Dorset Scrap Store

The Dorset Scrap Store provides a community crafting hub that facilitates the re-use of scrap materials. 

You can donate unwanted materials to the Dorset Scrap Store (see the Dorset Scrap Store website for details).

Here's a list of items the Dorset Scrap Store would always like to receive:

• Art supplies - paint brushes, paint pallets, pastels
• Artificial flowers/greenery
• Artificial grass (clean off-cuts or end of roll)
• Baubles
• Beads
• Black-out material
• Bottle corks (clean)
• Bottle tops (washed thoroughly)
• Buckles
• Business cards (must be blank on one side)
• Buttons
• Canvass
• Card (plain and coloured, clean)
• Cardboard rolls (NOT the inside of toilet rolls)
• Carpet samples (clean/not used)
• Cork board
• Cotton reels
• Crepe paper
• Crystals
• Cushions
• Dice
• Drapes & Voiles
• Dress fabrics
• Dressing up costumes (clean)
• Envelopes (not used previously)
• Ex-window display - art items - e.g. decorations, props, fake flowers, bunting
• Fabric swatch books
• Fake fur
• Felt
• Fine electronic wires and cables
• Fine mesh
• Flexible plastic tubing of various diameters
• Flipchart paper
• Foam
• Foam board
• Furniture trimmings
• Gems
• Glitter
• Greetings cards (with or without envelopes)
• Hooks
• Items from costume makers / fashion designers
• Items from haberdashery manufacturers
• Jars - clean and empty
• Jewellery (especially beads)
• Knitting needles
• Lace
• Lino off-cuts (unused)
• Leather
• Mannequins
• Mosaic tiles
• Nails
• Needles and thread
• Novelty items – mini toys, mini jokes, crackers
• Paint brushes, pallets, rollers (in good condition)
• Paper (plain and coloured)
• Paper in rolls
• Perspex
• Picture frames
• Pipe cleaners
• Plain paper bags - small/medium (unused only)
• Plastic bottle tops (only if clean)
• Plastic containers - small/beakers
• Plastic offcuts – rolls
• Plastic tubes
• Plastic table coverings/sheets
• Polyester
• Pom poms
• Postcards (not used)
• Precision springs
• Ribbon
• Screws
• Sequins
• Sewing thread
• Sheet Foam
• Shirt fabric
• Silk
• Small cardboard & plastic boxes
• Stationery- plastic wallets, pencils, rubbers, etc
• Sticky paper
• Sticky-back plastic
• Straws
• String
• Tacks
• Tester pots of paint (unused)
• Theatrical costumes
• Theatrical props
• Tile samples (not used, not covered in grout)
• Tin-foil (unused)
• Tissue paper
• Twine
• Upholstery fabric
• Wadding
• Wallpaper (whole rolls and ends of rolls)
• Wallpaper swatch books
• Wood - small off-cuts without splinters
• Wool

To purchase items you must first become a member of the Dorset Scrap Store. You can then buy 'scrap bags' - fill your bag from the whole range of items in the store and pay a fixed price based on the size of the bag.

See website for details.