Use Scrapstores!

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Scrapstores provide a cheap and sustainable way to collect materials for creative workshops and community projects.

If you regularly facilitate workshops in your local community or school, visiting your local scrap store can help you access a wide range of high-quality art and craft materials for your participants. The range of materials in scrapstores changes from day-to-day and could include card, paper, textiles, paint, corks, wool, cardboard tubes, netting, gauze and a thousand other things!

All scrapstores have different means of accessing their scrap materials. In some, you need to pay an individual membership fee, whilst in others, you simply pay for the scrap you take on the day.

Below is a list of scrapstores nationwide, with contact details for each. If you are interested in listing your scrap store on the AccessArt website, then please contact us.

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East Midlands

Derby Scrapstore, Derbyshire

“Derby Scrapstore is filled with many different recycled materials – fabric, plastics, ribbons, wood, wool, cardboard and paper. You’re welcome to visit and see what we offer before joining.”
 
6 – 10 Werburgh Street
Derby
DE22 3QG

Membership required

Gedling Play Forum, Nottingham

“Gedling Play Forum are a registered charity that re uses and redistributes material from local businesses that would otherwise end up in landfill.”

Gedling Play Forum 
Wollaton Avenue Community Centre 
Gedling 
Nottingham 
NG4 4HX

Membership required

Rushcliffe Play Forum, Nottingham

“Rushcliffe Play Forum is based in a rural village in Nottingham. We play a massive part in supporting play and creative activities in our community.” 

The Bungalow 
Keyworth Primary School 
Nottingham Road 
Keyworth 
Nottingham 
NG12 5FB

Open to the public 

East

Bits & Bobs Scrapstore, Cambridge 

“Our Scrapstore is named Bits and Bobs because that’s exactly what you’ll find. In amongst the rolls of colourful card, massive containers full of fabric scraps, there are lots of things we don’t even have names for.” 

REMO Eco Hub 
1-3 Commercial Road 
March 
Cambridgeshire 
PE15 8QP 

Membership required

Re-Imagine Resource Centre, Cambridgeshire 

“Re-Imagine Resource Centre, Community Kitchen and Solidarity Larder. We collect reusable materials.” 

Witchford Recycling Centre 
Stirling Way 
Witchford 
CB6 3FA 
 
Open to the public

The Pyramid Resource Centre, Essex 

“The Pyramid Resource Centre provide a range of services, primarily the scrapstore but also a handicraft materials shop, toy library, musical instruments and sensory equipment hire.” 
 
Resource Centre, Pyramid 
Heath Rd 
Grays 
Essex 
RM16 3AP 
 
Membership required

Scrapbox, Norfolk 

“Scrapbox is a re-use Scrapstore. We collect, process and sell a wide variety of clean, waste materials, mainly donated by local commercial companies which can then be re-used in the community.” 

Scrapbox 
Units 5 & 6 Collers Way
Reepham
Norfolk 
NR10 4SW 
UK 

Membership required

Watford Recycling Arts Project, Watford

“Watford Recycling Arts Project hold an ever-changing variety of clean commercial and industrial waste materials and donations from individuals.” 

Building 3
Hatters Lane
Croxley Business Park
Watford
WD18 8YG

Membership required

London

Children’s SCRAP Project, London 
 
“The Children’s Scrap Project’s main objective is to advance education and play by the distribution of donated materials to schools, colleges, playgroups, nurseries, community groups and other charitable organizations established for educational purposes.”
 
Children’s Scrap Project 
137 Homerton High St 
London 
E9 6AS

Membership required

Renée Materials (London pop up)

“Renée Materials is the UK’s first digital marketplace for circular material trade. We reduce waste and cut emissions on a large scale by offering businesses offcuts, surplus stock, and leftover materials for reuse. We now have a Circular Material Hub in Shoreditch.”

(Pop Up Address)
Shoreditch Town Hall Main Entrance 
380 Old St 
London 
EC1V 9TL 

Open to the public

Work and Play, London 

“Join the Work and Play Scrapstore based in Tooting and have unlimited access to our materials for your projects, all of which are saved from landfill. Paper and paint, textiles and trimmings, buttons and bubble wrap, wood, foam, fine wire, and so much more… come and visit us and see for yourself.”
 
