Why are we collecting Bags of Textiles?  Try our FREE Textile Recycling Service

• socket set spanner set
• screwdrivers wire brushes for rubbing down
• orbital sander(s)
• jigsaw bolt cutters
• also someone to do fibre glassing
• marine ply and paint – bilge paint, anti foul and navy blue boat paint

Any items, greatly appreciated from the above list, and guaranteed, these are for the kids, not the staff !

Call Debbie on 7931 945 282 if you can help Walton Sea Cadets, thank you

JPG – Download a free copy of our Textile Recycling Service Poster as a JPG Here

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In January 2012 1st Weybridge Scout Group are offering local residents a very easy and efficient way to recycle their unwanted clothing, thus ensuring it doesn’t end up as landfill plus helping to clothe those in 3rd world countries and raise funds towards their ongoing renovations works.  Last year in May 2011 1st Weybridge Scout Group stopped over 500 bin bags size of textiles weighing just over 2 tonnes ending up as landfill and earned themselves £1123.50 for their efforts!  This project was made possible due to huge support from the local public and businesses especially from Lionel Smith at The Storage Pod in Brooklands who arranged for the safe storage of the textiles.

Our target is to collect over 500 bags of textiles, so please let us have your old tea-towels, holey socks, worn jeans, wrong sized clothes, grown out of shoes / coats / hats / gloves, old bedding, handbags, curtains, bathroom mats, towels, blankets, sleeping bag etc – anything that is a textile from the list below we can take.

WE ARE COLLECTING (in ANY Condition) from Now until Thursday 22 March 2012
Clothing (Adults & Childrens including all underwear)
Curtains
Towels
Bedding
Handbags
Belts
Hats
Shoes

WHY?
To provide the community with an alternative solution to throwing away their unwanted clothing in a bin which ends up as landfill by offering a collection point or collecting direct from their home/place of work.  And also to help raise funds for 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group who are still raising funds for “Renovations Works at the HQ”. All donations gratefully received, the more we collect the more we can raise and the more you can help clothe those in 3rd world countries. Did you know that 12% of landfill is made up of textiles!

WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE TEXTILES?
Every single item collected will be recycled. The wearable clothing, shoes, belts, hats and handbags will be reused by those in 3rd world countries, as will the bedding, towels, curtains. Any items that can’t be worn or used will be remade into clothes or other items – not a scrap is wasted.  We use a company called “Phil the Bag” and you can read about our success story on their website.

DROP or COLLECT
Bags of textiles can left at 1st Weybridge Scout HQ on a Wednesday or Thursday or please call Debbie on 07931 945 282 to arrange a collection. Deadline for collections/drops is 23 March 2012.

WE AIM TO COLLECT AT LEAST 500 BAGS! Every Sock Counts!
So far we have collected over 430 Bags full of textiles – keep them coming in please. 1st Weybridge would not have been able to run this appeal without the help of The Storage Pod in Brooklands who are big on supporting community projects like our scout troops by kindly letting us store the bags free of charge. So if you find you need to extra space to store your items for home or business then please consider a The Storage Pod who are committed to helping projects like ours. They can provide competitively priced storage units for any length of time from 1 week or more. Accessible 7 days a week, fully alarmed with CCTV and easy to find on the Brooklands Trading Estate. For more details visit their website www.thestoragepod.com or call Lionel on 01932 353 700.

Below are some highlights of last years May 2011 successful collection:

2nd Storage Pod almost full with bags at 23 May 2011

This is our amazing picture story of moving those 500 bags from the two Storage Pods to the two awaiting Lorries – the end of a very good campaign.

Unloading Bags from the 1st Storage Pod in Brooklands, Weybridge @ 27 May 

Tiz lining up bags to send down in the lift @ 27 May 2011

Phil & Jeanette helping load the Textile lorry @ 27 May 2011

Phil the Bag Lorry Drivers helping with the shifting of the 500 Bags @ 27 May 2011

The two Phil the Bag Lorries at The Storage Pod who supported our Campaign @ 27 May 2011

Over 500 Bags loaded onto the two lorries ready to be Recycled @ 27 May 2011

Our first early Christmas present was from Tiny Toddlers, a local childcare company recommended by the Good Nanny Agency Guild, who has sourced offers of free labour to help us move forwards with our renovations work. Emma the owner of www.tinytoddlerschildcare.co.uk, saw our plea for help on Twitter and arranged help from a local building company with whom she has connections.

Our second early Christmas present was from Leigh Lush of www.premierheating.net who initially contacted 1st Weybridge Scouts offering his help with our Lego Fundraising Project. He met with the fundraising co-ordinator, Debbie Conibere, and offered to see if he could help source some toilet equipment. We are thrilled to report that Leigh has sourced 1st Weybridge Scout Group all the equipment we need to fit the two new toilet blocks at the HQ for free.

Our third early Christmas present has come from the Community Foundation for Surrey who have awarded 1st Weybridge Scout Group £1000 towards our renovations works.

Debbie Conibere, Fundraising Co-ordinator, excitedly reported, “1st Weybridge has been totally overwhelmed by the generosity of support for our renovations works and are thrilled that earlier in the month Emma from Tiny Toddlers Childcare sourced free labour, Leigh of Premier Heating has been able to kit out the new toilet blocks in the form of free toilets, sinks and more.  The final icing on the cake was when a letter arrived with the Christmas Post informing us that we had been awarded a £1000 towards new windows from the Community Foundation for Surrey!”

“This means that over the Christmas period, when people still tucking into their Turkey Sandwiches, work will commence on our new toilet block, plus one of our huge windows will be replaced.  When the Beavers, Cubs and their parents return in the New Year they will be greeted with sparkling new working toilets which is one of the best presents of all.”

