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!
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…
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).
Wellingborough Swap Shop, Food Sharers, Tuesday Tidy Ups and Winter Warm Space this Tuesday!
Join us this Tuesday from 10am for our Winter Warm Space. Tea and coffee is now free (optional 50p donation) and we serve up hot food from midday. Join us for games, chat and a warm up.
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Wellingborough Swap Shop will also be there 10-6 Tuesday, we 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. Plus there the LIVE Teams Free Coats for Kids rail full so your Kids keep warm.
Food Sharers will have some fresh food from Co-op and bagged items from Wilby Community Food Group for you from 10am, plus lots more fresh food from Redeem Funds from 2-6. We have a few bargains too in our Food Sharers Shop, including Pot Noodles, tins of food and cans of pop for 50p!
Save food and moneyTidy up
Tuesday Tidy Ups is now available from 10am-6pm with Wellie Wombles, borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free!
There’s lots on, but always time for tea, join us at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this Tuesday, see you there!
Do you have anything you want to swap or are you looking to give something away?
Live on Zoom, our first online ‘Saturday Swap Shop’ will be hosted at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall. We will have a selection of items to swap and we invite you to swap with us and others on Saturday 21st January, between 10am and 2pm. It’s going to be fun and it’s free!
Wellingborough Swap Shop is a free and local exchange where members of the public can pass on things they no longer want, in exchange for something they need. You could describe it as a kind of bring-and-buy sale. Participants do not need to bring anything in order to take away goods, a small donation to the group will do too.
January Support Bags
January Support Bags will be available at ECO HUB with the Swap Shop.
Wilby Community Food Group and our Food Sharers group will be there 10:30-3:30 on the 21st January to give us the opportunity to help you and to save in date food that you won’t be using. Support Bags will work as follows:
For a £5 donation you can choose 6 items.
For a £10 donation you can choose 12 items.
Depending on the amount of donations and items available we may be able to be super helpful and allow some extras in your bags too, so get donating please! If anyone or everyone that is able to could donate the minimum of 1 item of food, cleaning products, laundry products, pet foods, pasta, toilet rolls, any unwanted, unopened and in date foods. Toiletries, tins, teabags, coffee etc etc. that would be so helpful. We’re All In. Northants is kindly donating the last bits of their stock to help and Food Sharers will donate some ambient foods too.
That jar of coffee auntie Joan brought round to use whilst she was at yours for Christmas but didn’t use – please donate it this way… The chocolate orange bar you put in little Tarquin’s stocking to fill it out but you know he doesn’t like chocolate orange – please consider donating it this way…. If you’ve started a new year-new you diet – all those naughty foods – hide them in our January Support Bags!
Kat, Wilby Community Food Group
Please do donate foods etc, please spread the word, bring a friend, neighbours, relatives etc. Drop off points for this event will be at Wilby Community Fridge or the ECO HUB. We’re looking forward to seeing you there, looking forward to a fun filled, spectacular event.
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Join in online or at ECO HUB
This Saturday’s Swap Shop is at ECO HUB and on Zoom. We will also be using our Facebook Group to share pictures, start posting today or you can simply just hold up you item(s) during the event.
What you offer is entirely up to you, as long as it’s legal, not hazardous or not a pet. Examples include: books, DVDs and CDs, kitchenware, pictures, tools, gardening items, curtains and other soft furnishings, children’s toys and baby items.
Wellingborough Swap Shop is managed by Wellingborough Eco Group. To keep you safe on Saturday, and so that you don’t have to share your details with everyone, please register by using the contact form below. Please use Swap Shop as your subject, and we will email you back with the Zoom link:
Join us to litter pick after the festive period and for a Wombles Winter Warmer!
December’s Two Hour Tidy up takes place a week late this Saturday morning (7th January) and we are litter picking the Queensway Park and the cycle path into Park Farm Industrial Estate. We will set up a recycling station outside our ECO HUB at Glamis Hall from 9:30 to litter pick between 10am-12 midday.
This location has been chosen because we also have a Wombles Winter Warmer afterwards at ECO HUB (12-2pm). As a group we have tidied up this area before, but unfortunately due to some messy people and a lot of fireworks from New Year’s Eve there’s plenty to do. Here are some photos to get you in the mood…
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.
North Northants Council will take away the litter we pick, hand sanitiser will be available. We will be joined by Wellie Wombles and many other volunteers, so do join in, bring your friends and family, and stay afterwards for some hot food and drinks, ALL WELCOME!
We have made our opening times more straight forward. We will be now open 10am-2pm during the week at ECO HUB except Wednesdays where we will be at the Community Allotment. We will also be open 2-6 on Tuesdays and weekend times will vary. This week we have lots of things to do at ECO HUB (and elsewhere):
Winter Warm Space – Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm
Food Sharers – Tuesday 2-6pm
Tuesday Tidy Ups – Tuesday 2-6pm
Wellingborough Swap Shop – Tuesday 2-6pm
Green Drinks (Queen’s Head) – Tuesday 7-9pm
Community Allotment (Ladywell) – Wednesday 10am-2pm
Happy Café – Thursday 10am-2pm
Eco Club for Kids – Friday 10am-2pm (new time)
Eco-Crafters Workshop – Saturday 10am-12pm (new time)
Two Hour Tidy Up – Saturday 10am-12pm
Wellie Wombles Winter Warmer – Saturday 12-2pm
Find out more and keep up to date with all our activities on our calendar:
There’s lots more on this week for the Great Big Green Week at ECO HUB and beyond. Check out our calendar at https://teamup.com/ksonts3se6r3hff58p or below:
Today:
Eco-Crafters 1:00-3:00
Community Allotment Working Party* 1:30-3:30
Thursday:
Happy Cafe: 12:00-2:00
Friday:
ECO CLUB for Kids: 12:00-4:00
Community Resilience Forum**: 2:00-3:30
Saturday:
Allotment Tidy Up*: 9:00-3:00
All events at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall except:
*Community Allotment and Allotment Tidy Up at Ladywell Allotments, access via gates at end of Hillside Road, call 07311 705705 to get in.
**Community Resilience Forum on Zoom, register at https://wellingborough.org/site/community-resilience-forum/
Wellingborough Eco Group and Glamis Hall host Repair Cafes, during the Indoor Car Boot Sales, both of which re-start on Saturday 10th September from 9am -12 midday, plus there’s a Baby Bring and Buy Sale at ECO HUB!
Repair Cafes are community events that match people who need stuff fixed with people who like fixing things. Repair Cafes 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.
There is no charge for entry or repair but donations are gratefully received and help pay for costs. 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.
Plus there’s more…
Come too for the Indoor Car Boot Sales and Baby Bring and Buy Sale at our new ECO HUB! There will be loads of bargains to be had from the many stalls at the Indoor Car Boot Sale; and if that wasn’t enough, Wellingborough Swap Shop has a massive Baby Bring and Buy Sale on at ECO HUB next door!
Come to get something fixed and get some bargains. See you on Saturday Morning!
