BORROW DON'T BUY
LIKE A LIBRARY FOR BOOKS BUT FOR STUFF
Why buy when you can borrow? Cut down on clutter and waste, borrowing is kinder to the planet and saves you money and space.
JOIN THE LIBRARY
Join the Library and borrow what you need from our Library of over 800 items
VIEW OVER 800+ ITEMS TO BORROW
Find everything you need DIY, Cleaning, Gardening, Camping, Parties and more
Library of Things
With over 800 items to choose from, borrow an item and collect it from the Hub, or we’ll deliver and collect it from your door.
Library Lockers
Choose from 23 items to pick up and collect from lockers onsite at the Hub
we've moved!
We have relocated to Redbridge House on Lower Bristol Road.
📍 Second Floor, Redbridge House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3EW
This is a bigger space and has a lift and some parking spaces, so dropping off and picking up loans from our Library of Things will be easier.
What3words for our entrance: ///trip.laser.belong
Thank You!
Mulberry PArk Hub
Get Bath Borrowing
We successfully fundraised £8,000 in April to put lockers for our Library of Things in Mulberry Park, which was doubled by the Big Give to £16,000 – and that’s all thanks to you!
We’re so grateful to everyone who donated to our campaign and supported us by coming and buying cakes and items from our sale in the shop.
Lockers in Mulberry Park Hub
We’re currently planning the lockers for Autumn 2025, and would like local residents in the South of Bath to respond to our survey telling us what their top 2 items would be – it will only take 30 seconds!
VIEW OUR LIBRARY HERE
What can you use our library of things for?
What can you use our library of things for?
Perfect for a party!
“Thank you for delivering the bunting for this afternoon’s party! We love Share and Repair
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Lindsey borrowed our bunting for her daughter’s seventh birthday party!
Perfect for a party!
“Thank you for delivering the bunting for this afternoon’s party! We love Share and Repair
– Lindsey
She borrowed our bunting for her daughter’s seventh birthday party!
"Thank you for delivering the bunting for this afternoon's party! We love Share and Repair 🎉"
- Lindsey
She borrowed our bunting for her daughter's seventh birthday party!
How Does it work?
How Does it work?
Did you Know
That we deliver by bike?
Save time and a trip to Lower Bristol Road, leave the car parked at home! For a small fee we can deliver and collect items from our Library of Things within a 3 mile radius of the Hub.
delivery
Choose to have your reserved items dropped off at your address on the first day of your loan period.
Collection
Your loan items will be collected within our opening hours on the day they are due to be returned.
delivery
Choose to have your reserved items dropped off at your address on the first day of your loan period.
Collection
Your loan items will be collected within our opening hours on the day they are due to be returned.
Join Us
Become a Member
and get borrowing
Pay as You Go
- Cost: Free
- Period: Ongoing
- No discounts on loans
Charity
- Cost: free (valid charity number needed)
- Period: Annual
- 25% off every loan
Best Friend
/Student
- Cost: £25 (Student is free with valid NUS card)
- Period: Annual
- 25% off every loan
Proud Supporter
- Cost: £75
- Period: Annual
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No loan fees
- Maximum loan period is two weeks
Super Supporter**
- Cost: £100
- Period: Annual
- No loan fees
- Maximum loan period is two weeks
**The Super Supporter Membership includes a donation to Share and Repair allowing us to give subsidised memberships to those who need them
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@ShareandRepair
This customer brought her projector into the Share and Repair Hub because the slider had stopped sliding.
Our repairer Dick was on hand to try fixing the projector, and magically it started working again!
Dick said that the oils inside the projector may have dried up, and cleaning and looking inside the projector may have helped free up the mechanism.
Sometimes that happens, an item that has been left in a cupboard for a while just needs a bit of a clean and attention, and as if by magic it starts working again.
We`re pleased we could help another happy customer!
If you have something that needs a repair, book a slot in our Hub or pop into one of our Saturday Repair Cafes around Bath and the surrounding areas.
Emily borrowed the castle cake mould in preparation for a fifth birthday party, and it ended up being used twice! 🎂
Whilst looking after her friend`s two year old, they trial-ran the cake together which went down a treat, and then again for the birthday party.
Emily said, `both versions were greatly enjoyed by the kids` - we`re glad they liked it!
There`s two weeks left to get your borrows delivered and returned, for free!
Do you love the feeling of having something you need magically appear at your door? Luckily for you, we are offering free deliveries and collections until Friday the 30th of January.
Don`t miss out on this opportunity!
