- Baby Basics Billericay
- Every Child Online preloved laptop and computer drop-off zones
- Laindon School Uniform Bank
- Mayflower High School PTFA's preloved uniform shop
- Quilters Junior School PTA's uniform shop
- Runwell Men's Shed
- Sociability’s bike repair project
- Sunnymede PTA’s previously loved uniform shop
Love Essex Fund Success Stories
Since 2019, the Love Essex Fund has provided funding to nearly 200 projects across Essex. Learn more about the successful applicants here.
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The Love Essex Fund offers micro-grants to projects that reduce household waste. The fund is available to individuals, schools, and organisations. Since 2019, the Love Essex Fund has provided funding to nearly 200 projects across Essex!
The successful applicants include repair cafés, library of things, preloved uniform swaps, refill shops, and many more.
In February 2025, the Love Essex Fund received a record 105 applications. These applications were highly impressive and showcased the array of community projects tackling household waste across the county.
Next funding round, we are only accepting applications from repair-focused groups. Find out more about the November 2025 funding round.
Below, you can find the projects we have funded since 2022.
Love Essex Fund recipients by district
Basildon
Braintree
- Baby Stuff Braintree
- Braintree District Mencap’s preloved item swap shop
- Braintree Lions's glasses reuse scheme
- Climate and Nature for Stisted’s library of things
- Braintree repair café at Cornerstone Church
- Friends of St Michael’s preloved uniform shop
- Let's Talk Trash festival
- St Nicolas Church’s pop-up refill shop
- The Bell Inn, Castle Hedingham
Brentwood
- Key Lime’s preloved prom pop-up shop
- The Peaceful Pony's upcycling project
Castle Point
- Canvey Island School Uniform Bank
- Castle Point Community Allotment's upcycling project
- Kingston Primary School’s preloved uniform shop
Chelmsford
- Chelmsford Cloth Nappy Library
- Chelmsford CVS' preloved prom event
- Chelmsford Triathlon Club's second hand kit scheme
- Federation of Essex Women's Institutes' 'Show the Love' event
- Growbaby Chelmsford Community's preloved baby clothes shop
- Jean Genie Denim
- Lower Bell Field Allotment Association
- Kids Inspire's preloved shopping event
- Refill Chelmsford
- Refill Town
- Roots to Hope's community clothes cycle
Colchester
- Bridgeway Mission’s sewing hub
- Bright Shedders Brightlingsea men's shed
- Broomgrove Junior School's eco club
- C3 Impact's community market refill
- Colcheco
- Colchester LEAF repair café
- Consciously Clothed
- Colchester Toy Library
- Ecolnes Refillery
- En-form The Colchester Environment Centre's clothing swap
- En-form The Colchester Environment Centre's Eco Festival 2023
- Feering Falcons Youth Football Club
- Friar's Grove Primary School's swap shop
- Friends of Great Tey's preloved uniform sale
- Friends of Lexden Primary School’s preloved uniform project
- King’s Ford Infants School and Nursery
- Mersea Community Repair and Make
- Mersea Island School's reusable lunch wrap project
- Prettygate Junior School's outdoor play and learning project
- RAMA’s clothing repair shop
- Revamp Boutique's upcycling project
- Roach Vale Primary School's preloved uniform swap shop
- Tiptree Community Hub’s preloved uniform exchange
- Transition Town Wivenhoe's textile recycling project
- West Bergholt Parish Council
- Wivenhoe Library of Things
Epping Forest
- 3Food4U Waltham Abbey’s second-hand item bank
- Chipping Ongar Primary School Association's used uniform shop
- Refill Mill
- Theydon Repair Café
Harlow
- Fawbert and Barnard’s Primary School's learning bus
- Harlow Community Men's Shed
- Integration Support’s recycling workshops and reuse kits
- Rainbow Services’ second-hand prom event
Maldon
- All Saints' CofE Primary School preloved uniform shop
- Whole Health Foods
- St Francis Catholic Primary School PTA's preloved uniform shop
- Tollesbury Climate Partnership's clothing swap
Rochford
- 4th Rochford Scout Group Repair Café
- Cake Club Parenting Support
- East Essex Hackspace CIO
- Hockley Parish Council’s baby basics
- Thundersley Men's Shed
Tendring
- AlterEco Gift Wrap
- Clacton School Uniform Bank
- Friends of Tendring School
- Holland Park Primary School PTA's preloved fancy dress bank
- Manningtree Repair Café
- Mending Matters
- St James's Parish with St Christopher's Church's second hand goods hub
- The Active Wellbeing Society’s bike repair project
- Tendring Primary Recycle Scheme
Uttlesford
- 1st Thaxted-Carver Scout Group's parachute to shelters project
- Berden Repair Café
- Friends of Newlands Spring’s preloved uniform shop
- Great Easton Primary’s clothing and equipment bank
- Great Yeldham Men’s Shed
- Katherine Semar Junior School's preloved toy bank
- Little Canfield Men's Shed
- Radwinter Repair Café
- Saffron Walden Community Shed
- Uttlesford Children's Clothing Bank’s preloved prom event