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"Give or Take Day"
If you are planning a spring clear-out of the attic
or garden shed, or just need to make some more space
in the house, this event is just the thing.
The BPCA held a "Give or Take Day" at its new
Community Centre at 128 Myddleton Road on Saturday 26th
June. The theme was gardening, Bowes Park residents
being invited to bring unwanted plants, seeds, and small
tools and take anything they could use.
Around 20 people and a dog came, goods on offer included
organic rosemary from Bowes Park, hollyhock seeds from
Egypt, a wide range of flower and vegetable seeds, flower
pots, tomato and pepper plants and home-baked bread!
The next event (see below) will be on Saturday, 31st
July, 2-4pm, this time for toys, games and children's
clothes.
Previous Give and Take days have proved enormously
popular with hundreds of people attending and new
homes were found for tons of item; things that may
otherwise have ended up in landfill sites.
New Community Centre in Myddleton Rd,
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Further events, similar to this, are
being arranged at our new Community Centre. Here are
the details we've got already:Last Saturday of the month: Give or
Take between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., as follows:
- 31st July will be toys, games and children's clothes;
- 28th August will be clothes;
- 25th September will be books, CDs, DVDs and stationery
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New
clothes recycling bins come to
Haringey
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Community Clean-Up
There
will be a Community Clean Up in the local area. This will be taking
place on various dates in different locations. Leaflets and information
regarding the Clean Up will be distributed one week prior the clearance
date but if you'd like to see when your street is involved (Haringey
Borough only),
click here.
Sustainable Haringey Working Groups
There will be a
North
London
Waste Management meeting for Haringey
residents...
On 7th February there was a
meeting to
discuss 'the wide range of waste
facilities needed to manage the waste
produced in North
London. The Plan is in the early
stages of preparation and we would like your views on key issues and policy
options.' It seems they are setting the policies and plans for the next
decade..
The North
London
Waste Plan will identify sites for the
wide range of waste facilities needed
to manage the waste produced in
North
London. The Plan is in the early
stages of preparation and we would like your views on key issues and policy
options.
A leaflet about this venture is available to
read here. (You
will need
Adobe
Acrobat Reader™ which you can download for free in order to view
it.)
The full issues and options report can
be viewed at the North
London
Waste Plan website -
www.nlwp.net, at Camden s
Culture and Environment Reception or one of our libraries. At these locations
you can also see related reports on waste
data, previous consultation, flooding risks, habitats, equalities and
sustainability.
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In conjunction with the Forest Recycling Project
and Global Action Plan, the Women's Environmental Network
has produced a guide on Give & Take Days. This may be of special
interest and help to those organizing a day of exchanging unwanted but
usable items (not dissimilar to the Freecycle concept outlined below).
If you would like to read their guidelines for
organizing such an event,
click here
(opens in new window).
Please note
document is
in .pdf format and you will need
Adobe
Acrobat Reader™ which you can download for free in order to view
it.
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You may be interested in a service called Freecycle®, a
worldwide, though locally co-ordinated, service for finding and getting rid of
items. Have a look at their website by clicking on the logo above (opens
in a new window, so we'll still be here when you've finished!)
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Seven North London Boroughs (Barnet, Camden, Enfield,
Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest) are working together as
planning authorities to identify sufficient space for facilities for
managing North London’s waste. The boroughs are in the early stages of
developing a North London Waste Plan which will run to 2020. There are a
range of activities organized by and information available from this
group to find out more about them
click here.
Freecycle® at the Bowes Park Community Garden:
After the hugely
successful Freecycle® Event in October 2007, another was held on 5th
April. a Saturday morning in the community garden on Myddleton Road and a further event was held on 12th July,
2008. Watch here for news of further Freecycling!
"Freecycling" is
instant free recycling – people bring along items they no longer
want such as CDs, books, furniture, electrical equipment, and
other household items. If anyone else at the event likes your
item they can take it away, likewise you can take away anything
you want or need. No money changes hands and the only rule is
that people must take away anything they bring that doesn’t get
taken.
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Haringey Federation of Residents'
Associations
We are a member of the Haringey Federation of Residents'
Associations which acts as an umbrella organization. Some of Bowes Park,
of course, falls in the Borough of Enfield but many of the issues affect
all of us in this area. You can go straight to their page and read about
the issues they are involved in by
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