Children’s Summer Recycling Activities with Prizes and Giveaways
Starting on Wednesday 27th July there are five fantastic fun-packed events.
Each event runs from 10am until 2pm and there is a free limited edition bag available for the first 100 people each day.
- Find out how clothes and textiles are recycled
- Bring along any unwanted/outgrown clothes - even your old school uniform for recycling!
- Quiz sheets
- Colouring-in
- Litter-picking games
- Recycling relay races
- Paper potting (fill the paper pop with compost, pop in a seed and take it home to grow!)
- Paper making (beware this gets messy!), weather permitting
On Tuesday 9th August and Tuesday 16th August The Recylce Races features Dr Bike and is hosted in Jephson Gardens by the new Action21 Sustainability Centre at East Lodge!
- Pump Rooms Gardens (by the bandstand) - Wednesday 27 July, 10am - 2pm
- Abbey Fields (play area) - Wednesday 3 August, 10am - 2pm
• Jephson Gardens by Action 21 Sustainability Centre at East Lodge
SPECIAL EVENT Tuesday 9 August, 10am - 2pm
- "DR. BIKE" bicycle MOT performed by the dedicated volunteers from the Action 21 Bicycle Workshop. Dr. Bike welcomes the public to bring their bikes for a full check-over including minor repairs and adjustments in exchange for a donation to support Action 21.
- £3 Prize Vouchers for the Action 21 Re-Useful Centre
- Free Organic Apple Squash (in re-usable sports cups)
- St Nicholas Park (play area) - Wednesday 10 August, 10am - 2pm
• Jephson Gardens by Action 21 Sustainability Centre at East Lodge
SPECIAL EVENT Tuesday 16 August, 10am - 2pm
- "DR. BIKE" bicycle MOT performed by the dedicated volunteers from the Action 21 Bicycle Workshop. Dr. Bike welcomes the public to bring their bikes for a full check-over including minor repairs and adjustments in exchange for a donation to support Action 21.
- £3 Prize Vouchers for the Action 21 Re-Useful Centre
- Free Organic Apple Squash (in re-usable sports cups)
About the Action 21 Bicycle Workshop
Here are 5 good reasons why Action 21's Bicycle Workshop, based at the Re-Useful Centre, is so exciting:
1. We make it possible for people to cycle, thereby reducing their carbon footprint and transport costs, by providing cheap quality bikes to members of the public. Prices for good adult bikes start at £30, roughly 20% of their original price. This doesn't reflect the quality of the bikes on sale - which have all been thoroughly checked by properly trained mechanics who give their time voluntarily for Action 21.
2. On top of the environmental benefits, riding a bike is a fantastic way of improving personal fitness.
3. We're taking a stand against a throw-away culture by encouraging re-use. All of our bikes have been donated to us by and would otherwise have been thrown away. Our fully-trained volunteer mechanics give them a thorough overhaul and a new lease of life.
4. Our volunteer programme provides training and gives people a skill. Volunteers have included those on work placements, wanting to learn a skill and give their time to charity, and retired mechanics wanting to give something back.
5. The money generated from bike sales helps sustain the other charitable activities of
Action 21.
