Umbrella Sussex is a Community Sharing collective based in the Common Room on Cambridge Road. They have just launched a ‘Functional Print Service’ using their small printer to print, scan and photocopy documents on request.

Hastings Library of Things in the Common Room, Cambridge Road.

Volunteer Shelley explains “Our ‘Print Saturdays’ are for people who are not digitally connected. We started three weeks ago, and so far we have printed a postal return label, some song sheets, a job application form and photocopied some knitting patterns.

We also do ‘scan and send’ using a specially set up email account. We call it ‘functional printing’, it’s not fancy and while we do charge, (5p per sheet with a discount for Library of Things members), it’s not a profit making venture.” People can print up to 10 sheets at a time, and, if they need it, Hastings Library of Things also has a laminator, shredder, guillotine, thermal and comb binders, which members can borrow for an annual fee of £3.00.

Community Printing Service.

Umbrella Sussex is part of the ‘sharing’ economy, running projects that support ‘people helping people’, sharing resources and skills in ways that bring people together. Their two main projects are Make and Mend (Bexhill and Beyond) and Hastings Library of Things.

Make and Mend run Fixing Fridays 12-4 most Fridays, inviting people to bring broken things for mending, and to drink tea together.

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The Functional Print Service is available Saturdays, 1-4pm, in Hastings Library of Things Showcase, Rear of the Common Room, Eagle House, 27-29 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DJ. For more information, visit: umbrellasussex.org.uk/news


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