Category: Food Sharers

Christmas Eve Food Sharers & Swap Shop

REDEEM FUNDS AND WELLINGBOROUGH ECO GROUP

Saturday 24th December 6-8:30pm at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall

It will be the night before Christmas, and as the supermarkets close for the festive break, all of their unsold food needs saving. So when asked by our friends and partners at Redeem Funds, if we can open up to help them to collect and share this unsold food, we said yes…

Food Sharers

This Food Sharers is a Redeem Funds Christmas special, ALL donations will go towards their food bank appeal. Donations will be asked for for all food items just as if you were going to Cowper or Shakespeare Road. This could be mighty, this is a real Christmas treat for all!

We are collecting at 5:30 and aiming to be open for 6 if all things run smooth, with top ups through till when we close at 8:30 as Redeem helpers sort out as we go. We’ll have fresh fruit and veg, chilled items, and even frozen too, thanks to Glamis Hall lending us a chest freezer. There’s no need to panic, there should be plenty and we’ll be there for you all.

Swap Shop

This evening is almost all about festive food, but just to make it twice as nice for you lovely people coming out on Christmas Eve, and because some of us might have forgotten to get something, our full Wellingborough Swap Shop will be on for everyone too.

There are lot’s of toys, teddies, books, DVDs, clothes and household items, all for swaps or donations. The LIVE Team’s Free Coats for Kids rail is out too! The Swap Shop will be separate from the Food Sharers, any donations will go towards keeping the ECO HUB open.

All set up and waiting for the food saved from local supermarkets…

And there’s more…

Because it’s Christmas, we have Christmas crackers from the Co-op, festive music and gift packs of various goat milk soaps from Food Loop for free! Join us on Christmas Eve, 6-8:30pm at ECO HUB Glamis Hall for festive food, swaps and treats for all! See you there…

Redeem Funds

Today we open our Advent Calendar window and doors to Redeem Funds. Join in with Redeem Funds for a Winter Warmer hot food swap at ECO HUB today 12:30-3:00. Bring your cooked food and savouries to this food sharing event, meet new people and old friends; it’s Christmas and it’s free to attend. Mary will also be cooking up lots of spicy treats!

Redeem Funds is a foodbank that offers lots of fruits, veggies and bread at two sites in Wellingborough for a small donation. They open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at Cowper Road and Sundays, and on Mondays and Tuesdays at Shakespeare Road. They also have frozen items if you need any. Join their busy Facebook Group for updates.

Watch the video of Mary showing us around her busy Cowper Road on Friday where they were providing Help Bags to those who requested them. Alongside their regular fresh food service, they now have added three new sections at Cowper Road to support families in our community:

  • Well-being section: For families or ladies struggling to buy sanitary pads are welcome to take one when needed but not every day please.
  • Pet Section: If you are sometimes struggling to buy pet food you are welcome to take a couple of items from there. But do speak with the members of the staff.
  • Help bag section: Grab any ten items (one of each item but some items you can have two) for extra £5 separate donation to foodbank. All items in this selves are on date.
Redeem Funds Help Bags and Fresh food available last Friday at Cowper Road.

Redeem Funds are a non profit Christian organisation that helps, supports and provides for destitute people. They are in need of ambient food and personal health items to share with those who need them. They support many families in Wellingborough and share with our Food Sharers every Tuesday, please do support them if you can.

Do join in to celebrate Christmas early or just to enjoy each other food at today’s Redeem Funds Winter Warmer. You will find us 12:30-3:00 at ECO HUB Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Road, Wellingborough, NN8 3RU. See you there!

Redeem Funds Christmas Winter Warmer

Join in with Redeem Funds for a hot food swap. Mary invites you to share food with us at ECO HUB this Sunday (11th December) 12:30-3:00. All welcome!

Bring your cooked food and savouries to this food sharing event, meet new people and old friends; it’s Christmas and it’s free to attend. Mary will also be cooking up some spicy treats!

At last week’s Vegan Winter Warmer we had 13 lovely people attend and everyone left all full of delicious food, shared by all and all vegan! This week there will also be some veggie/vegan options.

