2024 marks 10 years of sharing (and caring!) for the Edinburgh Tool Library. From our beginnings once a week at the Leith Walk Police Box, to lending thousands of tools to communities across Edinburgh, the ETL community has grown so much.
It’s time to celebrate!
Join us for a series of events celebrating a decade of community, resourcefulness, and making!
What’s next?
Over the 10 years of sharing, we have completed 55,000 tool loans and delivered hundreds of community outreach projects, but what’s next in our incredible journey?!
Come to find out more in person! at our creative and interactive exhibition @ Mote 102 (Ferry Road) the first weekend of November.
– Special preview event on Halloween (tickets): Thursday 31st October 6-8pm.
– Film screening + upcycling workshop (tickets): Friday 1st November 6-8.30pm.
– Exhibition open: 10 till 4pm on Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd November. No booking required, just pop by 🙂
Accessibility guide to our exhibition: open guide
With our 10th birthday approaching, we have embarked on a journey of exploration of what our future could look like and we are excited to share more about our plans for the future.
We will bring tools to your neighbourhood, with more tool library hubs, pop-up satellite services, and new ShareBoxes being introduced across Edinburgh (lockers accessed using codes).
We’ll run hyper-local volunteering opportunities for you to share tools, learn skills and join the community effort to democratise access to knowledge and build local resilience.
We’ll use our passion for making and repairing to tackle isolation, loneliness, poor mental health, and unemployment by expanding our outreach services. This will create a safer space and learning opportunities for folks who might not have had a chance before.
We’ll continue to be a place of experimentation, receptive to new ideas, and supportive of our volunteers’ initiatives.
We’ll continue collaborating with local community groups, charities and services to deliver ground-up transformations for Edinburgh!
Please donate today!
Join us on this journey and if you can, please donate to help secure our future; as a charity, we rely on the generosity of our supporters to help us so that we can help you and your community.
Become a member
Not a member yet? Start your membership now and get access to our workshops and tools. Your membership will help make a difference in your local community.
If DIY is your thing or you would like it to be yet you don’t know where to start…. Have a browse through all the amazing things our volunteers are running weekly and monthly giving you access to thousands of shared tools, woodwork and DIY workshops and hours of fun learning in a welcoming space!
Tooligan Initiatives
Don’t miss out on the amazing opportunities we have helped our Tooligans grow under the ETL banner. Among these volunteer-led initiatives are our tools sharpening and draught proofing service, Repair Cafe Edinburgh, the Cycle kitchen and the first satellite library in Colinton. As we grow, we would like to introduce new ideas.
Open to new ideas
Do you have any suggestions for us?
We are particularly inspired by the following initiatives. What if we could bring these to life in Edinburgh?!
Bring us closer to you
- You want to be a member but live too far away from our current locations?
- You are part of a group or community that would love access to our resources but might need a bit more support?
- You work for an organisation that might be interested in hosting or collaborating with ETL?
Leave fill in our contact form below to let us know where we are needed!
Here’s to the next 10 years of sharing!
Thank YOU!
