Come and celebrate national refill day on 16th June 2026 by making use of these household products available from Refresh at 16 Church Street, High Wycombe.

World Environment Day is on 5th June 2026.

Ellen, one of our trustees, who leads on fundraising and children’s crafts, painted this amazing earth for world earth day in April. If you would like to be the proud owner of this wonderful work of art, make us an offer we can’t refuse!

Emma Reynolds MP will be coming to the Refresh shop on 13th June at 3pm to celebrate 25 years of Wycombe Environment Centre. She is pictured here at the national repair cafe event in Parliament in March 2026.

We’ve won funding from the Rothschild Foundation, which, added to our Lottery funding announced last month, will give us great opportunities to grow our gravitational field over the next 3 years.

We’ve won funding from the National Lottery, over £100,000 across 3 years, to help us develop our gravitational field as an anchor in the community.

Our new shop sign, reflecting the character of the lovely building we are in.

Our Repair Cafe lead volunteer, Maddie Howe, with our MP Emma Reynolds at a Repair Cafe in Parliament, along with 100 other Repair Cafes from across the UK, calling for a ‘right to repair’.

Craft Club starting up! Every Friday afternoon from 2-4 in our Refresh shop in Church Street.

Free Bunny Ears and Easter Chick workshops - Eden Shopping Centre 21st March 11-3 and in Refresh Shop at 16 Church Street on Thursday 2nd and 9th April 12.30-3.30

Finally, we have a new home to move to!

A seasonal slow stitching kit made by one of our lovely shop vols!

With our refillables range and lovely made goods…

News - or rather no-news

Its what you all want to know - where are we moving to?

We still aren’t saying until the lease is signed, but we do know that if we sign the lease, we’ll be moving before Christmas…

The US not for profit re-make has identified five steps we can all take to shift to an eco-friendly approach to buying fashion.

Juliet Hamilton in full flow entertaining us with her upcycling stories

Halloween children’s craft activities: batwings and spiders!

Following on from the success of the CraftJam in the spring, and Crafty Fridays over the summer, we hosted a special Halloween chldrens’s craft event in half term.

4,000 bulbs in the ground!

With just 14 people for less than 4 hours over 2 days. Amazing how little it takes to make a big difference!

Kachung!

Refreshonline, our eBay account, works wonders.

So many ways to join in at Refresh. If you like ‘playing shop’, you’ll be welcome! But there are lots of other opportunities too!

Brand new, unused vintage patterns available online!