Prepare to declutter your winter wardrobe and prepare for spring. What was the thing you didn’t wear, the thing you wish you had…
Get your tickets soon - watch our socials for an update
Have a clear out & get your gifts for the festive season, join our circular economy ReUse Fest!
Donations welcome from Monday November 11 to the Lil Lorry at Knox Academy car park. Full details are here
Think Halloween outfits, cosy Autumn knits and updating your summer wardrobe ahead of next year - what was the thing you didn’t wear, the thing you wish you had…
Get your tickets here! https://www.seabird.org/events/october-fashion-swish
Pop by to see Lou & Sarah, have a nosey in our new container, grab a new book or new-to-you clothes or toys ready for the weekend - all free.
Come and see how the Reuse project works, how to access it anytime you need something new*, how to donate, volunteer opportunities
There will be the mini beach clean to entertain the wee ones, we’re by the station for the train spotters and close to the Mart cafe & Shop for your coffee & eco shopping :-)
If you can’t make it on the day, come and try it out anytime by filling in a request form here
*new to you ;-)
Get ready for the hols with our Lil Summer Family Swish!
Get new-to-you summer clothes for the whole family, toys, books and more over two days at Haddington Library from 12 noon - 3pm Friday June 20; and 11am-3pm Saturday June 21.
We'll be looking for donations from Friday June 14, so keep a bag aside with your great quality clothes, outgrown beach gear, books, puzzles, toys and crafts to freshen up the summer hols for everyone. Donations can be made to Haddington Library.
Keen to help?
We're always happy to have more volunteers, or more donation points. Please email hello.lilthings@gmail.com or join the volunteer Whatsapp chat https://chat.whatsapp.com/F33TvOn38qCIUUCtTGI3U4
Donation tips: Toys need to have a CE mark. No electricals or furniture please. We really appreciate clean clothes.
With thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund, East Lothian Council & NatureSave Trust
Join Lil as we help kick off Haddstock 24 with a Silent Disco Litter Pick!
Get your glad rags on, come in your work/school gear, we don’t mind, just come along, help us clear up for the guests arriving! Make Haddington look her best by clearing up any mess, recording it for Keep Scotland Beautiful citizen science and some chalk street art too.
This is serious fun: clearing up litter gives space for nature to take over - saving birds & sea life from horrid injuries and worse.
Gloves, pickers and bags provided, although you’re always welcome to BYO.
Tune requests considered in advance on our socials @dolilthings
New to fundraising? What you need to know to make a start
Suitable for volunteers, management committee members and staff who are new to fundraising or for those people looking to refresh their knowledge of the basics of fundraising for climate and nature action projects.
Content includes
Are you ready to fundraise ? – what your organisation needs to have in place to make effective approaches to potential supporters and funders
The fundraising landscape in Scotland
· Who has the money
· How much do they have?
· Who gets the money?
· How much does it cost to raise?
Three models and theories of fundraising
· The Onion
· The Pyramid
· The Seven Steps
Resources to start supporting your fundraising
At the end of the session participants will have a greater understanding of the fundraising process and can start to raise resources for their organisation
At the end of the session all participants will receive a copy of the power-point and supporting handouts
Get ready for a day filled with inspiration, education, and action at the East Lothian Green Futures Festival, organised by the new East Lothian Climate Hub! Free to attend🌟
ℹ️ What to Expect:
· Engaging lecture series on critical climate topics
· Interactive workshops to empower and educate
· Showcase of local projects making a difference
· Drop-in advice clinics for sustainable living tips
· Live music, delicious food, and fun for the whole family!
🌱 Let's come together to share the amazing projects taking place across the county, get involved in fun activities for kids & adults, raise awareness, explore solutions, while having a whole lot of fun! 🌱
🎉 Mark your calendars and spread the word. This is an event you won't want to miss! 🎉
For more information and updates, stay tuned to our page or visit www.sccan.scot/elcan
If you are interested in exhibiting, running a workshop or delivering a talk please complete this form https://forms.gle/CTn782WzgwRKmhv87
See you there! 🌎💚 #GreenFutures #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EastLothian #climate hub #familyfun #event #ELGreenFuturesFest24
Grab your friends, declutter your closet and join is at the Seabird Centre in North Berwick for a glass of fizz and fashion swish. Find the perfect outfit or fab shoes for the price of your ticket. We cannot think of a better way to brighten up the long winter months!
We each spend on average around £640 on clothes per year and collectively throw out almost 1 million tonnes of textiles. One third of this has barely been worn! So bring those items along for someone else to love.
So many wins!
Beat the winter blues
Beat the cost of living crisis,
Have fun, LOTS of fun!
Do your Lil thing for the planet,
Clear your wardrobe clutter,
Get that new-to-you clothes fix without feeding the fast fashion monster
Support both the Seabird Centre & Lil’s work for our communities and nature.
Need a little more motivation or support sorting your wardrobe? Read our fashion articles over on the Lil Blog
Tickets: £15 per person. Visit the Seabird Centre website here to book your tickets
Details of drop off points will be listed closer to the event.