Hazelhurst Estate 
13 Blackshaw Road 
London  
SW17 0DA 
 
Membership required

Ireland

Change Clothes CLG, Dublin

“Looking for affordable, creative supplies? Change Clothes is the perfect place to stock up on materials for sewing, crafting, or upcycling projects.”

Change Clothes CLG
The Digital Depot 
The Digital Hub 
Roe Lane 
Dublin 8 
D08 TCV4

Open to the public

North East

Repurposeful CIC, Northumberland

“Repurposeful are a social-enterprise that reuses unwanted materials from business and organisations, that would otherwise go to landfill – via our Scrapstore. Materials are reused by the community for play, art, and craft.”

94 Station Road
Ashington
United Kingdom
NE63 8RN

Membership required – free

North West

Halton Play Council Limited, Cheshire

“Halton Play are a charity whose aim is to raise funds to enable us to promote children’s play. We run a shop that sells everything to do with art and craft, children’s toys, stationery, paper, card, as well as donated items.”

Halton Play Children’s Charity 
10 Mersey Road 
Runcorn 
Cheshire 
WA7 1DF

Open to the public

Ragtag Arts Scrapstore Kendal, Cumbria

“Shop with Ragtag Arts for affordable craft materials and help divert waste from landfill! Perfect for craft projects, upcycling and school resources. We sell all kinds of craft materials in the Scrapstore, from the very ordinary to the very bazaar…”

No 8 Elephant Yard 
Kendal 
LA9 4QQ

Membership required – free

M24 Arts & Crafts, Greater Manchester 

“M24 Arts & Crafts are a small business supplying arts and craft materials, yarn, haberdashery and more. We run weekly craft and chat sessions, hold workshops for different crafts, host events and parties. We also have pre-loved goodies in our recycle and re-use area!” 

Pioneer House 
7-15 Lodge Street 
Middleton 
United Kingdom 
M24 6AA 

Open to the public

Online

 Renée Materials

“Renée Materials is the UK’s first digital marketplace for circular material trade. We reduce waste and cut emissions on a large scale by offering businesses offcuts, surplus stock, and leftover materials for reuse.”

Children’s Scrapstore

“100% of our profits go towards helping improve art and play opportunities for children and young people.”

At the online store for Bristol-based Children’s Scrapstore. Here, you can purchase a variety of creative materials, from sugar paper to modelling clay, and have them shipped directly to your door from the Scrapstore warehouse.

Bits & Bobs Scrapstore

At The REMO Store you can purchase materials online directly from Bits & Bobs Scrapstore in March, Cambridgeshire.

Under the Love2Create section you will find materials for every kind of creative project, including paints and brushes, paper straws, wooden models and even hessian coffee sacks.

Wiltshire Scrapstore

Can’t visit us in person? Browse the Wiltshire online shop for a wide range of creative resources, art materials and sustainable products. From craft supplies and activity packs to paints, paper and fabric, every purchase supports our charity and helps us rescue reusable materials from landfill.

Scotland

SCRAP Antics, Dundee 

“Here you can find a constantly evolving stock of materials ranging from wood and hand tools to paper, fabric, yarn, card and stationery. SCRAP Antics is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in creativity and sustainability!”

Unit 2, Meadow Mill 
West Hendersons Wynd 
Dundee 
DD1 5BY

Membership required

Borders Scrapstore, East Lothian

“Borders Scrapstore is an exciting resource centre that takes so called ‘waste’ materials and makes them available.” 

The Fisherrow Centre 
South St 
Musselburgh 
EH21 6AT 

Membership required

Remake Scotland, Perth and Kinross 

“Remake is a community reuse charity run by volunteers and staff based in Crieff. We currently run a second-hand store, a tool library, zero waste food store, community engagement events, repair and reuse workshops and a volunteer programme.”

Reuse Hub
Unit 2, Crieff Visitor Centre 
Muthill Road 
Crieff 
PH7 4HQ

Open to the public

Borders Scrapstore, Scottish Borders

“Borders Scrapstore is an exciting resource centre that takes so called ‘waste’ materials and makes them available.”

Unit 4
Selkirk
TD7 5NY

Membership required

South East

The Bognor Makerspace, Bognor Regis

“The Bognor Makerspace take reusable, safe, clean waste materials and unwanted resources that would have gone to landfill and redistribute them to you, the wider community.”

Bognor Makerspace 
58-60 Longford Road 
Bognor Regis 
PO21 1AG 

Membership required

The Scrap Space, Brighton

“The Scrap Space redistributes donated waste for art, craft, play, theatre and DIY, at low cost.”

