Calling all Litter Heroes, help us defeat the Litter Monster!
Be part of our Litter Monster Carnival Float. We are following the monster as Litter Super Heroes, plus we’ll have a rubbish tricycle with two massive sharks.
Simply dress up as your favourite super hero, wear a Wellingborough Eco Group or Wellie Wombles hi-vis vest, hold a pickers and hoops, or something noisy!
We are setting up on Broad Green from 10am on Saturday 5th July, to parade around the town starting at midday. Do join us!
This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 28th June in Croyland Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the car park on Kingsway, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the whole park, and the nearby streets.
This location has been chosen because the following weekend is Wellingborough Carnival & Party in the Park in Croyland Park. As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not since December (see header image) so there’s a lot to do to make the park tidy again. See map below for the location (Kingsway Car Park is on the right):
To help us and keep us safe at this and future litter picks, Wellingborough Eco Group have 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. Free cold drinks plus tea and Coffee will be available, hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!
Wellingborough Repair Café will be in the VIP Lounge 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: https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe
There is no Indoor Boot Sale this month, but we will have lots of second hand items at our special Saturday Swap Shop Big Electrical Clearance Sale and in ECO HUB for you to grab a bargain at:
We will have a large selection of electrical items with Wellingborough Repair Cafe in the VIP Lounge.
Plus we will have loads of pre-loved items including clothes, books, toys, DVDs and our School Uniform Bank round the corner in ECO HUB.
Everything is available for a swap or a donation (any new items will be priced) plus there’s hot food and a cafe available too.
See you at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB this Saturday morning 9-12!
Eco Club is Wellingborough Eco Group for Kids, where we craft and play games 4-6pm every fortnight at ECO HUB. Join if you are a parent, guardian, relative, carer or friend who wants to do eco-friendly activities with your children.
This week, we are playing games outside because it’s going to be a hot one. There will be all sorts of games, a ball pit and crafts inside to make Fathers Day cards. Drinks, including tea and coffee for the adults also available.
Everyone is welcome, free entry, refreshments included.
Fancy some fun on a Friday evening? Want to join in, have some fun, meet new people and have a cup of tea? You can at our Fun ‘Replay’ Friday sessions at ECO HUB!
Wellingborough Eco Group are hosting Replay Fun Friday evenings every week, with a different game every week! These are chosen by who comes, with card games, boards games and video games available.
Replaying old games for fun on Fridays, Replay Fun Fridays are just like our Happy Cafes, just with games! Make your Friday more fun, join our weekly games night. Join in for free at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this and every Friday 6-8pm.
It’s Joyful June, where we do good things for you and for the environment, and it’s even bigger for The Great Big Green Week. We are open this Thursday 10-2 ECO HUB Glamis Hall. Do join us at:
🟡 Happy Café is our friendly food reuse cafe has free hot food, tea and coffee all day. It’s also an Action for Happiness Northants Happy Cafe and this month we’re sharing some mindfulness tips and playing games.
🔵 Wellingborough Swap Shop where we will have a new toys section plus rails of clothes for you, 100’s of books, DVDs and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a donation to the group.
🟢 Food Sharers will have fresh veg, fruit, bread and salads from Co-op and community friends. We have a few bargains too, including snacks, cans of drink, tins of food and more!
🟣 SUB (our School Uniform Bank) works just like Wellingborough Swap Shop, but includes school uniform and essentials with Greatwell Homes.
🔴 Thursday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus pickers and hoops for sale.
There are always lots of great things, plus outside games and always a free cup of tea at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this and every Thursday, do pop in!
+ HOW TO FIX IT this Thursday!
Yes, we have our popular Wellingborough Repair Café this Saturday in Glamis Hall, but apart from clothes, it is all booked up again, so we are running How to Fix I.T. sessions too. These will take place 6-8pm on the second Thursday of the month at ECO HUB, which just happens to be this evening!
Pop into ECO HUB with your broken I.T. this Thursday for The Great Big Green Week, and we will try to Fix IT if we can!