Join in to celebrate Christmas early or just to enjoy each other food. You will find us at ECO HUB Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Road, Wellingborough, NN8 3RU. See you there!

LOTS ON THIS WEEK- JOIN IN!

Join us at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall for all of this…

Tuesday 2-6pm

Tuesday Tidy Ups
Wellingborough Swap Shop
Food Sharers

Wednesday 1-3pm

Eco-Crafters

Thursday 12-2pm

Happy Café
Replay Board Games
Energy Savers

Thursday 6-8pm

Happy Poems Workshop

Thursday 6:30-9pm

Wellie Wombles Winter Warmer (at Castello Lounge)

Friday 12-3pm

Eco Club for Kids

Saturday 9am-12 noon

Repair Café
Baby Swap Shop (at Glamis Hall Indoor Boot Sale)

Sunday 12-4

Vegan Food Sharers (at Animals In Need Northamptonshire Vegan Food and Cruelty Free Fair)

Join in, get involved, go ECO HUB!

New ECO HUB Opens in September

We are very excited to announce ECO HUB, the new home for Wellingborough Eco Group! Opening from 1st September 2022 and available 7 days a week at Glamis Hall in the Community Room for lots of events and activities.

Heather Saunders, Chair of Trustees at Glamis Hall and Jonathan Hornett, Secretary of Wellingborough Eco Group, signed the lease this week for this exciting new facility. And other Eco Group members joined in, including Emma who is looking to run a couple of projects from the ECO HUB.

We will be expanding our current projects and introducing lots more, all focused on improving our environment and helping local people. New projects on the way include an eco craft group, an eco kids group, veggie/vegan food events, cooking demonstrations, Energy Savers workshops, a spoken word poetry club and more of of current projects.

So, join in, get involved, go ECO HUB!

Swap Shop – Time to Change

Firstly we would like to thank Kat for her efforts over the last six months, together we changed swap shop into the weekly bring, swap and buy sale at Glamis Hall, plus we took food out of the Swap Shop and called it Food Sharers to focus on saving food from going to waste. Kat has left to concentrate on her Baby Bank and Wilby food projects and we wish her all the best.

The last couple of months have been a muddle and it’s clear that we simply can’t do it all until we get more organised. We are drowning in donations of clothes and baby items, so we are going to clear these. The first change to Swap Shop is to stop doing Baby Bank, because we do not have the space. The second change is to also stop doing clothes, again because of space, but also because because it’s a mess.

** Please don’t donate any clothes or baby items to us anymore **

Our decent clothes and baby items are being sorted and will be donated to local charity shops or groups, our clothes that are less saleable will be sold as textiles. Larger and more valuable items will be listed on our Swap Shop Facebook group and our online Swap Shop. We will focus on finding new homes for household items, entertainment and toys.

We are setting up a permanent ‘Glamis Hall Library‘ in the foyer to the Community Room, with book cases full of books, CDs and DVDs, plus we will have a ‘WOW Board‘ – a ‘What’s on Wellingborough‘ information board that has info and leaflets about Wellingborough Eco Group, Glamis Hall and other local community services and events. This is available online already! The library and board will be there for every group that uses the Community Room.

Food Sharers

Food Sharers is changing too, we will no longer sell food, drink and cleaning products unless they are environmentally friendly alternatives. To this end we will also be listing all products for sale on our Food Sharers Facebook group, and our online Food Sharers Shop so you can click and collect to collect on Tuesday afternoons or browse what we have. Have a look!

We will continue to save food from landfill by continuing to offer food for free, but the food on offer will change and may be interrupted as we reconnect with food sharing partners and seek new retailers to get donations. Food Sharers is not a food bank and never has been, it was set up as a swap and share service, and this is how it will proceed. We will also be proving more information about other food sharers on our WOW Board.

Tuesday Tidy Ups and Fairtrade Café

The changes to Swap Shop and Food Sharers are being done to make them more environmentally friendly, but also to to give our Wellie Wombles and other visitors a bit more room to sit and have a cup of tea or coffee. Tuesday Tidy Ups and our Fairtrade Café will be running as normal, but with more of a focus on sharing information with each other. Tea and Coffee will continue to be provided by Jonathan, Co-op Member Pioneer in Wellingborough.

