Here is a great big opportunity for you to find out all about the environment, and how it can be great to go green! The theme this year is swapping, which we are quite good at, and Wellingborough Eco Group is running a whole week of activities to inspire you again for the Great Big Green Week…
Wellingborough Eco Group Community Interest Company has been set up to improve the borough’s environment, to reduce, reuse, repair and recycle items that would end up in landfill and to help local people reduce their carbon footprints. We do this in many ways and we have many of the projects we do on show during this busy week.
Saturday 7th June
FAMILY SENSORY WALK
Wellingborough Eco Group’s Nature Rangers are excited to announce that we are kicking off The Great Big Green Week this year with a Family Sensory Walk in partnership with North Northamptonshire Council’s Active Families!
Join us for an hour of exploring your senses in nature. Ideal for ages 3 plus, children must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times, please also ensure that you are wearing appropriate clothing and footwear.
We will be set up from 10am, in Kilborn Park Play Area, off of Kiborn Road, Wellingborough NN8 5YB (see map below). We will at 10:30 be taking a short guided walk through the woodland area. From 11:30, there will also be some activities in the park. Find out More on our Family Sensory Walk page.
LITTER PICKING HEMMINGWELL
Join the Wellie Wombles on the Hemmingwell at Nest Farm Crescent on Sunday 8th at 10.30 for a litter pick around the area, including the Hemmingwell Centre, on the playing fields and around the surrounding streets. Bring the kids and your friends. Free refreshments available to all Wombles.
Sunday 8th June
WELLINGBOROUGH TOWN GARAGE SALE
ECO HUB is taking part in the first-ever Wellingborough Town Garage Sale! We are opening Wellingborough Swap Shop 10am-1pm for a flash clear out. Do come and have a look at our pre-loved treasures, you can swap or give us a donation and then give them a new home. Find out more and where all the other people are opening their garages up on Wellingborough Town Council‘s website.
Monday 9th June
WELLIE WOMBLES C.L.E.A.N.
Wellingborough Library will have a display about what Wellie Wombles for The Great Big Green Week, including a C.L.E.A.N. Presentation. The presentation has now been shown to hundreds of local school children, and by having it in the Library from this Monday until Saturday will hopefully educate and inspire more people to be more self conscious about littering.
FREE RANGE
Our Fortnightly Monday sessions resume with a treat at our Community Allotment, as we will be sewing seeds and planting seedlings, meeting at 10am to help on our plot at Ladywell Allotments, out 10:30 till 1:30 to stop for lunch and discussions until 2pm.
These sessions are lead by Grow Wild Outreach and Wellingborough Eco Group, and they are 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!
Join us this Monday for a Free Range, 10am at our Community Allotment at Ladywell Allotments to continue to sew seeds and plant seedlings on our plot 10:30 till 1:30, let’s see what we can do!
ECO-CRAFTERS SEW SOCIAL
In the evening we welcome you to our Eco-Crafters sewing group, Sew Social. Whether you want to learn a new skill or are an experienced stitcher who wants to have a natter while you craft, this is all about bringing people together, to share skills in an eco-friendly way. Join in at ECO HUB 6-8pm.
Tuesday 10th June
HAPPY CAFE, TUESDAY TIDY UPS, FOOD SHARERS, SUB AND SWAP SHOP
Come to ECO HUB and see us on our busiest day, we have something for everyone and more from the Co-op too:
- Happy Café 10am-2pm, our free food reuse cafe is now an Action For Happiness Happy Cafe that has hot food, tea and coffee.
- Wellingborough Swap Shop 12-6pm, where we will have rails of clothes for you, books, DVDs, toys and household items. Everything is available for swaps or a donation to the group.
- Seed Swap Shop 12-6pm, has lots of packets of seeds, bring your suplus seeds and swap for packets you want!
- SUB School Uniform Reuse Project 12-6pm, + school essentials with Greatwell Homes.
- Food Sharers 12-6pm, will have fresh veg from Redeem Foods, and bread, fruit and salads from Tesco and Co-op. We have a few bargains too in our Food Sharers Shop, including tins of food and cans of drink for 50p!
- Tuesday Tidy Ups, 12-6pm, with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus we have pickers for sale too.
There’s lots on but always time for a free cup of tea, join us at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall this Tuesday, see you there!
Wednesday 11th June
COMMUNITY ALLOTMENT
Working Party this Wednesday!
Join us this Wednesday for a Working Party at our at our Community Allotment, 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 (session finishes at 2:30pm)
Join our community to have a look at our new poly-tunnel, to set up the raised beds in it and surrounding it, and 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 the ECO HUB 6-8pm.
Thursday 12th June
HAPPY CAFE, SWAP SHOP, FOOD SHARERS, SUB AND THURSDAY TIDY UPS
Join us 10-2 at ECO HUB Glamis Hall for all this:
- Happy Cafés are Food Sharers food reuse cafés, we cook what we save and then feed you for free.
- Wellingborough Swap Shop is on Thursday too, we have loads of clothes, toys, baby items, household items, books, DVDs and bicycles, all available for swaps or a donation to the group.
- SUB School Uniform Bank with Greatwell Homes, the school uniform bank, please bring in your children’s surplus uniform to swap, plus more.
- Thursday Tidy Ups, 10am-2pm with Wellie Wombles. Come to borrow our litter pickers and hoops for a tidy up, bags are free! Plus we have pickers for sale too.
Our Happy Cafes are Action For Happiness Happy Cafes too, where we also have fun activities including a Wii console and ‘Replay’ board games out. So lots to do and loads of food and drink, it’s on 10-2, all we need is you!
Friday 13th June
ECO CLUB FOR KIDS
Come to Eco Club, the Wellingborough Eco Group for kids! Join if you are a parent, guardian, relative, carer or friend who wants to do eco-friendly activities with the children you look after, do join us at ECO HUB 4-6pm for free, all materials and refreshments included.
REPLAY FUN FRIDAY
And then in the evening we have Replay Friday, join us from 6pm to make Friday’s more fun! Replay Fridays are just like our Happy Cafes, just with games! Make your Friday more fun, join in for free at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall, this and every Friday 6-8pm.
Saturday 14th June
REPAIR CAFE
Come to Wellingborough Repair Café at Glamis Hall on Saturday 14th June 9am-12 midday, where we ask you what do you do with a toaster that no longer works? A faulty vacuum cleaner? A sweater with moth holes? Bin it? No way!
Repair Café is repairing broken items together, getting advice, encounters and inspiration. Repair Café bookings are available now, go to the Repair Café page to book you broken item in.
We will also have a large selection of electricals available for a donation and ECO HUB will be open for Wellingborough Swap Shop!
Sunday 15th June
THE GREAT BIG WELLINGBOROUGH CIRCULAR WALK AND CYCLE
At the start of Better Transport Week and at the end of The Great Big Green Week, our final event for the week is The Great Big Green Wellingborough Circular Walk and Cycle, 10am-2pm! There are three routes to follow, all start from ECO HUB and all end there where tea, coffee and some food will be available.
You can arrive anytime you like between 10am and 12 midday, but we will be leading one cycling party at 10:30 around the red route, and another walking party around the Green Route starting at 10:30 too. It’s completely free to join in, come and discover Wellingborough with us, away from the noise and fumes of road traffic.
Do join us for our busiest week of the year, whether you want something fixed, swapped, saved or just choose to be a bit more eco-friendly, come and see that it can be great to go green. Join in with The Great Big Green Week with Wellingborough Eco Group!