Category: Litter Picking

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 29th November in Croyland Park and Gardens. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in John Drage Funeral Directors’ car park, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking all of the Gardens and the whole Park leading up to the Kingsway Estate.

This location has been chosen because John Drage Funeral Directors have reported that the area is untidy, and have offered to accommodate us! And when we say accommodate, Funeral Director, Scott, is joining in and hosting us for food and drinks at their funeral home! As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not as a group pick so far this year, so there’s a lot to do to make it tidy again. 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 for all litter pickers, plus hand sanitiser will also be available, do join us if you can, ALL WELCOME!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

We hope that you are having a lovely Christmas, but if like most of us, you have over indulged, why not join us for a very special Christmas Clear Up with Wellie Wombles this Saturday in Croyland Park? To get you in the mood, here is a video of some of our most memorable litter picks:

Croyland Park has been chosen by Victor, who is a local councillor, he has reported that the park is heavily littered and will join us on Saturday. We have tidied up this area before, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. It could be cold, so free refreshments including tea and coffee will be available.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

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 and do dress up in festive outfits if you can.

Join in, bring your friends and family, meet at our Recycling Station on Kingsway Car Park which sets up from 9:30 for litter picking between 10am and midday, see you on Saturday 28th December, ALL WELCOME! Merry Christmas everyone!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on this Saturday (27th July) on Queensway Park between Queensway and A509. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the grass on the park behind ECO HUB and Glamis Hall from 9:30, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be tidying up the park and the surrounding area.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen because we are also at Glamis Hall for their Family Festival, which also starts at 10am. We have tidied up this area before, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. It could be hot, so free refreshments including cold bottles of water 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!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on this Saturday (29th June) on the park between Brickhill Road and Hardwick Road. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the grass on the park opposite St Mark’s Church from 9:30, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be tidying up the park and the surrounding area.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen by Freddie because this area is looking neglected. Wellie Wombles have tidied up this area before, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. It could be hot, so free refreshments including cold bottles of water 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!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on this Saturday (25th May) at Stanwell Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the grass at the park entrance on Wordsworth Road from 9:30, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be tidying up the park and the surrounding area.

Join us for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up!

This location has been chosen by Freddie because we have not been to this park for ages. As a group we have tidied up this area last June, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. It could be hot, so free refreshments 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!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

Join us on Saturday, 27th April, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up 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.

We are also litter picking this area because Wellingborough Walks Action Group are going to the High Court next week to hopefully SAVE OUR TREES on The Embankment. Let’s make the area around the trees look great!

We have litter picked this park before a number of time, including for our very first litter pick in 2020 (see header image) but it needs doing again, and many of the streets 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.

Join us and Wellie Wombles for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up this Saturday.

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!

TOWN CENTRE – SATURDAY 23rd MARCH 10-12

Wellingborough Town Council are joining Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles again on our biggest litter pick of the year!

On the last Saturday of every month, Wellingborough Eco Group normally carries out a two hour tidy up with Wellie Wombles and numerous volunteers. This year we are returning to where we held this special litter pick last year a week earlier due to Easter, on Saturday 23rd March.

Do join us and Wellingborough Town Council for The Great British Spring Clean! This takes place on Saturday (23rd March) and we are litter picking the town centre!

We will set up a recycling station on Market Street from 9:30 to litter pick between 10am-12 midday. We have litter picking equipment, so everything apart from gloves is provided. North Northants Council will take away the litter we pick. As you can see by the map, we are also looking to tidy up Croyland Gardens and the streets surrounding the Town Centre, so there’s plenty to do and safe spaces for families to litter pick too!

NEW – This year we are holding our first ever Heaviest Bag Competition.

It’s really simple, fill your bag with rubbish and we will weigh it and the winner gets a ‘Good Egg’ from Co-op Member Pioneer Wellingborough, Rushden and Higham Ferrers. Refreshments will also be available during and afterwards, do join in with friends old and new, bring your family. Everyone is welcome, see you on Saturday morning!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

Join us on Saturday, 24th February, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up to litter pick Ladywell Park and the surrounding streets. We have never litter picked this park before but it needs it, and many of the streets 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.

Join us and Wellie Wombles for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up this Saturday.

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!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

Join us on Saturday, 27th January, for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up to litter pick Bassetts Close Park and the surrounding streets. We have litter picked this park before but it needs it again, and the streets 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.

Join us and Wellie Wombles for our monthly Two Hour Tidy Up this Saturday.

Our Recycling Station which will be set up at 9:30 for litter picking 10am-12pm, on the Junction of West Villa Road and Oxford Street, which is just round the corner to the Old Grammarians Sports Club, where we will also have a social afterwards to thank you all for everything you do to make Wellingborough cleaner, safer and greener.

See you on Saturday morning!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

Massive thank you to the 27 litter heroes that joined us for a Two Hour Tidy Up on Broad Green this morning. We litter picked 52 bags full litter and two wheel hubs from Broad Green and the surrounding streets!

On the last Saturday of every month, Wellingborough Eco Group normally carries out a two hour tidy up with Wellie Wombles. This time we chose a location that we haven’t litter picked before with an eye to have a meet up afterwards; and what finer place to do so than at The Queen’s Head, where a dozen of us celebrated the work we had done and Christmas with a pint or a coffee.

Thank you Sue, Mary and Aoife, Freddie and Georgina, Jonathan and Billy, Kate F, Lucy, Sister Pender and Sister Dampt, Craig, Carl, Luke, Riley, Mason, Oscar, Clare, Donna and Gayle, Kate Mc K, Niall, Rapheal and Deborah, Gill and Bob, and Pol for all your hard work this morning! Thank you to the neighbour who bought us drinks and everyone who came and said thank you at our recycling station too. Thank you also to North Northants Council who will take away all the litter we picked.

It was a bit wet and windy but good to see friends old and new, and some lovely families joining us both on the litter pick and in the pub. Thank you all for your support, see you at the next Two Hour Tidy Up!