UK's First 'Share Shop' Opens for business
in Frome, Somerset - may be the first shop in the UK where lending rather than selling rules.
At this ‘borrowing hub’ items are loaned out rather than sold – and everything is personalised with the story of its previous owner. SHARE founders believe this nurtures trust and respect as well as providing a practical service.
The store also aims to reduce waste, save customers money and train young people with practical skills through workshops and social events.
People are asked to donate or lend useful, high quality items which the shop then lends out to others for several days at a time. Only a nominal fee is charged to borrow items: between £1 and £4.
At SHARE, all items are displayed with the object’s history and a photo of the person who donated it to encourage people to forge connections and introduce a richness of experience, arguably often missing from financial transactions.
The shop opened its doors this spring after eight unemployed young people were given just two months to get it up and running. They were set the challenge by community enterprise Edventure: Frome as part of specialist training in community entrepreneurship, which sees participants ‘learning through doing’.
read on:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/uks-first-share-shop-opens-for-business/
Love Always
mudra
in Frome, Somerset - may be the first shop in the UK where lending rather than selling rules.
At this ‘borrowing hub’ items are loaned out rather than sold – and everything is personalised with the story of its previous owner. SHARE founders believe this nurtures trust and respect as well as providing a practical service.
The store also aims to reduce waste, save customers money and train young people with practical skills through workshops and social events.
People are asked to donate or lend useful, high quality items which the shop then lends out to others for several days at a time. Only a nominal fee is charged to borrow items: between £1 and £4.
At SHARE, all items are displayed with the object’s history and a photo of the person who donated it to encourage people to forge connections and introduce a richness of experience, arguably often missing from financial transactions.
The shop opened its doors this spring after eight unemployed young people were given just two months to get it up and running. They were set the challenge by community enterprise Edventure: Frome as part of specialist training in community entrepreneurship, which sees participants ‘learning through doing’.
read on:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/uks-first-share-shop-opens-for-business/Love Always
mudra
