Promoting Reuse
and Purposeful Activity.
Repurposeful is a social-enterprise promoting reuse & purposeful activity, based in Ashington, Northumberland.
What We Offer
We provide triple impact through our work.
Scrapstore
We collect materials donated by businesses for creative reuse by our community
Volunteering
We enable purposeful and work-related community volunteering for adults with additional needs
Activity Boxes
We produce activity boxes for schools, day services, care homes and hospitals.
Learn more
To learn more about what we do, download our Flowchart.
Scrapstore
Get involved with our Scrapstore
Our Northumberland Scrapstore service collects reusable resources from local businesses. We then redistribute them to charities, community organisations, and schools - for use in creative repurposing, such as arts, crafts, and technology projects.
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Donate as a Business
We collect materials donated by businesses for creative reuse by our community
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Donate as an individual
Would you like to personally donate materials to our Scrapstore? You can!
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Become a Scrapstore Member
For a small fee, your community organisation can use our Scrapstore service for your projects.
Supported Volunteering
We work with organisations who support adults and young people with additional needs
We provide opportunities for people with special needs to contribute to their communities and to develop employability skills and confidence, through a range of pathways to volunteering. We work in partnership to provide individual, remote, and group volunteering activities.
Easy read
To learn more about us, download our Easy Read Document.
Activity Boxes
Find out about our purposeful activity boxes.
We also reuse unwanted materials to make purposeful (and enjoyable) activity boxes for a variety of people with disabilities, autism, dementia, with physical/brain impairment, and those who are elderly – supplying to care homes, day provision centres, etc.
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Reduce Reuse Recycle
We reuse donated resources to make our activity boxes – to reduce waste in Northumberland.
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Buy them Online
(Coming soon) Visit our online shop to order your activity boxes, for delivery nationwide.
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Pop-up Scrapstore
Our range of activity boxes are available at our Pop-Up Scrapstore events.
