DO YOU HAVE UNWANTED OR BROKEN GARDEN TOOLS? DOES YOUR SCHOOL OR COMMUNTY GARDEN NEED FORKS, SPADES, TROWELS ETC?

Tools Shed could be the answer

The gardener’s perennial dilemma: what to do with tools that are too broken to use but too good to throw away is solved at a stroke by Tools Shed, The Conservation Foundation’s tools for schools recycling project run in association with HM Prisons

All those spades, forks, trowels, shears and hoes that once lay at the back of the shed waiting to be fixed on a rainy day are now repaired in the workshops at  HMPs Wandsworth (London), High Down (Sutton), Morton Hall (Lincolnshire) and Thorn Cross (Warrington) contributing to prisoners’ training and rehabilitation. HMPYOI Feltham will join the project shortly. The spruced up tools are then given to school and community gardens.

TO DONATE BROKEN OR UNWANTED TOOLS - There are collection points at RHS Wisley,  Capital Gardens six garden centres in the London area and Adrian Hall Garden Centres in West London. Tools are also collected in the Garden Centre Group's annual February Tool Amnesty and at Notcutts Garden Centres tool collection. Tools Shed is also the designated collector of tools at RHS Shows. More points will come on stream soon.

TO RECEIVE TOOLS - These are offered free as available to school and community gardens in the areas surrounding the four prisons with which we work.

TO COLLECT TOOLS - We are looking for garden centres or community recycling centres to collect tools for Tools Shed

For more information or to give, receive or collect tools, please contact  us

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