Style Your Neighbour Challenge

Join style guru Val for a comedy ‘Style your Neighbour’ challenge. Supported by local charity shops in Heanor, Val will be dipping in ‘her preloved box of bits’ and styling Heanor as part of our ‘Neighbourhood Make Do Style Challenge’.

Repair Cafe

Bring your things that need a fix to our pop-up Repair Café

Upcyling Dream Team

Upcycle a charity shop top and make it your own. Come and learn how to stitch, style and transform a top into a thing of personalised wonderment with our upcycling dream team

Val & Friends Community Living Room

Head to Val & Friends Community Living Room to Make Do, Mend and Reinvent together as we transform everyday objects and preloved items into things of wonder and shine a light on the joy of local charity shops, repairers and creative up-cyclers. Join us as we celebrate the moments of community, connection and kindness found in all these places.

Listening Lounge

As usual the Community Living Room will also be serving up brews, bants and neighbourly vibes, so come along and cosy up in our listening lounge for local stories and community connection.

Swanwick Men's Shed

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Matt Pang - Thingamabob 

Using his renowned blend of circus, invention and humour, Matt brings to life a giant ball slinging, self-exploding piece of handcrafted gadgetry, inspired by the famous Rube Goldberg machines and Heath Robinson contraptions. Be part of the mayhem as our intrepid inventor risks nerve wracking failure to bring you one perfect chain reaction… with some help from his little assistant.