About SLOTH

We have three main aims:

  • Reduce the cost of accessing tools and equipment
  • Limit unnecessary consumption and waste
  • Encourage sharing and community 

Acknowledgements

We'd like to acknowledge that an initiative such as this is build on the shoulders of many people.   More than one group have formed to develop this idea in Stroud over the past 6 years.  The circumstances and details might not have come together but seeds are sown and ideas grow.

Other projects within Stroud follow similar aims in different ways, including the repair cafes, making and mending groups, community car club, neighbourhood and street groups, freecycling Facebook groups.  Many of these are listed on our pages about Getting Involved.  If you know of any more, please let us know.     


SLOTH is a project of a local community CIC called Creative Sustainability.    


Who is the Team


Volunteer Steering Group


Finally, thanks to the many people who have given their time, their money, their unused tools, their ideas and their support, 

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