Join us at 6:30pm on Saturday 11th April for a Quiz Night at Swanspool Pavilion for our next fundraising event, it is fun for the whole family; and it’s just £10 per adult or £5 per child (under 16) to play and it includes food!
The food will be jacket potatoes, available with a choice of chili, beans, cheese and/or homemade coleslaw, plus a help yourself buffet on the night. Tea, coffee, soft drinks, and cakes will be on sale. We will also have a raffle!
We are raising funds for our ECO HUB to relocate in Wellingborough. Buy your Quiz Night tickets now by clicking on the link above, please add one ticket per player to reserve your place(s) quiz will be in teams of six max!
Come and see us and our friends at Animals In Need Northamptonshire for their Spring Fayre, 11-4 on Easter Sunday. The sun is set to shine & they have some amazing stalls; animals and us!
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We will be bringing Wellingborough Swap Shop with lots of clothes, toys, and books. There will also be loads of other stalls, some of the animals will be out, and #vegan food available, too!
Please remember there is NO PARKING on site 🚗 The best place to park is Irchester Country Park with a short walk down!
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It’s £2 entry on the gate per person come and see us for our pop-up Swap Shop and the animals. Join us 11-4 this Sunday, see you there!
We are hosting Wellingborough Swap Shop‘s biggest ever Sale on Saturday 4th April 10-4 at ECO HUB and in Swanspool Pavilion and Gardens, and it’s a jumble! Yes we are bringing the humble Jumble Sale back with a bang, grab some bargains, fill your bags!
We have tables full of hundreds of clothes where you can fill your bags for just £1, plus there will be electrical items, DVDs, books, and toys in Swanspool Pavillion and ECO HUB will be open for even more bargains and Food Sharers for free food saved from supermarkets too!
Plus because it’s Easter, we will also be hosting our annual Easter Egg Hunt there! Join Our Eco Club for Kids and Noughts and Crosses groups, between 12 and 2pm, to search for Easter Eggs in Swanspool Gardens, just £2 for fun and chocolate eggs!
There will be a Happy Cafe too, with homemade cakes, snacks and hot drinks. Come for bargains, fill your bags, stay for refreshments, join us for a huge Jumble Sale on Saturday 7th February, 10-4 at Swanspool Pavilion and ECO HUB. See the map below for the location…
Massive thank you to the 54 litter picking heroes who took part in our Two Hour Tidy Up of Wellingborough Town Centre for The Keep Britain Tidy Great British Spring Clean today. A record turn out and huge amount of litter tidied up!
We litter picked 70 bags full of litter, plus cleared two shopping trollies, various bits of wood, a clothes dryer, a chair and a TV. Thank you all for making our Town Centre tidier.
Wellingborough Town Council once again joined Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles for our biggest litter pick of the year! This month we returned to Wellingborough Town Centre, where we have held this special litter pick for the last three years.
We set up our recycling station on Market Street at 9:30 to litter pick between 10am-12 midday. We provided the litter picking equipment, including disposable gloves, and North Northamptonshire Council took away the litter we picked. Great to see lots of young people and local councillors litter picking together, including the Carnival Court who were treated to lunch by the mayor!
Thank you to Molly, Louise, Aysia, Talisha, Jessica, Layla and Angelina, Freddie and Georgina, Jonathan, Eileen and Joy, Tom, Joan, Roisin and Alexis, Edeltraud, Chrissie, Viv, John, Chris, Annabel, David, Kelly, Josh and Freya, Chris, Michaela and Paul, Jason, Mary and Aoife, Sue and Albie, Brenda, Bernice, Gen Kitchen MP and Mat, David, Graham, Mayor Raj, Tricia and John, Sam, Allan, Gill and Bob, Sarah, Raz, Adam and Maria, Paul, Archie and Sarma. Well done everyone
Thank also you to Castello Lounge and their wonderful staff for once again providing free teas and coffees for our litter pickers, during and afterwards, and thank you to the Estates Team at North Northamptonshire Council for collecting what we picked. Another great Great British Spring Clean, thank you everyone for your support!
