Promoting Reuse
and Purposeful Activity.

Repurposeful is a social-enterprise promoting reuse & purposeful activity, based in Ashington, Northumberland.

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What We Offer

We provide triple impact through our work.

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Scrapstore

We collect materials donated by businesses for creative reuse by our community

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Volunteering

We enable purposeful and work-related community volunteering for adults with additional needs

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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.

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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.

    Become a member
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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.

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To learn more about us, download our Easy Read Document.

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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.

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Our website was funded by:

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