Community Base 
113 Queens Road 
Brighton 
BN1 3XG 

Membership required




Refresh High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

“Refresh The Marketplace is a wonderful scrap store based in Church Street, right here in the heart of High Wycombe. We have a huge selection of surplus and unwanted stock all donated by local businesses and individuals.”

16 Church Street 
High Wycombe 
HP11 2DE 

Open to the public

Eastbourne Scrapstore, Eastbourne 

“Eastbourne Scrap store is a place where you can donate & buy cheap recycled arts and crafts materials & do your bit to recycle. Our volunteers sort the scrap & we also offer free and low-cost workshops.”

Elsie Woolmer Hall 
Langney Community Centre 
Etchingham Road 
Eastbourne 
United Kingdom 
BN23 7DX

Open to the public 

Artytime Scrapstore, East Sussex 

“Artytime is a community arts project based in Crowborough and run by volunteers. Our Scrapstore is at the heart of what we do, offering recycled materials for members to use in their art and craft projects.”
 
Jarvis Brook Recreational Park 
Crowborough 
East Sussex 
TN6 2EG  

Donation required, or sign up for membership

Waterside Scrapstore, Hampshire 

“Packed to the rafters with crafty delights, all donated by local businesses and individuals. Waterside Scrapstore have a huge range of materials.”

Sunnyfields Farm 
Jacob’s Gutter Lane 
Totton 
United Kingdom 
SO40 9FX

Membership required

ZigZag Scrapstore, Kent

“Zigzag Scrapstore CIC is a reuse scheme for Medway, launched in December 2024, with a big basement full of random treasure and creative activities using scrap materials. Low-cost fun and crafts for all.”

Basement at Intra Arts 
Entrance at rear of: 
337-341 High Street 
Rochester 
Kent  
ME1 1DA 
 
Membership required

Milton Keynes Play Association, Milton Keynes

“Our Scrap Store is open to everyone who loves being creative. Filled with interesting materials from wooden offcuts, loose parts, foam, material and paper produces so let your imagination run wild!” 

2 Burners Ln 
Kiln Farm 
Milton Keynes  
MK11 3HB 

Membership required

Orinoco Banbury Scrapstore, Oxford
 
“Orinoco has saved lorry loads of interesting resources from ending up in landfill and turned them into fabulous and inspiring items.”

Oxford Store
111-113 Pound Way 
Templars Square Shopping Centre 
Cowley
Oxon 
OX4 3XH

Banbury Store
57-58 High Street
Banbury, Oxon
OX16 5JJ

Open to the public

Recycling for Play Scrapstore, Plymouth 

“Recycling for Play Scrapstore is a not-for-profit membership organisation which provides a range of services for people of all ages and interests!” 

Plymouth Scrapstore 
Union Street 
Stonehouse 
Plymouth 
United Kingdom 
PL1 3HB 

Open to the public, discounts available for members 

Squirrels Scrapstores, Sutton 

“Squirrels Scrapstores have for the past thirty-five years collected surplus materials from factories, offices, shops and private homes. We sort and display them in our retro style hut!” 

The Old Allotment Hut 
131 Boscombe Road 
Worcester Park 
KT48PJ 

Membership required 

The Scrap Space, West Sussex 

“The Scrap Space redistributes donated waste for art, craft, play, theatre and DIY, at low cost.” 

The Circular Space 
Ham Rd 
Shoreham-by-Sea 
BN43 6PA 

Membership required

South West

Children’s Scrapstore, Bristol 

“Children’s Scrapstore are a reuse charity dedicated to helping businesses divert reusable waste away from landfill to help improve art and play opportunities for children, young people and adults.”
 
Children’s Scrapstore 
Scrapstore House 
21 Sevier Street 
St Werburghs 
Bristol 
BS2 9LB 

Membership required

Wiltshire Scrapstore, Chippenham

“Wiltshire Scrapstore is an award winning environmental and community charity situated on the outskirts of Lacock. We collect resources that would otherwise go to landfill and redistribute them for creative activities.”

Unit 5 
Griffin Farm 
Bowden Hill 
Lacock 
Chippenham 
SN15 2PP 

Open to the public

Cornwall Scrap Store, Cornwall

“Cornwall ScrapStore stocks an amazing range of interesting, unusual and unique materials and products, which can be used in art, craft and play activities for all ages.”

