Yesterday our planned speaker had to
cancel but “Captain Rummage” stepped in at short notice and entertained us.
Chris Powell, also known as Captain Rummage, gave a highly entertaining and
informative talk about Harrogate’s community scrap store – The Cone Exchange. Over
20 years ago, when Chris was working at Bettys and Taylors tea factory, a young boy on a factory
tour asked if he could take home a waste cotton cone to make an angel for
Christmas. Word spread and within a few weeks 500 angels had been made and sold
with the proceeds going to charity.
Chris then started to look for other items
of waste that could be re-used for crafts for children. The company then
continued to grow and now numerous schools collect items for recycling such as
mobile phones and then exchange them for craft materials.
Some of the scrap is also used to make
items for sale at shows and fairs.
If you have never been to the store it
is well worth a visit. I guarantee you will not leave empty handed. And of
course if you have any fabrics or other materials you would like to recycle
then Chris would be glad of any donations as all money raised goes to
charities.
To find out more visit The Cone Exchange website
https://www.coneexchange.org/
I have won two tickets to the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate coming up this week! I can't use them - based on Norfolk and too short notice. I've offered them to people in the Norfolk Guild via the Facebook site and to a local group - but chances are anyone who's going from here has already bought tickets - if no one local to me wants them, does anyone lucky enough to live up there want them? You just need to print the email (which I can send you) and take it with to get two entries to the show. (As far as I know they're not 'non-transferable') You can contact me on anne @ penguinofficeservices.co.uk. (Obviously don't put in the spaces in the email - that's just to stop the email address being picked up by automated spammers!)
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