Furniture Upcycle and Repair
Wed, 05 Mar
|North East Mitcham Community Association
Learn how to breathe new life into your small pieces of furniture and home accessories to make them stand the test of time with our Upcycling and Repair workshop!
Time & Location
05 Mar 2025, 10:00 – 06 Mar 2025, 14:00
North East Mitcham Community Association, 51 Woodland Way, Mitcham CR4 2DZ, UK
Guests
About the event
A free, two-day Furniture Upcycling and Repair Workshop
Day one: Wednesday 5th March 10am - 2pm
Day two: Thurs 6th March 10am - 2pm
Did you know, it is estimated that 10 million items of furniture are discarded in the UK every year! The rise of "Fast Furniture", like fast fashion, is adding cheaply made and short lived items to local waste streams. It takes up to 1000 times more CO2 to produce new furniture compared to refurbishing, so it's more important than ever to reduce our new furniture purchases, and reuse, and repair what we can.
With this two-day workshop you will get inspired to upcycle and make minor repairs to small items of furniture.
You will learn: