Edinburgh Tool Library is the UK’s first tool library, promoting sharing as a way of reducing our environmental impact. We lend our members tools for DIY, gardening, decorating, and machine repair, so tool ownership is not a requirement of making. Not only does this collaborative approach make sense environmentally, it also helps our members financially.
We have two wood workshops in Leith and Portobello, a dedicated repair space, a pop up location and an electric van. We run an employability programme, a series of volunteer builds, and a residency programme for young artists. Alongside borrowing tools to use at home, our members access our workshops several times a week, usually evenings and weekends, and join us for making workshops and training.
Community is central to everything we do.
For us, ETL is about building a community as well as building things.
Address: 19 Windsor Pl , Edinburgh, EH15 2AJ
Web: https://edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/edintoollibrary
