Category: News
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Donations
We love your donations and could not operate without them. However, there are now certain items that sadly we are no longer able to accept. Please check the list below and if in doubt, please email us at hello@coneexchange.org to check. YES PLEASE! · All craft materials · Storage tubs / boxes · Fabric…
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Can you help us by completing our customer survey?
We are keen to understand more about the impact of the Cone Exchange, on our customers, their lives and our wider community. We have partnered with skyblue.org.uk to create a customer survey and we would be really grateful if you have 5 minutes to complete this for us. Some of you might have already done…
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Yarndale 2025
The Cone Exchange is delighted to be making a third appearance at the annual Yarndale event in Skipton in September. We just love being a part of the creative, inclusive and crafty show. If you have not visited before, check out their website here and start planning your trip! The Yarndale team also do amazing…
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Supporting Yorkshire Cancer Research
We are delighted to support the amazing work carried out by Yorkshire Cancer Research. You can get involved too by collecting all standard plastic milk bottle tops (including non-dairy options, but not UHT) and dropping them into the Cone Exchange where we will collate them and pass them on. Don’t worry about removing any foil…
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Supporting the Yorkshire Aid Convoy
In April this year, the Cone Exchange was delighted to support the Yorkshire Aid convoy transporting much-needed supplies to Ukraine. Our amazing customers and volunteers created a variety of blankets, hats, scarves, gloves and twiddle muffs created with wool donated to the Cone Exchange. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this project,…
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For all your costume needs!
We are thrilled to have provided the materials for one of our customers to make this fantastic Chinese Dragon in celebration of Chinese New Year earlier this year. What’s your project? Come and check out our fabulous range of fabrics an accessories for all your costume needs.
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Where to find us in 2025
We are delighted to confirm the Cone Exchange will be attending these events in 2025. More will be added throughout the year, so watch this space. Springtime Live: Saturday 5th April at the Great Yorkshire Showground Harrogate Spring Flower Show: Thursday 24th-Sunday28th April at the Great Yorkshire Showground Threads Textile Festival: 17th & 18th May…
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Opening Hours 2025
April 7th-21st April – School Easter Break – Cone Exchange Closed May 26th-30th May – School Summer Half Term – Cone Exchange Closed July & August From 25th July throughout August – School Summer Holidays – Cone Exchange Closed September 9th September – End of Summer break – Cone Exchange re-opens October 27th-31st October –…
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20 years of the Cone Exchange
The idea for the Cone Exchange was born when Chris Powell, who at the time worked in the Taylors tea production hall, was showing a group of children around the tea and coffee factory and one of the children saw a cardboard cone being put into the recycling bin and asking if they could take…
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A year at the Cone Exchange
We look back at the highlights from a busy year at the Cone Exchange in 2023. Our best year ever for fundraising The Cone Exchange scrap store is open three days a week, selling a wide range of items for crafters, gardeners and bakers. Over the course of the year, thanks in large to shop…
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Help to finish a loved one’s craft project
Good Morning Crafty Creatives. We have just become aware of a fantastic enterprise which matches unfinished projects from crafty friends and family who have left us or are no longer able to complete them, with all of you talented people who have the skills to finish the item. You can sign up as a volunteer…
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Parking at The Cone Exchange
Parking outside of the Cone Exchange will be limited throughout the remainder of November due to essential electrical works. Where possible, we would be grateful if you could car-share to ensure as many customers as possible can safely make use of the facilities. You might also find it possible to visit during our quieter times…
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Who We Work With… Resurrected Bites
At the Cone Exchange, we work with a number of different charities and groups in our local communities. We’ve been working in partnership with some of these charities for years, and some much more recently, thanks Covid-19. This ‘Who We Work With’ mini-series is to help you learn a little bit about who we help…
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Check out our Latest Annual Review
Click here to read our latest Annual Review – please do have a read to see what we do, who we work with and how, in the future, you can get involved.
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When you go down to the woods today…
…you will meet a lovely bunch of volunteers from the Cone Exchange exploring their new woodland project! Keen to learn more about the new tree planting relationship with the Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust and see firsthand the difference their trees will make to the environment, a group of hardy volunteers ventured out on an unseasonably…
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Turning Over A New Leaf
We are thrilled to have launched a new partnership with the Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust to plant new trees in the Yorkshire Dales through the sales of paper, card and other papercrafting materials in our craft recycling shop. The launch sees the planting of 300 new trees this year, with a further 400 planned over…
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A year at the Cone Exchange
The Cone Exchange has enjoyed another successful year. At the heart of the Cone Exchange is a commitment to give waste a new lease of life and to see ability, not disability, in people. Over the course of the year we’ve recycled our own business waste along with that of 12 other businesses, raised over…
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All in a good cause
Our main work experience partner at the Cone Exchange, Henshaws, were recently in receipt of a Good Cause Award from our family business. They had applied for a little help with purchasing some new garden furniture for the community allotment that they had just taken over the maintenance of and were thrilled to be able…
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Hats off to St John’s
A huge thank you to Caryl and her Knit and Natter group at St Johns House in Kirkhammerton. Over the last year they have made 372 hats, scarves and blankets for our knitting projects. Keep up the good knitting! Save Save Save
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Love is in the air, part four: Mother of the Bride
One of our most regular customers wanted her daughter to have something extra special to carry down the aisle that she could keep to pass on to future generations. Using a variety of materials and embellishments from her own stash topped up with some extras from the Cone Exchange she created this beautiful horseshoe with…