Craft Coop

Craft Coop Award winning gift shops in Thames Valley selling beautifully handmade crafts by local makers

Join us on Park Street this Saturday for free family crafting!Our Camberley team will be part of Camberley’s Armed Force...
18/06/2026

Join us on Park Street this Saturday for free family crafting!

Our Camberley team will be part of Camberley’s Armed Forces Day celebrations on Saturday 20 June, with a special free children’s craft gazebo on Park Street, celebrating both Armed Forces Day and Father’s Day.

🎨 Free colouring and crafts for children
🇬🇧 Celebrating service personnel past, present and future
💙 A chance to thank the father figures in our lives

While you’re enjoying the festivities, don’t forget that our Craft Coop Camberley shop on Obelisk Way will be open as usual.

A big thank you to the team for organising another fantastic day, featuring:

🧗 A 9-metre climbing wall
🤹 Roaming entertainment
🪖 Historic military vehicles
🎶 Live music and performances throughout the day
🎈 Lots of free family fun across the town centre

Do come and say hello to the team and join in the celebrations!

📍 Craft Coop gazebo – Park Street
🏬 Shop open as usual – Obelisk Way
📅 Saturday 20 June 2026

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Shop ‘beautifully handmade, uniquely local’ gifts for the main men in your life 💙
17/06/2026

Shop ‘beautifully handmade, uniquely local’ gifts for the main men in your life 💙

Farewell (for now) to our Maidenhead shopAfter more than 15 years, we’ve finally closed the doors of our shop within the...
15/06/2026

Farewell (for now) to our Maidenhead shop

After more than 15 years, we’ve finally closed the doors of our shop within the Nicholsons Centre, prior to its redevelopment.

If we’re honest, it was a very tough last few days. We were one of the very last businesses to leave, probably dragging our heels a little, because this wasn’t just a shop. It was where Craft Coop began. Our original home. The place where so many friendships, opportunities and success stories started.

Over the years we’ve helped hundreds of local artists, makers and small businesses take their first steps, grow their confidence and find new customers. We’ve supported community projects, charities and creative groups, and proudly hosted the Maidenhead Town Show (12 times!). Together we’ve celebrated achievements, weathered challenges and built something that was always bigger than retail.

Most of all, we’ve been privileged to be part of the lives of so many wonderful people. To every maker, customer, volunteer, supporter and friend who walked through our doors over the last 15 years: thank you. You helped create something very special.

While we’re sad to be leaving, we’re not saying goodbye to Maidenhead.

Our community groups have already found a temporary home at 4 Marlow Road and we’re actively exploring opportunities for a new permanent base in the town. We remain committed to supporting local creativity and community projects, and we very much hope this is simply a pause rather than the end of our Maidenhead story.

So, farewell Nicholsons Centre. Thank you for the memories, the laughter, the friendships and the journey.

We hope to see you again soon, Maidenhead.

💜 The Craft Coop Team

04/06/2026

Rain? What rain. These brilliant humans turned up anyway. 🌧️🧡

A huge thank you to Angela, Viv, Christine, Diya and Sheila from Maidenhead, and to Neil from Maidenhead Bridge Rotary, plus our incredible Craft Coop friends and family who came to help us move our Maidenhead stock and furniture into storage. It was a hard day, but you made it a good one.

GoodGym is a community of people who run, walk or cycle to do good locally. Look them up if you haven't already.

It's National Volunteers Week, and this is exactly what it looks like. 💜

COMING SOON ✂️🧶 SECOND CHANCE CRAFTSA brand new creative reuse space inside Craft Coop.Every crafter has a stash of mat...
22/05/2026

COMING SOON ✂️🧶 SECOND CHANCE CRAFTS
A brand new creative reuse space inside Craft Coop.

Every crafter has a stash of materials they no longer use… so why not share the love and help inspire somebody else’s next project?

We’re creating beautifully curated shelves of donated craft materials, giving quality supplies a second life instead of leaving them forgotten in cupboards and craft rooms.

Think yarn, fabric, paper crafts, haberdashery, tools, patterns, craft kits and creative treasures looking for a new home.

Affordable creative supplies. Sustainable crafting. Community sharing.

So while you’re sorting through that legendary “I’ll use it one day” drawer, why not pop into Craft Coop and donate your quality surplus craft materials to help us get Second Chance Crafts rolling?