So, see you on Tuesday afternoons, 2-6 at Glamis Hall’s Community Room for Swap Shop, Food Sharers, Tuesday Tidy Ups and Fairtrade Café, plus Glamis Hall Library and the WOW Board! Lots going on, lots saved from landfill and loads of people helped too. See you there!

Repair Café and Saturday Swap Shop

Wellingborough Swap Shop and Repair Café are on this Saturday!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Glamis Hall are hosting the Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop on Saturday 11th June, 9 -12. Both will be in the Community Room and we have a couple of other stalls with us outside too!

Repair Café

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.

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. You can basically bring anything you can carry that will not make a mess in the venue.

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! There is no charge for entry or repair but donations are gratefully received and help pay for costs.

See you on Saturday morning at Glamis Hall where we try to fix your broken items for FREE!

Wellingborough Swap Shop

We will be in the Community Room and all items will be available for swaps or a small donation to the group. You can bring something and swap it for something else or you can buy something on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis with a donation to the group.

Please can everyone keep toes, eyes, fingers, legs, arms – ANYTHING and EVERYTHING crossed for some good weather so we can get everything out and some bits outside for you to browse through. We’ll have the gazebos up for a couple of stalls that will be joining us too!

Food Sharers will also have a few bits for you and their ‘Bargain Buys’ table. All Bargain Buys items are items we have been offered to purchase, we always price them lower than the shops so that the low price we have paid gets passed on to you. Plus Wellingborough Baby Bank will have selected items out in return for monetary donations to their cause to purchase more nappies and milk.

So, pop along, grab a bargain or swap with us, get your broken items fixed for free and support the other stalls. See you there!

Plant Sale at Wellingborough Swap Shop!

Join Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles this Tuesday afternoon 2-6 at Glamis Hall in their Community Room for all of this:

Wellingborough Swap Shop has plants galore plus lots of clothes, toys, books and crockery. Much of the clothing and household items have been saved from landfill for the Wellingborough Ukrainian guests and sponsors but there’s still loads left! All available as swaps or for a small donation.

Tuesday Tidy Ups, why not have a go at litter picking? We have the pickers, hoops and bags for you to borrow, the parks have been busy which unfortunately usually means so have the litter louts.

Food Sharers has lots of fresh food, saved from local supermarkets and it’s all FREE! Our food club has drinks, popcorn and more, plus tomato and strawberry plants so you can join in the spirit of our Community Allotment and grow your own.

Wellingborough Baby Bank is a new service linked to the Swap Shop. We’re accepting Baby clothes and essential items to help young families who are finding their finances squeezed by the cost of living crisis.

Plus, if that wasn’t enough already, we have FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee available from Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough! Pop in for a hot drink and join in with everything else! See you between 2-6 in Glamis Hall’s Community Room 🙂

National Vegetarian Week

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CHOOSE CLIMATE!
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Help tackle the climate crisis

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Tuesday Tidy Ups, Swap Shop and Food Sharers Today

Join Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles this afternoon at Glamis Hall in their Community Room for all of this:

Wellingborough Swap Shop has lots of clothes, toys, books and crockery that we collected from Rushden Transport Museum as part of Nick Knowles Big House Clearout. Much of the clothing and household items have been saved from landfill for the Wellingborough Ukrainian guests and sponsors but there’s still loads left! All available as swaps or for a small donation.

Teddy Tombola 🧸 for the kids because it’s half term, just 50p for 5 tickets and 1/5 tickets could win you a Teddy or even an Easter Egg!

Tuesday Tidy Ups, why not have a go at litter picking? We have the pickers, hoops and bags for you to borrow, the parks have been busy which unfortunately usually means so have the litter louts.

Food Sharers has lots of fresh food, saved from local supermarkets and it’s all FREE! Our food club has drinks, popcorn and more, plus tomato and strawberry plants so you can join in the spirit of our Community Allotment and grow your own.

Plus, if that wasn’t enough already, we have FREE Fairtrade tea and coffee available from Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough. Pop in for a hot drink and join in with everything else! See you between 2-6 this afternoon!