Join us for our fundraising events, from craft workshops to tool sales and tea parties. Or why not take on your own challenge to support our work?
Take on a challenge for Tools for Self Reliance
Are you a keen runner, cyclist or swimmer? Can you climb any mountain, ford any stream? Maybe your’re planning a sky dive, or can’t think of anything more impossible than a sponsored silence?
Whatever challenge you’re taking on, you can help raise vital funds, giving young people access to vocational training and business development projects across Africa, and supporting our tool refurbishment programme in the UK.
Please email fundraising@tfsr.org or give us a call on 02380 869697 to tell us about your event. We’ll send you a sponsorship pack and help you promote your challenge too.
Secure your space on the starting line. Search for organised events in your area, from local park runs to sea swims. Register to secure your spot, start your training, and begin collecting sponsorship from your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours.
Get your great idea in gear. Pop a callout on your group chat, don your Lycra and hold a ‘cycle to school’ day, or ‘cycle to work’ week. Take the lead in a line-dance, or start the longest conga in five counties. Your get together will keep you fit, having fun and raising money at the same time!
Make a spectacle of your skills. Put together a 1000 piece puzzle in under an hour or recreate a Rembrandt… with a blindfold on. Invite people to join in, or cheer you on from the sidelines if you prefer to go solo?
Bite your tongue. Do you have a reputation as a chatter-box, or seem to be one of the louder people in the room? Why not set yourself a challenge and have a sponsored silence for the day. Of course, you can communicate by other means, but your mouth will have to stay stumm. How long with you last? How much will people pay to find out?
If you’d like a sponsorship form or more information, please contact fundraising@tfsr.org or telephone 02380 869697
November Tool & Haberdashery SaleTreat yourself to an early Christmas gift or find the perfect present for a friend or loved one. We’ll have a wide range of preloved and refurbished workshop tools, garden tools, hand tools and electrical tools for you to browse, then pop upstairs to find haberdashery and crafts before you go.
Netley Marsh Workshop
Ringwood Road
Southampton
SO40 7GY
And that’s a wrap! We finished our 2025 event season at the Oak Fair in Dorset, raising over £9,500 to support our vocational training and business development projects across Africa, and our apprentice start-up tool kits programme in the UK.
Every surplus tool we sell makes a big difference – by keeping good quality tools, sewing machines, fabric and haberdashery in circulation you are helping to recycle and you are supporting our work to help more trainees join our projects to build working futures. Thank you!
Do you know of a show that would like Tools for Self Reliance to get involved? Please get in touch by emailing: fundraising@tfsr.org
Our lovely Craft2Craft volunteers have been helping us raise funds for over 10 years!
Join them on Thursdays for informal crafting workshops. These 2-hour sessions are a great way to explore and indulge your creativity, make new friends and drink tea and eat cake.
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Location: Tools For Self Reliance HQ, Ringwood Road, SO40 7GY
Thursday 16 October – Quilted covered notebooks Bring your own sewing machine to make a beautiful quilted cover for an A6 notebook.
Book now – telephone 02380 869697
Make two or three fun items for your Christmas tree or your festive table. All materials and instructions supplied.
Book now – telephone 02380 869697
Are you looking to build your business or looking for new marketing opportunities? You can sponsor one of the Tools for Self Reliance events, in exchange for your sponsorship, we can promote your logo and business through out our advertising and at the event.
Sponsoring a charity is a great way to showcase your services whilst giving to a great cause. Every event hosted by Tools For Self Reliance is all in aid of raising funds to get tools and training to people in Africa. Please help us achieve this!
If you are interested in sponsoring one of the Tools For Self Reliance events, please contact fundraising@tfsr.org for more information, or telephone 02380 869697