Goonmarris 
St Austell 
PL26 7QX 

Membership required

Saltash Scrapstore, Cornwall

“Saltash Scrapstore has two shops in Saltash Fore Street dedicated to resale of donated scrap items. This is used to promote art and crafts and encourage reuse, repair, repurpose and recycling to keep items out of landfill and help the environment.”

89 Fore St 
Saltash 
PL12 6AE

Open to the public

Exeter Scrapstore, Devon 

“Exeter Scrapstore is a unique arts and craft shop based in Belmont Park. It provides a variety of wonderful, reclaimed materials from businesses and industries that have chosen to recycle their off-cuts and surplus.” 

Exeter Scrapstore 
Belmont Park 
Gordon Road 
Exeter 
Devon
EX1 2DH

Open to the public, members get 50% off

Dorset Scrapstore, Dorset

“At Dorset Scrapstore we encourage the whole community to reduce waste, reuse items, and recycle, by promoting environmental awareness and creativity. If you’d like to plan a visit or find out more, please contact us.” 

Unit 23 
Cortry Close 
Poole 
Dorset 
BH12 4BQ 

Membership required

Gloucestershire Resource Centre, Gloucester 

“Gloucestershire Resource Centre is full of material treasures ready to stimulate and stretch creative minds. Tubes and textiles, foam, felt, and fabrics…blues, reds, and greens…rolls and reams; it’s a creative dream come true. “

Gloucestershire Resource Centre (GRC) 
City Works 
Alfred Street 
Gloucester 
GL1 4DF 

Membership required

Community Scrapstore North Somerset, Somerset 

“The Community Scrapstore is an Aladdin’s cave full of marvellous and sometimes quirky resources that will fire the imagination and spark creativity and play.”

Community Scrapstore North Somerset 
66 Gazelle Road 
Weston-super-Mare 
BS24 9ES 
 
Membership required

Yeast Scrapstore, Somerset 

“Yeast Scrapstore is a community-based Charity, collecting local business waste (which is safe for re-use and otherwise destined for landfill) and sell it our members for a fraction of what you would pay on the high street.” 

Unit 7 Dyehouse Lane 
Glastonbury 
Somerset 
BA6 9LZ 

Open to the public, members get 50% off

Southampton Scrapstore, Southampton 
 
“Southampton Scrapstore is a small community charity which is based in Swaythling in the city of Southampton.  We are passionate about reducing impact on the environment, reclaiming clean reusable waste and offering it to our members as resources for art, craft, play and learning.” 

Southampton Scrapstore 
Unit 15 Belgrave Industrial Estate 
Swaythling 
Southampton 
Hampshire 
SO17 3EA

Membership required

Swindon Scrapstore, Swindon

“Swindon Scrapstore diverts redundant reusable materials from local companies and makes them available to local schools, community groups and individuals. We provide creative resources, household paint, office furniture and I.T equipment and we provide volunteering opportunities for disadvantaged young people and adults.” 

Unit 7 
Bramble Close 
Elgin Industrial Estate 
Swindon 
SN2 8DW 

Membership required

Torbay Scrapstore, Torquay 

“Torbay Scrapstore is a not-for-profit, community interest company based in Torbay. We take unwanted waste materials, donated by businesses and individuals, and resell, recycle or repurpose it in various ways for the benefit of the local community. ” 

6 Fore Street 
St Marychurch 
Torquay 
United Kingdom

Open to the public

Yeovil Scrapstore, Yeovil

“Yeovil Scrapstore is the name for our Retail Space within the Hub Café. It holds a Scrapstore where you can purchase a basket of scrap materials for £8.50 (or just negotiate for a few items) as well as priced items such as fabric by the metre or arts and craft materials to help you complete that creative project.”

13 Buckland Road 
Yeovil 
Somerset 
BA21 5EA 

Open to the public, membership available 

Wales

ReCreate, Cardiff

“ReCreate is a charity based in Ely, Cardiff. We collect stuff destined for landfill & encourage re-use, play and creativity.”

Ely Bridge Industrial Estate Wroughton Pl
Cardiff
United Kingdom
CF5 4AB

Open to the public

West Midlands

Birmingham PlayCare Network, Birmingham 

“The PlayCare Network is the play association for the city of Birmingham who champion for the child’s right to play. To feed that playful childhood we have the scrapstore open to all, individuals, schools, Early Years settings, community groups etc.”
 
