By Marie Davis | CEO
On July1st Muto attended the Fearon Hall Summer Fayre, which was well attended. The stall was run by a Muto volunteer.
Muto volunteers have spent several days clearing the storage unit in preparation for the new Trading Standards stock. This has meant cutting up clothing that is too difficult to debrand was ready to be used for cushion stuffing and cutting fabric into strips ready for community weaving projects. Caroline from the OOTBOX project collected 10 bags of debranded clothing that she will use in her upcycling projects. OOTBOX also has a social mission and this partnership will help Muto achieve more of its social aims.
On Thursday July 27th the bus was taken to The Barefoot Festival ready for Council Inspections.
Trading began 12.00pm Friday28th. We organised a volunteer schedule and had 4 volunteers ran shifts over the weekend. We ran informal upcycling activities during the event and engaged 13 families in various upcycling activities. Overall feedback about the project was extremely positive with 2 new people offering to volunteer with the project.
July events attended.
August 3rd–Sport in the Park-Coventry
August 7th–18th– National Citizen Service
August 10th–12th–Wicked Hathern Festival
August 13th -Mountsorrel Revival Festival
Some quotes from the festival:
“I can’t believe that counterfeit clothing used to go to landfill, this is such an amazing project that helps so many people, I’ll be following you on Facebook and will tell my friends too”(Amy–Leicester)
“Absolutely amazing project”
“I would really like to come and volunteer on the project. I didn’t realise this project even existed and it will give me such joy to give something back to people who are homeless”
(Tom–Loughborough)
On Thursday 10th August the Muto bus went to The Green place in Sileby to run an upcycling workshop. 7 families engaged in the workshop and the bus generated a lot of interest from the local community with several people asking if the bus could be parked in Sileby on a regular basis. We raised £20 in donations.
On August 14thMuto ran a workshop for National Recovery Week held at The Falcon Centre. As the bus was out of action the workshop ran inside the centre. 7 individuals engaged in the workshop with 2 new referrals made to attend the project on a regular basis.
September Event Attended.
September 1st–Wellbeing Café– Loughborough Library6-8pm
September 7th (ongoing) – Fearon Hall, new upcycling group
September 7th-10th – Positive Vibrations Festival (upcycling workshops)
September 16th – Love Your Clothes event –LCCUpcycling workshop
September 20th – Arts Council funded workshop in Nottingham on the Muto bus.
September 27th – Shepshed Changes group -workshop
On September 7th the new upcycling group started at Fearon Hall. The group has the eligibility criteria of socially isolated and/or suffering from mental ill health. 3 people attended on the 7th and increased to 5 people by the 26th.
On Wednesday27th Muto ran a workshop for the Shepshed Changes Group. We also held a clothing sale for the community and raised £68.
On Friday 29th Reloved Magazine is released with a feature on the Muto project. This is a really positive result for Muto after such a challenging month with the bus. The magazine is available from Tesco, Sainsbury, and WHSmiths
www.reloved.co.uk
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