Great Big Green Week: Repair Café Sew & Swap

Join our friends at Fylde Repair Cafe and give your old clothes a new lease of life.

Need to repair a beloved item of clothing, but don’t know where to start?
Want to give your glad rags a new look?

Repair café

In this informal sewing session, you can learn how to repair or repurpose your clothing. We’ll have talented volunteers on hand to help and guide you through the process.

We have:

• Sewing machines
• Hand-sewing kit
• Fabric & thread
• Haberdashery and embellishments
  If you want to use your own kit or fabric, then feel free to bring that along too.

Clothes Swap

How does it work?

• Bring along 1-3 items of clean clothing, you’ll then receive tokens which you can exchange for items of your choice.
• We accept all shapes and sizes including children’s clothing.
• Please no PJs, swimwear, underpants or anything you wouldn’t want to take home yourself!
• Drop off time: You can drop and swap all afternoon (from 1pm until 3:30pm).
• Where’s the venue? We’re holding this workshop at our new venue: 28 Topping Street. Blackpool FY1 3AQ. It’s next door to Bootleg Social.
  We’ll be temporarily ‘popping up’ in the ground floor shop area for Great Big Green Week. Please note that the full space will not be open as we still have building work to do. We’ll have illustrations of the rest of the building available for you to look at on the day, so feel free to ask us about our plans.

Anything else?

• We’ll provide the brews and biscuits.
• Drop-in anytime between 1pm and 4pm, no tickets required
• This is a family friendly event
• You don’t need any experience of sewing.

This is your chance to reduce textile waste by reusing and recycling your old clothing, what a stylish way to help tackle climate change!

This event is part of Great Big Green Week.

Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest call for action on climate change, and takes place from 24 September to 2 October 2022. Show up for nature, people and climate with your community this September and take part in the #GreatBigGreenWeek! From wildlife gardening to green energy projects, and everything in between, there’s something for everyone.