Tag: #Recycle

#BWFunDay – Share Your Jubilee Photographs On Instagram

Broadwindsor Fun Group are asking you to tag your photographs of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations with #BWFunDay to share on Broadwindsor’s Instagram site – HERE 🙂

Village resident Annie Collins takes spectacular photographs of almost anything that moves and that includes you! Annie will be Broadwindsor Fun Group‘s official photographer over the full Jubilee event so do not be surprised if you see her all over the place including up the church!

Particularly on Saturday, 4th when many families & people will be celebrating, please let Annie know if you do not wish you or your child to be included and this will be accommodated to the best of her ability.

Some of Annie’s work will be on display inside the Comrades Hall and Annie’s photographs will available to purchase:

  • £5 each
  • £12.50 for a set of 3
  • £15.00 for a set of 5.

Please address all enquiries re: photograph orders or queries directly to Annie at: annie221159@hotmail.com.
If you have any other queries re: the Jubilee celebrations, please email: bwfunday20@gmail.com.

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The Bunting Is Up!

Our village is preparing for next weekend’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations and began today by putting up the bunting around Bernards’ Place, inside and outside of the Comrades Hall, up the High Street, on the railings at Trusthams and down Back Lane as well as around the Square into West Street. Almost 2,000 triangles… 950 metres of it….

Chairman of Broadwindsor Fun Group, Adrian Gray said “Our thanks to all those that turned out to put nearly a km of bunting up. It took nearly four hours but has made the village look great.”

Not one bit of plastic in sight – all the bunting has been made using recycled bed sheets, duvet covers, curtains and pillowcases. Stitched together by helpers ranging from an 80 year old tailor to Broadwindsor’s 1st Rainbows 🙂

A huge thank you to everyone who was involved – be proud of this accomplished monumental and sustainable task!

After the Jubilee celebrations, the bunting will be available to other village groups wishing to use it for their celebrations in the future.

 

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Garage Sale 10am Today At The White Lion

They’re having a clear out of the back yard at the White Lion this morning, raising money for St. John’s ambulance.

The stag’s head that used to be above the fireplace was on sale at a local auctioneers yesterday.

Anything that doesn’t go will be transported to the dump so prices asked are more than reasonable and of course, you’ll be helping to reduce landfill 🙂

Just wander along at 10am.

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Last Few Days To Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Weldmar Hospicecare’s Christmas Treecycle is almost over. You can book a collection for your real Christmas tree, in return for a suggested minimum donation of £10 per tree.

  • 🌲 Booking closes on Wednesday, 5th January
  • 🌲 Collection on Saturday, 8th January

Don’t sit and look at it – enrol in the Weldmar Hospicecare Tree recycle project and it will be collected from you on Saturday 8th. Its quick and easy….You can complete the form online HERE or you can telephone 01305 261800.
Most importantly, ALL MONEY RAISED WILL GO DIRECTLY TO WELDMAR – so please support your local hospice.  THANK YOU.

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Broadwindsor’s Rangers Taking Used Ink Cartridges

Broadwindsor’s Rangers are raising funds for their group by collecting Used Printer Cartridges (genuine cartridges only). They have placed a collection box is inside the Comrades Hall Servery (the area used for the Post Office Outreach service).
Thank you in advance for Your Support! 

Broadwindsor RangersServing all of West Dorset, West Dorset Rangers is for girls aged 14-18.
They meet fortnightly (alternate weeks with the Guides) on Thursday evenings at the Comrades Hall in Broadwindsor.

Contact: westdorsetrangers@gmail.com

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Post To Recycle Rubber Bands

Acknowledged as biodegradeable, Royal Mail states the natural rubber content in a rubber band means that they will start to biodegrade in an outdoor environment within a year and this, we are told helps to minimise their impact on the environment. However, Rubber bands take up to 50 years to fully biodegrade and can be incredibly harmful to the environment. If burned they release carcinogenic pollution into the atmosphere.

Royal Mail, and the Trade Unions CWU and Unite/CMA recognise that discarded elastic bands that litter the ground, present a public nuisance, an eyesore and a threat to wildlife and pets, as well as representing a needless expense. Every year, Royal Mail uses around 338 tonnes of elastic bands to keep bundles of mail together.

You can now post any rubber bands you see or find directly into any post box and they will be recycled by the Royal Mail.

