March 2025
Welbeck Primary School takes action on litter in the Meadows!
Welbeck Primary School year 2 class became Young Climate Champions last term. They learnt about how our natural eco systems are becoming polluted with plastic waste, including how this can affect our own health - not just wildlife!
They decided to act to preserve our important wildlife and clean up our area. After receiving an assembly from a local resident fed up with the litter in the meadows, they went out with bags and litter picks to tidy up Queens Walk Park.
We want to say a big thank you for their hard work!
You can check out the signs they made to encourage others to do the same that are on display in the Meadows library right now!
DIY Club in Action!
DIY Club has been running for 5 weeks now!
So far, DIY Club members have fixed a chair, adapted a plate rack, started to build some boxes, stripped a banister and learnt a lot of new skills along the way!
Recently, the club has been focusing on making a workbench for the Bridges Project at Bridgeway Methodist Hall. Check out the progress pictures below!
At last weeks DIY Club, we made a wooden sign to go outside the NEP Hub. Each week we work together to bring member’s ideas to life!
Join us at the next session on Friday April 4th, 4-8pm.
Everybody’s welcome and we have tea, coffee and biscuits on tap.
The club has also set up a virtual noticeboard - a place for the members to request and offer help, and to share ideas on projects.
Building Barrel Tree Planters for the Meadows!
Together with FROMTHEGROUNDUP, Green Meadows are running workshops to build water saving planters for the Meadows.
We kicked-off with the first workshop at the start of the month, with attendees building barrel planters to grow fruit trees around the Meadows. Have you spotted them around the Meadows? Spot them on Wilford Crescent, Queens Walk and Atlas Street.
Next, we’re building crate planters to go in your backyards, able to store water and grow veggies.
Join us 1-4pm Saturday April 26, Saturday May 24 or Saturday June 14 and build your own planter.
Free to attend and everybody welcome.
Make Do and Mend
The second of our monthly mending workshops.
Together, Jude, an artist and expert in knitting and stitching, and Kay, who runs an alteration class at Queens Walk Community Centre, form a dream team to help residents with any issues, repairs or creative projects with their clothes.
Some of the repairs that were complete this month include: replacing zips, restitching scraggy button holes, altering a waistline on trousers and darning socks.
We will be running these monthly to give attendees a chance to develop these skills further each time. It’s a relaxed atmosphere with everyone working on their own project, whilst sipping tea and chatting. Sometimes, we notice, there is complete silence through effort of concentration, which we also love!
The next workshop is Saturday April 19, 10am-3pm. Sign up here!
Latest LOVE THE MEADOWS Action Day
In March, the LOVE THE MEADOWS Action Day was all about litter picking!
We managed to collect 13 bags of general waste and 2 bags of recycling in just 2 hours! We had a lovely break with pastries, tea and coffee, and admired the bursts of colour from crocuses popping up all around the Bridgeway Centre.
From March 28th to April 6th, it’s the Keep Britain Tidy Great British Spring Clean too. We have pledged to collect 10 bags of rubbish during that time.
Come along to the next action day, 10-12pm 5th April at Bridgeway Centre, to help us reach that target!
Coming soon… NEW events!
Across the next few months, we’re running new and exciting events within the community.
Edible Meadows: Plotting Session
15th April 2025, 6-8pm
NEP Climate Hub
Imagine a Meadows with fruit, veg and herbs growing on every corner.
We have mapped out the spaces to grow on, now we need you to decide what to plant! What would like to see growing in the Meadows?
Come along to this event to have your say and meet other keen growers in your community.
No need to be an experienced grower, we will learn as we go!
Monday 7th April & Tuesday 8th April, 5-8pm
NEP Climate Hub
Join us in building 3 compost boxes for a project with Victoria Primary School.
Victoria Primary School applied for the Green Meadows Ideas Fund to transform a small patch of land in front of their school into a mini-community garden. Alongside planters for herbs and flowers they will have a community compost site for residents and families to minimise food waste.
5-8pm with breaks when needed for teas, coffees and tasty homemade food (suitable for vegans and gluten free).
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