Want to do something unusual for an event or party?
Rubbish Revamped can run any combination of workshops exclusively for you and your friends or for your organisation; for children, young people and adults.
Take a look at the Workshops Past & Future to see what you fancy for a two-hour workshop, or for events requiring shorter, faster paced sets of activities, download the activities guide. These include crafts oriented to children at drop-in events.
2010 events
The Knit and Natter group in Sale made beautiful petal hangings and little boxes from their saved Christmas cards.
Swappers at Chorlton's Happy Returns Swap Party also revamped their Christmas cards and younger children turned old CDs into decorative sun-catchers.
Members at Start in Salford sampled a number of Rubbish Revamped sessions including Folksy hangings, Blissed Out with Buttons and revamping greeting cards.
University student mentors and school mentees joined together to make junkmail jewellery as part of an Ethical Fashion project run by Manchester Youth Volunteering Project and Reach-Out! Manchester.
On the first day of Spring in March, the sun came out for a Rubbish Revamped in the Garden workshop at Norris Bank School's Growing Vegetables day.
Since then we've crafted with the Big Green Festival in Chorlton, with celebrants at the Playbuilder event in Longford Park (windiest ever outdoor workshop - should have been revamping kites!), joined the open house at Whalley Range's Green Walk and even held our own open studio event for Chorlton Arts Festival on the rainiest rainy day in May - well done to all of you who made it!
June 2010 and our feet have barely touched the ground sweeping up rubbish and rejects to take to festivals far and wide from the Whalley Range Good Neighbours Day to Macclesfield's Barnaby Festival, and closer to home at Manley Park's Family Fun Day Oh, and not forgetting all the button bracelets made at Moss Side's community networking event put on by the Big Life Company.
Later on in the year saw several workshops run for Trafford Housing Trust events, often with a youth focus, always with a big friendly welcome from the staff and lots of active involvement from participants. We even rubbed shoulders with fame when running workshops to celebrate a new playground opening by Coronation Street stars.
Other events were run for Adactus Housing who were thanking their residents for their good work on recycling, for Daisy Bank mental health service users and for girl guides and brownies at their Blast 100 centenary celebrations.
Occupational therapists came up from London for a weekend packed full of workshops, continuing even on the train home where, armed with the Rubbish Revamped e-book How to Make Monsters & Monkeys, they made sock monkeys.
Not forgetting a workshop for a bride and bridesmaids to make 93 wedding favours and place settings from buttons, wire and pegs!
Wedding favours
We ended the year by joining Merci, the environmental group, in festive events linked to their AGM at their stunningly converted mill.
Phew, is there anything left for landfill after this lot have folded juice cartons into wallets, decorated and strung up CD sun-catchers, turned old cards into boxes and fashioned used socks into monsters?
We have worked with schools and run sock monster and junkmail jewellery birthday parties; and even hen parties!
Groups are kept small and friendly with an appropriate number of helpers to make sure everyone gets the best out of the event. A fun display of revamped rubbish can be put on to inspire and entertain you. Evening or day workshop packages available; please enquire for a quote.
In 2009 we helped people revamp rubbish into amazing crafts at these events:
- Chorlton Big Green festival
- Friends of Longford Park 'Green Up' day
- Celebrate Whalley Range festival
- Manchester City Council's Future Fest
- Sale Kite festival
- Ramsbottom Rhythm and Blues Festival
- Communities 4 Change
- Oxjam in Beech Road Park, Chorlton
- Tameside Council's Credit Crunch Christmas Fair
Do contact us to find out more at rubbishrevamped@googlemail.com
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