Join Sarah at the Southbourne Win on Waste session on Saturday 18th February at the Close Knit Yarn Cafe between 10-11am. (Close Knit Yarn Cafe, 52A Southbourne Grove, Southbourne, BH6 3RB. www.closeknityarncafe.com)
Please save and donate any of the following on the day: corks, keys and padlocks, ribbon, jewellery, Tassimo coffee discs, baby food pouches, biscuit wrappers, cleaning product items and aerosol deodorant cans. It’s a great way to help good causes.
Canford Heath and Creekmoor Win on Waste sessions take place on Saturday 11 February. Canford Heath at the Coffee House Cafe, Adastral Square from 10-11am and Creekmoor at Creekmoor Library from 11.30am-12.30pm.
Local residents will be donating the following items (the beneficiaries are in brackets):
This latest Win on Waste project, Broadstone Win on Waste is being run by Vikki Slade. The session on the 4th February held in Broadstone Library proved to be popular, with 16 people either donating or making enquiries about donating at a future session. Milk bottle tops were the most popular item donated (3 carrier bags). Other donations included 1/2 carrier bag of stamps, two bags of glass jars, one bag of Tassimo discs and three jigsaw puzzles. All the items are being donated to support good causes. The date of the next session is the 4th March from 10-11am at Broadstone Library.
Vikki pictured second from the left with other keen Broadstone recyclers.
If you live in the Westbourne area and would like to help good causes with your waste, then save any of the following and donate them at Westbourne Library on Saturday 25 February between 10 and 11am. If you cannot make these times, items can be left at the library on the previous day or when the Library opens at 9.30am.
Broadstone Win on Waste launches at Broadstone Library on Saturday 4 February between 10 and 11am. This, our third current Win on Waste project in Poole is being run by Vikki Slade. Broadstone residents can save and donate any of the following items: any type of wrapping paper, rolls of wallpaper, aerosol deodorant cans, Tassimo coffee discs & packaging, milk bottle tops, sweet biscuit wrappers, postage stamps and cleaning product items (empty disinfectant wipe packets, washing up liquid tops, sprays and pumps).
Over 60 people donated items from their waste at Win on Waste sessions on Saturday 14 January in Creekmoor and Canford Heath. Eight good causes were the beneficiaries. The following items were donated (amounts in brackets relate to carrier bags): Calendars (1/2), Christmas paper (6), Tassimo discs (9), Milk bottle tops (16), Biscuit wrappers (2 1/2), Newspapers (27), Stamps (3/4), Cleaning product items (1), Cardboard tubes (1), Jigsaw puzzle pieces (1). In response to a special request 25 bras were also donated which helps to raise funds for charity, Against Breast Cancer. Photo shows Dan, Karen, Laura, Barbara and Linda at the Canford Heath session.
Lots of bags of waste were donated at the first Win on Waste session in Kinson for 2017 on Saturday 7 January. In total 7 good causes will benefit from the following (amount in carrier bags): Papers and magazines (1), cleaning items (1/2), Biscuit wrappers (1), Milk bottle tops (3), Deodorant cans (1/4), Cigarette waste (1/4), Printer cartridges (1/4), Corks (1/4), carrier bags (1/4), CDs (1), Foil tins (1/4), one animal calendar and fruit and veg net bags (1/4).
Laura and David show off some of the items.
Thanks to donations from members of the public and to Poole Libraries for collecting them, Forest Holme Hospice took away hundreds of stamps at the handover on 9 January.
Pictured from l-r: Kathy McNally (Forest Holme Hospice), Chris Beale (Ideas2Action) and Helen Smith (Poole Libraries).
These are the dates for our January Win on Waste sessions in Poole and Bournemouth:
Saturday 7 January 10.30-11.45am Kinson: Pelhams Park Leisure Centre
Save and donate: Corks, Unwanted keys and padlocks, Biscuit wrappers, Mobile Phones, Printer ink cartridges, Plastic bags, Stamps, Cleaning product waste, Tobacco pouches, CDs and DVDs, Deodorant aerosol cans, Calendars with animal pictures, Re-useable Christmas gift-wrap
Saturday 14 January Canford Heath: Coffee House Cafe, Adastral Square 10-11am and Creekmoor: Creekmoor Library 11.30am-12.30pm
Save and donate: Calendars – only those with animal pictures, Christmas wrapping paper – clean, flat, Aerosol deodorant cans, Tassimo coffee discs & packaging, Milk bottle tops, Biscuit wrappers, Newspapers/magazines/junk mail, Stamps, Cleaning product items (pumps, sprays, disinfectant wipes packets, washing up liquid tops and any other tops from cleaning products), CD’s & beer bottle tops.
Saturday 21 January – Southbourne, Close Knit Yarn Cafe 10-11am
Save and donate: Corks, Keys and padlocks, Ribbons, Calendars with animal pictures, Christmas wrapping paper in good condition, Jewellery, Tassimo Coffee Discs, Baby food pouches, Biscuit Wrappers, Cleaning product items and Aerosol deodorant cans.
Six good causes benefitted from items donated at Southbourne Win on Waste on Saturday 17 December. Items included Tassimo discs, biscuit wrappers, Christmas decorations, stamps, jewellery and wool,
Thanks to Southbourne Library for hosting the sessions this year, but from Saturday 21 January the sessions will be held from 10-11@ the Close Knit Cafe in Southbourne.
