Our top 5 achievements for 2016/17:

• Received our charity (CIO) status
• Helped 22 good causes with the items they need for fundraising or service delivery
• Recruited 11 new Recycling Ambassadors
• Ran 69 Win on Waste sessions
• Started four new Win on Waste sessions

See more in our Annual Report (link on our home page).

Trustees Nick, Jo and Chris celebrate our 4th birthday at our AGM on 29 November with a cake and a lovely box of waste requested by good causes.

6          Broadstone  (Broadstone Library 10-11am)

6          Wimborne (Wimborne Library 10.30am-12noon)

6          Hamworthy (Hamworthy Library 11-12)

6          Livability Holton Lee (Holton Lee, Holton Heath 10.30am-12.30pm)

13        Canford Heath (Coffee House Café 10-11am)

13        Creekmoor (Creekmoor Library 11.30am-12.30pm)

20        Oakdale (Oakdale Library 10.30am-12noon)

25        Turlin Moor (St Gabriel’s Church 9am-12noon)

27        Westbourne (Westbourne Library 10-11am)

27        West Howe (Henry Brown Youth Centre 2-4pm)

Southbourne tbc

December dates for Win on Waste

2^nd        Livability Holton Lee, Holton Lee, Holton Heath (10am-2pm) –

Donate: sweet biscuit wrappers, Tassimo coffee discs and packaging, dried up biros/felt tips/highlighters/board markers, Tippex, milk bottle tops, cleaning items (disinfectant wipe packets, washing up liquid tops, pumps and trigger heads).

2^nd        Broadstone  (Broadstone Library 10-11am)

9^th        Canford Heath (Coffee House Café 10-11am)

9^th        Creekmoor (Creekmoor Library 11.30am-12.30pm)

Donate any of the following at the three Win on Waste sessions above:

• Unwanted Christmas decorations (Dorset Scrapstore)
• Ring pulls from drinks cans (Purple Community Fund)
• Any empty Garnier beauty product items (Ideas2Action)
• Empty/broken pens, biros, felt tips, highlighters, board markers, mechanical pencils or empty Tippex bottles (Research into Brain Tumours)
• All brands and sizes of air freshener packaging – (plastic bits) and  cartridges (Ideas2Action)
• Aerosol deodorant cans (Ideas2Action)
• Tassimo coffee discs & packaging (Poole Hospital Scanner Appeal)
• Milk bottle tops (Gift of Sight)
• Biscuit wrappers (Ideas2Action)
• Newspapers/magazines/junk mail (Dorset Community Foundation)
• Stamps (Forest Holme Hospice)
• Cleaning product items (Ideas2Action)
• Tobacco pouches and silver paper and cellophane from cigarette packets (for general recycling by Terracycle)

Turnout may have been small at Oakdale Win on Waste on Saturday 18 November at Oakdale Library, but four carrier bags of milk bottle tops will be helping to raise funds for Gift of Sight.  Five other good causes are also benefitting from donations.