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Community RePaint East London Help Brighten Leyton High Road

Leyton High Road, home to the vibrant community in Leytonstone, East London, has been transformed with a colourful and innovative design, with the efforts of local residents, residents and renowned artist Camille Walala.

Camille Walala is a London designer known for graphics, interiors and fabrics that feature bright colours and bold patterns. She is also renowned for her amazing power to spread positivity across the streets of London, having also created murals, building facades and other installations across the world. The addition to Leyton High Road has re-energised the urban landscape with an explosion of creativeness, colour and joy above the shops and cafes.

 

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The local community was at the heart of this project, with the artist inviting Londoners to help shape the final design by voting for their favourite colour scheme. The project, run by City Hall and Spacehive, was kickstarted with Crowdfunding, which began earlier in the year and the ambitious project was approved after it raised a total of £40,000 – including a £25,000 backing from Mayor of London Sadik Khan!

The artists involved in the project purchased paint from Community RePaint East London, who have been part of the Community RePaint Network since 1998 and collect over 40,000 litres of paint annually. The scheme is run by the Forest Recycling Project work to promote a greener, more inclusive Leyton and Waltham Forest.

 

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Community RePaint East London partner with recycling centres across London to collect reusable leftover paint from residents that would’ve otherwise gone to waste. They check the quality and quantity of the paint before taking it back to their premises, where they sell it to the local community at an affordable price. The scheme also collects reusuable paint locally from traders, retailers and manufacturers.

Reclaimed paint of all types – emulsions, paint for interior and exterior wood and metal, masonry paint and varnishes – are available in a variety of colours and container sizes from two locations, ‘The Paint Place Reuse Project’ in Leyton and their shop ‘The Paint Place’ in Walthamstow. Both locations have paint available for sale to individuals and groups. If you’re in need of affordable paint in East London, have a look at their opening times on their website.

 

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Together, we can divert more paint from waste and brighten up spaces across the whole of the UK. We have over 65 schemes where you can purchase affordable paint, starting from £1, for projects just like this one! Find your nearest scheme here.

Photographs by Tim Crocker and Walala Parade Leyton

Colourful “Bradford in Spires” Mural Brightens Up City

“Bradford in Spires” is the title of the new community mural featured at the Bradford Interchange. The mural features towers and spires from some of the city’s iconic landmarks, accompanied with bright colours to bring new life onto the former tired-looking walls.

The project was commissioned by “Bradford BID“, who work on projects to benefit the entire range of business sectors within central Bradford. The completed work has been marked with a plaque, which thanks Sven for his hard work, as well as thanking Community RePaint for their donation of leftover paint to the project.

Sven collaborated with Community RePaint Bradford, who supplied the local artist with leftover paint. The paint had been collected from manufacturers, retailers, traders in the area, as well as from the district’s recycling centres where residents can drop off leftover paint.  The paint was checked to ensure it was suitable for reuse rather than disposed of. Since signing up to the Community RePaint Network in 2001, Community RePaint Bradford has collected over 45,000 litres of paint each year!

Due to the large amount of paint the scheme collects, they always have a large variety of paint types and colours. If you want paint for your home or for a community project, you can make an appointment to go along during their opening hours to choose some paint. They sell the paint for £1.50 per litre. Find all of the details of the scheme here.

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Can you recognise any of the iconic Bradford landmarks?

The mural includes Penny Bank, City Hall, the Wool Exchange, the Bradford College Old Building, Lister’s Mill, the Alhambra, Bradford Live, Eastbrook Hall, the Bradford Gurdwara, Bradford Cathedral and Bradford Central Mosque.

Sven Shaw is a freelance illustrator who specialises in cityscapes, maps and local interest illustrations. You can check out his other amazing and colourful work on his website here!

Are you planning a project to brighten up your local city?

You can find paint at one of our 65+ schemes across the UK. Find your nearest scheme here!

Social hall gets chic update with silver and grey emulsion

Englefield Green Social Hall use our environmentally-friendly ReColour emulsion in Silver Sonnet and Gorgeous Grey to update their outdated hall to a chic and welcoming space.

The Social Hall, Surrey offers a variety of facilities, from a large function hall with a stage to a small committee room. The hall is renowned in the area for being a welcoming and vibrant place for the community to come together.

Volunteer painters, redecorating community hall with cheap and environmentally friendly ReColour emulsion paint.

Testimonial from Englefield Green Social Hall:

“RePaint have been amazing throughout the whole process, from helping us decide what paint we need, arranging the delivery, and checking to make sure all went well. We’ve needed to have a refurb for a few years now and RePaint have helped in that refurb!”

BEFORE

Before redecoration photos of community hall.Before redecoration photos of community hall.

AFTER

After redecoration photos of community hall, using cheap and eco friendly ReColour emulsion paint. After redecoration photos of community hall, using cheap and eco friendly ReColour emulsion paint. After redecoration photos of community hall, using cheap and eco friendly ReColour emulsion paint.
After redecoration photos of community hall, using cheap and eco friendly ReColour emulsion paint.

If you have a community space, school, sports centre or religious building you’d like to decorate, read more about our ReColour paint and place an order today, starting at just £1 a litre!

A splash of paint at Green’s Windmill and Science Centre

The Green’s Mill and Science Centre is the only inner city windmill in the UK, producing award winning spelt and wheat flour. Paired with the George Green Museum and Science Centre the site preserves its milling heritage and provides educational and public activities.

When the Centre was closed recently for other work, they took the opportunity to refresh the toilets while there were no visitors around. Remarking on the changes on social media, the centre commented that the toilets were looking drab and dirty, however,

‘now a shade of green (what else…!) the ladies toilet is now clean and refreshed, ready for the year ahead.’

They got the paint from Community RePaint Nottinghamshire run by Veolia (Nottinghamshire County Council’s waste contractors) at Warsop, Newark, Beeston and Calverton Recycling Centres.  Members of the public are able to donate their leftover paint from decorating jobs year round at the Recycling Centres. The paint is then given to schools, community groups and local residents to prevent it entering the waste stream and to improve the wellbeing of people and the appearance of places across the county.

Members of the public can pick up paint during evening events each summer. The dates of the events are confirmed each year. Community groups, schools and charities can pick up the paint at any time by arranging an appointment online via the Nottinghamshire County Council website.

Green’s Windmill Trust sourced their paint from the Beeston Recycling Centre. They are now looking to secure more paint from the scheme to continue freshening up the whole centre. They have plans to paint all their doors at the centre and the walls of their old office which currently has three colours on the walls, so that they can convert it into a tea room.

‘right now we would like to say a huge thanks to Community RePaint and everyone that donates their unwanted paint to them, it makes a real difference to a charity like ours!’