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Get ready for a spooktacular afternoon of fun and laughter at our Eco Club for Kids Children’s Halloween Party!

👻 Come along in your favourite costume and enjoy games where you can win a trick or a treat, plus crafts and activities — all completely free!

🎃 Plus there will be children’s lunch bags for just £3, and adult refreshments available to purchase.

📅 Friday 31st October
🕛 12 noon – 3pm
📍 Swanspool Pavilion, Swanspool Parade, NN8 2BZ

Join in the fun, bring your friends, bring your imagination, and let’s make this Halloween one to remember!

And when it gets dark, the fun continues…

Halloween Display and Games

As it gets dark, our friends, Terri and her family, are opening up their garden for a fright night of spooky fun!

They and their ghouls and witches, will be raising funds for ECO HUB, so we can continue to offer our services, and bring you our Warm, Safe Space starting in November…

📅 Friday 31st October
🕛 3pm – 9pm
📍 143 Kiln Way, Queensway, NN8 3TL

Give a donation to see the display if you dare, and have a go on their tombola and guess how many sweets are in the jar for a bit of fun!

Walk of the Witches

Wellingborough Town Council invite you to gather your bravest friends, to step into the shadows to experience the spine-chilling Walk of the Witches in the hauntingly beautiful Swanspool Gardens.

📅 Date: Friday 31st October
🕛 6pm – 9pm
📍 Swanspool Pavilion and Gardens, Swanspool Parade, NN8 2BZ
Tickets: Available now from Wellingborough Town Council, book here.

Expect eerie encounters, mysterious stories, and a Halloween night you won’t forget! Join in if you dare.

We are hosting an Open Day in Swanspool Pavilion to show you all of the projects that we run, these include some games and displays from:

• Community Allotment
• Nature Rangers
• Eco-Crafters
• Wellingborough Swap Shop
• Wellingborough Repair Café
• Food Sharers
• Happy Cafe
• Wellie Wombles
• School Uniform Bank (SUB)

We are also hosting a Craft Fair at the same time, with stalls from local artists, plus there will be teas, coffees and cakes, and ECO HUB will be open for Swap Shop and Food Sharers too!

Book your stall today!

If you would like a stall, or even a stand to show what your community organisation does, please email info@wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk or call/message 07311 705705. Craft stalls £7, community stalls free!

See you on Saturday 4th October 10-2 at Swanspool Pavilion and ECO HUB for a lively Open Day and a lovely Craft Fair, see you there!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 27th September on Park Farm Industrial Estate. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the field off of Glamis Hall’s car park, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the whole estate, and Queensway Park leading up to the estate.

This location has been chosen because we have had a lot of people tell us it needs litter picking! As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not as a group pick so far this year, so there’s a lot to do to make the estate tidy again. See map below for the location:

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 for all litter pickers, plus hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!

Wellingborough Repair Cafe is moving! This is because we need more space for more fixers, so we can repair more items!

Many thanks to all at Glamis Hall for hosting us up to now and helping to make the Repair Café a success. We felt that we now need a bit more space, so we will be at the Victoria Centre starting from Saturday the 13th September.

Judy Sumner – Project Leader

Plus now there is no need to book, just turn up with your broken item. There may only be time for 1 item per person if we are busy. And we are part of ‘Celebrate Wellingborough‘, a new weekend long event from Wellingborough Town Council to promote local activities.

Wellingborough Repair Café is repairing broken items together, getting advice, encounters and inspiration. Repair Cafés are community events that match people who need stuff fixed with people who like fixing things.

Repair Cafés are completely non-commercial. There are no promises and no guarantees, but if something can be saved the repairers will give it their best efforts. Repairers are always keen to teach you how to do the repair – or at least have you watch while they do it.

Costs?

You just pay for any parts needed, plus a voluntary donation if you can. There is no charge for entry or repair but donations are gratefully received and help pay for costs.

What?

You can basically bring anything* you can carry that will not make a mess in the venue. Here are some suggestions:

A bicycle, clothing in need of repair, small electrical or electronic appliances, lamps, toys, mobile phones, laptops, printers, items that need gluing, a clean/repair etc.

Whatever it is*, it might not even be broken – just dirty, and you don’t know how to clean it without damaging it – or you can’t work out how to use it without the manual – bring it along. *Bring anything apart from microwaves and CRT devices such as old style televisions.

You can even bring more than one thing – though to be fair, we have limited each booking to one item, so you may have to join the queue a few times!

New location!

Victoria Centre
46-50 Palk Road
Wellingborough NN8 1HR

When?

On the Second Saturday of each month, 9am – 12 noon (except August)

NEW – No need to book!

Previously we have asked anyone bringing an item to be fixed at the Repair Café to register it beforehand. From Saturday the 13th September 2025 we will be trying a different system. Rather than registering, you can just turn up!

