Transition Stirling's Share and Repair project has been awarded a grant from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund to help Stirling and its surrounding communities reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill, with initiatives such as a tool library, repair café events, wood reuse scheme and a variety of educational workshops, which cover upcycling, repairing of furniture and textiles, plus sessions on sustainable food. The project will also raise awareness of climate change and ways to make a positive difference, through a series of events and Climate Conversation sessions.

Now based at 5 Wellgreen Lane in Stirling town centre, Stirling Community Food helps reduce food waste. Instead of supermarkets putting large volumes of excess and near-sell-by-date food in the bin, the project collects this excess food and offers it to everyone in the community for free. Customers can collect many fresh bakery goods, frozen foods and flowers, as well as a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Since its launch at the beginning of lockdown in March 2020, Stirling Community Food has provided over 95,700 meals to the community and prevented over forty-three tonnes of food from going to landfill - a weight equivalent to at least nine fully grown elephants!

The Reuse Hub is OPEN!

Over 400 tonnes of reusable goods are estimated to be put into Stirling landfill by us, the community. These goods are then replaced with new items, using up earth's raw materials.

Inspired to create, upcycle, repair? We want to hear from you. 

Supported by our workshops, tools from the library and workspace, we provide a retail space for you to sell your creations. We will be creating a space to foster and encourage innovation, where we can collaborate and develop solutions, as well as deliver repurposing projects.