furniture Aid South Thames, a reuse charity based in Oval) for a tour of their facilities and to talk about how they do their work as a reuse organisation and the potential for collaboration. In order to keep the diary simple, our next meeting will be on the same date, also in Oval (following the FAST tour) and will be confirmed shortly.


Hope to see you soon,

Best wishes

Hannah Lewis


Remade in Brixton
Unit 5, Brixton Village
+44 (0)791 903 8778
www.remadeinbrixton.org

Comment by Elkin Atwell on January 12, 2010 at 6:56pm

Paint for reuse - There is lots of paint of all types and colours at Vale Street reuse and recycling centre that anyone can take to use. See www.lambeth.gov.uk/recycling for opening times and location.

What an excellent idea...

Comment by Philip on January 12, 2010 at 6:30pm

HI all, Hope you dont mind me doing a sort of mail out like this but I have some useful info that you maybe interested in and can spread around your friends and other groups!

Compost bins special offer buy 1 get 1 half price
To get your bin at the offer price you must be a Lambeth resident. To order your compost bin contact STRAIGHT plc on 0845 130 60 90 or visit www.lambeth.getcomposting.com

Paint for reuse - There is lots of paint of all types and colours at Vale Street reuse and recycling centre that anyone can take to use. See www.lambeth.gov.uk/recycling for opening times and location.

Western Riverside Environmental Fund
Applications are invited from projects that work with local communities to promote environmental improvements and sustainable waste management in the four boroughs. www.wref.org.uk/

The next WREF deadline is Friday, 26th February 2010

School recycling - Do you know if your childrens school has had a recycling or waste minimisation visit? Ask your childrens teacher or facilities manager to contact me and we will be able to offer onsite visit to improve the schools recycling service and we can even provide a school recycling assembly.

Comment by Hannah Lewis on November 16, 2009 at 1:55pm

The next Remade in Brixton meeting will be on Wednesday 18 November, 7pm at the Trinity Arms, 45 Trinity Gardens, SW2 8DR.

Details are here:
http://www.projectdirt.com/events/remade-in-brixton-meeting-8

Comment by Felix Gonzales on November 14, 2009 at 7:35am

On Saturday 31st October, the Mayor of Lambeth took part in a B£ shopping spree, that started off at Morleys of Brixton department store where the Mayor got himself some B£s.

Next on the list was A&C Continental, Portuguese deli on Atlantic Road, from which the Mayor emerged with a bag of goodies, including herbs and onions for his dinner. From there the Mayoral convoy, made up of a number of B£ supporters and onlookers, moved to the Arcades market for a stop at Wa Zo Bia, African food store, to buy some chilies, and then across to Secondo, vintage clothes outlet, where the Mayor picked up a very cool jersey.

From there, and with many hello-stops at regular intervals, the Mayor reached Nubian Natural Body Care, on Atlantic Road, where B£s came handy in the purchase of some scrumptious salt crystals. Next it was Diverse Gifts, on Atlantic Road, and finally over to Stuart the Watchmaker, on Pope Road, before the Mayor said good bye to the team and headed off to his next engagement. No doubt those bath salts would have come handy that evening.

The shopping spree was a fantastic success in promoting participating businesses and the B£, with passers-by and shoppers out and about in Brixton.

Comment by Hannah Lewis on August 27, 2009 at 11:04pm

The next Remade in Brixton meeting will be on Tuesday 2 September, 7pm at the Trinity Arms, 45 Trinity Gardens, SW2 8DR.

The agenda is here: http://www.projectdirt.com/events/remade-in-brixton-meeting-6

Comment by Hannah Lewis on August 20, 2009 at 4:09pm

Lambeth residents are being invited to contribute to the borough's Waste Management Strategy – please see forwarded message below...

Lambeth Waste Management Strategy – Sustainable Waste Management and Recycling Department

This is an exciting time in Lambeth: we are in the process of reviewing our waste strategy. We would like to involve residents and get your opinion on key issues that will affect you; and so that we can improve our services to you over the next few years. Please look out for the August issue of Lambeth Life and keep an eye on our website for details of the upcoming consultation events.

Please email or call with your details if you would like to be involved in the consultation process.

Contact Philip O’Keeffe Waste Development Officer pokeeffe@lambeth.gov.uk 0207 926 8948

Comment by Hannah Lewis on July 7, 2009 at 12:46pm

Next Remade in Brixton meeting is Thursday 9 July 7pm @ Ritzy cafe – details here:

http://www.projectdirt.com/events/remade-in-brixton-meeting-5

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