For our final tree planting session of the year, we are planting lots more trees, this time behind Swanspool Pavilion! We will have tea and coffee available, plus hand washing facilities. Meet at Swanspool Pavilion this Saturday from 10am.
We will be planting whips again with North Northamptonshire Council and everything will be fully funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Come and plant a tree!
This time we will be planting around 300 trees. They will be a mixture of native hedge species. We are planting between the wall and car park/old greenhouse site.
We will have 20 tree planting spades but if any volunteers could bring their own spades again that would be helpful in case we run out. Come and plant a tree, all welcome, bring your spades if you can and join in from 10am this Saturday 21st March.
Join us on Saturday, 28th February, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up to litter pick Ladywell Park and the surrounding streets.
We litter picked this park last February and February before, 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.
Come to our Winter Warmer for food and a warm welcome, stay for chair yoga!
This weeks Winter Warmer will take place at ECO HUB and Swanspool Pavilion on Sunday 8th February 12-3pm. We will be serving free hot food, plus there’s a chair yoga session for you to join in with from 1pm, or just come for free tea and coffee, everyone is welcome!
The Chair Yoga will be led by Dr Sonal Shar, a qualified Homeopath, who also works as holistic therapist and will bring details of workshops she runs for mental health, arthritis and joint pains, skin conditions and many more ailments where homeopathy (alternative medicine) helps and provides a complete cure.
The fun is not reserved for Sundays, you can come to our Happy Cafe Winter Warm Space on Tuesdays 10am-6pm and Thursdays 10am-2pm, and to Replay Fun Fridays 6-8pm too. Plus hot food from Food Sharers is served up 12-2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and it’s all free!
Winter Warm Spaces and Winter Warmers are part of North Northamptonshire Council’s Warm, Safe Space scheme. They are there for anyone and offer warmth, hot drinks and social activities for free. Our Winter Warm Space is also an Action for Happiness Happy Cafe to offer helpful advice where we can.
This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 31st January in Croyland Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 on Kingsway opposite the Kingsway Centre, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the park, and the area around the path leading up to Sainsbury’s.
This location has been chosen by Victor, a local councillor, who has reported that this area is in a terrible mess. As a group we haven’t tidied up this area around the path before, so there’s a lot to do to make it tidy. 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, hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!
We are hosting Wellingborough Swap Shop‘s biggest ever Sale on Saturday 7th February 10-4 at ECO HUB and in Swanspool Pavilion and Gardens, and it’s a jumble! Yes we are bringing the humble Jumble Sale back with a bang, grab some bargains, fill your bags!
We have tables full of hundreds of clothes where you can fill your bags for just £1, plus there will be electrical items, DVDs, books, and toys in Swanspool Pavillion and ECO HUB will be open for even more bargains and Food Sharers for free food saved from supermarkets too!
There will be a Happy Cafe too, with homemade cakes, snacks and hot drinks. Come for bargains, fill your bags, stay for refreshments, join us for a huge Jumble Sale on Saturday 7th February, 10-4 at Swanspool Pavilion and ECO HUB. See the map below for the location…
ECO HUB and Swanspool Pavilion, Wellingborough, NN8 2BZ
Last year Wellingborough Eco Group received a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, which enabled us to pay an Activities Co-ordinator to organise and run all the projects and activities we have on offer. This has been a massive help in keeping all our projects going and initiating more activities from our new home at Swanspool Pavilion.
We would like to say thank you to all the National Lottery players, who make these grants to community projects possible, and so at this special event we are offering a free drink and cake for National Lottery players on presentation of a National Lottery ticket, Instant Win Game, or scratchcard (physical or digital).
We do hope you will come along with the whole family and see the crafts and general fun on offer on the day, and have a look to see if you would like to get involved in any of our groups and events in the future. The event will be held inside the Pavilion and maybe outside too, weather permitting.
Our activities are all based on the idea that we want to look after our local environment and each other. Do join us at our Open Day and Craft Fair to find out more about your local friendly eco group, and to support local crafters, see you at ECO HUB and Swanspool Pavilion on Saturday 7th March 10:00am-4:00pm. To book a stall see our Craft Fairs page:
