Come along to get reusing and repairing with ReActon on 25 April at Stirling Road in Acton. On Saturday from 11 am -2 pm, there is lots of reuse and repair activities that all the family can do.
Activities on the day include:
- free school uniform – high school & primary. Full details of the project Ealing free school uniform
- learn to repair your clothes with Ealing Repair café from 11-1 pm. Reserve a place
- upcycle t-shirts into yarn and bracelets with Ealing Repair café from 11-1 pm Reserve a place
- free household paint for DIY projects
- bike maintenance and small repairs Book a place
- book swap
- Donate for reuse and repair your:
- Clothes
- Clothes hangers
- Small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
- Terracycle recycling
Reserve place at activities on ReActon Repair and Reuse Event by Ealing Repair Cafe Eventbrite
ReActon Reuse and Repair Event
Time: 11 am-2 pm
Date: Saturday 25 April
Where: ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ
Find out more about ReActon Hub and events. Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority run this project.
School Uniform Free Shop and Swap
With Summer term having arrived, there will be children wanting to wear shorts and summer gingham dresses. We have a wide selection of branded and unbranded items from primary and high schools around the Ealing borough at ReActon.
You are welcome to take up to 4 school uniform items for free for each child for free.
Please also donate school uniform and clothes hangers that you no longer want. If you can’t make the event, please drop it off either or both at one of our collection points. We want school uniforms that are washed, clean and in good condition. However, it is not essential that you bring items, you can take up to 4 school uniform items.
School Uniform Free will be available from 11 am -2 pm. This project helps families save money and by wearing our clothes for longer we can reduce waste. Find out more at Ealing free school uniform shop and swap.
Learn to repair your clothes
Ealing Repair cafe will be there from 11 until 1 pm to teach you how to mend your clothes and textiles. They have equipment and scrap fabric to get your started, so bring along 1 or 2 items and they can guide you through mending your clothes.
Get inspiration from their simple clothes mending techniques. Book a place at ReActon Free Clothes Repair and Natter.
Upcycling clothes and textiles
Ealing Repair café will also have upcycling projects you can learn, such as showing how you can make yarn out of t-shirts. All the family can make your own bracelet or keychain out of t-shirt yarn. Or see a demonstration on how you can make a denim draught excluders out of a pair of jeans and Upcycle t-shirt into draw string bag.
Free household paint for DIY projects
Each year it is estimated that 50 million litres of paint goes to waste in the UK. This leftover paint is either thrown away or stored in homes or garages despite over 50% of it still being usable.
Come along to ReActon on 25 April and take for free some pre loved household paint.
If you have paint you don’t want, take it to Greenford Road reuse and recycling centre. Book a slot to drop the paint off and any other items you want to recycle. This paint is part of the Community RePaint project. Their mission is to make use of this wasted paint by offering a solution for leftover paint and making it available for reuse.
Free Bike Check
Get your bike checked for free with Colin from CC Cycle Services in Acton will be offering free bike checks.
Your bike will get a full cycle checks, minor adjustments (gears, brakes, tyre inflation), and clear guidance on any further work required.
Bring your bike along and get it checked for free. This is a free service where mechanics will carry out minor repairs on the spot and give advice on how to look after your bike to keep you riding all year round. Ealing Council also fund sessions around the borough of Ealing, so if you cant get along on the day see other sessions at Free Dr Bike checks in Ealing 2026: Get Your Bike checked.
Book swap
Get or drop off books for our book swap. It’s a simple and money saving way to get a good read. Either bring along any books that you no longer want and take away some inspiring books or do both. We want more books kept in circulation and being read more.
Clothes, small electricals and other teracycle items accepted
Bring along unwanted clothes, small electricals and Terracycle recycling along on Saturday 25 April.
Clothes
Drop off your unloved and unwanted clothes as well as school uniform at the event. It will be passed onto West London Waste Authorities partners.
If you can’t make it along on the day, Traid offers a free home collections of unwanted textiles as well as small electrical items at a time convenient for you. If have at least one bag of textiles for collection, any small electrical waste, (small meaning it fits in a bag for life or shopping bag) can be collected at the same time. Book a Traid free home collection
Small Electricals
If you have small electricals that you no longer want but are in working order, please drop them off at one of our local Charity shops that accept electrical items. For those small electrical items that are broken, and it can fit into a standard bag for life bring it along to ReActon. In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year, instead of reusing or recycling them, so please try to pass on these electricals.
Recycle with Terracycle
Drop off these TerraCycle recycling items below:
- Pringles® Tube Free Collection: For Pringle Tubes with the metal bases only. No other brands or tube are acceptable.
- Pladis Biscuits and Snacks Recycling: All brands of plastic biscuit wrappers, all brands of plastic cake wrappers and all brands of plastic cracker wrappers. No paper or foil wrappers.
- Taylors Coffee and Yorkshire Tea Free Recycling: All brands of coffee bean pouches, individual coffee bag sachets, ground coffee pouches, bulk bags of tea bags, loose leaf tea packs. Not accepted are coffee capsules, coffee grounds, cardboard packaging, tea bags or individual tea bag sachets.
If you are unable to make it on the day, you can also drop these items off at Greenford Reuse and Recycling Centre. Find out more https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201171/recycling_services/3016/terracycle_recycling_partnership
Get inspired to reuse and repair and reduce our waste
Come along to the ReActon on 25 April for repair, reuse and recycling, from 11 am-2 pm, held at ReActon, Stirling Road, W3 8DJ.
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