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Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 26th July in Queensway Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the field behind Glamis Hall and ECO HUB, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the whole park, and the nearby streets.

This location has been chosen because Glamis Hall’ Family Festival, also join us on from 10am – 3pm where we will have three stalls for lots of FAMILY FUN! As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not as a group pick since last July, so there’s a lot to do to make the park tidy again. We will also be litter picking throughout the festival. 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!

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to National Lottery players, we can now fund a part time Coordinator. The National Lottery Community Fund awards money raised by players to communities across the UK, working with local groups and UK-wide charities, enabling people and communities to thrive. Thank you for funding us!

Wellingborough Eco Group Community Interest Company has identified the need for a Coordinator to organise and carry out the administration of our many and varied activities and events. The Coordinator role is currently carried out by Jonathan on a voluntary basis but owing to the number of activities we are involved in, it has become too time consuming to expect it to be done on a voluntary basis. We will therefore appoint him as an Activities Coordinator for 20 hours per week plus expenses, on a self-employed basis.

The Coordinator will facilitate the smooth running of all our activities; enable us to deliver more sessions; improve the experience of our volunteers and support more volunteering opportunities. They will increase local engagement with our services and activities; organise fund raising and apply for and monitor grants to support and improve our activities; develop partnerships with other organisations to further our aims of protecting the environment, connecting local people with nature and helping people reduce their carbon footprint.

Since the group started in 2019, we have attended events and added sessions which are now well established and well attended. We will continue to advertise them through social media, our website, occasional leaflet distribution and attendance at local events. We expect that this role will continue after the year of funding and we will be fundraising ourselves, as well as applying for other grants, to enable the work to continue into the foreseeable future and possibly become a full-time role.

Thank you, Judy, our secretary, for successfully applying for this Awards for All grant from the National Lottery Community Fund. Judy, who also runs our Repair Café, has made this happen! Thank you also to our committee and all our amazing volunteers for everything you do to enable Wellingborough Eco Group to help improve our borough’s environment, to reduce, reuse and recycle items that would otherwise end up in landfill, and to help local people reduce their carbon footprints. And thank you everyone who takes part in our activities!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Glamis Hall

Wellingborough Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop are at Glamis Hall this Saturday (12th July) 9am-12pm for a huge Repair and Reuse event.

Wellingborough Repair Café will be in Glamis Hall. We still have spaces for textile repairs, but electrical items are fully booked this month.

Find out more at: https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe

Clearance Swap Shop will also be in the main hall with lots of sale tables for you to grab a bargain at:

– We will have a large selection of nearly new clothes from 50p each in the hall.
– There’s loads of pre-loved items including books, toys, electrical items, DVDs and household items.
– There’s a great tombola to try your luck at, with prizes every time.
– Plus there’s more including our School Uniform Bank round the corner in ECO HUB.

Everything is available for a swap or for a donation (all items will be priced) plus there’s tea and coffee available too. Come and get a fix and a bargain; see you at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB this Saturday morning 9-12!

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

Calling all Litter Heroes, help us defeat the Litter Monster!

Be part of our Litter Monster Carnival Float. We are following the monster as Litter Super Heroes, plus we’ll have a rubbish tricycle with two massive sharks.

Simply dress up as your favourite super hero, wear a Wellingborough Eco Group or Wellie Wombles hi-vis vest, hold a pickers and hoops, or something noisy!

We are setting up on Broad Green from 10am on Saturday 5th July, to parade around the town starting at midday. Do join us!

Wellingborough Eco Group and Wellie Wombles

This Month’s Two Hour Tidy Up takes place on Saturday 28th June in Croyland Park. We will be setting up our Recycling Station from 9:30 in the car park on Kingsway, for litter picking between 10 and 12. We will be litter picking the whole park, and the nearby streets.

This location has been chosen because the following weekend is Wellingborough Carnival & Party in the Park in Croyland Park. As a group we have tidied up this area before, but not since December (see header image) so there’s a lot to do to make the park tidy again. See map below for the location (Kingsway Car Park is on the right):

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!

Wellingborough Eco Group

Wellingborough Repair Café and Wellingborough Swap Shop are at Glamis Hall this Saturday (14th June) 9am-12pm for The Great Big Green Week.

Wellingborough Repair Café will be in the VIP Lounge at Glamis Hall. We still have spaces for textile repairs, but electrical items are fully booked this month.

Please book in any broken items you want to bring along to the Repair Café at: https://wellingboroughecogroup.org.uk/eco/repair-cafe

There is no Indoor Boot Sale this month, but we will have lots of second hand items at our special Saturday Swap Shop Big Electrical Clearance Sale and in ECO HUB for you to grab a bargain at:

• We will have a large selection of electrical items with Wellingborough Repair Cafe in the VIP Lounge.
• Plus we will have loads of pre-loved items including clothes, books, toys, DVDs and our School Uniform Bank round the corner in ECO HUB.

Everything is available for a swap or a donation (any new items will be priced) plus there’s hot food and a cafe available too.

