5 Oct, 2022 Community Creations Lifestyle & Inspiration Products in use
WHERE THE CHALLENGE ORIGINATED
Last year we ran a survey to find out interest in Adam’s prototype stool (the prize for this challenge) becoming a stock product, which included a competition to name the stool. Jane Black came up with the winning name: Roven.
“Roven is the past tense for reeve, which is a nautical term for passing a rope through a hole or ring. The word Roven also combines the ‘R’ from recycle and the word ‘Woven’. To weave is to make or construct by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole.
And that’s exactly what Adam has done, he has taken discarded materials and made them a whole again. It’s amazing work, and something he should be very proud of.”
THE CHALLENGE
THE CRITERIA
✅ Entries can be shared on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or TikTok and must include the hashtag #glasgowwoodphotochallenge, or emailed to marketing@glasgowwood.org.uk
✅ Entries must include our stock or bespoke products and/or your creations made from our reclaimed timber.
✅ Entries must also include people in some way, and it’s important you’re happy for us to share this on our social media and website afterwards.
✅ Videos will be looked at more favourably!
WHAT, WHEN & HOW?
✅ Competition will be open until 5pm on 27th October.
✅ Winner will be announced on 3rd November on social media.
✅ Prize is only available for collection from our South Street premises.
John, one of our members made Archie’s (the Gnome) shelter from recycled pallets as Archie is prone to fading in extreme weather conditions. John also made the plant stand in the picture and as you can see, has more scrap wood ready for his next project – which is repairing our communal benches.
John is camera shy (and he’s in Spain just now) as is Archie’s bigger friend – hence the strange ‘smile’. Glasgow Wood recycling is always our first port of call for raised beds as they are made to last and part of the vital circular economy.
With some assistance, this is Christine making garden fences from reclaimed Scottish spruce.
In Summer 2021, Cassiltoun Housing Association successfully received funding from Action Earth for their “Wellness on Wheels” project through Volunteering Matters. With the help of one of their wonder volunteers from El Salvador, they upcycled a handful of whiskey barrel planters from us. They attached salvaged trolley wheels to their bases to make giant movable planters which can be wheeled to bring wellness to other spaces. These are some of their lovely Community Food Workers testing the wheels!
