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Join us and help to make Arran a greener and more sustainable island.
Welcome to Zero Waste Arran Week
Eco has a plan to get everyone refilling their water bottles on Arran.
Arran Primary School pupils have all been invited to enter our competition to;
- Design a poster to show everyone where water bottles can be refilled on the island
Their fantastic entries will be on display at the Big Green Footprint so please come along and show them your support
Come along to our Big Green Footprint and find out more.
Do you have an up-cycling business?
A passion for up-cycling?
If so would you like to bring along samples of your work to one or both of our exhibitions to be held during Zero Waste Arran week 11th -18th September? Eco Savvy is planning a week of events including a social evening with some fun crafting Eco Style!
Eco is also presenting the BGF and hosting two large ambitious exhibitions in Whiting Bay and Brodick village halls with
A variety of great workshops – something for everyone.
Competitions and Challenges
If so would you like to bring along samples of your upcycling work to one or both of our exhibitions?
We would like to include all businesses and individuals who love up-cycling in an exhibition of work and products.
Exhibit your work, talk to visitors, demonstrate and share your up-cycling passion and experience.
Sell your up-cycled goods for a donation to Eco Savvy
Contact us to book your place.
Whiting Bay Exhibition Thursday 15th September
Brodick Hall Exhibition Saturday 17th September
Sunday 22nd May 2016
Up-Cycling Workshop All Welcome
Whiting Bay Hall 11 am – 3.30 pm
Tea & Coffee provided, please bring a packed lunch
Get Creative
Join us for an informal up-cycling day with Eco Savvy
This is a new style skill sharing event, we have many unwanted items in Eco Savvy which we think would be very saleable after an up-cycle.We have members with an amazing variety of skills who are happy to share them.
We have members who would love to try out some new skills but don’t know how to begin.
We have a huge variety of items to up-cycle and everything we could ever need to up-cycle them..
Skills
Painting, repairing and re designing unwanted items, Jewellery making, Decopage, Spinning, Card making, Felting, get creative with fabrics & wool and general up-cycling ideas to have fun with.
Save the Date
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Friday 23rd October @ 7.30pm
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Whiting Bay village hall
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An Up-cycled Evening with Eco Savvy
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Free entry BYOB
Eco Savvy invites you to join in with our FREE creative upcycling workshops throughout the summer in preparation for our autumn fundraiser.
They are a lovely way to spend an afternoon and everyone is most welcome.
The afternoons are spent sharing upcycling skills and learning new ones.
We meet in the lesser hall Whiting Bay from 2-4pm on regular Wednesdays. The dates for August and September are –
Wednesday 19th August
Wednesday 2nd September
Wednesday 16th September
Our autumn fundraiser is on Friday 23rd October and more details will be available nearer the time.
Skill Sharing event
Sunday the 26th of April 2015 
If you are interested in taking part again or joining us for the first time please get in touch and let us know. We want as many skills involved as possible
Everyone is welcome to pop in and get involved, it will be free and for all abilities.
The purpose of this event is to learn skills enabling everyone to find a use for items previously thought of as waste eg : ripped clothes, blankets past their best & unwanted fabric. All can be up cycled into useful and decorative items when you have the skill.
We hope to share knowledge on a wide range of subjects and help each other learn. We hope everyone who took part last time will come along again.
We will be joined this time by volunteers working on the Woollen Woods event this May. Roots of Arran are taking a table and sharing willow weaving and will show us more about their project. NTS Rangers from the castle are joining us and will be sharing ideas and skills to help those who would like to take part in Woolen Woods. There will be the opportunity to try knitting, crochet, felting and a range of non-knitting projects on the go with experienced crafters from groups like “Spin off”
