Re-cycle + Re-furbish + Re-use

Donate tools/sewing machines, time or £s to transform lives in Africa

Medway Volunteer Workshop, in Gillingham in Kent, is an independent local charity partnering with national charity, Tools with a Mission (TWAM). TWAM supports, in a practical way, people in Africa by using donated tools and sewing machines to create the tool kits necessary to turn training into a livelihood. 

There is more demand in Africa than TWAM can meet, so they work with self-funded local organisations throughout the UK to increase refurbishment capacity.  Opened in spring 2019, Medway Volunteer Workshop in Gillingham, is one of these centres.

Can you help with this worthwhile work by volunteering time, donating items or helping with running costs?

Medway Volunteer Workshop works with Tools with a Mission who collect unwanted tools, computers and sewing machines across Kent, reusing them instead of going to landfill.  These are refurbished and compiled into trade kits, which are sent to Africa to equip people who have recently completed training schemes so they can earn a sustainable living.   

Our Kent workshop refurbishes all types of donated tools for plumbers, builders, mechanics and electricians but we specialise in carpenter kits and sewing machines. Tools with a Mission (TWAM) include these in the 20+ containers they ship to Africa every year, each filled with over 10 tonnes of tools and sewing machines.

Join our band of volunteers at Gillingham. 

We already have over thirty five volunteers, between them manning the workshop for five mornings and afternoons a week.

Now we have bigger premises, we would like more volunteers, enabling us to increase the number of tools and sewing machines we refurbish.

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