Previously funded projects
The following are examples of projects that have been awarded Highland Reuse and Repair Funding by the Highland Council:
Rag Tag and Textile
- Project: RagTag's Skills Cafe
- Description: Skills Cafe open to the public offering textile-based reuse and repair skills using donated goods
- Grant offer: £11,833
Kilchoan Community Shed
- Project: Kilchoan Community Shed
- Description: Purchase of tools for a new community shed in Kilchoan, offering three drop-in sessions per week to undertake repair, repurposing and making activities, plus a monthly repair cafe
- Grant offer: £4,011
Strathspey Works - Grantown Remakery
- Project: Revive and Reuse in the Circular Economy
- Description: Teaching key employability and life skills through repair, reuse and upcycling. Reducing the amount of waste going to landfill through repairing, refurbishing and reselling items
- Grant offer: £29,350
Seaboard Memorial Hall Ltd
- Project: Repair Cafe, and Reuse and Recycle Initiative
- Description: A monthly Repair Cafe session with a programme of practical workshops and demonstrations to promote repair and reuse skills
- Grant offer: £4,228
Flip of the Coin SCIO
- Project: Second Life Studio - Creative Reuse and Skills Programme
- Description: Upskilling local people to recycle, refurbish and repair furniture, as well as creatively upcycle clothing, transforming items that would otherwise go to landfill into functional, attractive pieces with renewed value
- Grant offer: £26,640
ILM Highland
- Project: Revive and Reuse in the Circular Economy
- Description: Reuse and repair of small domestic items. Employing an electrician to undertake checks and repairs, setting up workshop space and running repair skills sessions
- Grant offer: £40,700
New Start Highland
- Project: Revive and Reuse in the Circular Economy
- Description: Launch the Highlands' first mattress collection and reuse centre, and run repair and upcycling classes each week
- Grant offer: £49,330