Molly lives in sheltered accommodation and thanks to her efforts publicising our Christmas campaign to her neighbours and other residents, she collected five carrier bags of Christmas cards, three bags of wrapping paper, including two containing whole rolls and a tin of stamps. We’re sure that Diverse Abilities and Lewis-Manning Hospice will be delighted with the items. Thank you so much Molly.
Creekmoor residents donated newspapers, biscuit wrappers, yoghurt pots, milk bottle tops, stamps, Christmas wrapping paper and calendars at their donation session at Creekmoor Library on Saturday 16 January. Organisations to benefit from the donations are: Lewis-Manning Hospice, Diverse Abilities, Forest Holme Hospice, Dorset Community Foundation and ourselves.
Twenty-three Canford Heath residents popped into the Coffee House Café on Saturday 16th January with 26 carrier bags of items which they had been saving from their recycling/waste bins. These included newspapers, calendars, wrapping paper, stamps, biscuit wrappers, cleaning product items, cards, egg boxes, bottle tops and cardboard tubes. The following organisations will benefit from receiving the items: Diverse Abilities, Lewis-Manning Hospice, Dorset Community Foundation and ourselves.
Four of the donors look over some of the donations.
Hundreds of cardboard tubes, yoghurt pots, calendars, wrapping paper, cards, egg boxes, fruit nets and bottle tops were saved from waste and given to Jon Stroud, Awesome Nights & Play Opportunities Manager at local charity Diverse Abilities by Win on Waste groups in Canford Heath and Creekmoor after their January donation session on Saturday 16th. One kind Canford Heath resident donated all her craft equipment too. The items will be used by the children and young people the charity supports at their craft sessions.
Monique (left), I2A Co-ordinator and Louise Jones, Community Relationship Fundraiser for Lewis-Manning Hospice, display the thousands of stamps at Poole Library which have been donated to the charity via our Christmas appeal. The appeal asked people to save and take their postage stamps either into charity shops run by the Hospice or into larger Poole libraries. A whole collection was donated with some old and rare stamps. It’s hoped that all the thousands of stamps will raise plenty of money for the vital work Lewis-Manning Hospice does.
We’re delighted to announce our first fundraising event, a literary quiz taking place on Wednesday 10 February (7.15 for a 7.30pm start) at The Bricklayers Arms, 41 Parr Street, Parkstone, Poole BH14 0JX. Join us for a fun quiz with literary questions. Make up a team from your book group, library colleagues or friends and family (Over 18’s). Or come alone and make up a team with others. Teams of 6 at £18 per team. Special thanks to Brittany Ferries for their very generous donation of a £100 travel voucher as a raffle prize. If you’d like to join us please call 07771 705662 or email: contact@ideas2action.org.uk
Monique Munroe from Ideas2Action and Joe Holmes from Bournemouth Council’s Recycling Team at Winton Library giving recycling information to library visitors during their coffee morning on 7 January.
A massive 385 items were donated by residents living in Hamworthy East at Hamworthy Library on Saturday 28 November. Well done to Natasha Stanley who donated the most and to Tanya Elston, the runner up. Items donated included aerosol can tops, very small cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots and cardboard rings. All the items will be used by The Get-Togethers craft group based on Turlin Moor. They were also pleased to receive 25 solid cardboard tubes brought along by Cllr Vishal Gupta from Bell Plastics. Bell Plastics are also donating wooden pallets to charity Holton Lee.
Residents living in Creekmoor and Canford Heath also collected some of the above items, so members of the craft group will enjoy using a total of 443 items.
We were delighted to receive a cheque for £200 from the Hand in Hand Lodge (Poole, Bridport & Yeovil District) of the Oddfellows at a presentation which took place at Martinstown Village Hall, near Dorchester on Saturday 21st November. A big thank you to them for their kind generosity. Ideas2Action Trustee, Solveig Warren and Co-ordinator Monique Munroe receive the cheque.
There was a steady flow of residents bringing in bags of items for good causes at the Coffee House Café on Saturday 14 November. These included: two carrier bags of milk bottle tops, half of stamps, one of biscuit wrappers, 16 of newspapers/junk mail and magazines and one of cleaning product containers. All the items will be used by the charities to help with their fundraising. Recycling is inter-generational as these two residents prove.
