Sustainable Willingham

16/04/2026

Can it? Can't it? Baffled? Our local recycling service is actually quite good... we can recycle much more than you might realise. And find out more about the new food waste scheme due to roll out in Willingham in October (I think!).

Please join us on Saturday at Cottenham Community Centre, where we'll be joined by Birgitta Laurent from the Greater Cambridge Shared Waste Service Greater Cambridge Recycles. Bring along your burning questions about what can and can't be recycled at home, what to do with tricky items, and to learn more about the new food waste system.

30/03/2026

Munch, scrunch, and recycle!

Foil tip: You want to scrunch up enough foil into a tennis ball size to improve the chances of it being recycled. The bigger the balls the better.

Leftover chocolate? Try the Olio app where you can give away food to someone else to enjoy and reduce waste.

You won't believe this crazy figure... 🙈not the 80 million Easter eggs sold in the UK...
..but Brits admitted to THROWING AWAY 20 million chocolate eggs last year.😮 This amounts to about 3000 tonnes of food, which to grow used over 5 billion litres of water and emitted around 9000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

If your household receives too many chocolate eggs this year, why not try the following:
🥣Melt them down and bake brownies. You can even freeze the brownies for later if you've hit peak chocolate!
🍪Break them up and use them like chocolate chips to put in cakes or ice cream.
❄️Freeze them! Yes, you can freeze them whole or break them into pieces and they will keep for about a year. This works best if you move them into freezer bags and cool them in the fridge first. When you get them out defrost them in the fridge overnight too.

16/03/2026

Have you tried refilling your household toiletries and cleaning supplies?

Time for some 2026 numbers! My favourite cute diddy refills for attention. Quick reminder we did 349 refills in 2025.... Can we beat it this year? 💚🌿

January saw 27 countable refills (despite not having a pop-up!)

February saw 61 countable refills!

Lovely seeing returning faces and new. Thanks for all the support and see you at the Bushel Box again on 29th March (a week early as the 1st Sunday is Easter Sunday).

16/03/2026

Great event at the Primary School!

After a very successful Cash for Clothes collection last March and again in September for the WSA, including a trial pre loved sale. We are doing a collection again and pre loved clothing sale, after-school on Friday 20th March and also Saturday 21st March coinciding with our fun Easter Bingo and AGM.

Children will be bring home their collection bag this week with details of what to do. Attached is a list of all the items we are able to take donations of. Please could you pop in the bag any items that maybe have been out-grown or no longer needed/used by yourselves, but are still in a wearable, useable condition. A member of the WSA will be at the bike shed (through the staff car park) 9am and 12noon, on Thursday 19th March, to assist with all returned bags.

If you need more than 1 bag, spares will be by the school office or you can use any other bag you have.

Please ensure items are not stained or damaged prior to donating

*Please note that the Friday sale is cancelled*

All monies raised go back into both educational resources and social enrichment for all children at Honeypot Pre-school and Willingham Primary School.

08/03/2026

Drop-in event - no need to book

Repairs are free - donations welcome

Electrical, mechanical, bikes, jewellery, tech (laptops/tablets etc.) and sewing and (small item) leather repairers

Car parking (inc disabled) available

Recycling theme crafts

Tea/coffee & cake!

24/02/2026

Did you know, you can bring your own containers to put your meat and cheese in at in Willingham? Just let them know before you start ordering and they can tare (remove the weight of) your container before weighing your chosen produce!

Here is John beautifully displaying my selection today in plastic free glass containers. I forgot one for cheese so that is wax paper wrapped loose in my reusable canvas tote. Bingo. John said it's becoming more frequent for his customers shopping like this and they are happy to support it. Thanks for supporting sustainable shopping!

I've been shopping at Highgate like this for over a year saving on average 364 pieces of single use plastic. That's just one person... Imagine if we all did that!

How did I work out the average? I pop in on average once a week [52 weeks] - sometimes I miss a week, sometimes I go twice. Each time, on average, I'll buy bacon and two other meat options [3 items]. Before I used my own containers I recall each item has a plastic/wax type wrapper and then in its own bag [2 single use]. These are then all put in another plastic carrier bag [1 single use]. 52x(3x2+1) = 364

11/02/2026

Half Term Hedgehogs!

All ages are welcome to our "Looking after Hedghogs" talk on Tuesday 17th February.

08/02/2026

organised an incredible event yesterday called the Imaginarium, it was busy and positively bubbling with possibilities. Lovely to find out more about the history and evolution of one of our neighbouring villages and share visions of the future.

06/02/2026

Looking forward to heading to the Imaginarium tomorrow 💚

H&I's Imaginarium is this Saturday and we'd love everyone to join us. Whether you like serious chat or a simple bit of junk modelling, there'll be something for all ages and forms of expression!
We're being joined in the St Andrew's Centre between 1- 4pm by some marvellous organisations and individuals including architects, councillors, artists, Gatehouse Allotments, Cambridge Organic, Water Sensitive Cambridge, Histon & Impington Green Spaces including Abbey Fields, Histon Repair Cafe, H&I Hedgehog Champions and many more.

Huge thanks to Histon Beer Festival, Cambridge Carbon Footprint and Half Moon Creative Arts for supporting this event.

03/02/2026

Looks like Willingham collections will begin in September 2026. According to the website, you’ll receive a letter in August with details and caddy delivery information.

What do you think of this big roll out?

01/02/2026

Excited to welcome Silver Fern Refillery. Lou will be here 10-1 today
The shop is open 10-3 for fruit, veg and more

30/01/2026

We need to change the way we produce food and what we eat, for the sake of the planet, animal welfare and our health. Read our take on sustainable eating.