Author: ecoadmin

Great job done by our 20 Litter Heroes today at Glamis Meadow and Wood. We collected 15 bags of litter, a green bin full of recycling, a car stereo and a bike! Lovely to see lots of children with their families. Thank you to Sabina, Artur and Ignas, Justyna, Dominic and Roxanne, Chris, Rachel, Andy, Anthony, Suzanne, Karen and Jenna, Niall, John and Tricia, Jane, Jonathan, Emma and Billy.

Our monthly two hour tidy up this month was to litter pick the Glamis Meadow and Wood, Wellingborough’s nature reserve! Wellingborough Norse kindly supplied the litter pickers and collected the rubbish we picked. Our recycling station was set up from 9:30 on the footpath from The Promenade (see aerial view) to carry out litter picking between 10am-12 midday.

Our monthly two hour tidy up this month takes place on Saturday 18th July and is to litter pick the Glamis Meadow and Wood, Wellingborough’s nature reserve! Wellingborough Norse have kindly offered to supply the litter pickers and to collect the rubbish we pick. All welcome!

Our recycling station will be setting up from 9:30 on the footpath from The Promenade (see last couple of photos) to carry out litter picking between 10am-12 midday. With so many different areas to tidy up this time, you can decide if you want to combat the mess in the woods or pick litter in the more family meadow.

We will be asking everyone who takes part to strictly adhere to social distancing of two metres, and for all to take their bags of litter to a collection point for Wellingborough Norse. This is an outdoor activity, gloves and hi-vis vests are to be worn, but face masks are not mandatory.

Here are a few photos of the meadow and wood, see you on Saturday:

Join Wellingborough’s inaugural Critical Mass on Friday 31st July. Everyone is welcome, including families with children, it is not a race, the idea is to stay in a big group. The route will not be too hilly or too long. Councillor Valerie Anslow will be at the back to make sure that everyone is safe and that no one is left behind.

Critical Mass happens in towns and cities all over the world on the last Friday of every month. It’s a cycling event in which everyone rides together as one big group. It is an opportunity to celebrate cycling but also to protest for change. Cycling needs to be elevated up in terms of its importance. For decades it has been ignored.

This is an event to celebrate cycling and to protest against the lack of action by the councils in terms of the emergency measures for active travel which should have been put in place. This include pop-up cycle lanes with wands. We shall be cycling around as a group reclaiming the street.

Meet at 6.30pm outside Castello Lounge and opposite The Hind Hotel. The cycle ride starts at 7pm. For further details see the event on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1131050487280529/

We are looking to work with partners across the borough to deliver a range of activities that help people and groups build personal and community resilience in response to economic, health and wellbeing pressures.  These Community Resilience Activities will be initially part of the One Wellingborough project, potentially funded by the Borough Council of Wellingborough (subject to approval) and led by the Victoria Centre and Wellingborough Eco Group. Activities will include:

1. Set up a Timebank to support people and help make volunteering sustainable for people and organisations.
2. Establish Community Swap / Sharing Clubs, sharing tools and resources more around people and organisations – helping people and reducing waste.
3. Set up a Community Food Growing project – showing how to grow our own food.
4. Clear up our communities and convert ‘grot spots’ to ‘Love Lots’, growing food, flowers and inspiring people, led by Wellingborough Eco Group and Castle Fields Streetwatch.
5. Getting to Know You – helping people to get to know each other through our ‘talking library’ and helping many people coping with grief know there are people on hand to ‘Listen and Help’

These ideas are all project proposals from members of Wellingborough Eco Group. The listed activities have been included in a grant application by One Wellingborough (Glamis Hall/Victoria Centre) to the Borough Council of Wellingborough. This is of course subject to support from members of the group and other partners from the borough. Wellingborough Eco Group will continue to work on other projects with other partners, including existing and new projects with Glamis Hall. If you want to support any of these activities, please comment here or on our Facebook Group.

The Lockdown period has seen a considerable increase in people cycling. For health, well being and environmental reasons we wish to enable this to continue and to support many more people to buy or dig out their bikes and get back in the ‘saddle’.

Following on the Government’s new Active Travel Initiative, we, the One Wellingborough project led by Victoria Centre, Wellingborough Eco Group and supported by NENESCAPE, believe the Borough Council of Wellingborough could leave a cycling infrastructure legacy as we move to the new Unitary Council. With this in mind we will…

(i) Provide Bike Shelters – Working with partners to provide a number of secure bike shelters around the area – mainly in CCTV secure places, (up to 8) including at Victoria Centre, Glamis Hall, outside the Police Station or by the Museum / Castle Theatre, at WACA and Hemingwell Skills Centre, enabling people to have a safe place to lock their bikes once they arrive at their destination.

