The Throwaways to Treasure project is a new collaboration between Faiths4Change, Wirral Repair Café and Wirral Borough Council, funded by Merseyside Recycling and Waste Authority.
It will explore various issues related to waste reduction, and aims to engage faith-based youth groups with addressing waste reduction through practical, skills-based workshops. Together, we will collaborate with local youth groups to explore four critical waste reduction issues:
Food Waste: Focus on food recycling, composting, and growing.
Plastic Bottle & Film Recycling: Strategies for reducing plastic waste.
Textile Clothes Swaps & Repair: Encouraging sharing and repairing clothing.
Textile Repair & Repurpose: Skills for repurposing textiles to extend their lifecycle.
The initiative will include a series of workshops led by the Wirral Repair Café, aimed at equipping participants with the skills necessary for repair, reuse, and repurposing.
The project is running between May 2025 and March 2026 and will be open to youth groups based within Wirral faith communities. The project will also develop and utilise resources to create a waste reduction toolkit and reusable project pack that other places of worship can use, thereby enabling a wider behaviour change impact across Wirral and potentially the Liverpool City Region.
At the end of the project, we will hold an end-of-project event to bring together young people to share projects, learning, and impact. It will also be attended by ten key partners with expertise and influence within waste management on Wirral to provide feedback and discuss further opportunities (e.g. green skills, further education, routes to employment) based on the projects.
It will explore various issues related to waste reduction, and aims to engage faith-based youth groups with addressing waste reduction through practical, skills-based workshops. Together, we will collaborate with local youth groups to explore four critical waste reduction issues:
Food Waste: Focus on food recycling, composting, and growing.
Plastic Bottle & Film Recycling: Strategies for reducing plastic waste.
Textile Clothes Swaps & Repair: Encouraging sharing and repairing clothing.
Textile Repair & Repurpose: Skills for repurposing textiles to extend their lifecycle.
The initiative will include a series of workshops led by the Wirral Repair Café, aimed at equipping participants with the skills necessary for repair, reuse, and repurposing.
The project is running between May 2025 and March 2026 and will be open to youth groups based within Wirral faith communities. The project will also develop and utilise resources to create a waste reduction toolkit and reusable project pack that other places of worship can use, thereby enabling a wider behaviour change impact across Wirral and potentially the Liverpool City Region.
At the end of the project, we will hold an end-of-project event to bring together young people to share projects, learning, and impact. It will also be attended by ten key partners with expertise and influence within waste management on Wirral to provide feedback and discuss further opportunities (e.g. green skills, further education, routes to employment) based on the projects.
If you are working with a group who would like to get involved, please get in touch.
For more information please contact [email protected]
For more information please contact [email protected]
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