We will be holding our inaugural Recycling Awards Event on Friday 16 September and we’re looking for nominations. We have met and heard of so many people who go that extra mile when it comes to recycling that we’d like to recognise them. So if you know of anyone who loves recycling, you have until 10 August to nominate them. The form and further details are available on the Recycling Awards (see Projects) page of our website.
Fifteen people donated the following items for good causes on 18 June. Amounts in carrier bags were: greetings cards 1, corks 1/8th, milk bottle tops 2, biscuit wrappers 1, newspapers 15, stamps 1/2, cleaning products 1 and buttons 1. All these will be distributed amongst seven organisations. 
28 people donated items at the Win on Waste session in the Coffee Shop Café on Canford Heath on Saturday 18 June. Items included (in carrier bags): greetings cards 3, corks 1, milk bottle tops 11, biscuit wrappers 2, newspapers 10, stamps 1/2 and cleaning products 1. In addition two large bags of material and one of wool was donated. Items will be distributed amongst seven organisations.
Members of Parkstone Evening Townswomen’s Guild show off some of the donations made at their meeting on 9 June when Monique spoke about our projects. Donations included egg boxes, stamps, greetings cards, corks and bottle tops. Following Monique’s talk the group plan to continue to save and donate items on a regular basis.
On 23 May four kind volunteers took part in a timed exercise to find properties with the aim of showing the importance of having visible numbers to aid emergency services. Working in pairs, two found the property and put a more visible number on it and the second pair had to find it. The volunteers found one property two minutes quicker when a more visible number was added. In another road it took them 1 minute 35 seconds quicker to find a property, rather than one without any numbers at all! This was in daylight, it would take even longer to find these properties in the dark. The minutes may seem small, but to someone who needs urgent medical attention, they could be the most important minutes of their life.
At the Win on Waste session at Creekmoor Library on Saturday 14 May an amazing 20 carrier bags of paper and magazines were donated along with 2 bags of bottle tops and 1 of padded envelopes and bubble wrap.
The next session takes place on Saturday 18 June between 11.30 and 12.30.
We had a great turn out at the Coffee Shop Café for our Win on Waste Canford Heath session on Saturday 14 May with 28 people donating the following items (numbers are in carrier bags):
Bubble wrap = 6, padded envelopes = 5, milk bottle tops =4, biscuit wrappers=1, newspapers=10, cleaning products = 1/2 plus one box of keys and one of cutlery.
The 18 June is the date of the next donation session.
Residents living in Canford Heath and Creekmoor will be donating the items they have been saving since last month this Saturday. Canford Heath at the Coffee House between 10 and 11am and Creekmoor at Creekmoor Library between 11.30 and 12.30. Items being donated include…..
All this lovely cutlery ended up at the Borough of Poole tip. But now, thanks to it being rescued by the Borough’s New2You project and some publicity from us, it will be finding a new home with the AOK Rucksack Appeal. The AOK Rucksack Appeal work with homeless people in a variety of ways including providing rucksacks filled with essential items for those who are newly homeless. http://www.aokrucksackappeal.org.uk/
The latest issue of We Need That is out. Please go to: We Need That April 2016
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We welcome Oakdale Residents Community Association and Poole Heart Support Group to We Need That (page 19). Their needs include: carrier bags, greetings cards (family events), jewellery (odd beads, chains), material scraps, stamps, string and cotton and wool (full or odd balls). Dorset Blind Association have also added two new items to their list: bubble wrap and padded envelopes (page 11). We are also now collecting items from cleaning products (page 17).