We’re making history! Come and join us for the launch of the East Lothian Climate Hub!
Join Lil’s Haddington Growing Together Project and Amisfield Walled Garden for an informal workshop helping beginner gardeners get into food growing. We’ll show you haw to create the right environment for your pants to grow and sow seeds, provide tips and growers guides for your plants and you’ll go home with your own cut-and-come-again salad pot to grow on, harvest and eat.
Take a guided tour of the garden and grab a cuppa & a slice. All materials and instruction are included. Thanks to Caledonian Horticulture we have compost and thanks to Merryhatton Garden Centre for for donating the seeds.
Book a place here :Amisfield Beginners Grow Your Own Workshop Lower Impact Living (dolilthings.org) Booking a place is free. There will be an opportunity to make a pay-what-you-think-its-worth donation (split 50/50 between the two non-profit organisations hosting) if you wish to do so.
Suitable for beginners of all ages 10+ (we hope to run other events for young growers outside school times).
We look forward to wlelcoming you to the garden.
A free, fun event for all ages exploring the greenspace around the Community Hospital. Try a Brompton bike and quiz Love To Ride about cycling opportunities - the hospital is next to Sustrans Route 76, the Railway walk. Dig in to our mini beach clean and hunt Minibeasts with the kids, find & share plants at the plant swap stall, make your own smoothie with pedal power, enjoy a picnic with some live music and meet lots of local organisations. It is also a chance to input to the designs for the landscape - what would you like to be able to use the space for?
Come anytime, bring a picnic and stay a while, activities for all ages.
Come and see:
Live music from the Goats Toes and other Haddstock buskers (various times through the day)
Haddington Growing Community - swap and share plants & seeds
Clean all the plastic from the Lil mini beach
Try a Brompton Bike
Beyond Boundaries East Lothian - -providing adventure sports and outdoor activities for people aged 16+ with disabilities and mental health issues living in East Lothian
Our Community Garden
Love to Ride - be inspired to leave the car and home and ride your bike in East Lothian
Home Energy Scotland - try and ebike or find out about grants for home energy improvments
Sustrans Smoothie Bike - concoct and power the liquidiser for your own smoothie. Fruit kindly donated by the Co-op
Join Gifford Community Woodland Forest Schools Teacher from craft or den building
Discover the minibeast trail - can you tick them all off your list
Tell us what you’d like to see the greenspace around the community hospital used for…wildflower meadows, seating areas, bigger carpark, Christmas market? This is a chance to have your say.
Grab a blanket and chill out and enjoy a picnic (byo) for a while.
See you there x
Join Lil on a walking litter pick around the hospital grounds and down Hospital Road to Station Yard. Litter you collect will then be creatively transformed into a central, interactive artwork for the Haddstock Festival by MADE.
Meet at 10am at the Lil Gazebo at the front of the hospital
Equipment can be provided but if you have gloves or litter pickers do bring them along. More the merrier!
There will also be a BioBlitz (running 10 til 3pm, drop in) to record nature around the hospital grounds) and a chance to explore the site through Art with Fantoosh Sketching (requires separate booking here).
BIOBLITZ
Drop in for this free event and explore the grounds of the Community Hospital, survey the nature that's there with the East Lothian Countryside Rangers and volunteer specialists.
This is a drop in event, please arrive on the hour to join in (i.e. 10am 11am, 1pm or 2pm) - you can stay longer Please click going if you plan to come along so I can bake enough cake! We need lots of folk so we have a thorough survey of the site before new
A BioBlitz is a race against time to create a snapshot of the variety of life found in a specific location. Wildlife experts and the wider public (that's you!) work together, within a set amount of time, to find and identify as many species of plants, animals and fungi as possible.
SKETCH & WANDER
You can also book on to a Sketch and Wander Workshop with the amazing Lynn from Fantoosh - book here. Join Lynn in a mindful session to explore the grounds and the nature they hold then use creative ways to express what you discover and what you can imagine. 10.30am - 12.30pm
A LIL CONSULTATION
Lil is collecting community views on how the landscape around the hospital might be used - it is a community hospital after all. Pop into the gazebo at any time during the day for a chat, a cuppa and to imagine what you'd like to see, do & feel there.
LIL RUBBISH COLLECTIVE
Join Lil on a litter pick around the hospital grounds, down hospital road and to Station Yard - follow this link for more details: https://fb.me/e/3kFg7nLrt 10am - 12pm (or after if you’re happy picking alone.
IMPORTANT DETAILS
No previous experience required. All ages welcome.
Meet at the Lil Gazebo located in the woodland walk next to the car park.
Please check the weather forecast and wear suitable clothing and footwear
Parking available on site.
Use of toilets is limited to emergencies, so please go before you leave home
There'll be tea & cake available to buy but if you're staying longer over lunch we recommend a packed lunch.
Join us for a Lil ReUse Event in Tranent on Friday March 31, 12.30pm- 2.30pm at Ross High School.
