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The Great Big Green Wellingborough Circular Walk and Cycle was great!

Wellingborough Eco Group

Thank you to the 16 people that joined us today for The Great Big Green Wellingborough Walk and Cycle. It was a great event and we will do it again, the walk and the cycle was lovely and then top top it off we had a massive BBQ and buffet!

Whilst ten happy cyclists took off on The Great Big Green Wellingborough Circular Walk and Cycle six mile Red Route, we join Jonathan, Jane, Aleksandra and Stefania walking on three mile Green Route. Here they take you round on today’s three mile Green Route is off road cycle paths all the way.

Watch us walk the Green Route –

From ECO HUB we follow cycle paths through Queensway Park and then take paths through green space next to Hardwick Road. We take Old Hardwick Road up to the Community Garden (which we have a little look around) then through the parkland on Park Farm, into Queensway Park and then back to ECO HUB.

The cyclists took on and very nearly completed the six mile Red Route. Obviously the children need to stop at every playground on the way and were completely worn out, but had certainly worked up an appetite so our BBQ and buffet went down well!

Watch Jonathan and Looby do the Red Route –

The six mile Red Route took them through many of our local parks. From ECO HUB go through the houses to Shelley Road and into Stanwell Park. Across Northampton Road to go past the lake into Croyland Park. Then through houses and Spring Gardens, across Oxford Street, through Bassetts Close Park to Brickhill Road and then through a green space following the cycle path onto Hardwick Road. Then through Glamis Meadow and Wood into Kilborn Park. Up Blaydon Walk onto Waterworks Lane to join Hardwick Road again. Then through the parkland on Park Farm, into Queensway Park and then back to ECO HUB.

Massive thank you to Emma Davies for preparing a cracking buffet, to Judy and Jonathan for being our guides, and most of all to Justyna and Dominic, Celina, Sebastian, Stefania and Aleksandra, Sabina and Inacy, Tim and Rachel, Jane, Beata and Nela for joining our Circular Walk and Cycle for The Great Big Green Week and Better Transport Week.

Here are some photos from today’s event, why not watch the videos too? You can do the routes too every Tuesday and Thursday from ECO HUB, join us at our Happy Cafes 12-2, where we have free refreshments. Find the map and more details at wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/circular

The Great Big Green Week this Tuesday!

Wellingborough Eco Group, Wellie Wombles & Co-op

We’re having a huge ‘village fete’ of a celebration for The Great Big Green Week at ECO HUB Glamis Hall this Tuesday afternoon. Join us for our weekly activities inside and lots of stalls outside:

Happy Cafe 12-6 (free food and hot drinks)
Tuesday Tidy Ups 12-6 (litter picking)
Wellingborough Swap Shop 2-6 (swap or donate)
Food Sharers 2-6 (free food from supermarkets)
Eco & Recycling Games 2-6 (just 50p a go!)
Co-op Sustainability LIVE 2-4 (find out more!)
Northants Veggies & Vegans BBQ 1-4 (just £2!)
Energy Savers advice from Val at Utility Warehouse 1-4

This is our largest event ever, you could not pick a better time to come and visit us! With so much on, and most of it for free, we would love to welcome you to ECO HUB, home of Wellingborough Eco Group, this Tuesday afternoon. See you there!

The Great Big Green Week

The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. It takes place between 10th and 18th June. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change.

We have loads on for you during The Great Big Green Week, and it kicks off at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB on Saturday 10th June with an Indoor Car Boot Sale that includes a huge Swap Shop and in the ECO HUB we have our Repair Cafe.

Wellingborough Repair Café

As it’s also Cycling UK Bike Week (Monday 5th to Sunday 11th June) and Better Transport Week next week, and the sun is out, we’re fixing bicycles! If you need help fixing up an underused bike, book it in and come along. Our team of fixers will be looking to get you back on two wheels in no time.

