Join Northants Veggies and Vegans for a Vegan Picnic on Sunday 1st June, lunchtime 12-2. Bring your favourite dishes and share with other veggies and vegans! The picnic will be on the main field at Irchester Country Park, look out for a couple of blue gazebos and a few chairs.
Join in, meet new veggie/vegan friends, enjoy great meat free food, see you in the park!
This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 31st May on Mill Road and in the surrounding area. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 at the green space opposite Gordon Road, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the whole road, the communal gardens and the nearby streets.
This location has been chosen by one of our Wellie Wombles. As a group we have tidied up this area as part of other local litter picks, but because we have never focused on this road there’s a lot to do. See map below for the location:
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. Free cold drinks plus tea and Coffee will be available, hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!
Join us on Saturday, 26th April, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up, as we return in April again to litter pick The Embankment Park and up to Chester House, where we will also be joined by Nene Rivers Trust, who will be starting from Chester House and working their way to The Embankment.
Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up this Saturday.
We have litter picked this park before a number of time, including for our very first litter pick in 2020 and last April (see header image) but it needs doing again, and many of the areas around are heavily littered. We have litter pickers and hoops to borrow, lots of bags, and tea, coffee and snacks, all we need is you. Please bring your own gloves.
Our Recycling Station which will be set up at 9:30 for litter picking 10am-12pm, on the car park just off The Embankment road. Do join us to make Wellingborough cleaner, safer and greener. Everyone is welcome, see you on Saturday Morning!
We are hosting special EARTH DAY Tuesday Tidy Ups on April 22. Do join us in with local companies who have been invited to a clear up of either their local area, or with us at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall, to litter pick on the Queensway, focusing on the Shelley Road area and its paths. Litter pickers, hoops and bags are available.
Our group picks will start from 10am and continue till noon. We hope that you will then join us for a social gathering to meet like minded individuals, meet new friends and exchange ideas at ECO HUB and the rear of Glamis Hall where a covered area will be erected where refreshments will be available. Litter pickers and hoops will also be available for individuals 10am to 6pm, so anyone can join in.
We are also hosting a special EARTH DAY Wellingborough Swap Shop with bargain buckets to save great pre-loved items, plus Food Sharers and Happy Cafe will also be open all day too (10am-6pm). Come for bargains or to litter pick for EARTH DAY this Tuesday, and stay for refreshments and much more; see you at ECO HUB this Tuesday!
ECO CLUB FOR KIDS & KÓŁKO I KRZYŻYK
The kids are off, so what do you do? Why not come meet the Easter Bunny with Wellingborough Eco Group this Good Friday, 18th April, and have some eggciting Easter fun with us.
We have a cracking day planned with stalls full of games, drinks and snacks, Easter Bonnet making for £2, and our annual Easter Egg Hunt for just £2! We will have lot’s of things like crafts and drinks in ECO HUB and outside we will have a few gazebos up with games and food.
The Easter Bunny will be leading the Easter Egg Hunt outside too around Glamis Hall, so everyone will be safe and be fun for all! And perhaps best of all, you’re invited! Come and join in the fun with our Eco Club for Kids and Noughts and Crosses groups, see you and the Easter Bunny this Friday 11am-1pm!
Join us on Saturday, 22nd February, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up to litter pick Ladywell Park and the surrounding streets.
We litter picked this park last February it and we have been asked by the residents association to return because the park needs it, plus many of the streets around are also heavily littered.
Join us and Wellie Wombles for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up this Saturday.
Bring the kids, whole families welcome. We have litter pickers and hoops to borrow, lots of bags, and tea, coffee and snacks, all we need is you. Please bring your own gloves.
Our Recycling Station which will be set up at 9:30 for litter picking 10am-12pm, on the Park just off Neptune Road. Do join us to make Wellingborough cleaner, safer and greener.
See you on Saturday morning!
Join our FREE course on Tuesday 4th and 11th March, both sessions 7pm-8:30pm, for an introduction to growing sustainable and healthy food.
Retired teacher and keen allotmenteer, John Gilyead, will be leading this course, ably assisted by Jonathan Hornett (who led our Allotments for Beginners course) for the second session.
The course is part of Wellingborough Climate Action Project’s 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 etc. are provided. On completion of this How to Grow Sustainable and Healthy Food course, learners will be able to:
The course will be at The Friends Meeting House (Quaker Society of Friends) St John’s Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4LG, where there is parking and facilities, including free tea and coffee.
Book now for free at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/glamishall/introduction-to-growing-sustainable-and-healthy-food/e-lqkezk
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!
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:
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
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!
