Share and Repair

Share and Repair

The Highland Community Waste Partnership is working together to bring share and repair skills, services and other opportunities to everyone across the Highlands.

By getting better at repairing, sharing, swapping and passing things on, we can connect to our communities to keep things in use for longer and reduce the overall volume of ‘stuff’ that is made, bought and thrown away.

Find out more about what the Highland Community Partnership do for sharing and repairing on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website.

The information below highlights some of the activities in or around Lochaber or that have been run through LEG as part of its’ project work.

Sharing

Where to share in the community

Lochaber Environmental Group Lending Library
  • Borrow e-bikes
  • Borrow bicycle maintenance tools
  • Borrow cargo and kids trailers
  • Borrow thermal imagine cameras
  • Borrow walking books
  • Borrow hand held sewing machines
An image of people outside Kinlochleven's food pantry.
Interested in starting your own sharing library?

Join the Circular Communities Scotland Share and Repair Network!

Circular Communities Scotland provides its members with a comprehensive pack of guidance, templates and other useful resources for setting up a sharing library.

Joining is easy, whether you are already working in this space or interested in learning more. Find out more here.

If you join you can also join their members map, meaning people will be able to find your sharing library easily. View their map here.

Community Fridges & Larders

These are some of the local Community Fridges & larders that we know about, but if you know of any more in the area, please do let us know!

Ballachulish Community Well-Being

Caol Community Cupboard

Kilmallie Community Fridge & Garden

Plantation Community Larder information

The Pantry – Kinlochleven

Past Sharing Events

Repairing

Community Repair information

Highland Repair Directory

The Highland Repair Directory is a free interactive map, designed to help people find nearby repair services for their favourite items.

By repairing items instead of throwing away and buying new, we not only reduce the amount of resources wasted in landfill, but also those used up to produce more ‘stuff’.

Do you offer a repair service in the Highlands? Join the Highland Repair Directory! 

As part of our work to promote more Conscious Consumption in the Highlands, we want to make it easier for people to share or repair items, instead of sending them to landfill and buying new. This will save resources, reduce waste and contribute to a better future for our planet. 

If you offer a repair service in the Highlands, please add yourself to the directory, by filling out the form on the HCWP page

Repair Cafe

Repairing initiatives support Scotland’s move away from a linear economy towards a more circular economy, by keeping materials in use for as long as possible.

A repair café is a meeting place where visitors can bring in their broken items from home for repair. Tools and materials are made available and skilled volunteers are on hand to give advice and assist with repairs. Items that can be brought along include, furniture, electricals, garden tools, toys, clothes and bicycles.

Repair cafés are an opportunity to learn a new skill, meet new people and give household items a new lease of life reducing the amount of waste going to landfill. When repairs are not possible at the repair café, volunteers can suggest alternative repair services or recycling facilities.

Fort William Repair Café is a collaboration between New Connections, The Workshop Studios (both Lochaber Hope), Lochaber Environmental Group and the Fort William Men’s Shed, alongside a dedicated team of volunteers.

We advertise any up and coming events on our Facebook and Instagram social media pages.

Hear Simon Abberley from Nevis Radio talk to Stuart from The Workshop Studios and Lesley from LEG.

Past Repairing Events – to be updated soon!