♻️ Share the stash. Spark new creativity.

All donations are permanently gifted to Craft Coop, with proceeds helping support our wider community outreach and creative projects.

Launching soon:
📍 Craft Coop Camberley
📍 Craft Coop Windsor

13/05/2026

🌺 Windsor Community Poppy Project – Let’s Make This Together 🌺

Who would love to see this artists impression, come to reality?   ...It’s happening!

Throughout the next few months, Windsor people are coming together to create a powerful, large‑scale community remembrance installation made from thousands of handmade poppies.  You can get involved!

Led by Craft Coop CIC, and working with The Royal British Legion, the Windsor Community Poppy Project invites people of all ages and abilities to take part in a shared act of remembrance, creativity and connection. The installation will be centred at St John the Baptist Church (Windsor Parish Church), forming the heart of a wider poppy trail across Windsor including locations such as Clewer Memorial Recreation Ground, Spital Cemetery and Broom Farm (subject to permissions).

🧶 How you can get involved:

Make a poppy – knitted, crocheted, sewn, felted or created your own way

Join in as an individual, school, care home, community group or organisation

Take part using recycled plastic bottles – an accessible option for people with limited dexterity

Offer a soft pledge of how many poppies you might make to help organisers plan the display

Donate wool or materials, or support the project as a local sponsor

Every poppy matters - they don’t have to be perfect. This project is about inclusion, remembrance and community spirit.

📅 Key dates:

Now! Get involved – can you make some poppies, or donate materials to those who can?

July, August 2026 – making and creating gathers pace.  Drop off poppies as you make!

Sept 2026: Poppies gathered together to be shaped and made into final installation

Late Oct 2026: Installation year for the Windsor Community Poppy Project

November 2026: The ambition becomes reality with this powerful mark of remembrance.

🔗 Find out more & get involved: 👉 https://windsorcommunitypoppyproject.uk/

Let’s work together to create something meaningful, memorable and truly special for Windsor. 🌺






So much happening in our Windsor shop tomorrow - Saturday 18 April - as we celebrate turning 5! (Mask wearing Kevin Cru...
17/04/2026

So much happening in our Windsor shop tomorrow - Saturday 18 April - as we celebrate turning 5! (Mask wearing Kevin Cruise and team seems such a long time ago!!). There is so much free family-friendly fun happening, from facepainting, a Lego-build competition and crafts for children, poppy-making drop-in sessions to support the Windsor Community Poppy Project, and music, balloons and demos for all to enjoy. We look forward to celebrating with as much of Windsor as possible!

Happy Easter from Craft Coop!We couldn't be more proud of what our Camberley team and local community have created toget...
04/04/2026

Happy Easter from Craft Coop!

We couldn't be more proud of what our Camberley team and local community have created together.

You may have spotted some familiar faces around The Square Camberley. Our team restored and gave a fresh new look to a collection of Love Camberley bunnies, now part of the Easter holiday trail at The Square shopping centre.

But our favourite part? One bunny was left completely blank.

Over the past week or so, local children came into the shop through our free Mini Coopers programme and decorated it themselves. Flower by flower, colour by colour, made entirely by small hands.

In a world full of screens, there's something really important about giving children the space to just create. No instructions, no rules, just a blank canvas and the freedom to make it their own. It builds confidence, sparks imagination and reminds us what play is really for.

This is what Craft Coop does best. Creativity, community and making things together.

However you're spending it, we hope this Easter brings you a little rest, a little joy and whatever fills your cup. Happy Easter from all of us. 🌸🐣

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day! Over the years we have worked with around 500 makers, 90% female - so IWD is an important celebration of what we achieve as a female empowering organisation. 15 Years of Women Crafting Community - and this is just a tiny snapshot

March is a month full of celebrations of women, from International Women’s Day to Mothering Sunday and Women’s History M...
03/03/2026

March is a month full of celebrations of women, from International Women’s Day to Mothering Sunday and Women’s History Month.

At Craft Coop CIC, we are also looking back at 15 Years: Women Crafting Community ahead of the sad, imminent closure of the Nicholsons Centre. We are starting with a tribute to Teresa Mills, our Co-Founder and Artistic Director.

Read Teresa’s inspiration and the reason we exist 👇
https://www.craftcoop.co.uk/news/15-years-women-crafting-community


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