Join Ealing Repair cafe for World Kindness day on Wednesday 13 November to help make drawstring bags from old t-shirts and denim upcycled draft excluders from jeans. No sewing experience required. We will donate items to Age UK Ealing, Ealing Soup Kitchen and South Ealing Food cupboard. This free event is funded by Ealing Council.
Upcycling Workshop location and time
- Wednesday, 13 November: From: 6.30-8.30.
- Tea Darling ,114 Churchfield Road Acton, London W3 6BY.
- Free Event (Places Limited to 20 people)
Donations of Jeans, T-shirts and sewing equipment
If you have jeans or t-shirt donations that you no longer want, please Contact us. We are looking for adult sized jeans and t-shirts. Ealing Repair cafe will also take donations of sewing threads and equipment that they use at their sessions.
World Kindness Day
World Kindness Day is a celebration of kindness in society and day to day life. Acts of kindness start a ripple of change that can transform the lives of children, families and entire communities. It is a celebration every year on 13th November to celebrate and promote kindness in all its forms. Some ideas for kindness acts if you cant make it to our event.
Ealing Clothes Repair cafe also believes that sewing and mending is great for your mental health and an act of mindfulness. There is always friendly chat and many who join the sessions have told us how great they find the sessions, so pop along to one of our events.
Mending and sewing is good for the soul as well as your clothes!
One person said about the Ealing Repair cafe session “was so soothing and restorative I want to do it again” Another said coming to a session is as pleasurable as eating a bar of chocolate!
Why reuse our clothes?
WRAP research from April 2024 shows that people are putting almost half (49%) of all used textiles in the rubbish bin. On average, each person in the UK throws a shocking 35 items of unwanted textiles straight into general waste every year.
So lets recycle, repair and mend our clothes to stop them going to waste.
Goodgym: doing good and getting fit
Ealing Repair cafe runs upcycling events also with Ealing GoodGym. At the events everything that is made is donated, and there is lots of fun, learning sewing and upcycling techniques. So we hope that this event will be as successful.
Here are some the Good Gym session reports such as Tug of Wore and Mira-colour-ous Discoveries. We have so far have made and donated:
- 15 metres of upcycled bunting for community groups
- 25 upcycled t-shirt drawstring bags donated to Ealing soup kitchen and. South Ealing Food Cupboard
- 14 upcycled denim draught excluders made from old jeans to Ealing soup kitchen and Ealing Age concern
To find out more about Ealing GoodGym & latest sessions.
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