Thanks to the Big Lottery’s Community Fund we’ve had a great time over the last year running workshops to help us all make the most of the kind of treasure you can pick up for pennies at the markets.

We’ve made earrings from unloved costume jewellery, draught excluders from a pair of old jeans and trinket bowls from obsolete vinyl.

Learning a whole heap of new skills, we now know how to look after our bicycles, defluff and oil sewing machines and we’ve practiced the gentle art of Shashiko visible mending.

We now have a now have a meet up for BGM upcyclers and sewers every month where we all help each other out (well, amongst the coffee and blethering).