SHARE – A Library of Things is celebrating its second birthday with a prize draw for anyone signing up to support the project at £3 a month during May.
A range of prize ‘experiences’, such as family passes to the Frome Roller Disco, PostScript Craft Workshop and vouchers for borrowing from SHARE, will be offered.
SHARE needs more people to support it at £3 a month to keep the Library of Things open and all of its events and workshops going. For £3 a month, people can have a supporter membership at SHARE, or can donate their membership to a family or individual in need.
Signing up is easy – simply go to http://sharefrome.org/membership and click on the link to “Sign me up to give £3 a month”. Alternatively, people can sign up at SHARE during opening hours.
Pop in to SHARE (with proof of address and ID), or email to say they would like to gift their membership to someone else. SHARE will work with organisations like Fair Frome and JobCentrePlus to allocate the gifted memberships.
The draw is also open to members that want to renew and move from basic membership (with an annual fee of £12) to supporter membership.
Co-project manager at SHARE, Aliss Vaas, said she hoped there would be plenty of people ready to support SHARE. “For about the price of a coffee each month, you can help make sure SHARE remains a part of Frome life,” she said. “And to say thank you, we’ll enter you into our prize draw this month.”
Prizes will be awarded at random to people who have signed up during May, whether they choose to take the supporter membership or to gift it onwards.
SHARE opened in May 2105 and now has more than 1,000 items in its library, including tents and gazebos, camping equipment, drills and decorating equipment, hedge trimmers and gardening tools, and lots of household and kitchen items. They can be borrowed by members for between £1 and £5 per week. SHARE is open from 10 am – 4pm, from Wednesday to Saturday.
By borrowing from SHARE’s Library of Things, people can reduce what they buy and re-use the things other people have finished with, which has huge benefits for the environment. Last year, SHARE estimates that it diverted 5 tonnes of electrical and electronic waste from landfill by lending and repairing items.
SHARE is an Edventure:Frome enterprise, in collaboration with Frome Town Council, Sustainable Frome and The Cheese and Grain.
Contact: Aliss Vaas, co-project manager, SHARE – A Library of Things
share@edventurefrome. org www.sharefrome.org
