With costs mounting and funds dwindling, early years settings are having to get creative when it comes to providing resources.
At SCRAP Centre of Creative Reuse, Art and Play in Leeds, director Louise Lucas says she has seen a significant uptake in settings using scrap for resources in the last five years as funding challenges have bitten.
The scrap store has over 17,000 members, of which a third are early years settings. Products there are generally priced cheaper than in a shop thanks to being sourced from waste products or ends of lines. Victoria Lungu, atelierista at Manor Wood Primary School in Leeds, uses the scrap store to find many of her resources.
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