Now that the cold weather is here, drafty homes and high energy bills are on many people’s minds. We were therefore delighted to host a Retrofit hub in November thanks to financial support from Renfrewshire Climate Action Network. The evening…

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We are absolutely delighted to have been selected as one of the chosen community charities by the Co-op. This funding, together with donations received at our monthly Repair Cafes, will enable us to continue the Repair Cafe after our initial…

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We’re looking forward to sharing our journey of setting up a Repair Cafe with RenCan members at Paisley library on Thursday 2nd October at 12pm. This will be an informal session where we share our learning from the past year:…

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On 3rd September I attended the Community Council Environment Forum. It was hosted by Maggie from Inchinnan Community Council and Inchinnan Community Development Trust. This was our first proper get together and we had a really energising discussion about how…

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On Tuesday I attended Renfrewshire Council Planning Board to hear the decision about the proposed housing development off Barochan Road to the North of Houston village. There were 563 objections to this proposal from the local community, but we were…

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We had a lovely afternoon today darning and repairing textiles at Linwood library. We were joined by local residents who enjoyed the drop in session and were keen for us to come back another time. A lot of socks were…

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The July Repair Cafe was a great success! It was a scorcher of a day but our volunteers had brought some fans which kept it nice and cool. As usual, we had amazing home baking alongside hot and cold drinks…

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We are excited to be involved in the newly created Houston Community Growing Association and look forward to sharing in the development of allotments and/or community gardens in Houston. We’re currently looking to hear from individual gardener, families looking for…

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Over the past five months, Glasgow Caledonian University students looked at Creating a Sustainable Gryffe as their Enterprise module case study. We hope that working with our charity has sparked a deeper commitment to sustainability that you’ll carry with you…

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We want to extend a massive thank you to the volunteers who helped organise, feed visitors, and repair items during our Repair Cafe soft launch on 11 January. We had a total of 13 visitors, 11 volunteers, and 12 repairs…

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