See you at Glamis Hall and ECO HUB this Saturday morning 9-12!

Friday is the fun day of The Great Big Green Week, both children and adults can come and play, this Friday at ECO HUB…

Eco Club for Kids

Eco Club is Wellingborough Eco Group for Kids, where we craft and play games 4-6pm every fortnight at ECO HUB. Join if you are a parent, guardian, relative, carer or friend who wants to do eco-friendly activities with your children.

This week, we are playing games outside because it’s going to be a hot one. There will be all sorts of games, a ball pit and crafts inside to make Fathers Day cards. Drinks, including tea and coffee for the adults also available.

Everyone is welcome, free entry, refreshments included.

Replay Fun Fridays

Fancy some fun on a Friday evening? Want to join in, have some fun, meet new people and have a cup of tea? You can at our Fun ‘Replay’ Friday sessions at ECO HUB!

Wellingborough Eco Group are hosting Replay Fun Friday evenings every week, with a different game every week! These are chosen by who comes, with card games, boards games and video games available.

Replaying old games for fun on Fridays, Replay Fun Fridays are just like our Happy Cafes, just with games! Make your Friday more fun, join our weekly games night. Join in for free at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this and every Friday 6-8pm.

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

It’s Joyful June, where we do good things for you and for the environment, and it’s even bigger for The Great Big Green Week. We are open this Thursday 10-2 ECO HUB Glamis Hall. Do join us at:

🟡 Happy Café is our friendly food reuse cafe has free hot food, tea and coffee all day. It’s also an Action for Happiness Northants Happy Cafe and this month we’re sharing some mindfulness tips and playing games.

🔵 Wellingborough Swap Shop where we will have a new toys section plus rails of clothes for you, 100’s of books, DVDs and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a donation to the group.

🟢 Food Sharers will have fresh veg, fruit, bread and salads from Co-op and community friends. We have a few bargains too, including snacks, cans of drink, tins of food and more!

🟣 SUB (our School Uniform Bank) works just like Wellingborough Swap Shop, but includes school uniform and essentials with Greatwell Homes.

🔴 Thursday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus pickers and hoops for sale.

There are always lots of great things, plus outside games and always a free cup of tea at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this and every Thursday, do pop in!

+ HOW TO FIX IT this Thursday!

Yes, we have our popular Wellingborough Repair Café this Saturday in Glamis Hall, but apart from clothes, it is all booked up again, so we are running How to Fix I.T. sessions too. These will take place 6-8pm on the second Thursday of the month at ECO HUB, which just happens to be this evening!

Pop into ECO HUB with your broken I.T. this Thursday for The Great Big Green Week, and we will try to Fix IT if we can!

If you have a broken computer, jammed printer, cantankerous console, trouble with your tablet or just a slow phone, bring it it and we will hopefully be able to help, and perhaps show you how to fix it! These sessions are just for information technology (I.T.) whatever the issue let’s see what we can do…

How To…

Wellingborough Eco Group Community Allotment

Join us this Wednesday for a Great Big Working Party at our at our Community Allotment for The Great Big Green Week. Meet at the gates of Ladywell Allotments at the end of Hillside Road at 9:30am or call Jonathan on 07311 705705 to get in before 2:00pm

Our Community Allotment is there to give people the chance to share skills and to grow plants. The site was cleared in 2020 and is now a user-friendly space to grow fruit, vegetables and other plants to benefit the community.

Anyone can volunteer at the Community Allotment, you don’t have to know anything about gardening and tools will be provided. Join our community for more preparation and planting including weeding and tidying, come and grow with us this Wednesday!

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES

Noughts and Crosses Polish community group provide a local network group for Polish families, offering wellbeing sessions, organising events to raise awareness and understanding of culture and heritage, providing tuition in polish language, arts, crafts and music sessions and environmentally friendly projects. Join them this Wednesday at ECO HUB 6-8pm.

Wellingborough Eco Group & Wellie Wombles

It’s Joyful June, where we do good things for you and for the environment, and it’s even bigger for The Great Big Green Week. We are open this Tuesday 10-6 ECO HUB Glamis Hall. Do join us at:

🟡 Happy Café is our friendly food reuse cafe has free hot food, tea and coffee all day (first two hours is quiet and relaxed). It’s also an Action for Happiness Northants Happy Cafe and this month we’re sharing some mindfulness tips and playing games.

🔵 Wellingborough Swap Shop where we will have a new toys section plus rails of clothes for you, 100’s of books, DVDs and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a donation to the group.

🟢 Food Sharers will have fresh veg, fruit, bread and salads from Co-op, Redeem Foods and community friends. We have a few bargains too, including tins of food and more!

🟣 SUB (our School Uniform Bank) works just like Wellingborough Swap Shop, but includes school uniform and essentials with Greatwell Homes.

🔴 Tuesday Tidy Ups with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus pickers and hoops for sale.

There are always lots of great things, plus outside games if weather allows and always a free cup of tea at #ECOHUB, Glamis Hall this and every Tuesday, do pop in!