Recycle Week this year is taking place from 22 – 28 June 2015. The theme is going to be ‘recycling around the home’.

If you would like to collect biscuit wrappers for us and live in Poole town centre you can now drop your wrappers off at Beech House, 28-30 Wimborne Road.  Please place them in an envelope and mark it for the attention of Mr C Beale, Ideas2Action, c/o Poole CVS, Floor 3.

A very big thank you to Hayley and Simon at the Coffee House Café, Adastral Square, Canford Heath for agreeing to be the second collection point for our biscuit wrapper collection.  Please take your wrappers to the café and help us with our fundraising.

Our second Win on Waste Canford Heath 2015 group met on Saturday 14 March. Items donated included 862 milk bottle tops, a box of glasses, 8 carrier bags of paper and magazines, cardboard tubes, a large padded envelope of jewellery, aluminium drink cans and a bag of stamps.

Some of the group showing the items which had been donated.

The next meeting will be Saturday 30 May at 10.30.  The group members are being invited to bring along aluminium drink cans, biscuit wrappers, milk bottle tops, magazines/papers/junk mail/telephone books and stamps.

A big thank you to the New Orchard Café, New Orchard, Poole for agreeing to be the first collection point for our biscuit wrapper collection.  If you’d like to help us, please save your sweet biscuit wrappers and the next time you are passing by the Café drop them in.

There was a great turnout for the first Win on Waste – Creekmoor donation day.  Twenty two residents brought along corks, milk bottle tops and buttons.  The total number of tops was 1,227 and 179 corks.  Two donations from people living outside the area brought the total number of corks donated to 668.

The Dorset Scrapstore was very pleased to receive the corks plus 6lb in weight of buttons.  As a thank you for the buttons, the Scrapstore is offering free membership to any of the donors who would be interested in becoming a member.

The person who brought in the most tops/corks was Mr Kobylinski (304) and the runner-up was Mrs Johnson (198).

The tops will be given to Montacute School in Poole to help with their fundraising.

A big thank to Creekmoor Library for their hospitality and we look forward to seeing even more residents at the next donation day on Saturday 28 March.

Monique from Ideas2Action and Vicky from The Dorset Scrapstore with some of the milk bottle tops and corks collected

There’s a great full page feature on us in the Spring 2015 issue of the Bournemouth VCS Voice.  To see the newsletter go to: http://www.bournemouthcvs.org.uk/documents/Spring12VCSVoice.pdf

We are delighted to announce we have a new Ambassador join the team – Sarah Lyon.  Sarah is a great recycler and amongst other things she will be helping to co-ordinate our biscuit wrapper fundraising collection.

Brittany Ferries have just donated some old pallets to Dorset Wildlife Trust who will use them to make bird and bat boxes.  They have also given 4 tons of recycling to Perry’s who make a contribution of £10 per ton to the Dorset Community Foundation.  Well done and thanks to Brittany for doing this.

To all of you who live in the Creekmoor area of Poole, your corks and milk bottle tops are needed. So please get saving and take them along to Creekmoor Library on Saturday 28 February between 11 and 1.  We look forward to seeing you.