The ReLit Project is Officially Closing

What began in 2014 as a conversation in a pub became a multi-award winning initiative with a simple aim: to take disused and unwanted lighting equipment and put it to meaningful use for charities and community projects.

Along the way, we delivered projects including Shelley Theatre, Chicken Town and Waterloo City Farm, collaborated with over 40 manufacturers, diverted huge amounts of perfectly usable equipment from waste, and most importantly, helped spark genuine industry wide discussion about reuse and circular practice.

Today, we have far greater awareness, emerging circular economy standards, established recycling organisations, and multiple reuse initiatives, such as: SLL – Society of Light and Lighting TM66, Recolight, End Cat A Lighting Waste, 18 Circular, Finishes and Interiors Sector Reuse Project and Donate-A-Light.

It’s been a long journey, and while it feels bittersweet, we’re incredibly proud of what we achieved.

So a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported ReLit over the years. We’ve taken it as far as we can, but we’ll always champion a future where we truly LET LIGHT LIVE.

📢 Ray Molony, editor at Circular Lighting Report, said:

‘It’s not easy to imagine now, but at the time that the ReLit Project was launched, it was almost unheard of for luminaires to be reused in a commercial building. ReLit was a really bold idea and paved the way for the initiatives that came after it. I congratulate everyone who worked on it over the years and the pioneering work it did in changing mindsets.’

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