We’ve just got a few time slots left for electrical repairs this Saturday afternoon; but have plenty of capacity for any other items that need fixing! Bring your bikes, clothes and furniture items. Please book your items in at:

Repair Café

Wellingborough Swap Shop

Join us at Glamis Hall’s Indoor Car Boot Sale for our clothes and entertainment Swap Shop. It’s going to be a boutique on a budget, plus there’s hundreds of books and DVDs! Everything is available for swaps or a small donation, and if that wasn’t enough then there are lots of other great stalls, selling a range of reused items and food. Our ECO HUB will be open for even more Wellingborough Swap Shop stuff including household items and toys! Come and see us and all at Glamis Hall to grab a bargain or three!

Join in with The Great Big Green Week

Wellingborough Eco Group is joining in with lots of events with various partners, including all of our weekly activities, Co-op Sustainability LIVE on Tuesday 2-4pm and The Great Big Green Wellingborough Circular Walk and Cycle from ECO HUB on Sunday 18th 10am-2pm. Keep an eye on our social media or look at our calendar at for more details:

Litter Picking Hemmingwell Park this Saturday!

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on this Saturday (27th May) at Hemmingwell Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the grass outside the shops and Hemmingwell Community & Skills Centre on Nest Farm Crescent from 9:30, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be tidying up the park and the surrounding area for the Bank Holiday Weekend!

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen by Jonathan because we have not been to this park for ages. As a group we have tidied up this area before, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. It could be hot, so free refreshments 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!

Litter Picking The Friendship Walk

THIS SATURDAY – CASTLEFIELDS, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles join forces again for a Two Hour Tidy Up of Waendal’s Friendship Walk.

On the last Saturday of every month, Wellingborough Eco Group normally carries out a two hour tidy up with Wellie Wombles and numerous volunteers. This time we are litter picking the Friendship Walk, the event that launched the Waendal Walk. This 5km walk is wheelchair and buggy accessible as it’s all on footpaths.

Do join us this Saturday (29th April) 10-2 to tidy up for the Waendal Walk!

We will set up a recycling station on Castlefields Park at the Irthlingborough Road entrance from 9:30 to litter pick between 10am-12 midday. We have litter pickers and hoops for you to borrow, and free bags so almost everything is provided. Please bring your own gloves. North Northants Council will take away the litter we pick.

Plenty of litter picked last time we were at Castlefields in November.

We will have free refreshments during and afterwards, do join in with friends old and new, bring your family. Everyone is welcome, see you on Saturday morning!

Love Your Tree Day

Show your love for your favourite tree on #LoveYourTreeDay!

Trees have so many benefits, they provide us with oxygen to breathe, home for wildlife, and much more. Following recent events on The Walks in Wellingborough, and the success of the Save Our Trees campaign, we think that our trees deserve to be celebrated. We would like everyone to chose their favourite tree and decorate it for May, and this starts with Love Your Tree Day on the 1st!

Trees form an essential part of our environment and, over the years, their importance has been taught to children growing up. Even in recent times, individuals have become so environmentally conscious that a sustainable lifestyle to protect our trees has become the norm. Most people now want to protect and preserve our trees, which make the world a better and safer place to live in.

Love Your Tree Day is all about showing that you love trees. You can do this in a number of ways. By simply tying a yellow ribbon around your favourite tree you can show that someone cares for that tree. Decorations could be more than that, but we would like to show everyone in our town that our trees are loved without creating mess. You can also draw them, photograph them and even plant them, and then share them!

Join SAVE OUR TREES campaigners and Eco Group members at The Embankment and The Walks at 11am in the car park to dress the trees and/or dress your favourite tree near you!

Yellow ribbons are to be taken down and recycled after the Waendal Walk weekend, sustainable cotton yellow ribbons will be also available from our ECO HUB. It would be amazing if these decorations could last for a couple of weeks, so that those celebrating the Coronation and those taking part in the Waendal Walk could see them and join in.

