What is Community RePaint?
The project takes paint, wallpaper and borders which would have to be disposed of, and redistributes them to those able to use them. It is part of a national scheme www.communityrepaint.org.uk, and is administered locally by Wirral LA21 Network.Locally, it has saved many thousands of litres of paint and reditributed it to groups in need of it.
For further details, see 'Contact Us' section at the bottom of this page.
How much is it?
Paint is available on request to voluntary / community sector groups. The annual membership fee is £50 (equivalent to just £1 per week) for which you can have as much paint as you wish over the year. This price does not include delivery - you will need to come and collect.For individuals in need, paint is just 99p per litre
Wallpaper costs 99p per roll to everyone!
Summer 2010
RePaint closes for Summer at 5pm on Friday 20 Augustand re-opens at 1pm on Monday 6 September
(the WEN office re-opens at 9am)
August 2009
Download the latest Community RePaint Summer Newsletter.July 2009
Community RePaint Wirral received
a £3000 grant from Riverside Housing for purchasing our storage containers. We would like to say a big thank you to all staff and tenants of Riverside for the grant.March 2009
Download the latest Community RePaint Spring NewsletterFebruary 2009
We are now able to supply wallpaper as well! This is just £1 per roll to everyone (individuals or group members - this is NOT included in your annual subscription). Of course, if you have unused - and unopened - rolls of wallpaper you don't need, we would be pleased to take them. (Any opened rolls should be recycled in your grey bin).Examples of how the paint from the RePaint project has been used. This is Ashville Football Club in Wallasey.
The changing room before
And the changing room after
Newly decorated club room
October 2008
Community RePaint E-zine October 2008 ...read it hereAugust 2008
RePaint NewsletterFor an update on our move and how it will affect our service ...[download here]
July 2008
New Premises - We are now open for business at the Sandon Building, Falkland Road, Wallasey CH44 8ER.Wallpaper - We are pleased to announce that we are now starting to take/give out wallpaper and borders (in return for a small donation of course - suggest £1 per roll of wallpaper, 50p per roll of border!). Any UNOPENED rolls of wallpaper and borders can be given to us. Any OPENED ones to go in the grey bin please.
April 2008
RePaint Pound Pot - We can now offer two
new easy payment ideas.
First, your first year will be half-price, yes, just £25.
Also, if you are one of the next 50 groups to sign up we will give you a free groovy bright red RePaint Pound Pot. Just pop in £1 coin, same day, same time, every week and by the time your renewal comes you have the £50 painlessly!
March 2008
We are pleased to announce that we can now consider applications from individuals for paint.The project has successfully attracted so many donations and applications for paint that we now have a considerable turnover of stock, and are able to widen our approach, and to consider individual applications.
There would be no annual fee for small amounts of paint but a minimum suggested donation of 50p per litre.
For more information see 'Contact Us', below.
August 2007
One year on it is a hive of activity in the afternoons with people coming from all over Merseyside to avail themselves of the fantastic service provided here at Community RePaint Wirral. Over 50 voluntary and community groups have signed up to the scheme as members, ranging from Hooton Airfield to Hoylake Methodist Church to Rugby Clubs to Drug Rehabilitation Centres to . . . you name it. The end of August marked the end of our first year of operation here in Wirral and we have given out an incredible 5,678 litres of paint which would otherwise have ended up being treated as "hazardous waste". How much better to use it to brighten up walls and woodwork everywhere!
August 2006
RePaint is a brilliant new scheme now running in Wirral.
Like me, I'm sure you have tins of perfectly usable paint, varnish, or wood stains in your shed, sitting there because they may come in useful one day. Well that day is today.Over 377 million litres of paint are sold in the UK each year (retail and trade) of which an estimated 75 million litres (enough to fill fifty olympic sized swimming pools) is stored in homes and garages or just thrown away, usually straight into landfill.
Community Repaint is unique in Britain and in Europe. It is one of the most innovative and practical waste minimisation/reuse initiatives in the UK and represents a pioneering solution to the problem of leftover paint. Wirral LA21 Network is behind this initiative in Wirral - and we are actively collecting paint - not tiny little hardened scraps at the bottom of rusty old imperial-size cans, but paint that you would be pleased to receive.
Contact Us
We are based at:Sandon Centre,
Falkland Road,
Wallasey CH44 8ER
...[get directions]
During GMT (winter!) we are open Mon/Wed/Fri 1pm - 4pm without appointment, and possibly at other times, by appointment.
In BST (summer!) we are open Mon/Wed/Fri 1pm - 5pm without appointment and can do evenings by appointment.
Further details from Wirral LA21 Network on 0151 639 2121. Ask for Jim or email jim@la21.net
fax number is 639 4826.
Out of hours please call 0151 632 2047.
The website for the national scheme is www.communityrepaint.org.uk