The ScrapStore receives funding to expand its opening days!
East Kent Mencap has been awarded £16,100 through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund for The ScrapStore scheme.
The ScrapStore encourages the community to reduce waste by promoting reuse and recycling. Craft items are donated and saved from landfill, then sold at affordable prices, allowing people to get creative while supporting sustainability.
Run by a dedicated team, including volunteers with and without a learning disability, all proceeds go to East Kent Mencap and their work to support people with a learning disability.
Thanks to the funding, The ScrapStore will now open an additional two days every week, every Friday and soon on Saturdays too. People can visit The ScrapStore at Foresters Hall, Meeting Street, Ramsgate, every Wednesday, Thursday and – from October 4- every Friday, from 10am to 2pm. Saturday opening dates will be announced soon.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a UK government programme that provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. Thanet was allocated £1.15 million with the district council distributing the grants. The aim is to increase life chances, investing in communities and places and supporting local business, people and skills.
Fiona Wonford, GOLD Project Manager, said: “Thank you Thanet District Council and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. This incredible funding will help us to promote sustainability and provide more valuable volunteering opportunities for people with and without a learning disability in our community.”
Elizabeth Cake, The ScrapStore Project Coordinator, said: “The treasure trove that is The ScrapStore has already achieved so much and I’m excited to see it grow with the help of the new funding. This wonderful asset to the community brings together people with and without a learning disability who have a shared interest in crafting, provides affordable arts and crafts supplies and saves tonnes of materials from landfill each year.”
To find out more about volunteering at The ScrapStore, email [email protected].
For more information about The ScrapStore, visit www.eastkentmencap.co.uk, follow @scrapstore.ekm, or visit The ScrapStore at Foresters Hall, Meeting Street, Ramsgate.
For more information about the Shared Prosperity Fund, please visit www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
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