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.

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:

• Newspapers/junk mail/magazines and telephone books
• McVities biscuit wrappers
• Bits of candles
• Dental floss holders
• Wire
• Juice cartons (1 drink size with a silver lining)

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.