(ii) Carry out an audit of our cycle paths and cycling facilities across the borough, in town and rural areas – identifying blockages, gaps and contribute the updating the Wellingborough Cycle Map.

(iii) Run 3 Cycling ‘Come, Try and Repair’ Days – where children and adults can dust off their cycling skills and learn how to safely cycle – they will also learn basic bike maintenance and access repairs via our Bike Repair Cafe.

If you are supporting us with this initiative, please comment here or on our Facebook Group.

Corona Virus update – We are going online during the viral pandemic. Join us online on Tuesday April 28th from 7:30pm at https://zoom.us/j/97284656368

Many of us are working to tidy up our neighbourhoods or for a fossil-free future for all our children. But it’s hard, often dispiriting work; renewing & making new friendships, in a relaxed setting is a great way to chill. That’s where Green Drinks comes in!

Join us on Tuesday 28th April for our second event, no agenda, just like minded people, who care about the environment, meeting for a ‘Green Drink’ and a chat.

Do join us for networking, news, chat and new friends; and be part of a growing global network where local people push for and build a sustainable future. Everyone is invited!

Join our online meeting on Tuesday 28th April from 7:30pm at https://zoom.us/j/97284656368

http://greendrinks.org/Northamptonshire/Wellingborough

Is anyone up for a challenge? During the viral pandemic, a lot of activities that Wellingborough Eco Group do in our local area are not possible, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t still love where we live. We know lots of you are busy making your world a better place already…

Whether it’s cleaning up outside our own front door – imagine if everyone just did that one thing – making sure you don’t waste any food and getting creative with left-overs or decluttering your home and putting aside anything you no longer want to give to a charity shop.  

How to get involved:

1. Pick a theme – some ideas include: your favourite recipe to reduce food waste; mending, repairing & upcycling things around the home; keeping in touch with people in need; home-schooling ideas; discovering nature in your garden & gardening; nifty ideas & eco-friendly crafts; setting up a virtual book club …and many more – be creative!
2. Create some content – a short video, photo or illustration that shows how you’re making the most of your time at home and making where you live more eco-friendly.
3. Post your content on Wellingborough Eco Group – tag a friend to get involved too, add the hashtag #lovewhereyoulive and don’t forget to share your post from our group widely.
4. Once you’re done, try something else – you can get involved as many times as you like!

Yes, this has been shamelessly stolen from Keep Britain Tidy’s ‘Love Where You Live’ campaign; done worry, we are joining in with them and we will share your favourites with them too.

We can all do some simple things that are good for us and good for the planet.

Stay home, stay safe and start creating. Challenge accepted! 

Wellingborough Eco Group are hosting Green Drinks evenings, and these events are open to everyone in Northamptonshire.  We are simply running new friendly group meetings every month and we are going online during the viral pandemic.  The aim is to create a space where people who care about the environment can chat.

Do join us for networking, news, chat and new friends; and be part of a growing global network where local people push for and build a sustainable future. Everyone is invited, there is no agenda, this is all about you and what we can do environmentally locally in a friendly and positive way.  Do join us!

Corona Virus update – We are going online during the viral pandemic.

Join like minded local people for VIRTUAL GREEN DRINKS on the last Tuesday of the month for networking, news, or just to chat and make new friends. Join our online meeting on Tuesday March 31st from 7:30pm at https://zoom.us/j/736617891

‘VIRTUAL’ GREEN DRINKS with Wellingborough Eco Group
http://www.greendrinks.org/Northamptonshire/Wellingborough

Wellingborough Eco Group has a successful Facebook group, that is helping to improve our borough’s environment by enabling local people to reduce, reuse and recycle items that would otherwise end up in landfill, and helping local people reduce their carbon footprints.

Now we have decided to reach out further with our new Nextdoor group. This group will be exactly the same as the Facebook group, we have set it up to connect with more of our community and to make more of a difference!

This group is open to everyone and aims to work with local councillors, businesses and community organisations. Please share your ideas, events and groups, and refrain from criticism or negative posts. This is all about you and what we can do environmentally locally in a friendly and positive way 🙂

Join us on Nextdoor at https://nextdoor.co.uk/g/b3mr12uzd/