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Woodstock's Swap Shops
Our forth Swap Shop was held on 1st October 2011 and we
successfully swapped electrical items, small furniture, household goods, books,
sports equipment, a bike, gardening bits and bobs including some heavy flower
pots, magazines and toys.
Our Third Annual Swap Shop was held on Saturday 22nd January 2011.
Never throw away your "stuff". Someone will make good
use of it. One of our Swap Shop visitors said that last year, January
2010, she took away some rolls of wallpaper. Two kind friends from her
church came round and put it up for her and she says it looks lovely.
  We
saved at least 176.3 kgs of stuff that would otherwise have ended up in
landfill. We also took along 3 boxes to the Sue Ryder Charity Shop and
some further items were left for the Youth Club Jumble Sale on 26th March.
We had over 50 visitors signing in but there were more. They came from
Woodstock, Kidlingtone, Begbroke,
Long Hanborough, Witney, Yarnton, Charlbury, Bladon, Duns Tew, and Cassington.
Many commented that we should run more, perhaps every six months instead of once
a year.
Items swapped ranged from desks, chairs, books, toys, umbrellas, deck chairs,
picture frames, electricals, rolling pins, tennis rackets, magazines, steamer,
BBQ, garden hose, brass kettle, scanner, computer hard drives, a chocolate
fountain, jewellery, peacock feathers, pot holders, wine racks, paper shredder,
mats, toolkit, etc, etc.
Everyone seemed to enjoy a great social occasion with Fairtrade tea, coffee and
biscuits and there were lots of requests for us to run the event more often.
Look out for us on Central
South TV later in the week - (w/e 29th Jan 2011)
Check out other sustainability groups swap shops at the
Community Action Group's website on
http://www.cagoxfordshire.org.uk/
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