About Share Skipton

What is Share Skipton?

Share Skipton is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation formed in January 2023. We came together as a group of individuals with a shared vision to encourage the sharing of resources and, in doing so, reduce waste and consumption while supporting cost-saving for the local community.

By building connections with local partners, volunteers and donors, our goal is to create a lasting impact on the environment and the local economy.

We’re working towards opening a Library of Things, running repair cafés and skill-sharing workshops in 2024.

What we do:

Library of Things

We run a Library of Things from 48 Newmarket Street in Skipton, North Yorkshire. A Library of Things is like a normal library but, instead of books, we lend items like leaf blowers, tents, drills, disco balls and more. The idea is that we can make these items more accessible to the local community so they can save money and storage space while contributing to a more sustainable world.

In early April we collected the keys to our shop, so work can now begin to renovate the space. We aim to open our Library of Things to the public in July 2024.

Repair Cafés

“Reduce, reuse, recycle” sits at the heart of what we do, so we want to support our local community in repairing items where possible, rather than throwing them away.

In 2024, we plan to start running repair cafés, where the community can bring items to our volunteer repair team so we can try and mend the item while also teaching, where appropriate, how to carry out the repair themselves in future.

Our vision

Share Skipton’s vision is to create a sharing, sustainable Skipton.

Our mission

Our mission is to:

Establish and run a Library of Things, which lends items to our communities at an affordable cost;
Establish and run initiatives to share, repair and create;
Encourage and enable our communities to share resources, reduce waste, repair and reuse more, and promote a circular economy.