For many years Hopwood Park in Heywood was neglected, but a fantastic community group The Friends of Hopwood Park have transformed the space, as they see the area as a valuable asset to the community. They believe the space should be utilised to give the best opportunity for residents to gain benefits from exercise, community cohesion, and well being.
Community RePaint Rochdale, who are run by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, lent a hand on the hottest day of the year, to paint the interior and some of the exterior of the community business. They gave the already popular Hopwood Cabin a fresh lick of paint, which you can see below.
BeforeDuring painting After
The Tree House Cafe at Hopwood Park is a new community business, managed by local people with revenue being reinvested directly into Hopwood Park for the benefit of the local community. See below the transformation of the interior of The Treehouse Cafe.
A team from Marks and Spencer, in partnership with Neighbourly, spent a day at Community RePaint Cambridgeshire painting the outside of their building. Watch the full timelapse below.
Our scheme in Loughborough joined the network in 2018 and are run by The Exairo Trust. The Exaireo Trust provides temporary supported accommodation and a holistic service to single adults that are homeless. Their reuse project including their Community RePaint scheme provides work-based training to all of their residents, helping them to become economically independent in the future. Not only do they collect paint locally from traders, retailers and manufacturers, they also collect paint from households via the Whetstone recycling centre.
Next time you are painting, visit the scheme and support what they do, whilst still getting quality paint at affordable prices. You can visit their page on our website to find out more about what they do.
Community RePaint East London can provide you with bright paint to recreate the sunshine we are experiencing right now.
Mike, a volunteer at Community RePaint Wirral, has been outside enjoying paint processing! Community RePaint Liverpool were able to supply The Old Town Bloomers with lots of outdoor metal paint, brightening up the area
Community RePaint Torfaen have also been processing their paint in the sunshine, with some incredible colours up for grabs.
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Thanks to Jenny’s Creations for creating and sharing this amazing painted mural. The mural was created for a sensory room at Ashcroft Care Home in Bradford.
If you need paint for your project, find your nearest scheme here.
The BBC Radio Garden Rescue team were in Aylesbury, who made over the small back garden to provide a space for entertainment and relaxation, for their daughters with autism. Once of the main features of the garden included a feature using empty paint cans, provided by Community RePaint East Berkshire.
The Green Machine, who run Community RePaint East Berkshire, collect over 50,000 litres of paint a year. The majority of their paint comes from local recycling centres where they collect paint which has been dropped off by local residents. Their paint is available to individuals and groups for £1-£2 per litre. Due to the large volumes of paint they receive there is a large variety of colours and types available. If you need paint you can call in to the scheme during their opening hours.
The volunteers were taking part in the Marks and Spencer’s ‘Making Every Moment Special’ programme, in partnership with Neighbourly, an online giving platform which connects charities, businesses and communities. Community RePaint Sandwell and Soho are run by Law Leisure Learning, who run the refuge.
The Law Leisure Learning home has the capacity to accommodate homeless members of the community and 14 ex-offending residents, who are referred to them from prisons. Using paint that they collect at their Community RePaint scheme, the team spent the day painting the dining hall, living area and the hallways. We think the results are amazing, all thanks to the great volunteers that took part in the day.Before picture – The living room After painting, no longer yellow! The dining room during painting, with the first coat of white paint covering the yellow The dining room after, with a lovely grey finish
Cambridgeshire Community Reuse and Recycling Network (CCORRN) were joined by a team of nine Marks and Spencer volunteers, transforming the outside of their premises. A local artist Michelle Deyna-Hayward designed the piece, featuring a range of animals including unicorns, whilst also keeping the message of leftover paint clear. The enthusiastic volunteers spent the day filling in the design with bright colours, really brightening up the exterior. ALL of the paint used in the mural was from the scheme, so otherwise would have been wasted.
Reflecting on the mural Nikki DiGiovanni, Communications and Product Development at CCORRN said: ‘We are so pleased to have this support from Marks and Spencer. Their volunteers have allowed us to create a magical mural which we hope will spark local people’s imaginations’.
The volunteers were taking part in Marks and Spencer’s ‘Making Every Moment Special’ programme, in partnership with Neighbourly, an online giving platform which connects charities, businesses and communities. It’s one of Marks and Spencer’s most ambitious volunteer programmes to date, mobilising over 5,000 staff members from over 640 stores across the UK and pairing them with over 580 charity events.
Stay tuned as we will be uploading more pictures and videos next week!
Our Community RePaint scheme in Middlesbrough has received a stock of masonry paint, in a huge variety of colours, perfect for creating colourful displays.
Have you thought about what you have in your outdoor spaces, such as plant pots and fences? A bright splash of colour can make a real difference..
Lyn Roe from Papworth Trust Essex said ‘As you can appreciate paint is very expensive to obtain and we were delighted to find that we can get what we need at Second Generation Essex [in Thurrock], either donated or for a fraction of the cost. On behalf of the company and ourselves please would you thank the benefactors who donate this paint to you.’
If you would like to find out more about the work Papworth Trust and Papworth Trust Essex do, visit their Facebook pages. If you are a community group in need of paint, find your nearest Community RePaint scheme on our website.