To get your free delivery and collection, browse our Library of Things on our website, select the items you`d like to borrow and the dates, and we`ll be in touch to arrange delivery. You must be in to accept your delivery, and deliveries are on a first-come, first-served basis as we have a limited number of delivery slots per day.
Happy borrowing!
This Saturday`s Repair Cafes!
We`re running Repair Cafes at:
✨ New Oriel Hall, Larkhall, BA1 6RA, from 10am - 1pm
✨ Wallington Hall, Bradford on Avon, from 10am - 12:30pm
✨ Bear Flat Community Hall, Bruton Avenue, BA2 4QJ, from 9:30am - 12:30pm
✨ Saltford Hall, Wedmore Road, Saltford, BS31 3BY, from 11am - 1pm
Please arrive as early as possible to ensure that there is time to work on your repair, we have limited capacity and our volunteers will do their best to help - sometimes we get really busy and we don`t want to have to turn you away!
For more information, follow the link in our bio.
@neworielhall @explore_bradfordonavon @climatefriendlyboa @bfa_insta @bearflat_community_market
We’re so excited to have launched the first Library of Things Lending Lockers in the South West!
Based at @mulberryparkhub, Bath, the lockers are stocked with 23 items available to borrow and return, 7 days a week. Think a pressure washer, chocolate fountain, air fryer, steam cleaner, and more, all available to borrow at your convenience.
This is a standalone service, so any items borrowed from the lockers need to be returned to the lockers. This also means that you don’t need to wait for the Share and Repair Hub on Lower Bristol Road to be open in order to borrow something!
📍The Hub, Mulberry Park, Mulberry Wy, Combe Down, Bath BA2 5BU
Lending Lockers Opening Times:
Monday – 8:30am – 8pm
Tuesday – 8:30am – 7pm
Wednesday – 8:30am – 8pm
Thursday – 8:30am – 8pm
Friday – 12pm – 8pm
Saturday – 8:30am – 3:30pm
Sunday – 9am – 3pm
A huge well done to our Head of Sharing Operations, George, for overseeing, planning and setting up the lockers, and a massive thank you to our volunteers Chris and Barnaby for all of their support. A huge thank you to the @curo_group Team at Mulberry Park Hub for their collaboration, and Chris and the team at Lend Engine for helping us set up the lockers!
Find out how it works and browse the lockers on our website.
We’re excited to announce that shareandrepair will be joining us at our very first Youth Guarantee Trailblazer Roadshow!
Share and Repair are well known for helping communities save money and cut waste through hands‑on repair, their Library of Things, and practical workshops that build real skills. At the Roadshow, they’ll be running interactive repair activities, giving young people the chance to get involved, try out tools, and see what sustainable, community‑focused work looks like in action.
This event is designed for young people aged 16 to 21 who are currently not in work, education, or training and want to explore new opportunities in a supportive, welcoming environment.
📅 Thursday 29 January
⏰ 10am–11am (quiet hour) | 11am–2pm
📍 Welton Rovers FC, Midsomer Norton
If you’d like to join us, please RSVP using the link in our bio 🔗
The first 50 people to book and attend will receive a £25 voucher (T&Cs apply) 👀
A great chance to get hands‑on, meet inspiring organisations like Share and Repair, and take positive steps toward your next chapter.
#YouthGuarantee #TrailblazerRoadshow #ShareAndRepair #SkillsForLife #FutureReady
Happy 5 year anniversary to HomeKIT!
In 2020, we started a project that took donations of unwanted small home appliances (lamps, toasters, vacuum cleaners, coffee machines and more) that were going to go to landfill, cleaned them up, and started partnering with other charities to get them to people who needed them.
5 years later, HomeKIT is an integral part of what we do at Share and Repair, and has helped out so many people in the Bath and North East Somerset area.
In 2025,
💫 354 items were donated to HomeKIT by our community
🤝 290 items were given to homes in need
🏡 153 households received support
A massive thank you to our team of HomeKIT volunteers who work hard to clean and sort out donations, and liaise with our charity partners to get the small appliances to those who need them. Thank you to our repairers who PAT test our items to ensure they are safe to use, and also to anyone who has donated an item to us!
Our volunteer, Tanya, has written a brilliant article all about HomeKIT and the impact it has on our local community. Please do give it a read through the link in our bio!
And we always appreciate donations of clean items in good working condition. Check our website for our Wish List and send us an email at homekit@shareandrepair.org.uk if you have something you`d like to donate.
Local charity shareandrepair has reached an inspiring five‑year milestone for its HomeKIT scheme, a project that has been quietly transforming lives across Bath & North East Somerset.