There may be a bit of a wait, but there will be hot drinks available and you can have a look round if you want to and we will give you a number so you don’t have to queue. We will try it out for a few months and see which system works best.

Please bear in mind that not everything can be fixed, but we will do our best. See you on Saturday 13th September 9am-12 midday, we look forward to seeing you and what you bring in…

*Click here to read the House Rules before bringing your item.

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 30th August in Hemmingwell Park Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the field off of Guillemot Lane, 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 we have had a lot of people tell us it needs litter picking! As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not as a group pick so far this year, so there’s a lot to do to make the park tidy again. See map below for the location:

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 for all litter pickers, plus hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!

We cleared our ECO HUB over the weekend, finishing at 1:30 this morning. There was so much stuff it took longer than expected. It looks really sad, but it needed to be completely cleared for building works

Thank you to everyone who helped us do this. Thank you Anne, Eileen, Emma, Lily and Clover, Kyle and Sheila, Jonathan, Michael and team, and Sam. Thank you all for your support.

Massive thank you to Glamis Hall for all of your support and for putting up with us. We have had a very happy and busy three years as ECO HUB, plus as Tuesday Tidy Ups and more before. Thank you to the Trustees, management and staff.

Wellingborough Swap Shop, SUB, Happy Cafe and Food Sharers will continue to be on tomorrow, and every Tuesday and Thursday in August at Swanspool Pavilion! Plus we will have Replay Fun Fridays too. Thank you Wellingborough Town Council for accommodating us at short notice.

Thank you to everyone who uses our services and supports us. We are sad we have closed at Glamis Hall, but so happy to be able to bring our services to Swanspool, which promises to be a very busy month in the Pavillion and gardens!

ECO HUB is now based at Swanspool Pavillion, Swanspool Parade, Wellingborough NN8 2BZ. We are there during August temporarily whilst Glamis Hall has building works. Thank you to Wellingborough Town Council for hosting us!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 26th July in Queensway Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the field behind Glamis Hall and ECO HUB, 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 Glamis Hall’ Family Festival, also join us on from 10am – 3pm where we will have three stalls for lots of FAMILY FUN! As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not as a group pick since last July, so there’s a lot to do to make the park tidy again. We will also be litter picking throughout the festival. See map below for the location:

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 for all litter pickers, plus hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to National Lottery players, we can now fund a part time Coordinator. The National Lottery Community Fund awards money raised by players to communities across the UK, working with local groups and UK-wide charities, enabling people and communities to thrive. Thank you for funding us!

Wellingborough Eco Group Community Interest Company has identified the need for a Coordinator to organise and carry out the administration of our many and varied activities and events. The Coordinator role is currently carried out by Jonathan on a voluntary basis but owing to the number of activities we are involved in, it has become too time consuming to expect it to be done on a voluntary basis. We will therefore appoint him as an Activities Coordinator for 20 hours per week plus expenses, on a self-employed basis.

The Coordinator will facilitate the smooth running of all our activities; enable us to deliver more sessions; improve the experience of our volunteers and support more volunteering opportunities. They will increase local engagement with our services and activities; organise fund raising and apply for and monitor grants to support and improve our activities; develop partnerships with other organisations to further our aims of protecting the environment, connecting local people with nature and helping people reduce their carbon footprint.

Since the group started in 2019, we have attended events and added sessions which are now well established and well attended. We will continue to advertise them through social media, our website, occasional leaflet distribution and attendance at local events. We expect that this role will continue after the year of funding and we will be fundraising ourselves, as well as applying for other grants, to enable the work to continue into the foreseeable future and possibly become a full-time role.

Thank you, Judy, our secretary, for successfully applying for this Awards for All grant from the National Lottery Community Fund. Judy, who also runs our Repair Café, has made this happen! Thank you also to our committee and all our amazing volunteers for everything you do to enable Wellingborough Eco Group to help improve our borough’s environment, to reduce, reuse and recycle items that would otherwise end up in landfill, and to help local people reduce their carbon footprints. And thank you everyone who takes part in our activities!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Glamis Hall

Wellingborough Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop are at Glamis Hall this Saturday (12th July) 9am-12pm for a huge Repair and Reuse event.

Wellingborough Repair Café will be in Glamis Hall. We still have spaces for textile repairs, but electrical items are fully booked this month.

Find out more at: https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe

Clearance Swap Shop will also be in the main hall with lots of sale tables for you to grab a bargain at:

– We will have a large selection of nearly new clothes from 50p each in the hall.
– There’s loads of pre-loved items including books, toys, electrical items, DVDs and household items.
– There’s a great tombola to try your luck at, with prizes every time.
– Plus there’s more including our School Uniform Bank round the corner in ECO HUB.

Everything is available for a swap or for a donation (all items will be priced) plus there’s tea and coffee available too. Come and get a fix and a bargain; see you at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB this Saturday morning 9-12!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

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!