Month: January 2025

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 25th January at Shelley Park, and this month we will also be joined by Places for People. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the Owen Close Play Park from 9:30, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be tidying up the estate and the surrounding parks area.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen because Places for People want to improve the area, and because there’s a lot to do, we have been asked to help. The area that we are litter picking is a mixture of a housing estate and open spaces, so there will be something for everyone. It could be cold, so free refreshments including tea and coffee will be available.

To help us and keep us safe at this and future litter picks, Wellingborough Eco Group have purchased some litter pickers, hi-vis vests and safety equipment including road signs, so everything is provided but please bring your own gloves if you can. Join in, bring your friends and family, ALL WELCOME!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Ladywell Allotments

Join our FREE course on Saturday 1st February and 1st March 10am-4pm, to find out how to set up an allotment. This time of year is perfect for clearing an allotment and transforming into a usable space to grow in; and that’s exactly what we are going to do.

We are taking an unused allotment and making it into micro plots, which involves planning how to do it (we will have free tea and coffee, and a warm cabin to do that in) and then making it happen. Jonathan Hornett, your RHS trained course leader, will have already cut everything back, so will have a blank canvas to work on.

The plot will be at Ladywell Allotments, Wellingborough, NN8 4AP, and the courses will be on Saturday 1st February and Saturday 1st March 10am-4pm. The courses are part of Wellingborough Climate Action Projects Sustainable Skills programme of courses. These are lead and facilitated by Glamis Hall and funded by North Northamptonshire Council with money from the UK Government.

All courses are free and tools are provided. We will also provide hot and cold drinks, you will have to bring your own lunch. On completion of this How to Allotments for Beginners course, learners will be able to:

• Describe essential allotment planning and layout techniques, including crop rotation and seasonal planting
• Describe key terminology in vegetable growing, such as sowing, transplanting, companion planting, and succession planting
• Demonstrate foundational skills in soil preparation, watering, pest control, and organic fertilisation to support healthy plant growth
• Produce a basic allotment plan

On Saturday 1st February we will be about planning and setting up an allotment, including establishing beds and looking at installing a shed, water-butts and a compost bin. On Saturday 1st March (ie when it starts getting a bit warmer) we will teach you about preparing the beds and then start sewing and growing.

Do join us, book now at – https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glamishall/allotments-for-beginners/e-xjzobx

Wellingborough Eco Group & Glamis Hall

The Wellingborough Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop are on at Glamis Hall this Saturday, 11th January, from 9 until 12.

Wellingborough Repair Café textile, electrical and all other repairs will be in the main hall at Glamis Hall. We still have spaces for textile repairs but electrical items are fully booked this month.

Please book in any broken items you want to bring along to the Repair Café at: wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe

*No Indoor Car Boot Sale*

There will not be a Glamis Hall Indoor Boot Sale, but we will have hot drinks available and there are lots of second hand items in our Swap Shop for you to grab a bargain at.

Bring your swaps in too, we have a large selection of new and nearly new items in the hall, plus loads of pre-loved items including clothes, books, toys, electrical items, DVDs, and our School Uniform Bank in ECO HUB, everything is available for a swap or a donation (any new items will be priced)

See you at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB this Saturday morning 9-12!

Did you know that volunteers from Wellingborough Eco Group Nature Rangers with North Northamptonshire Council, planted over a thousand trees in Wellingborough last year? Well, we are going to be planting another thousand trees this year too, do join us!

After successful planting sessions in December 2023 (as featured on our Advent Calendar, see also video below and the header image) and again last March, we are returning to Kilborn park, and to two other locations, to plant lots more trees! We will have tea and coffee available, plus hand washing facilities. Meet at our Tree Planting Stations from 10am.

We will be planting whips again with North Northamptonshire Council and everything will be fully funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. We plan to plant a mixture of native woodland species. We have selected the following three sites for possible planting: (Please also see maps below with planting areas highlighted in red):

• Kilborn Park : It would be great to continue with the planting we did last year in this park. There’s still plenty of space and we plan to plant another 500 whips here.
• Gainsborough Drive: Planting along the right-side edge of the greenspace alongside the existing trees. This would include around 300 trees.
• Brickhill Road: Planting along the line of existing trees to create a graded woodland edge habitat. This would include approximately 200 trees.

We are looking to plant the trees in the New Year on the third Saturday of each month, please join us at our planting trees events from 10am till 1pm on the following dates:

• Kilborn Park (500 trees) – Saturday 18^th January
• Gainsborough Drive (300 trees) – Saturday 15^th February
• Brickhill Road (200 trees) – Saturday 15^th March

Come and plant a tree – The trees will be a mixture of hawthorn, dogwood, wild cherry, silver birch, rowan and hazel, bring your spades and join in from 10am! All welcome, we would like everyone like to come and plant trees!