The latest We Need That directory is now available on our website (see Projects/We Need That)
Here are just a few of the new items which you could start collecting now:
Answer – you can donate them at Castlepoint. Donate empty baby food pouches at Castlepoint throughout January. The collection bin is located near to M&S. Any money raised will go to Poole Hospital Children’s Ward. If you plan to go in February then take along any old specs/sunglasses. Dorset Blind Association are looking for these. The collection bin is located as above. Thank you.
Keen recyclers on Canford Heath, the Win-on-Waste group and Ideas2Action Recycling Ambassadors came together on Saturday 10 January at the Coffee House Café at Adastral Square to discuss what they would like to save from their recycling this year to donate to organisations advertising in the We Need That directory. Thanks to funding from the Meggitt Fund they all enjoyed free tea/coffee and cake.
The items they decided to collect are milk bottle tops, stamps, broken jewellery, sunglasses/reading glasses, cardboard tubes and newspapers/junk mail/magazines/telephone directories. These will be given to a variety of local voluntary organisations, schools etc.
If you live on Canford Heath and would like to join in, please bring any of the above to the Coffee House Café on Saturday 14 March between 10.30 and 11.30am and stay for a chat and a cuppa!
Do you live on Canford Heath and love recycling? Then you are invited to come to the Coffee House Café at Adastral Square on Saturday 10 January at 10.30 for an hour for a FREE tea/coffee and cake. It will be a great opportunity for you to meet others on the Heath who are keen recyclers and also to discuss what we could save from our recycling bins to donate to local charities etc in 2015. If you would like to come along please call Monique 07771 705662.
We were thrilled to hear that we were successful with our bid to The Meggitt Fund 2014 via the Dorset Community Foundation.
Success means that we will be writing to all the Canford Heath residents who took part in Win-on-Waste and inviting 20 of them to free tea and cake at the Coffee House Café on Saturday 10 January. This will be a great opportunity to discuss items they would like to save from their rubbish/recycling bins throughout 2015 and to donate to good causes.
Dorset Blind Association received around 300 aluminium drink cans on Saturday 29 November thanks to donors NatWest Bank staff and Canford Heath residents. Some of the cans included those which were part of a litter pick on Canford Heath that morning.
Thanks as ever to Hayley and Simon at the Coffee House Café at Adastral Square for hosting the drop-off point and for everyone who brought along donations.
Neil Baugh, Relationship Manager, NatWest Business Banking East Dorset (left) with cans collected by staff. The Bank donated 15 can crushers and a Canford Heath resident is holding his. Monique Munroe our co-ordinator is on the right.
Melanie (a volunteer with Dorset Blind Association), Monique Munroe, Jaya da Costa, Fundraising Manager and Neil Baugh
For every tonne of paper (newspapers, junk mail, magazines and telephone books) that Perrys Recycling collect from their recycling paper banks based at various supermarkets in Dorset, they will donate £10 to the Dorset Community Foundation. See http://www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org/how-to-donate/perrys-recycling/ for further details and start donating today!
Following a great response from our feature in the Wessex Water Magazine, we are now helping someone in Somerset to start a We Need That directory in the county. If you live in Somerset and would like to get involved, please use our contact form for further details.
We’re thrilled to see ourselves on page 5 of the Autumn/Winter issue of the Wessex Water Magazine. Just on the first day of it being delivered we had two enquiries from readers about how they could donate or receive items via We Need That. Here is the link http://www.wessexwaterebooks.co.uk/autumnmagazine2014/
We’re delighted to announce that the Dorset Community Foundation re: Poole Communities Fund 2014, has approved our grant to undertake a new Win-on-Waste project, this time in Creekmoor. Between February and April 2015, Creekmoor residents will have the opportunity to save items from their black or blue bins and donate them to the voluntary organisations who require them. A big thank you to the Foundation and Poole Communities Fund for giving us the opportunity to run another innovative recycling project.