HomeKIT takes pre‑loved small electrical appliances, restores them through the charity’s skilled volunteers, and redistributes them to households on low incomes. Since launching, the initiative has rehomed hundreds of essential items, reduced waste, and helped families access the everyday tools many of us take for granted.
It’s a brilliant example of how circular‑economy thinking can create real social value, cutting landfill, supporting local people, and strengthening community resilience all at once.
If you’re passionate about sustainability, community action, or simply love seeing local good news, this one’s worth a read 👀
Read the full article on our news page. Link in our bio 🔗
#ShareAndRepair #CircularEconomyUK #CommunityImpact #SustainableLiving #BathNES
Thank you to our Volunteer, Chris, for writing a brilliant article about Share and Repair and the more global movement of sharing and repairing!
The movement started in the Netherlands, and we`re proud to be a part of a growing number of Libraries of Things and Repair Cafes around the world, alongside organisations like @benthyg, @shareshedmobile, @letchworthgardenshed and many more.
Read "Let`s Go Dutch" on our website and learn all about what we do, and the wider movement through the link in our bio.
Come to the first Repair Cafes of 2026 with us this Saturday!
Thank you for all of your support last year! We`re back this weekend with our regular Repair Cafes. We`ll be at:
✨ Weston Hub, Penn Hill Road, BA1 4EH
✨ Bathford Parish Hall, Church Street, Bathford, BA1 7TU
✨ Farmborough Memorial Hall, Little Lane, Farmborough, BA2 0AH
The Repair Cafes will be running from 10am - 1pm, no need to book just turn up!
Please arrive as early as possible to ensure that there is time to work on your repair, we have limited capacity and our volunteers will do their best to help - sometimes we get really busy and we don`t want to have to turn you away!
We`re running a sewing workshop alongside Farmborough Repair Cafe!
If you know how to sew, but lack confidence when completing a project, why not come along to our workshop Beyond the Basics: Sewing with Confidence?
Bring along your sewing machine and any projects you`d like support with, and get some refresher tips and guidance from our expert sewing volunteer. Tickets available through the link in our bio.
We look forward to seeing you there. For more information, follow the link in our bio.
Did you know that we do sewing repairs?
Whether a button has fallen off, a seam is coming loose, or your jeans need a patch, why not consider booking a sewing repair at our Hub? Our sewing volunteers are experts and can fix nearly anything you throw at them!
All sewing repairs are done after a conversation with the client, so don`t worry, we won`t do anything to your clothes that you will be embarrassed to wear! Alternatively, if you`d like we can also do some visible repairs, like on these jeans.
After customer consultation, our sewing repairer used a pocket from an old pair of jeans to make a patch on the knee of these jeans. The customer was very pleased with the finished repair!
To book your repair, head to our website and select "book a sewing repair" on our Repairs page.
Please note that we don`t do clothes alterations - there are many excellent tailoring businesses around Bath for any alterations you need, please do support them.
It`s cold and dark, and Christmas is over... but there are lots of things to look forward to in January!
We`ve planned some exciting events, whether you`d like to improve your confidence with sewing projects, learn about how to tackle the climate emergency, or listen to a talk by a costume designer at the Theatre Royal.
✨ Beyond the Basics: Sewing with Confidence ✨
Do you know how to use a sewing machine, but hesitate when starting a project?
Running alongside our Repair Cafe at Farmborough Memorial Hall, come to our workshop with your sewing machine and build the confidence to sew with ease.
📅 Saturday 10th January from 10:00am - 12:30pm
📍 Farmborough Memorial Hall, Little Lane, Farmborough, Bath BA2 0AH
✨ Climate Fresk ✨
Come and learn how climate change works and how you can take effective action in your community.
We`re hosting a Climate Fresk where you will join in a fun and interactive session that will help you to understand the causes and consequences of climate change, and how to work together for effective climate engagement.
📅 Saturday 17th January from 1:30pm - 4:30pm
📍 Share and Repair Hub, Lower Bristol Road, Bath BA2 3EW
✨ The Dressing Up Box ✨
Join us for an afternoon of all things design and craft at the Theatre Royal!
Enjoy a talk by costume designer, Katie Sykes, as she unravels her years of costume design experience and brings to life her process when designing for theatre. Bring along your own sewing, design and craft projects to talk through with fellow sewers over a cup of tea, and receive helpful tips and tricks from our sewing volunteers at Share and Repair.
📅 Sunday 25th January from 2pm - 5pm
📍 Theatre Royal, Saw Close, Bath BA1 1ET
Book your tickets now through the link in our bio to avoid missing out.
