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By Mirella Ferraz on 21st March 2023

The Power of Community Fridges in Tackling Waste and…

At the Network of Wellbeing, our vision is of people and the planet thriving together.  We achieve that by connecting people, supporting projects, and inspiring action. While researching further projects for us to support, our project manager, Mirella Ferraz, looked

Our community - Projects
By Mirella Ferraz on 20th October 2022

Buy Less, Share More: The Share Shed Is Expanding

As the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) celebrates its 10th anniversary with an inspiring series of online events, one of our projects, the Share Shed – A Library of Things, is getting ready to expand its services in south Devon. The

Our community - Projects
By Mirella Ferraz on 4th July 2022

New Reuse Project for Wellbeing of People and Planet

At the Network of Wellbeing (NOW), we’re proud to have set up the Share Shed – A Library of Things, offering useful items at low cost for people to borrow. As the project developed, we launched a mobile version of

Our community - Projects
By Mirella Ferraz on 24th January 2022

UK Sharing Libraries Network: Strengthening a Movement

All over the world, sharing projects are providing people an opportunity to access things, rather than own them. This contributes to a much fairer and sustainable distribution of resources, while avoiding a lot of waste and creating potential for communities

Our world - Beyond Growth
By Mirella Ferraz on 24th June 2021

Rethinking Consumption For Personal And Planetary Wellbeing

In response to the global urgency to review how many of us live, many exciting initiatives are popping up all over the world to facilitate more sustainable ways of consuming. These initiatives can be seen as part of ‘the great

Our world - Beyond Growth
By Mirella Ferraz on 4th March 2021

From Ownership to Access: The Power of Sharing

In this post NOW’s Mirella Ferraz shares the story of our mobile Share Shed – Library of Things project, including some step-by-step guidance on how to set up your own sharing project. Due to lockdown, the Share Shed has been

Our community - Projects
By Mirella Ferraz on 25th June 2020

World’s First Mobile Library of Things To Be Launched…

On average, an electric drill is used for up to 13 minutes in its whole lifetime. How many electric drills might your community, or even the street where you live, have? What if rather than owning a drill, we were

By Mirella Ferraz on 10th April 2020

Supporting Small Changes That Make a Big Difference: The…

Set up by the Network of Wellbeing (NOW) in 2013, the Totnes Wellbeing Fund is supporting small changes, which make a big difference to wellbeing in and around Totnes, in Devon. Having supported over 30 projects throughout the years, the

Our world - Beyond Growth
By Mirella Ferraz on 29th January 2020

Why Buy When You Can Borrow?

It’s another day at the Share Shed, Totnes; a community project in south Devon, known as a ‘library of things’. Our principles are progressive and yet very old. And our project is rooted in a simple way of living; based

Our community - Projects
By Mirella Ferraz on 27th January 2020

Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

On 15th February towns and cities across the country will take part in the Big Fix – Britain’s Biggest Day of Repair. In Totnes, Devon, where Network of Wellbeing (NOW) is based, we’ll co-host a local Big Fix to support

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