Researching recycling initiatives in my local area has been really interesting, there are multiple opticians who donate unused glasses to a charity initiative within the UK - Lions Recycle For Sight Program.
Glasses are also sent directly to contacts running eye clinics in Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, and Nepal. In addition, volunteers from the ‘Unite for Sight’ charity are supplied with spectacles to take with them on missions to countries across the world.

CHISWICK REPAIR CAFE

I had a lovely lamp that stopped working a few years ago. I couldn't throw it away and hoped that one day I would get to fix it. I brought it to the Chiswick repair Café today which host free repair events. I found the date and details of the event on the website Restart which helps to find repair events everywhere In the UK. Turns out I needed to change the fuse of the plug (who knew plugs had fuses...)!
That's now giving me idea of more things to repair like clothes I hold in a corner waiting to be mend!