Help us make Second-hand the first choice for everyone.
If you can’t make it on the Friday, FREE leftovers will be available at Tranent Library on Saturday April 1. 10am-12.15pm. No joke!
No Cash, just vouchers
Everyone at the ReUse Festival will be ‘paying’ with vouchers. You can buy vouchers online from Lil, or in person at the Lil Hub, 10 High St Haddington, EH41 3ES or on the day. If buying vouchers stretches your budget too far please contact us or our referral partners. We want everyone to be able to make second-hand their first choice.
Purchased vouchers that are unused can be refunded. Vouchers that are received free will not receive cash refunds.
Head over to the blog for more details on how to donate, how to shop and how to make secondhand your first choice HERE
Join Lil at the Scottish Seabird Centre as we take on the challenge to “Buy Nothing New since ‘22”.
Nothing new is up to you - maybe it’s clothes for you, or everything you’d normally buy, including gifts. However you’d like to do it, or even if it’s just doing a Lil more than last year, we’ll be celebrating all our efforts with a Swish at the Seabird Centre on Thursday January 19th from 7.30pm.
Tickets are £15, including a fizz or non-alcoholic drink on entry.
Get top quality gifts, clothes, homewares, toys, books and more.
We love secondhand, it’s better for our pockets and the planet too.
Help us make secondhand everyone’s first choice by donating, attending and spreading the word.
Last year’s attendees said
“Please do another one. Soon!” “We’ve got all our Christmas presents sorted.”
Donations will be accepted from November 5 at Lil (10 High St) and other locations.
We can accept bikes on November 4&5; we can accept small, great condition and working electrical items. Toys must have CE marks. For more info, see here
Get/ give great quality coats to Lil, Haddington Library or Haddington Athletic AC Football Club.
The Library is open regular times* to take, swap or donate; HACFC at the 3G pitches on Whittinghame Drive Mon-Fri, 6pm-8pm to take, swap or donate. Donations can be dropped at Lil.
Please help make secondhand our first choice because
1) Shouting about how much you love second hand helps destroy any stigma for those who can't always afford new.
2) Every kg of clothes kept in use saves up to 25kg CO2e, helps promote ethical work practices across fashion - an industry that is known to have pushed limits on this.
3) Makes you smile when you see your loved coat with a new life (and for your new bargain)
*Library on holiday Mon 24 Oct
If you're having a rummage for coats, please remember to keep aside your great quality donations for the Lil ReUse Festival on November 12. Donations accepted from November 7.
Supported by East Lothian Council.
Come and join us for our Autumn Swish! Delighted to be part of the Climate Fringe Festival and perfectly timed for Second-hand September, it’s time to refresh the wardrobe for the winter months and clear out the items that still haven’t seen the summer light.
Excited to also share this event with a Sashiko beautiful repair workshop from the wonderful Millie Scott Studios. Sashiko repairs start at 6pm; doors open for swish at 7.30pm with the “bell” for first selections at 8pm.
Tickets essential. Some tickets are available via referral partners, so get in touch if the admission prices are putting you off.
Come see Lil and fellow Lothians’ groups for climate inspiration, tips, products and more. At Leith Links 12 noon- 5pm. Always a great day out.
Wardrobe refresh! Grab something gorgeous new-to-you and give that once-loved item a new lease of life in its next home at our Swish/ Fashion Revolution with the Seabird Centre. So excited!!
Come along to workshop top tips, tricks and ways we can trim our bins. While perfect zero-wasters might cut their waste to a mason’s jar a year, it’s not the Lil way. We want 1 million imperfect “lower” wasters, so come be imperfect with us and start / boost your waste reduction journey.
Come see us at the Meadows Festival on June 4-5! It’s been a long time between fests - here we are as most sustainable stall last time round
Lil is delighted to again be co-ordinating the Scottish Coastal Clean Up - Edinburgh to Berwick Upon Tweed from June 4 to June 8. Grab some mates, your gloves and help us #dolilthings by picking up litter at a beach or by a waterway near you!
With huge thanks to Taylor Wimpey East Scotland for making Lil’s contribution possible, we’re thrilled to help our communities take part in what’s an even bigger event this year, with Caledonian Horticulture taking on more of the East coast, right up to Aberdeen. Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from joining in from further afield, please just plug in your planned clean on our map .
Get your free sunflower seed from Lil (thanks to Redhouse Nurseries!) and let’s turn Haddington into a Garden of Hope. The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine.
See here for details on how to join the Haddington Litter Blitz May 22-29 to give the GOAT town a spring clean.
Bring along your spare produce, seeds, plants, gardening tools and books and swap them for something you need or just gift them to others in our community. Totally free.
Join Lil and our partners to beat Black Friday with green Saturday and make secondhand your first choice. You can buy and sell at the event. See here for more details
Join the Haddington Litter Blitz any time - or times - in the week September 20 -26. Thanks to the support of Taylor Wimpey East Scotland, Lil is celebrating all those who keep our town tidy and calling on as many of us to support them as we blitz the town through the week.
