The Corn Exchange is a community scrap fabric recycling scheme for crafters run by Bettys
The Cone Exchange, Hookstone Park, in Harrogate is an unique community scrap store and the flagship community project of Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate. Pictured Chris Powell, Education & Events Co-ordinator, at The Cone Exchange, Harrogate, holding two of the original Christmas Cone Angels, which inspired concept of the store.
It was also how the Cone Exchange came to be. Originally operating from a shed at Springwater Primary School in Starbeck, such was the demand the project outgrew its humble beginnings. In 2003 the move to a building on the Bettys and Taylors site in Hookstone Chase, Metal wreath rings are the only items purchased by the project, and while the tradition is to hang them at Christmas, the large colourful floral displays intricately crafted from wallpaper swatch books, and greeting visitors as they arrive in the Cone Exchange reception, demonstrate how the rings can provide interior design inspiration all year round.
Proceeds from the sale of recyclable stock purchased from the Cone Exchange are ploughed into community projects.Sarah explains since it began they have raised more than £100,000, supporting initiatives including the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Project tree planting initiative, Harrogate-based Horticap, which provides training in horticulture, other crafts and skills for adults with learning and other disabilities, and charities chosen by their volunteers.
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