New home for Reuse Littleborough

Reuse Littleborough is now based at 111 Church Street

Reuse Littleborough has moved premises after five years at the ‘Hub that was a Pub’ in the village centre.

The eco-friendly cause reopened at its new venue – 111 Church Street – on Monday 2 October, after closing the hub at the former Royal Oak Hotel on Saturday 23 September.

Reuse’s new venue is a newly refurbished shop with central heating, laminated flooring and more space than the former pub.

The reopening also coincides with Little’Pink’Borough, Littleborough’s annual event which paints the village pink in October for Cancer Research UK.

Reuse founder Michael Bamford said the opening day on 2 October was "a great day," adding that "the shop was rammed."

The community group is still awaiting an outcome of its latest charitable status application.

The Reuse Littleborough Hub exists to provide an eco-friendly solution to prevent people from throwing perfectly usable items away. The group was originally started eight years ago after Michael noticed a discrepancy between the waste we have in our country and those in need in poorer countries.

It began with an online post, asking for donations of unwanted baby items to send to the Forever Angels Baby Home in Tanzania and grew into a larger movement, with the main hub in Littleborough, a second-hand baby and children’s clothing shop and a resource centre for support workers, helping the likes of women fleeing violence, the homeless, those discharged from long-term hospital care, the elderly, asylum seekers and refugees.