Every little helps…

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Weldmar’s Christmas Tree Recycle Plan Cancelled

STOP PRESS: Double Barrows from Frampton nr. Dorchester has just stepped in to replace the service offered by Weldmar Hospicecare. Details are TBC but they’re hoping to bring their green waste mulcher to Beaminster this Friday 8th Jan, where you can drop your tree off or they can collect from you.
A fee will be charged to cover their costs but a good donation will go to Weldmar Hospice.

On 30th of last month, Weldmar publicised their Christmas Tree Recycling campaign. On Monday 4th January the Prime Minister announced the immediate national lockdown that has come into force to help manage the Covid-19 pandemic.  Sadly, the lockdown means that Weldmar Hospicecare are simply no longer able to continue with the scheme as planned and are left with no other option than to cancel their plans.

They are devastated that they are unable to continue with the scheme this year after what was promising to be their most successful to date. This comes after an extremely challenging year for fundraising events and activities at Weldmar, with them not holding any events or fundraisers such as this since January last year. They are extremely sorry to everyone who supported the scheme and of course will be offering a full refund.

They can offer you two option:

  • Firstly, they would be extremely grateful if you felt that your donation could still be used by their dedicated team at Weldmar Hospicecare to continue providing vital end of life care with compassion, dignity and respect to those who need us right now. They promise to ensure that your support will be invested in the best possible way right here in Dorset. Without any fundraising events or activities and our shops closing once more, your donation truly will make a massive difference.
  • Alternatively, if you feel you are unable to still donate your fee, they completely understand. They will process your refund within the next 7 working days. Please do not contact them as they are currently contacting a large number of supporters and therefore ask that the easiest way for them to process your transaction is to click one of the following options:

Donate your Fee HERE.

Get your Refund HERE.

Contact Double Barrows – Telephone: 07748 350874

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Broadwindsor Rainbows, Brownies & Guides Recycle

With more takeaway meals being bought and delivered, there are many more plastic containers accumulating in homes.  Emma House at Broadwindsor’s 1st Rainbows, Brownies & Guides has a request:

“In the interest of recycling and reusing, if anyone has any small lidded tubs maybe from the takeaways etc. they would otherwise throw away – I would love to take them off your hands. They will be ideal for putting individual quantities of things in!
Thank you in advance!“
Please contact Emma by email: 1stbroadwindsorrainbows@gmail.com to arrange collection/drop off.
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Weldmar’s Christmas Tree Recycling Scheme

For a fourth year, Weldmar Hospicecare’s Christmas Tree-cycle project returns:

You can book a collection for your real Christmas tree. You must book your collection by the end of Monday. 4th January 2021. In return they suggest a minimum donation of £10.

With not being able to hold any fundraising events this year, Weldmar Hospicecare are hoping that their Christmas Tree-cycle will be bigger than ever, in partnership with Trinity Street Christmas Trees who are making the collections on their behalf and helping to dispose of the trees in an eco-friendly manner.

Local collections will be –

  • Beaminster – Saturday 9th January
  • Bridport – Sunday 10th January

All you need to do to secure a collection is complete the form at the bottom of the page HERE with all of your details and the donation.

Please remember:

  • Real Christmas trees only, no taller than 8ft
  • They could pick up your tree anytime between 8am and 7pm so have it ready to go!
  • Please take all the decorations off your tree and place it outside the front of your house (avoiding blocking any pavements or roads), and where it won’t be necessary for volunteers to need to open gates etc.
  • Place trees outside the day before collection to ‘air’ and reduce the risk of contamination
  • They cannot return to make a later collection if your tree is not ready for collection

Weldmar HospicecaWeldmar Hospicecarere is a charity that provides end of life care for people living in Dorset who need our specialist support. Their compassionate approach supports patients and their families, medically and in other ways, in the community, in their hospice and at home. All their services are provided free of charge and they are fully reliant on public donations.

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Christmas Bin Collections

Dorset Council does not collect real Christmas trees at the kerbside.

If you buy a real Christmas tree there are options for what to do once you’ve finished with it and removed all its decorations:

  • If you have a garden waste collection, you can cut your real tree into small pieces and put it in your garden waste bin
  • Real Christmas trees can be taken to your local Household Recycling Centre and placed in the garden waste container for composting, free of charge.

Dorset Council are also asking residents to consider more eco-friendly options such as home composting, or buying a rooted tree that can be kept in the garden until next year.

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