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“Growing and Sharing Together”
Circle Centre Lund · Sarah G. · 21 Nov 2025
Circle Centre Lund has published a new resource!
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Libraries of Things: Drivers for a Sustainable Sharing Economy?
Circle Centre Lund · Sarah G. · 21 Nov 2025
Circle Centre Lund has published a new resource!
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Exploring business model configurations and dominant archetypes
Circle Centre Lund · Sarah G. · 21 Nov 2025
Circle Centre Lund has published a new resource!
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ShareFest Totnes is returning in April!
Sarah G. · 21 Nov 2025
Excited to share on the behalf of Share Shed that the ShareFest Totnes will return on Saturday 18th April 2026!

This celebration of sharing, repairing, reusing and community will bring together local groups, makers, repairers, and changemakers for a day full of fun, creativity, and inspiration.

If you're in the area and you'd be interested in running an activity, stall, or performance, why not get in touch? Link below:
https://shareshed.us6.list-manage.com/track/cli...
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New repair café in Ivybridge, Devon
Chris T. · 21 Nov 2025
Passing on some news from Share Shed in Devon (UK) ...
We’re very excited to share that the Ivybridge Repair Café is officially coming to life! Thanks to a wonderful group of enthusiastic volunteers — and brilliant support from CAG Devon — we’re now working towards hosting our first event on Saturday 7th February. More details coming soon, but for now… pop it in your diary
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West Philly Tool Library is Moving!
Sarah G. · 19 Nov 2025
West Philadelphia Tool Library has found a new location and the team is planning to reopen by the 1st of December!

They have over 1300 members and over 5000 tools, so it will be a big job to move, and they will appreciate any support they can get! Donations of time, money or construction materials would help them out a lot.

For more information and how to help, follow the link and see how their move is progressing: https://westphillytools.org/savethetoollibrary/...
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Understanding and Supporting Scaling of Libraries of Things
Circle Centre Lund · Sarah G. · 19 Nov 2025
Circle Centre Lund has published a new resource!
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Bristol is opening a new site
Chris T. · 19 Nov 2025
We’re thrilled to pass on the news that Share Bristol will be opening a 4th location at Winterbourne Library in February 2026 in partnership with Frome Valley Environmental Network.

This will mean even more folk across Bristol and South Gloucestershire can borrow instead of buy — saving money, cutting down on clutter, and making a real difference for the environment.

By buying a new or renewal membership via our Crowdfunder, you'll be helping them to open the next location operating out of Winterbourne Library. Thanks to match funding from Aviva, they will receive double the amount of your payment, meaning they can fund the start up costs for Share Bristol Winterbourne.

https://www.borrowmore.org/org/share-bristol
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bring-a-library...
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Great new resource in from Scotland
Chris T. · 19 Nov 2025
The Share and Repair community in Scotland has commissioned a report on "How Scotland's sharing libraries set membership fees". Interesting reading for all libraries of things.

https://www.borrowmore.org/resource/how-scotlan...
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We're now listing items from Lend Engine and myTurn sites
Chris T. · 18 Nov 2025
If you run your organisation on Lend Engine or MyTurn, we can show a preview of your items here on the directory. It also means that your items will show on the item search, which also has a map view (https://www.borrowmore.org/items/map)

We check your site once a month ... if you want to make updates you can click the button to "Update my items" which will check your site within an hour.

If you want to remove an item from the BorrowMore listings, just visit that item and click to remove it, and we won't show it again.
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