We’re delighted to announce our first fundraising event, a literary quiz taking place on Wednesday 10 February (7.15 for a 7.30pm start) at The Bricklayers Arms, 41 Parr Street, Parkstone, Poole BH14 0JX.  Join us for a fun quiz with literary questions.  Make up a team from your book group, library colleagues or friends and family (Over 18’s).  Or come alone and make up a team with others. Teams of 6 at £18 per team.  Special thanks to Brittany Ferries for their very generous donation of a £100 travel voucher as a raffle prize.  If you’d like to join us please call 07771 705662 or email: contact@ideas2action.org.uk

Monique Munroe from Ideas2Action and Joe Holmes from Bournemouth Council’s Recycling Team at Winton Library giving recycling information to library visitors during their coffee morning on 7 January.

A massive 385 items were donated by residents living in Hamworthy East at Hamworthy Library on Saturday 28 November.  Well done to Natasha Stanley who donated the most and to Tanya Elston, the runner up.  Items donated included aerosol can tops, very small cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots and cardboard rings.  All the items will be used by The Get-Togethers craft group based on Turlin Moor.  They were also pleased to receive 25 solid cardboard tubes brought along by Cllr Vishal Gupta from Bell Plastics.  Bell Plastics are also donating wooden pallets to charity Holton Lee.

Residents living in Creekmoor and Canford Heath also collected some of the above items, so members of the craft group will enjoy using a total of 443 items.

We were delighted to receive a cheque for £200 from the Hand in Hand Lodge (Poole, Bridport & Yeovil District) of the Oddfellows at a presentation which took place at Martinstown Village Hall, near Dorchester on Saturday 21^st November. A big thank you to them for their kind generosity.     Ideas2Action Trustee, Solveig Warren and Co-ordinator Monique Munroe receive the cheque.

There was a steady flow of residents bringing in bags of items for good causes at the Coffee House Café on Saturday 14 November.  These included: two carrier bags of milk bottle tops, half of stamps, one of biscuit wrappers, 16 of newspapers/junk mail and magazines and one of cleaning product containers.  All the items will be used by the charities to help with their fundraising.   Recycling is inter-generational as these two residents prove.

The rain and wind didn’t stop Creekmoor residents taking in items they had been saving for good causes on Saturday 14 November.  In total they collected two carrier bags of milk bottle tops, one of biscuit wrappers, one-quarter bag of stamps, six of newspapers/magazines and junk mail and two of yoghurt pots.  All the items are needed by local charities.

L-R: Jo (from Creekmoor Library) and Sue (who collects milk bottle tops for Forest Holme Hospice) showing off some of the items which were donated on Saturday.

We celebrated our second birthday at our AGM on Tuesday 3rd November.  Here are our Trustees, Chris, Nick and Solveig and our little birthday cake!

A grand  total of 110 egg boxes and 7 pizza bases were donated to local charity, Holton Lee at Hamworthy Library on Saturday 31. This was the second Saturday of the Win on Waste project.  The person who brought along the most was Jill Peace and the runner up was Gail Angell.

Here’s Katrina Easthope from Holton Lee holding some of the egg boxes.

Last Christmas we helped Dorset Blind Association with their request for aluminium drink cans.  This year we thought with the amount of stamps received over the Christmas period,  asking people  to collect them for Lewis-Manning Hospice would be a good idea.  The stamps, like the cans, will help with Lewis-Manning’s fundraising.

Any used postage stamps can be taken to Lewis-Manning shops or to the Poole libraries mentioned on the poster.

Hamworthy East residents who have been taking part in their local  Win on Waste project will be taking their egg boxes and polystyrene pizza bases to Hamworthy Library on Saturday 31 October between 10.30 am and 12.30pm.  The items are needed by Holton Lee and the person donating the most, together with a runner up, will receive a prize.