This year’s theme for Great Big Green Week was “Let’s swap together for good”. By swapping items, we reuse what is already in circulation, which helps reduce the production of new items, saving raw materials and energy, and reducing waste.

St Bees Green Future already runs a quarterly clothes swap, but took part in Great Big Green Week with a Book, Game, Jigsaw and Plant Swap at Adams Recreation Ground. 

Although it was a wet day, various swaps took place over the afternoon, with jigsaws proving particularly popular! Free refreshments were served, with time to catch up with friends over a cuppa.

Some of the leftover board games were donated to St Bees Village Primary School and some of the jigsaws to Cumberland Libraries. The remaining items were distributed between Barnardo’s and Far Place charity shops in Whitehaven.

Look out for details of the next swap event in St Bees.