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Wellingborough Eco Group Nature Rangers

Our Fortnightly sessions resume on Monday, meeting at Castlefields Park at 10am to look at the plan. This week we are planting trees and tidying up the Tiny Forrest!

These sessions will be lead by Grow Wild Outreach and Wellingborough Eco Group, and they are freely open to everyone. Grow Wild Outreach will also offer the Monday sessions to those who need assistance and will provide a fully supervised service at a cost.

Don’t be nature strangers, be Nature Rangers!

The point of this group is to give plants, trees, birds, insects and animals a chance to thrive by restoring habitats and by caring for our wild creatures. This is also an opportunity to show the we care for wildlife so that ‘the powers that be’ don’t destroy the vital habitats that support local wildlife.

Join us this Monday for a Free Range, tools are provided but you can bring a spade, come to Castlefields Tiny Forrest at 10am and we’ll be out 10:30 till 1:30, let’s see what we can do!

Nature Rangers

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place a week early for Queensway Month of Action this Saturday (18th April) on Queensway Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station on the grass on the park just off of Shelley 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 because it’s Queensway Month of Action, an initiative by North Northamptonshire Council’s Stronger and Safer Communities Team; that has various activities running during April.

We have tidied up this area many times before, but unfortunately due to some messy people there’s a lot to do. Free refreshments including tea, coffee and 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!

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!

Tickets are now available to buy now.

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!

See you at Quiz Night!

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!

Wellingborough Eco Group

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…

Wellingborough Eco Group, Wellie Wombles & Wellingborough Town Council

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!

Wellingborough Eco Group Nature Rangers

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.

Tree Planting

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

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.

See you on Saturday morning!

Wellingborough Eco Group

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.

Winter Warm Space

Come and enjoy good company, free tea and coffee, fun activities and great food. See you at our Chair Yoga Winter Warmer this Sunday!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

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!