The ReNew Store

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🛠️ Tools for Self Reliance - refurbished tools and haberdashery charity shop 📍 Southampton/New Forest hidden gem 🧵 For makers, fixers, crafters and curious browsers 🛍️ https://linktr.ee/the.renew.shop

A collage showing different images from Tools for Self Reliance charity, including trainees in Africa, volunteers, staff members including Vicky, and our shop showing just some fabrics.
A very cool stuff box - £10
Tools for Self Reliance stand with marquee and sign with bunting.
A video showing the Singer treadle base, with a tag for £50, and another tag with the description: FOR SALE Treadle mechanism Late 19* / early 20* C • Surface debris cleaned off, unseized and lubricated • Repaired, complete and working • Suitable for further decorative restoration • Suitable for conversion to a quirky occasional table
A Drapers metal box opening to reveal brill bits. £15.
Video of the chest and plane
A range of planes on a table, along with other refurbished tools, in a gazebo with customers and volunteers. We have around 350 volunteers across the country, who collect, sort, refurbish and pack tools. What we don't send to our partners in Africa, we sell online, at the ReNew Store, and events like the New Forest Show.
Cute, very cute black puppy just outside our charity shop which sells refurbished tools and haberdashery and crafting items and sewing machines and endless other things that attracts people pets.
A handmade (by our talented Fundraising Manager Vicky) amount totaliser featuring tea cups. The funds raised between now and the end of August help us support our projects across Africa, following on from the vocational training, we provide business skills in the form of Transition to Work programme. If you can, please help support our charity, thank you Bluesky (our favourite platform)!
Video showing a black treadle base by Singer. There’s a price tags of £50.
A Shakespeare inspired brass long fork for a fireplace. Only £4!
White vinyl, light blue wool, gold thread and a blue tin making up the Argentina flag.
A Norway flag made from tools and fabric from the ReNew Store charity shop.
Craft punches
Red and yellow Items from The Renew Store near Southampton, making the Spanish flag
Red fabric for £3c and the fluffy green pipe cleaners with a £1 label.
France flag made from - A pattern book with the edge showing a man wearing a blue knitted jumper, the white middle bit is 3 white thread reels, and the red part on the right is red fabric.
Woman cleaning up Warre’s Vintage Port wooden box.
Video with a range of planes.
Video showing 2 electric sewing machines for sale, and also a vintage Singer Sewing Machine for sale too.
Hand holding a red/orange Munchies mug.
Video of a small charity shop based in Netley Marsh, Hampshire (in between Southampton and the New Forest). The video shows just some of our stock including fabrics, haberdashery, crafting items, sewing machines, hand tools, electric tools and drills, gardening tools to name a few.
Hand holding up a mug with a tiger face. On the back it’s says Bristol Zoo.
An old Teacher’s Whiskey wooden box being cleaned up.
Fabric swatch book with lovely examples (only £10 for the swatch book!)
View of St Mary’s Stadium, Southampton before the Middlesbrough match yesterday. Lots of red flare smoke
A Singer sewing machine treadle, with £50 price tag
A woman in pink, with a sewing machine tailoring a pink skirt.
Video - Woman in Malawi, sitting on the floor using her Singer sewing machine from Tools for Self Reliance charity. A small child is behind her, hugging her as she works.
Wooden A-Board with Shop written and an arrow pointing left. A very cute puppy is next to the sign.
A set of Bosch drill bits in its case.
Hands holding a pink granny square crochet piece
Lady with grey bobbed hair with fringe, wearing a pretty yellow patterned shirt, holding a pen, sitting at desk with a computer.
Little pink blossom buds, and little fresh leaves on a tree. Weather is generic grey.
A video showing a range of gardening tools sold in the shop. All checked, refurbished if needed by our volunteers in Hampshire. Doing our bit to help circular economy 🪴
Little teal fabric box with draws and patterned lining. There’s a £6 price tag on it. Top draw slightly open.
Shop volunteers, two ladies holding a The ReNew Store - tools and haberdashery sign in front of a blue container shop