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Bicester's Centre for Circular Economy and Skills

We are a shop for reconditioned and reclaimed hardware, household items and bicycles.

Our volunteers reduce waste and learn to repair bikes and electrical appliances and repurpose wood. Centre for Skills, Sustainability & Secondhand Stuff

We are a shop & workshops by Garth Park and the The Garth, only 5min from the town centre. We reuse, repair, repurpose, recondition and recycle bikes, electricals and wooden items. Our amazing team of volunteers in the wood workshop can also make your own commission from reclaimed wood and materials. Volunteer opportunities available in the shop, bicycle workshop, electrical repairs and the wood workshop. You don't have to be skilled to join us, our team love teaching and sharing their own skills.

24/10/2026

🐦 From workshop makeover to bird box maker! 🪚🔨

Our brilliant volunteers have been hard at work updating the woodwork workshop, and we’re delighted to say the job is done! It’s now clean, tidy and safe — ready for the team to get back to what they love best: making and mending. 💚

And what better way to celebrate than by turning reclaimed wood into a lovely new bird box? 🐦🌿

Watch some of our volunteers in action, each playing their part in bringing this delightful project to life.

A safer workshop, a fresh start, and plenty more making and mending to come!

17/10/2026

“Waste not, want not, Wombles! 🧵🔧 Why throw it away when it can be mended? Come along to Bicester Green’s Repair Café today, where our clever volunteers are ready to give your broken treasures a new lease of life. There’ll be repairs, friendly faces, and a nice cup of tea too. We Wombles would thoroughly approve! 💚”

— Madame Cholet’s sort of advice! 🧺

Sewing, leather, electricals, DIY items - in fact anything!
16 Sheep Street
Today, Saturday 17 October 10am–2pm

15/10/2026

🌍🔧 Let’s celebrate the power of repair! 🪡🚲

This Saturday, 17 October, our free Repair Café coincides with International Repair Day — an annual celebration of everyone around the world who makes repair happen in their communities. And we’re delighted to be part of it! 💚

Why throw it away when it might be possible to fix it? From household items and electricals to sewing repairs, missing buttons, torn seams and broken straps, our wonderful volunteers are ready to help give your much-loved belongings a new lease of life.

✨ Bring along something that needs mending.
☕ Enjoy a free cuppa and some homemade cake.
💚 Meet our volunteers and discover the difference repair can make.

Every repair helps reduce waste, save resources and keep useful things in use for longer. And you might even learn a thing or two along the way!

📅 Saturday 17 October
⏰ 10am–2pm
📍 Bicester Green, 16 Sheep Street, Bicester

Come and celebrate International Repair Day with us. Let’s mend more and waste less! ♻️

10/10/2026

🧵 Got something that needs stitching? We can help! 🪡

From missing buttons, torn seams, holes that need darning or a favourite bag with a broken strap, to a lot more. Our wonderful sewing and leatherwork volunteers are ready to help!

💚 Come along to the Bicester Green Repair Café this Saturday, 17 October, between 10am and 2pm.

Electrical household and DIY items as well of course. Give your favourite things a new lease of life and help us cut waste, one mend at a time! ♻️

📍 Bicester Green, 16 Sheep Street, Bicester

03/10/2026

🔧💦 Pressure washer in trouble? At our Repair Café we’ve got this!

It’s not every day you get to watch your pressure washer being repaired while sitting back with a free cuppa and a slice of cake.

Our brilliant volunteer gets stuck into the repair, while the customer gets the rather more relaxing job of watching the expert at work. 😄

And that’s the beauty of our Repair Café — free repairs, free refreshments and the chance to give something broken a second life.

Our next Repair Café is on Saturday 17 October, 10am to 2pm. Save the date!

Who needs Netflix when you’ve got a pressure washer repair to watch?

26/09/2026

⚡ Our electrical superheroes to the resue! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♂️

Behind the scenes at Bicester Green, some pretty amazing things are happening — and not all of them involve fixing bikes! 🚲😉

We’re incredibly lucky to have volunteers with years of experience and expertise in electrical installations. And two of our very own superheroes have been working incredibly hard to upgrade the electrics across our woodwork and electrical workshops. ⚡🔧

There’s a lot of careful work involved in keeping our workshops safe, practical and fit for the future — and they’ve been getting stuck in with plenty of skill, hard work… and, as you can see from these photos, big smiles! 😄

A huge THANK YOU to our electrical superheroes for giving their time, knowledge and expertise to Bicester Green. ❤️

We couldn’t do what we do without volunteers like you!

19/09/2026

Three wheels on your wagon? Get to the Repair Cafe today at Bicester Green, 10am to 2pm, Saturday 19 August at 16 Sheep Street.

Our brilliant volunteers will do their best to help repair your: ⚡ Electrical items 🏠 Household treasures 🧵 Sewing mends

And while you wait, enjoy a FREE cuppa and delicious homemade cake! ☕🍰

Don’t bin it – repair it! See you at Bicester Green! 💚

10/09/2026

🔨 A very special visit to our nearly-finished wood workshop!

We were delighted to welcome Jessica Baker-Pike from Viridor recently, who came to see the transformation of our wood workshop — and to see what we've been able to achieve with Viridor's generous grant.

Thanks to their support, we’ve been able to invest in some much-needed new tools and equipment, including an all important dust extractor and a planer thicknesser, which will make a real difference to our volunteers and the work we’re able to do.

It was lovely to have the opportunity to say a huge thank you to Viridor for helping us make this transformation possible. 💚

The wood workshop is now very nearly finished, and we can’t wait to see it buzzing with volunteers, creativity and plenty of rescued timber!

A big thank you to everyone who has helped make the transformation happen. Volunteers cutting waste, with a little help from our friends! ♻️🔨

05/09/2026

🌲 WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT?! We’ve had a clear-out! 🪵😂

Many volunteers make light work… especially when there’s a Man with a Van involved! 🚐💪

As part of upgrading our wood workshop, we’ve been having a very long-overdue clear-out of wood we’ve stored over the years. Some of it was warped, some water damaged, some had woodworm — and some had simply been waiting patiently for its moment to be useful again!

Well, that moment has arrived. 👋

Our brilliant volunteers got stuck in, loading it all up and getting it ready for its next adventure. And it’s not going to waste…

♻️ The wood is heading off to Bucks Recycling, where it will be recycled and made into chipboard.

So, from old, tired and unwanted wood… to something useful again. 🌱

And as you can see from our speedy-up video, many volunteers really do make light work! 😄

A huge thank you to everyone who got stuck in — although we’re not promising that the workshop is completely clear just yet! 😉

29/08/2026

🚲 You might remember this bike…

Well, the story gets even better!

After its very unexpected reunion with its owner, the bike went through our workshop for some Bicester Green TLC. 💚

A new tyre and inner tube, a LOT of de-rusting, plus plenty of tweaking and fettling by one of our brilliant bike volunteers — and it was looking good again!

Our delighted volunteer watched as her bike was brought back to life… and then came the best bit.

Time to ride it home! 🥰🚲💨

From stolen bike to very unexpected reunion to happy ending — we really couldn’t have written a better story.

And yes… the bag is still there! 🎒😂

Address

16 Sheep Street
Bicester
OX266TB

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+447909633382

Website

http://www.bicestergreen.org.uk/

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