Five years of success for a craft and scrap store have been marked with a day of celebrations.

Scrap Magic had an open day and cake as part of the fun at its main base at Eccleshill Adventure Playground, off Harrogate Road, Greengates.

There was also a scrap art competition and an exhibition displaying examples of the fantastic things that can be done with scrap materials.

The store, run through Bradford Community Environment Project, sells scrap as recycled art materials to families. It started life in 2008 from an empty garage in Greengates and has now grown to running mobile shops once a month in children’s centres in Keighley, Cottingley, Manningham, Queensbury and Holme Wood.

Thanks to funding through Bradford Council, Scrap Magic can sell its craft materials at cost price so families can afford to get arty.

Project workers collect unwanted, clean and interesting waste from businesses such as fabric sample books, bobbins and reels, off-cuts of paper, plastic, foam and fabric then visitors can fill a shopping basket for £1.50 and use the resources at home for making models, collages, playing outside or inside and dressing up.