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Creative make-up students from Stockton Riverside College are using messages about climate change in their end of year show after being inspired by working at last year’s Festival of Thrift. The [...]

Last year’s Festival of Thrift delivered a welcome boost for the local economy and its key messages about sustainability reached audiences across the country. Figures produced by market research [...]

Thousands of people have attended this year’s Festival of Thrift. Festival-goers turned out in their droves for the 2018 event in spite of bad weather warnings and chillier temperatures for an [...]

The award winning Festival of Thrift is back for its sixth year with a programme jam-packed with lots of things to see, do and get involved in.

With this year’s Festival of Thrift only days away, the organisers are inviting people to join in the event’s first ever launch parade to get the big Festival weekend started.

Redcar and Cleveland College and Stockton Riverside College have partnered with the Festival of Thrift to mark their recent merger.

The chance to don feather boas and fishnets and enjoy an outdoor screening of Moulin Rouge is on offer at this year’s Festival of Thrift.

Blacksmithing, Swedish birch bark weaving and garland-making, and cooking with fire and smoke are amongst the wide and varied range of workshops taking place at this year’s Festival of Thrift

The organisers of the Festival of Thrift are looking for people to get involved with the forthcoming thrifty re-shoot of the famous one-take Redcar seafront scene from Atonement.