The Hearth - Southport

24/10/2026

Save the date, Southport! 🍲

After around 300 of you filled Southport Market for our Great Big Green Lunch in June, we’re doing it again, winter style.

The Big Winter Lunch
📅 Sunday 29 November 2026
🕛 12 noon to 3pm
📍 Southport Market
🎟️ Free, all welcome, no need to book

Bring a dish to share if you can, and come anyway if you can’t. There’ll be plenty of food for everyone, plus live music, a free crafting station, a handmade craft stall and a raffle.

Winter can be a long, lonely season. Let’s spend an afternoon of it together. 💛

23/10/2026

Week two of Mend, Make, Re-make — and the buttons are flying 🧵

Last week our group learned to set up their sewing machines and take up a hem. This Tuesday it was all about fastenings: sewing on buttons, fitting press studs and setting eyelets. The small fixes that stop a favourite coat or a good pair of trousers ending up at the back of the wardrobe — or in the bin.

Thank you to Sharron for leading the session, and to everyone in the All-Souls Room at Southport Community Centre for such a warm, chatty afternoon. Learning a new skill is always better in good company, and new friendships are being stitched together every week.

We were also really pleased to welcome Simone Greyling from Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority, who came along to see the session in action. Thank you, Simone!

Mend, Make, Re-make is part of Swish & Stitch, funded by Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority and Veolia through the Zero Waste Community Fund.

This course is full, but if you’d like to hear about the next one, drop us a line at [email protected] 💛

22/10/2026

🎄✨ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Cozy Stitch Club! ✨🎄

This week our lovely stitchers cracked out the napkins ahead of their festive meals, and the results are seriously gorgeous. We've got snowflakes ❄️, Christmas trees 🎄 and woolly hats galore 🧶, all stitched with plenty of chat, tea and Christmas cheer.

There's something so special about handmade touches on the table. These napkins will be making their debut at family dinners and festive get-togethers, and we couldn't be prouder of everyone's work.

Fancy joining in the festive fun? Come along to our next session at Mecycle. Whether you're a confident sewer or have never touched a needle, you're very welcome. 🧵

📍 Mecycle, Southport
💬 Message us to find out about the next session

21/10/2026

Yes, it’s October. Yes, we’re making Christmas decorations. 🎄

This week’s Sustainable Sewing session was a special extended one — the first in our Christmas series — and look what came out of it: patchwork baubles, tartan trees, rag wreaths, fabric stars and tiny stockings, every single one made from scrap material that would otherwise have been thrown away.

We had great fun, and it was lovely to welcome some new faces around the table too. There’s something special about making your Christmas decorations by hand, with good company — and knowing nothing new was bought to do it.

Fancy joining us? Sustainable Sewing meets every Monday at Southport Community Centre, and places are completely free, funded by The National Lottery Awards for All Environment fund. Book yours on Eventbrite:

👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002816430859?aff=oddtdtcreator

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21/10/2026

Southport, we’re in the news! 🌊

Stand Up For Southport just covered Men on the Tide — our free, three-week conservation project out on the Ainsdale dunes this November, delivered with Green Sefton and Andy’s Man Club.

Three Tuesdays — 3rd, 10th and 17th November, 10am–2pm — clearing invasive Sea Buckthorn from one of the most important stretches of protected coastline in the country. No experience needed. Come for one session or all three. We’ll have lunch, a brew, and good company waiting.

Read the full story here: https://standupforsouthport.com/southport-men-invited-to-the-dunes-in-ainsdale-this-november-for-their-coast-and-for-each-other/

Book your free place via Eventbrite — link in our bio.

The Hearth Network CIC is inviting men across Southport to take part in Men on the Tide, a free, three-week conservation programme clearing invasive Sea Buckthorn from the Ainsdale dunes in Southport

20/10/2026

Hands needed on the dunes.

Men on the Tide is three Tuesday mornings on the Ainsdale dunes, working alongside the Green Sefton rangers to cut and clear Sea Buckthorn. It’s an invasive shrub that spreads across the open dunes and crowds out the plants and wildlife that belong there.

No experience needed. Tools, training and a light lunch are all provided. It’s free, and it’s for men aged 18 and over. There are twenty places each day, so book early.

Tuesday 3 November, Tuesday 10 November and Tuesday 17 November, 10am to 2pm, starting from Ainsdale Discovery Centre, PR8 2QB.

Come and join us. Book your free place by searching The Hearth Network on Eventbrite, or get in touch at [email protected].
Session 1 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999539848513?aff=oddtdtcreator
Session 2 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999541701054?aff=oddtdtcreator
Session 3 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999555064023?aff=oddtdtcreator

With thanks to Green Sefton. Funded by the Mark McQueen Foundation, through the Community Foundation for Merseyside .

20/10/2026

Can you help us find a home for a new craft group? 🧵

Hearth Network is hoping to start a weekly textile and craft group for people aged over 65 from January 2027 (subject to funding). Sessions will cover sewing and mending, crochet, and crafting and upcycling, taught by local makers.

As we don’t have a base of our own, we rely on the kindness of local venues to make sessions like these happen.

We’re looking for a church hall, community centre or similar space that could offer a light, warm room free of charge, for 2 hours a week over 12 weeks.

The space needs step-free access and an accessible toilet. Somewhere to store a sewing machine and materials would be a bonus.

In return, you’d welcome a friendly group making new connections, and we’d gladly thank you in our posts and reports.

Know somewhere? Comment, message us, or email [email protected] 💛

📸 Pictured: one of our current sewing sessions.

20/10/2026

Last-minute spaces at Cozy Stitch Club this morning! 🧵

A couple of places have opened up for today's embroidery class at Mecycle, 10:30-12:30. Come along, learn some stitches, make something lovely and meet some friendly faces.

No experience needed. Book your spot now on Eventbrite, as places are limited.

📍 Mecycle, Southport
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cozy-stitch-club-tickets-2000654851517?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=520fc6c57d210311a97d4c392fec1237fd97d33b17c40f4b385077de7864f93dec4006721cb1030b9204208fa3d3207810519cdae045b7a3b146ce22d48007640baa4c7c0b9dd1e6efa3e2785981

19/10/2026

What's on this week: Cozy Stitch Club, on Tuesday 20 October 2026 at 10:30am, at MeCycle cafe and bike workshop in Ainsdale.
It's a calm, friendly morning of stitching in a cafe. Bring your own project, or just come and see. It's free, and you don't need any experience.
Book through our Eventbrite page - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-hearth-network-120714502625
These events are popular, you may have to book in advance or ask to be added to the wait list.
or get in touch at [email protected].

17/10/2026

Look what we made together at Southport Community Centre on Monday: zipped bags, sewn from fabric that might otherwise have been thrown away.
Our next Monday workshop is Small Hanging Decorations on 19 October 2026.
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players.