ECO HUB has started a tree of hands today, and we want your hand in it. Draw round your hand, colour it in, add it to the tree. Join in at our Happy Cafés, Eco Club for Kids and Polish Community Group sessions. Here is the ECO HUB Hand Tree so far:

The 1st May represents a celebration of life for everyone, and has done for hundreds of years, that’s why we want everyone to celebrate trees which breathe life into our town! So decorate your tree, take a picture and share on your favourite social media platform with the hashtag #LoveYourTreeDay and with us! We look forward to seeing your favourite trees!

Seed and Plant Swap Shop

WELLINGBOROUGH ECO GROUP ECO HUB

Come to ECO HUB this Saturday 9-12 for our Seed and Plant Swap Shop! We have loads of seeds all for swaps, bring yours and exchange them for seeds that you want to grow this year. Plants will also be available for swaps too, all we need is you!

Join at Wellingborough Swap Shop where we will also have rails of clothes for you plus lots of books, DVDs, toys (lots of teddies) and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a small donation to the group.

Join in this Saturday 22nd April 9am-12 midday at our Seed and Plant Swap Shop at ECO HUB Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Road Wellingborough NN8 3RU, the kettles on too, see you there!

Community Allotment Working Party Wednesday 10-2.

Here are photos of our plot 3 years ago. Unfortunately we have a lot of work to do to get it back to this, but with some good weather and many hands this is where we want to be in May.

So this Wednesday we’re going to be working on three fronts:-

1, to carry on with the excellent work Tim, John and Tricia have been doing adjacent to the gazebo.
2, turf turning the herb garden by the wooden greenhouse and plots either side.
3, covering the tree nursery with cardboard boxes and then wood chips.

Maybe this could be done just in time for putting in some of the seeds that I sowed at the weekend. Plenty more to go in directly, plus maybe some more at Saturday’s Seed Swap at ECO HUB 9-12 then at our gazebo 1-5.

Lots to do, but always time for tea, join us at 10 at the gates at the end of Hillside Road or anytime by calling 07311 705705 to get in.

What’s on this week…

There loads to get involved with over the next few days with Wellingborough Eco Group. It all starts today with our Happy Café, where you can have a free tea or coffee at ECO HUB, and then Tuesday continues with our Food Sharers, Swap Shop and Tuesday Tidy Ups.

Wednesday is out at the allotment, then back inside with The Polish Community Group. Thursday has another Happy Café and Polish Community Group, then Friday has our kids club and then something new in the evening, there’s lots to do, but always time for tea…

Tuesday11 Apr 2023

12:00pm – 2:00pm – Happy Café
2:00pm – 6:00pm – Food Sharers
2:00pm – 6:00pm – Wellingborough Swap Shop
2:00pm – 6:00pm – Tuesday Tidy Ups

Wednesday12 Apr 2023

10:00am – 2:00pm – Community Allotment Working Party*
6:00pm – 8:00pm – Polish Community Group

Thursday13 Apr 2023

12:00pm – 2:00pm – Happy Café
6:00pm – 8:00pm – Polish Community Group

Friday14 Apr 2023

10:00am – 2:00pm – Eco Club for Kids!
6:00pm – 8:00pm – NEW ‘Replay’ Fun Fridays

All above at ECO HUB Glamis Hall except * Community Allotment Working Party which is at Ladywell Allotments. Further details available at https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk and on project Facebook groups (click links).

Join in, get involved, go ECO HUB!

Swap Shop at Animals In Need Spring Fayre

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellingborough Walks Action Group

Come to the Animals In Need Spring Fayre 12-4 on Easter Sunday, the sun is set to shine & they have some amazing stalls, and us!

We will be bringing Wellingborough Swap Shop with lots of clothes, toys and books. We will also have a SAVE OUR TREES – Wellingborough Walks Action Group fundraising and information stall with wristbands, posters and more available to show that you support the campaign.

Animals In Need are asking for any donations of plants, vegan cakes & bottles, any of which would be much appreciated.

On the day of the event there will be strictly no parking on site, blue badge holders only! Everyone else please park at the Embankment or Country park. Do join us, 12-4, see you there!