If you have a broken computer, jammed printer, cantankerous console, trouble with your tablet or just a slow phone, bring it it and we will hopefully be able to help, and perhaps show you how to fix it! These sessions are just for information technology (I.T.) whatever the issue let’s see what we can do…
Join us this Wednesday for a Great Big Working Party at our at our Community Allotment for The Great Big Green Week. Meet at the gates of Ladywell Allotments at the end of Hillside Road at 9:30am or call Jonathan on 07311 705705 to get in before 2:00pm
Our Community Allotment is there to give people the chance to share skills and to grow plants. The site was cleared in 2020 and is now a user-friendly space to grow fruit, vegetables and other plants to benefit the community.
Anyone can volunteer at the Community Allotment, you don’t have to know anything about gardening and tools will be provided. Join our community for more preparation and planting including weeding and tidying, come and grow with us this Wednesday!
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
Noughts and Crosses Polish community group provide a local network group for Polish families, offering wellbeing sessions, organising events to raise awareness and understanding of culture and heritage, providing tuition in polish language, arts, crafts and music sessions and environmentally friendly projects. Join them this Wednesday at ECO HUB 6-8pm.
It’s Joyful June, where we do good things for you and for the environment, and it’s even bigger for The Great Big Green Week. We are open this Tuesday 10-6 ECO HUB Glamis Hall. Do join us at:
🟡 Happy Café is our friendly food reuse cafe has free hot food, tea and coffee all day (first two hours is quiet and relaxed). It’s also an Action for Happiness Northants Happy Cafe and this month we’re sharing some mindfulness tips and playing games.
🔵 Wellingborough Swap Shop where we will have a new toys section plus rails of clothes for you, 100’s of books, DVDs and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a donation to the group.
🟢 Food Sharers will have fresh veg, fruit, bread and salads from Co-op, Redeem Foods and community friends. We have a few bargains too, including tins of food and more!
🟣 SUB (our School Uniform Bank) works just like Wellingborough Swap Shop, but includes school uniform and essentials with Greatwell Homes.
🔴 Tuesday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus pickers and hoops for sale.
There are always lots of great things, plus outside games if weather allows and always a free cup of tea at #ECOHUB, Glamis Hall this and every Tuesday, do pop in!
Wellingborough Eco Group Nature Rangers, Wellie Wombles & Eco-Crafters
Wellingborough Eco Group is running a whole week of activities to inspire you again for the Great Big Green Week, and for the third day, this Monday there’s lots to join in with:
FREE RANGE
Our Fortnightly Monday sessions resume with a treat at our Community Allotment, as we will be sewing seeds and planting seedlings, meeting at 10am to help on our plot at Ladywell Allotments, out 10:30 till 1:30 to stop for lunch and discussions until 2pm.
These sessions are lead by Grow Wild Outreach and Wellingborough Eco Group, and they are open to everyone. Grow Wild Outreach will also offer the Monday sessions to those who need assistance and will provide a fully supervised service at a cost.
Don’t be nature strangers, be Nature Rangers!
Join us this Monday for a Free Range, 10am at our Community Allotment at Ladywell Allotments to continue to sew seeds and plant seedlings on our plot 10:30 till 1:30, let’s see what we can do!
Wellingborough Library will have a display about what Wellie Wombles for The Great Big Green Week, including a C.L.E.A.N. Presentation. The presentation has now been shown to hundreds of local school children, and by having it in the Library from this Monday until Saturday will hopefully educate and inspire more people to be more self conscious about littering.
Do join us for our busiest week of the year, whether you want something fixed, swapped, saved or just choose to be a bit more eco-friendly, come and see that it can be great to go green. Join in with The Great Big Green Week with Wellingborough Eco Group!
Join us for a community-wide event this Sunday as residents across town open their garages for a morning of local treasure hunting and neighbourly exchange. The Town Garage Sale will run from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, providing an excellent opportunity to explore a wide array of pre-loved items and unique finds.
At ECO HUB, as part of our week long activities for The Great Big Green Week, we are joining in and having a massive clear out, garage sale style! Come for lots of bargains including clothes from 50p, toys from 10p, books and DVDs from 50p, household items and much more…
A detailed map of all participating addresses is available below, or you may collect a printed copy from Glamis Hall in advance of the event. Whether you’re seeking household goods, vintage pieces, or simply wish to enjoy the community atmosphere, this is an event not to be missed.
Plan your route, connect with your neighbours, grab a bargain with us at ECO HUB and discover something new this Sunday.
Plan your route, connect with your neighbours, grab a bargain with us at ECO HUB and discover something new this Sunday.