Welcome to Children’s Scrapstore!
A Bristol based charity dedicated to improving wellbeing for all through reuse, creativity and play.
An introduction to our charity
We are a reuse charity on a mission to redefine waste as resource, widen opportunities for creativity and play, as well as to improve wellbeing and empower others to do the same!
Located at Scrapstore House in St Werburghs, our building is open to the public Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, except Thursdays when we open at 11am. Inside you’ll find our Scrapstore Warehouse, ArtShop, and Playroom, with plenty more activity happening behind the scenes.
Everyone is welcome to visit and have a look around!
Scrapstore Warehouse supports reuse through collecting & repurposing waste materials.
It is a large space full of varied reuseable scrap materials, perfect for repurposing for all kinds of projects at a low cost. You can see examples of what scrap we regularly have in our barrels here.
Please bring your Annual Membership/ Supporters Plus Card every time you visit, as you won’t be able to take home scrap without it!
If you’re looking to individually donate scrap to us, we’ve information on we can and cannot take here. If you would like to donate business waste, find out more about becoming a supplier here.
Our ArtShop provides a community hub, as well as opportunities for creativity and play.
It is open to the public and offers a huge variety of competitively priced arts and crafts materials. All shop income directly supports our charity.
You can also purchase many of our art products from our Online Shop, with options to collect in-store or deliver across the UK.
Our ArtShop is also home to a public toilet and our Children’s Corner, free for anyone to use!
Our Play Team makes waste things plays things by empowering playful people & places.
They do this through offering a range of play training programmes including our renowned Scrapstore PlayPods and consultancy to schools, early years settings, other play settings or any organisation that would like to be more playful!
Our Play Rangers run free open access Community Play Sessions across Bristol, taking resources to areas of deprivation across the city.
We provide opportunities and resources for creativity and play, whether that is through our in-house Playroom sessions or outreach events!
Our Bookable Events include weekly Taste Safe Messy Play for Under 5s and Friday Craft sessions, as well as themed activities for older children in school holidays. All our sessions are child-led and involve reusing scrap!
We also run Free Events, like our monthly Super Saturdays, and host creative parties for all ages in our Playroom.
Hire
Our charity provides unique services and spaces for hire, with all income going directly back into supporting us and our vision.
This in includes Badge Makers, Workshop Facilitation and Room Hire! Annual members get a discount.
You can support our reuse charity by making a Monetary Donation, Volunteering, becoming a Trustee, or recommending us to your friends!
We’ve provided our services for over 40 years in Bristol, and with your help we can continue to improve wellbeing for all through reuse, creativity and play for 40 more!
All identifiable photos of children taken by Children’s Scrapstore for our website, posters & socials have signed photo permissions from the child’s parent or guardian for best practice purposes.