Several new Freegle groups were founded in August.
They are:
Lincoln
New Forest West
North Dartmoor
New Forest East
Blackburn with Darwen
Seaton & Axminster ‘Axe, Seat ‘n’Lyme’
Two other groups Hyndburn and Bradford moved over to Freegle from their previous umbrella organisation.
We wish all the groups a very warm welcome.
We are very happy to see you here.
A very warm welcome to two new Freegle groups. We are delighted to see you here.
The groups are:
Hemel Hempstead
Tamworth
The additions took the number of groups in the Freegle family to 254. Now the total number of UK members stands at 1,092,086.
From the Redditch Advertiser dated 27 July 2010
A LEADING eco pioneer from Redditch has made it into the West Midlands Top 50 Green Leaders league.
To read the full article click here
This month three groups moved from their previous umbrella organisation to Freegle. These were:
Tonbridge
Sevenoaks
Aylesbury
Welcome to you all. We’re very happy to see you.
Here is the report from the July FreeSpOut, the journal mainly for moderators and group owners
Cat wrote, in great excitement:
We won!!! Awards are given out by the UK Centre for
Economic and Environmental Development (UKCEED)
We were joint winners of the Building Community
Networks Award. Glass Trophy. I’ll make sure it gets to
Freestock for everyone to stroke. It is hard to know what
to do with it now. It’s glass. Thinking cap on. Suggestions
welcome.
There have been several, including a “Freegle Relay”
with the trophy being passed from one group to the next
by foot or public transport. We’d probably need a large
quantity of freegled bubblewrap
(Our co-winners were Carbon Makeover, a project run by
Knowle West Media dealing locally with climate change.)
Since May five Freegle groups have been founded
These are:
Selsey and Manhood Peninsula
South-Derbyshire
Mearns
Grantham
Bicester
Including the new groups there are now 252 groups in the Freegle family.
A very warm welcome to the new groups. We are delighted to see you here.
From Northumberland Gazette dated 19 April 2010
Seahouses and Alnwick Freegle gives individuals, businesses and organisations like charities, schools or community groups a way to recycle unwanted household, office and other items, using an internet forum.
Freegle’s aims are to reduce waste by re-using things, to save resources and ease the burden on landfills by giving them free of charge to other members.
To read the full article click here
From South Wales Argus, dated 4 April 2010
A CWMBRAN environmentalist helped recruit more than 2,000 people to a green website after being spurred into action when his wife was diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer.
Brian Godwin, 70, became a moderator for Freegle Torfaen when his wife was diagnosed with the illness more than two years ago. A CWMBRAN environmentalist helped recruit more than 2,000 people to a green website after being spurred into action when his wife was diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer.
To read the full article click here
From Torfaen County Borough Council Website, March 2010
“Freegle has become my relief valve,” said Mr Godwin. “I was devastated when my wife was diagnosed with cancer – Freegle gives me a chance to focus on and think about something else during the day rather than get depressed about everything else that is happening.
“As well as Freegle, I’m also doing by bit to persuade local people to support recycling initiatives and I’m proud to be living in a county borough which has such excellent green credentials.”
To read the full article click here
During the last week of March and this month we’ve had several new Freegle groups join the Freegle family.
These include:
Bournmouth
Barnsley
Bagshot
Barton upon Humber
Fermanagh
Bath
Midlothian
Helensburgh
Lewes
Wimborne
Welcome to you all. We’re very happy to see you.