These are three truly wonderful gifts which will really help our group with the renovation of our HQ, our aim is to have a beautifully renewed building that we can open for public use.

In early 2012 work will commence on the rest of the windows at 1st Weybridge Scout Groups HQ which will ensure our building holds in the heat instead of it escaping out of the broken windows. There is still a long way to go as the HQ needs rewiring, a new catering style kitchen, building of a disabled access ramp, redecoration and more, so there are lots more fundraising events planned for 2012.

If you can offer help of labour or materials then please contact Debbie Conibere on 07931 945 282, email debbie@1stweybridgescouts.org.uk or @1stWeybridge on Twitter

A message from some of the children at 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group

Beautiful and simple to make - an Ice Centrepiece for your Christmas Table

This is a very simple Ice Centrepiece that you can make with the children, its free, gets the children outside in the fresh air and is lots of fun to make. Don’t forget to remind children not to eat the berries and to take care with the holly and scissors!

You will need:
Secateurs or Scissors
Bag
Plastic freezer owl
Plastic Cup
Sellotape
Tea lighter or Short Candle

1) Wander to your local open space or garden and gather together holly, fir and any other festive plants you wish to use

2) At home empty all your cuttings onto a tray or table

3) Using sellotape suspend the plastic cup in the centre of a plastic bowl

4) Place the holly, fir and other plants bits into the gap between the bowl and cup.

5) Fill the gap between the cup and bowl with cold tap water

6) Place bowl carefully in the freezer and leave for 48hrs to set

7) Remove from freezer on the day you wish to use your Ice Centrepiece

8 ) Pour warm water into the cup and wait until it loosens, then remove

9) Place a plate on top of the bowl, turn upside down to remove ice sculpture from bowl

10) Turn your ice centrepiece the right way up, place a tea lighter inside to finish

Ice Centrepiece when removed from Freezer

Ice Centrepiece with cup removed using warm water in cup

The 15th and 16th December 2011 has seen some very exciting developments for 1st Weybridge Scout Group renovations works.  Over these past two days we have been given two wonderful early Christmas presents!

Tiny Toddlers, a local childcare company recommended by the Good Nanny Agency Guild, has sourced offers of free labour to help us move forwards with our renovations work.  Emma the owner of www.tinytoddlerschildcare.co.uk,  saw our plea for help on Twitter and arranged help from a local building company with whom she has connections.

Our second early Christmas present was from Leigh Lush of www.premierheating.net who initially contacted 1st Weybridge Scouts offering his help with our Lego Fundraising Project.  He met with the fundraising co-ordinator, Debbie Conibere, and offered to see if he could help source some toilet equipment.  We are thrilled to report that Leigh has sourced 1st Weybridge Scout Group all the equipment we need to fit the two new toilet blocks at the HQ for free.

These are two truly wonderful gifts which will really help our group with the renovation of our HQ, our aim is to have a beautifully renewed building that we can open for public use.

If you can offer help of labour or materials then please contact Debbie Conibere on 07931 945 282, email debbie@1stweybridgescouts.org.uk or @1stWeybridge on Twitter

A message from some of the children at 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group

A fun evening singing Carols with our new 1st Weybridge Scouts Chairman

1st Weybridge Parents and Children wrapped up warm for Carol Singing

Singing Jingle Bells - one of the Childrens favourite Christmas Songs

Hot Chocolate break to keep everyone warm

A lull between train departures - waiting for the next group of Weybridge Commuters

It has become a tradition at 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group to finish off our fundraising year by Carol Singing to the commuters at Weybridge Train Station.  On a very cold Thursday 15th December 2011 we sang our hearts out for the the wonderful Weybridge Commuters who dug deep into their pockets and donated over £403!  This is the largest amount 1st Weybridge has ever raised Carol Singing so we would like to say a HUGE Festive Thank You to every one of the Weybridge Commuters who gave so generously.

We all enjoyed the Carol Singing and the children especially enjoyed the Jaffa Cakes and Hot Chocolate break which makes the whole experience that little bit special at this magical time of the year.

We hope you enjoyed our Carols as much as we enjoyed singing them.

The money raised is going towards our ongoing renovation works http://1stweybridgescouts.org.uk/save-our-scout-hut/

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from everyone at 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own) Scout Group

Lego Model Design @ 4 Dec 2011

Just look at the amazing work that Andy and Leigh have made on the Scaled Down Model of our HQ in Lego!  The scale model is being made at 8 lego studs to each 1 metre.

Great detail already including our brand new sign over the door, the very specific windows and layout is utterly brilliant guys.

Thanks to the generosity of Duncan from Bright Bricks (www.bright-bricks.com) who are supplying the lego bricks to make this fundraising project viable we really will have a brilliant team who are striving to help us raise much needed funds to renovate our HQ so that we can open it for both Scout and public use.

We are still looking for one special person or company who can help us by constructing the payment side of the website, the idea is that when a brick is sponsored the sponsor will see their brick on the building. There will also be the option to see every brick placed right up until the sponsor of their brick (i.e. sponsor of brick number 53 will see bricks from 1 to 53 placed in a little stop motion animation).  We are going to take a picture of every brick placed and stream them together in an stop motion animation.  So we are hoping we can find a special person or company who can help – so if you are that special person or company who feel they can donate their time to helping us make this fundraising venture possible I’d really love to hear from you.

Please contact Debbie on 07931 945 282 or email debbie@1stweybridgescouts.org.uk.

Lego Model Design Phase One

Our Lego Scaled Down Model of our HQ is starting to take shape.

Last week Debbie met with Andy Bacon and Leigh Lush who have worked together and have come up with the base plan from which they can start to design the rest of the model.

The model is scaled to 8 lego studs per 1 metre.