Wesley’s, the community café at The Spire, (Poole Methodist Church), in Poole High Street is the latest venue for you to drop off your biscuit wrappers.  Open 10am to 3pm Monday to Saturday, look out for the box with this poster on.

Balls of wool, 12 bags of newspapers/magazines, cans, milk bottle tops, jewellery, tights, spectacles, biscuit wrappers, buttons, CD’s, yoghurt pots and stamps were donated by residents in Creekmoor and Canford Heath on Saturday 27 June as part of Recycle Week.  The next donation date for the two areas is Saturday 12 September.  Canford Heath donate from 10-11 at the Coffee House Café and Creekmoor at the Creekmoor Library from 11.30-12.30.

Creekmoor residents can collect and donate jewellery, biscuit wrappers, aluminium drink cans, items from cleaning products, stamps, milk bottle tops and newspaper/junk mail/magazines.  Canford Heath will be collecting the same as well as yoghurt pots.

This is how you can get involved in Recycle Week….

• Visit our stand in Poole Central Library from Monday 22 to Friday 26
• Donate the following items: any unwanted sunglasses/spectacles, mobile phones, wool and broken jewellery at The Pie House in Tuckton from Monday 22 to Sunday 28
• Donate your unwanted sunglasses/spectacles at All Fired Up in Bournemouth Square and Asda Poole Superstore, West Quay Road, both from Monday 22 to Sunday 28
• Canford Heath residents please donate any of the following: bread bags, tights, biscuit wrappers, milk bottle tops, stamps and items from cleaning products, including trigger sprays, empty wipe packets, washing up liquid tops, plastic cartridges from air fresheners on Saturday 27 at the Coffee House Café on Canford Heath from 10-11am
• Creekmoor residents please donate any of the following: biscuit wrappers, milk bottle tops, newspapers/junk mail/magazines/telephone books, plus items for Hillbourne School: buttons, CD’s and records (playable or not), terracotta flower pots, jewellery (odd beads), paper (any size or colour), ribbon, wool, yoghurt pots on Saturday 27 at Creekmoor Library from 11.30-12.30.

Do you love recycling and hate throwing things in the bin if you can help it?  If so, we have started an e-alert group of people who would like to help local charities, schools etc., with items they need which they can save from their recycling or rubbish bin.  This may be a one-off request say for yoghurt pots or egg boxes, or something they need all the time e.g. mobile phones or printer ink cartridges which they use to help with fundraising.  By being included in the e-alert group you’ll also get to hear when a new We Need That update goes on our website as well as special events such as Recycle Week.  If you would like to be included in the group please email Monique: contact@ideas2action.org.uk

Great news The Pie House in Tuckton is taking part in Recycle Week and from 22-28 June they are inviting customers to bring in their unwanted sunglasses/spectacles, mobile phones, wool and broken jewellery/beads etc., which they will donate to charities.

We are having an information stand in Poole Central Library and residents in Creekmoor and Canford Heath will be donating items they have been saving on Saturday 27 June.

Further updates to follow.

Thanks to Jane and Julie at the New Orchard Café in Poole we are sending our second lot of biscuit wrappers off to Terracycle.  These will eventually be turned into pencil cases and tote bags and in turn help us with our fundraising.

We’re delighted that Oakdale Residents Community Association (ORCA) have kindly agreed to be our fourth drop off point for our biscuit wrapper collection.  The ORCA café is based at the Skills and Learning building in Oakdale opposite Oakdale Library and is open term time only from 10am to 1pm.  Sweet biscuit wrappers can be any make or variety.  Look out for the box with the Dunk and Donate poster on it.

Monique with Sarah, Barbara and Laura, Recycling Ambassadors for Ideas2Action after their meeting at the Coffee House Café on Canford Heath 29 April.

Creekmoor residents who enjoy recycling will have the opportunity to meet at Creekmoor library on Saturday 16 May from 10.30-11.30am to discuss saving items from their recycling or rubbish bins and donating them to the local charities who have requested them.  It’s hoped that from this meeting a group will be formed to continue the good work which was started during the Win on Waste project.

A total of 340 kilos of papers/magazines/junk mail and telephone books was donated by Creekmoor residents as they took part in the second donation day of Win on Waste on Saturday 28 March.  Perry’s Recycling pay the Dorset Community Foundation £10 for every tonne of paper collected and eventually this money will be available to fund local good causes.