The Hollymoor Centre  
Manor Park Grove  
Northfield  
West Midlands  
B31 5ER 
 
Open to the public

Crow Recycling, Coventry

“At Crow Recycling we are passionate about supporting our community. The Scrapstore is intended as a low cost resource, helping make the arts accessible to as many people as possible and providing a hub for crafting socially and bringing people together.” 
 
Crow Recycling 
Orchard House 
Sparkbrook Street 
Hillfields 
Coventry 
CV1 5LB 
 
Membership required

Scrappies, Shropshire 

“Scrappies is a charity dedicated to recycling, creative arts and children’s education. Our store is bursting with end-of-line and recycled resources for craft, art and household projects of all kinds. Anyone can shop at Scrappies, but membership brings benefits and gives you a say in how we run the charity.”
 
1 Sherratt Court 
Beaumont Road 
Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 6BN 
 
Open to the public

Community Scrap Shack, Stoke-On-Trent 

“Community Scrap Shack is an ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ full of exciting and affordable re-claimed resources suitable for use in play and creativity and is open to families, individuals, schools and community groups as day or annual members. Various annual membership options are available offering additional discounts.”
 
Unit 2 
7 China St 
Fenton 
Stoke-on-Trent 
ST4 3NJ 

Open to the public with membership available

ReMade Worcestershire, Worcester 

“ReMade Worcestershire is a charity committed to rescuing quality craft materials from landfill. At our shop in Worcester’s Friary Walk Centre, you will find a treasure trove of fabric, haberdashery, wool, leather, embroidery threads and kits, paper crafting, dressmaking patterns, buttons, zips and so much more.” 
 
Friary Walk Shopping Centre 
Worcester 
WR1 3LE 

Open to the public

Yorkshire and The Humber

Scrap Magic, Bradford 

“Based at the Wibsey Community Garden’s site since 2018, Scrap Magic recycles waste products to use as safe craft material. We are a community service which aims to provide affordable and sustainable resources for craft and play for local families, individuals and people who work with children.” 
 
Wibsey Community Garden 
Scrap Magic Store Interior 
Wibsey Park 
Wibsey 
Bradford 
BD6 3QD 
 
Open to the public 

Scraptastic, Bradford 

“Scraptastic is a Community Interest Company. We are open to anyone who wishes to visit. 
We are a not-for-profit organisation. Any profits made are reinvested into the company. Our aim is to promote and encourage the use of waste materials and resources for creative re-use and play.” 
 
49 Bradford Road 
Shipley 
Bradford 
BD18 3DS

Open to the public

Hull Play Resource Centre, Hull 

“The Hull ScrapStore was set up in 1988 and is run by a small team of core staff and dedicated volunteers. As well as providing scrap in the store, we facilitate a large number of creative art and play workshops.” 
 
Hull Scrap Store 
Dairycoates Avenue 
Hull 
East Yorkshire 
HU3 5DB 
 
Open to the public

Scrapstuff, Leeds

“Scrapstuff are a social enterprise based in Leeds, focused on helping the environment by reusing waste materials from businesses as resources for art and play. Our beautiful mill shop is full to the rafters with inspiring, discarded materials.”

SCRAP Creative Reuse 
Arts Project Ltd  
The Spinning Mill 
Sunny Bank Mills 
LS28 5UJ

Membership required – free

Selby Community Recycling & Arts Project Ltd, North Yorkshire 
 
“SCRAP was set up in 2016 with the aim of offering the local community a source of low cost, recycled materials whilst providing vulnerable adults a safe place to gain confidence and work experience.” 
 
Profiles Building 
Selby 
United Kingdom 
YO8 4 
 
Open to the public 

Scrap Dragon, Sheffield 

“ScrapDragon is a not-for-profit CIC. We collect useful waste materials from local businesses and manufacturers, then we sort and process it to provide Sheffield with an affordable and sustainable resource of art, craft, and play.” 
 
204 Verdon St 
Sheffield 
S3 9QS 
Sheffield 

Membership required

The Recycle Yard, West Yorkshire, Wakefield 

“The Recycle Yard Ltd recycles waste from the local area that can be reused for arts, crafts and play. We support local schools, nurseries, community groups, charity groups etc by supplying them with low-cost materials.” 

Unit 14 
Ings Mill Complex 
Ossett 
West Yorkshire 
WF5 9HQ

Open to the public