Sarah Ingleby
@tools-selfreliance.bsky.social
CEO - Tools for Self Reliance. A charity working with project partners in Africa and the UK providing training and tools that help people build sustainable working futures. 📍Southampton, UK 👉 https://www.tfsr.org/
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What’s that? What exciting stuff can you find in OUR charity shop at the mo? Well here’s just a tiny collection…
Fancy doing something good this month? Host a coffee morning, bake some cakes or get your colleagues/friends together for a fundraiser. We'll send you a free fundraising kit, and every penny raised helps people like our trainee Nadia move from learning to earning. www.tfsr.org/tea-for-tools/
Tea for Tools Sales Event ⚒️ Refurbished hand/power/gardening tools, & sewing machines. 🧶 Haberdashery supplies, fabrics & crafting materials. 🍰 Tea, coffee, soft drinks and, homemade cakes. 📍Tools For Self Reliance, Ringwood Road, Netley Marsh, Southampton SO40 7GY 🗓️ Saturday 8th Aug 🕰️ 12pm-3pm
Tea for Tools Sales Event ⚒️ Refurbished hand/power/gardening tools, & sewing machines. 🧶 Haberdashery supplies, fabrics & crafting materials. 🍰 Tea, coffee, soft drinks and, homemade cakes. 📍Tools For Self Reliance, Ringwood Road, Netley Marsh, Southampton SO40 7GY 🗓️ Saturday 8th Aug 🕰️ 12pm-3pm
Introducing our highly technical Tea Totaliser ☕️ Every cup helps support our Transition to Work programme, helping graduates of vocational training take the next step into employment or starting their own businesses. Help us fill the cups? 💛 donate.justgiving.com/campaign/t2w...
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⚽️ Congratulations to Argentina 🇦🇷 who beat Switzerland 🇨🇭 3-1! And you’ll be pleased to that’s the end of the flags made from items in the shop 😂 See you at the ReNew Store next week - you just never know what you’ll find! 👏 #southampton #newforest #charityshopfinds #worldcup
It’s the big game! Norway 🇳🇴 v England 🏴 Will you be watching tonight? #chartityshopfinds #worldcup #NORENG
The World Cup quarter finals are here! ⚽ We’re celebrating by recreating today’s flags using finds from our ReNew Store - France 🇫🇷 vs Morocco 🇲🇦 #FRAMAR
Had a great time at the New Forest Folk Festival as always! Met some lovely people including headliner Seth Lakeman, along with band mates Ben Nicholls and Benji Kirkpatrick 👌 Already looking forward to next year!
Guess who Street Girls Aid trainees will be supporting? ✨ While many of us will be watching from the UK, we're also cheering on our friends and partners in Ghana. ❤ Whatever the score tonight, we're proud of the connections that bring our communities together. #GhanaBlackStars #GHAENG #WorldCup
Our tool shipment has reached Prisoners Future Foundation in Zambia! This will help support our hands-on training programmes, giving inmates the chance to learn practical skills to improve their opportunities for successful reintegration into society upon release.
60 women in Malawi are starting a journey towards financial independence 💪🧵 Through our Tadala project with FESODEV, they’ll gain tailoring skills, business opportunities, and long-term support. Your donations help create futures, so thank you!
Great news 🎉 The London Marathon has announced it will expand to a two-day event in 2027, creating space for 100,000 runners and raising even more for incredible causes. If you’ve ever thought about taking on a challenge event for TFSR, now is the perfect time. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
London Marathon to be held over two days in special one-off event in 2027
The London Marathon will be held across two days in a special one-off edition of the event in 2027, organisers have confirmed.
bbc.co.uk
Who needs a good plane? Because we may have some 👀😆 #CharityShopFinds
I was in Malawi recently, where I met Brenda, the trainer leading a brand new women’s painting and decorating course with our partner FESODEV. The new course is about more than learning practical skills, it’s about opportunity, and women supporting women to build independent futures.
If anyone is around the Southampton or New Forest area, we are having a birthday sale event on Thursday 14 May! We'll have cake, more items to sell, and have a pin cushion workshop, and cake. Did we mention cake.
We loaded a 40-foot container bound for Zambia from Southampton today 🚢 Inside: Bikes, 4,000+ refurbished tools and 100 sewing machines, all restored by our amazing UK volunteers. Rising global shipping costs made this a challenge, but thanks to our supporters, this vital shipment is on its way 🙌
Here's a little bit about how the conflict in the Middle East is effecting our charity, as we prepare for our tool shipment from Southampton to Zambia. BBC article - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Charities in the South deal with impact of higher fuel prices
Ferrying items has been made more difficult by fuel price increases of 35%, one charity says.
bbc.co.uk
🌱 This Earth Day we’re celebrating one of our projects in Ghana. What started as support for women in shea nut processing & orange-fleshed sweet potato farming has grown into stronger businesses. Participants have formed their own committee to carry the work forward. Real sustainability in action.
Had the beebs over for filming yesterday, talking about current shipping costs and delays, as we prepare a shipment for Zambia next week.
Old tools find new hands Stories sharpened once again Work begins anew 🔧🌱 #haiku
As we appreciate Southampton might not be the easiest place to get to for the rest of the UK, we also have a 🥁... eBay shop. This is our volunteer Pippa who fills it with interesting, vintage, cool stuff. All profits go straight to Tools for Self Reliance. ebay.us/m/Xj13Di
We have to spell it a lot, and that’s not fun.
Georgia the Explorer 🇨🇦@georgiatheexplorer.bsky.social · 4mo agoHaberdashery is a fun word to say. Say it
Bluesky introduction post 👋 🛍️We are an on-site charity shop called the ReNew Store for Tools for Self Reliance 🥰We are run by a small (but lovely) team of volunteers 🛠️We sell a range of refurbished tools, and haberdashery 💚Every purchase helps support practical projects in Africa and the UK
Lucky people in the Southampton and New Forest area. The #ReNewStore as explained below 💚
Sarah Ingleby@tools-selfreliance.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe've opened The ReNew Store, Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm 💚 It's full of useful things you didn't know you needed. All the tools have been refurbished by our volunteers, to be as good as new. If you're in the Southampton or New Forest area, please do share. I'd love your support! #Recycle
