The Rebuild Site Summer Events Programme has now launched!

Wetheral School contacted Rebuild in hopes to be able to create a new and improved outdoor play area. This will create new 

entertainment for 30+ children and for years to come. Rebuild donated: screens to draw/ paint on, Wide pipes to build with, gutters and pipes for water trays. Rebuild donated a 

collection of materials to Wetheral Playschool to help create an upgraded outdoor play area where the children can learn to develop motor skills and inspire creativity.

The Rebuild Site CIC has a community-centric approach. Our mission is to inspire individuals to reconsider their approach to material usage and salvage

 discarded materials. We aim to maximize the reuse of surplus and ‘almost-new’ materials. This way, we aim to generate value

from what is commonly perceived as waste.

Susan’s farm is a charity that focuses on education for adults and young people with learning

 difficulties through working and experience in farming. Susan’s Farm used materials from Rebuild to create a small goose shelter. This provides shelter from the weather as well as keeping geese safe from potential predators.

They have also used Rebuilds Materials to create some small Christmas crafts using plant pots and tiles.

“As a charity, we are working at times on a very small budget, so the fact that you are able to support community projects is a massive bonus.”

We’re happy to say that we’re now part of the Community RePaint Scheme! Our new paint store stocks both surplus paint which would have gone to be incinerated, and ReColour, which is filtered and remixed from excess batches of paint into usable full tins. Paint starts at just £2 per litre, and we currently have matt emulsion, masonry and furniture paint in a range of colours.

For more information on the Community RePaint scheme, click here.

We’re currently expanding our friendly volunteer team to make our shop and associated activities welcoming and well organised!

Shop Volunteers will be based in the Rebuild Site shop on Dukes Drive, Kingmoor Park. Possible activities include:

• Pricing stock
• Welcoming and assisting customers 
• Conducting sales transactions (including occasionally handling cash)
• Entering transactions in to stock management system
• Keeping a shop record of enquiries and deliveries
• Light cleaning of shop area and organising of stock

Other activities also available:

• Splitting pallets and de-nailing wood
• Processing / sanding down timber
• Making bird box, bat box and hedgehog house kits out of wood for sale in the shop 
• Moving stock around the shop
• Assisting on collections and deliveries (Fridays only)

We offer a friendly and fun place to volunteer, plenty of tea and biscuits, and the opportunity to learn new skills, in a team that is committed to reducing waste and carbon emissions, supporting our communities and spreading the word about reuse.

Volunteering placements can be every week, fortnight or month, for either a half day (10am – 1pm/1pm – 4pm) or a full day (10am – 4pm)

All training, health and safety briefings, equipment (including PPE) and tea/coffee/biscuits are provided. 

Does this sound up your street? Would you like to volunteer with us?

For a further chat about the role or to apply: 

Email Helen: shopmanager@rebuildsite.co.uk or call 07391161008.

Or pop into the shop during opening hours (10am – 4pm, Thursday – Saturday) for an informal chat. 

The Rebuild Site CIC saves surplus building materials from going to landfill. We either donate these to community groups and charities for their projects, or they go into our shop to provide materials at a low cost to our local community.

Four times a year we host a Rebuild Donation Day, where we accept donations of building materials from the general public at our depot in Carlisle. 

Our next donation day is Sunday 12 June, 10am – 1pm.

Donations are most useful to us when they are in saleable condition. For us, this means they are new/unused, clean and organised, and not damaged or broken!

Donation Wish List:

• Timber lengths, both dressed and undressed, treated and untreated
• Timber offcuts
• Decking
• Fence panels and posts
• Skirting boards and architrave
• Window boards/window sills
• MDF and OSB
• Ply wood sheets
• Plasterboard of all types, including reasonably sized offcuts (eg ½ sheet)
• Insulation
• Guttering
• Tiles
• New blocks and bricks
• Paving slabs
• Packs of laminate flooring
• Full packs of wood screws and nails (organised/sorted – we don’t have time to sort through big tins of nails unfortunately!)
• Taps and other ironmongery
• Plumbing parts
• Radiators, towel rails
• Kitchen sinks
• Kitchen worktops (new/unused/surplus)
• Drainage pipes and associated fittings
• Sand (in unopened bags)
• Paint tins (at least half full)

If you have other items not listed here which you think might be useful, email us to see if we can accept them: info@rebuildsite.co.uk, or give us a call Thursday – Saturday on 07391161008

We’re also accepting standard sized doors for a community project.

What we definitely can’t take:

• Aggregates/tarmac etc
• Liquids other than paint, anything with a chemical label
• Any used bathroom or kitchen goods
• Furniture etc

We reserve the right to refuse anything that we think we can’t send to our community groups or sell in the shop. If you would like to double check whether we can take what you’d like to donate, please get in touch with us first to confirm!

Breakfast butties will be on us for the first 30 customers, and we’ll have tea and coffee on tap all day.v

What’s in Stock?

We’ve been busy beavers over the past two weeks picking up lots of surplus building materials from sites in the County and receiving some welcome deliveries of surplus materials from our supporters Travis Perkins. 

Our stock this week includes: timber in various sizes, fencing boards, new wooden doors (including oak) and hardware, wooden lintels, pallet wood, guttering and plastic pipes, drainage biscuits (perfect for repurposing as raised beds!) blocks and bricks, sinks and toilet cisterns, plumbing and heating sundries, radiators, manhole covers and a range of other items.

Why Shop With Us?

1. We’re a social enterprise, which means our profits are re-invested into our community focused projects. We’re just starting out, and have big plans for providing skills training, a welcoming and inclusive space to work for those who need it most, alongside supporting our community organisations with free building materials for their projects.
2. Our stock is competitively priced; expect to pay around 60% of what you would in a builder’s merchants. We also sell items individually, so if you only need one brick you don’t have to pay for a whole pack.
3. We save perfectly good materials from going to recycling or landfill. By reusing materials rather than recycling, we reduce carbon emissions of materials and help to get everyone thinking about the benefits of a circular economy.
4. We’re friendly and welcoming; we’re happy to have a chat about your latest DIY project and see what we can find in our depot that will help you out.

How to Find Us

We are located on Dukes Drive at Kingmoor Park, CA6 4SH. We are 3 minutes drive from Junction 44 on the M6.

There is parking outside the building, please enter on foot via the ramp and use the green walkways to access the depot. Vehicles are only allowed inside the building for loading purposes or for those with mobility needs, and a one way system is in operation. 

Our what3words location is: supported.crisp.dial

Commenting on the award Councillor Cyril Weber said:

“I am delighted that Carlisle Local Committee have granted £5,000 towards this important local community organisation.  The work Rebuild CIC are doing in the city to change perceptions about the better use of materials, reclaimed materials and downcycling is helping to reduce the amount of items sent to landfill or waste services.  Their efforts to make building materials more affordable and accessible to local people is also a great way to support the local economy, as well as our residents and communities. On behalf of the council, I wish the organisation all the best for their plans in 2022.”

Rebuild Site Director Emma Porter added: “We are thrilled to have received this support thanks to Cumbria County Council and Carlisle City Council, and are confident the Rebuild Site will contribute to the County’s net zero targets whilst bringing about systematic change in the Construction industry.”