The Grand Re-Launch

In 1986, Carol Morton, wife of Colin Morton, the then minister of Prestongrange Parish Church, set up The Small World in a room in the former Council wages office in Prestonpans.

These days, Carol is kept busy at Palcrafts/Hadeel (an Edinburgh-based organisation selling crafts from community-based groups in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon).  We were delighted she was able to return to the shop yesterday to celebrate it's grand re-launch at a select gathering which included Iain Gray MSP, former volunteers and representatives of local organisations.  



The shop received its first makeover in over 20 years thanks to donations from Prestonpans Community Council, B&Q and an anonymous donor.   


Whether you are a regular customer, infrequent visitor or have never been before, we warmly welcome you to join us for some fair trade refreshments (and facepainting!) at our Open Day this Saturday, 11th September from 10 until 3.

Proud Distributors of the Kitchen Canny!

Canny [‘kani] adj 1 careful, prudent, astute la16-. 2 skilful, dextrous 19-. 3 frugal, sparing 19-: ‘be canny wi the butter’

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Kitchen Canny is a brand new Changeworks project that aims to help householders find practical ways to reduce their food waste.

Changeworks is working with four thousand people in communities across the Lothian and Borders area to find out what works when it comes to cutting down the amount of edible food we throw away.


Every kitchen is different.  They want to help you figure out what works best for you and the way you run your kitchen. You may already know a lot of the things you could be doing but may not have found the time to try them out.  The Kitchen Canny Householder Action Kit aims to encourage you to find the time and guide you through some ideas that might fit.

Here's why we think it's important:
It's better for your pocket
According to recent research, Scottish households wastw £1 billion of food each year  -that's £430 per household. The cost of collecting all that food waste is £85 million a year (The Food We Waste in Scotland, WRAP 2009
It's better for the environment
Producing, transporting and storing food uses huge amounts of energy, water and packaging. When you waste food, you waste all of these resources too
That's not all. The majority of food waste ends up in landfill sites where it decomposes and releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas
It's better for people
1 billion people of going hungry according to the World Food Programme, with 1 in 5 not getting enough food to be healthy.

You can pick up your FREE Kitchen Canny Kit at The Small World Shop from Tuesday 7th September while stocks last.

We want to get to know you better!

We are really keen to have your views on the type of products you would like us to stock and whether we could be doing more to help you.

For example, would a delivery service be of interest to you?  Are our opening hours convenient for you?

Please let us know by completing our customer survey.

We know form-filling is no-one's favourite pastime so we have designed the questionnaire to be as painless as possible and, as an extra incentive, completed questionnaires will be added to a prize draw to win a £10 Small World gift voucher.

You can either pick up a questionnaire in the shop or download a pdf version here.  Entries can be handed in or posted to us (by 30th September please).