Re Opening Sept 2010

Don't forget we are back to normal hours this coming monday (6 September) 10:00am - 3:00pm. Hope to see you soon! Perhaps you can produce something like this fantastic elephant made by the girls at Greyladyes art foundation! (Photo courtesy of Bethan Foulkes)

Summer Opening Times

We will be open on the first four Wednesday evenings of the Summer holidays - 28th July and 4th, 11th and 18th August, 4pm to 8pm.
Normal hours will resume from Monday 6th September.

Scrapstore at EtNet Celebration event

A great afternoon was had on the 26th June at the Pavillion in the park in Eastleigh where Eastleigh Transition group were celebrating their first birthday as a group. Etnet, as they are known for short, were one of the groups who were supported by the Scrapstore's Community Builders Project.
Stuart made alternative England flags with the children, while also telling all the mums and dads about the store and what we do.

New Scrap.

John and Stuart did a big swap down at the Wiltshire Scrapstore yesterday - Expect new and exciting stock in the store next week!
Several other Scrapstores took part, so we have brought back a good selection of stuff.

Crazy Bug Hunt!

Green tokens at Waitrose!

If you can, please shop in Waitrose in Chandlers Ford this month (May 2010) and give your green token to the DICE club. The Dice club is an Activities club for Adults with learning difficulties supported by the Art House, Mencap and Southampton Scrapstore.
Mencap and Scrapstore started this project back in 2008 and it's still going strong, but needs funds to pay for the hall and for arts leaders. Thanks!

Students present exciting business proposal

The Scraptore Committee were delighted to have Ravi and Oscar from Southampton University present a business plan this week for Team Building Days.

Scrapstore's mission is to provide communities with access to low cost materials, particularly disadvantaged communities. So that this can continue to happen in the future, the students (including Jayme who unfortunately couldn't make the meeting) have been exploring ways to generate an alternative income for the store that will subsidise membership fees and keep costs down.

The result is a great new business opportunity for a practicing Artist to work on behalf of the store offering local businesses a Team Building Workshop 'with a difference'. Many businesses are looking to be more green these days and the students are confident that our scrap materials will have an uncanny ability to disarm even the most professional staff team.

The students are studying an MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship and came to work with Scrapstore as part of a new pilot placement scheme for the School of Management.

However, the presentation and the report that the students put together was all on top of their coursework. Word has it that they put in a 13 hour day around the deadline for their coursework just so they could give us our very own report and spreadsheet tool. So we'd like to say a very big thank you to the students for their hard work and commitment as it's a vision for the store that we've been struggling to implement by ourselves. Now to make it happen!