Here is a great big opportunity for you to find out all about the environment, and how it can be great to go green! Wellingborough Eco Group is running a whole week of activities to inspire you for the Great Big Green Week this year…
Wellingborough Eco Group 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 8th June
It all kicks of with our Repair Café on Saturday 8th June 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 be at The Hemmingwell Skills and Community Centre to join in with their Fun Day 12-6pm with mini Swap Shop and Replay games stalls, plus with information about Wellingborough Eco Group.
Sunday 9th June
Join in and join the Wellie Wombles at the Vicarage Farm Social Club just off Barnwell Road on Sunday 9th at 10.30 for a litter pick around the area, including the Redwell Leisure Centre, on the playing fields and around the surrounding streets. Bring the kids and your friends. Free refreshments available to end with.
Don’t miss the D-Day 80th Anniversary Concert in the Park 1:00-3:00 this afternoon in Castlefields, Wellingborough, with performance by The Candy Bars. This is a FREE event and our Happy Cafe will be there, making the teas, plus selling lots of cold drinks, popcorn, crisps, hokey pokey biscuits, flapjacks and more. Bring a chair along and enjoy and afternoon of nostalgic music.
Monday 10th June
Free Range with our Nature Rangers this Monday at our Community Allotment to help nature on the plot and around the Ladywell Allotments site. 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. Join us a Free Range, 10am at our Community Allotment until 2pm, let’s see what we can do!
In the evening we welcome you to Eco-Crafters new 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 11th June
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!
- SURP+ 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, 12-2pm, 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.
- Co-op Sustainability LIVE 12-2pm, to find out about what the Co-op is doing to help tackle climate change and how you can play your part. Join us on the green bit outside with more stalls to be announced soon…
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 12th June
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 Tesco Community Room 6-8pm.
Thursday 13th June
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.
- Join our busy Eco-Crafters to work on new projects or bring your own work in.
- 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.
- SURP+ school uniform exchange with Greatwell Homes, the school uniform bank, please bring in your children’s surplus uniform to swap, plus more.
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 14th June
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 10am-12pm for just £2 per child, all materials and refreshments included.
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 15th June
Join our Noughts and Crosses Polish Community Group at their Games and Sports Session, where they are taking over Glamis Hall and the Queensway Park playing fields 1-4pm. DJ, food, craft stalls and fun, everyone is welcome to join in, tickets available £1 per person (adult and child, please note text on links is in Polish)
Sunday 16th June
Just before 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!