Rugby Eco Hub Newsletter 21st August 2025

Dear Eco Hub friends and supporters,

If this is your first time receiving this newsletter and would like to find out more about the projects the Eco Hub hold please click HERE.

Overview of key dates

• Every other Thursday (Next class on the 21st August): Knitting Classes, The Eco Hub, 7pm - 9pm
• Friday 22nd August: Benn Ward Community Day, Millennium Green Park 12PM - 5PM
• Monday 1st September: Library of things Admin Working Party, The Eco Hub 6PM-9PM
• Tuesday 2nd September: Green Drinks

Keep an eye on our upcoming events via our Events page.

We Joined Rugby Lotto!

Do you play the lottery? Well with Rugby Lotto you can be in with the chance of winning up to £25K Jackpot as well as other prizes - All for £1 a ticket. 

For every £1 ticket sold a percentage is given back to community groups like us to continue organising community projects such as Library of Things, Repair Cafe and The Growing 🌱 Group.

To buy your tickets and support Rugby Eco Hub please click HERE

Volunteers Needed!

Have you got a few spare hours? Please take a look at out volunteering opportunities:

• Watering and Weeding - Saturdays based off a rota system
• Watch Repair Volunteer - 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month Jan- Nov
• General cleaning of the halls - No Date or Time
• Library of Things Admin - 20th August and 1st September
• Plus More...

You can take a look at these on our volunteer bulletin. 

Garden Organic's Foraging Walk

Last week, Garden Organic hosted a foraging walk from Benn Hall through to Caldecott Park. Two of our team, Patrick and Kirsty joined the walk and looked at the differences between Chestnuts and what ones you can eat and we found herbs planted at the entrance of Caldecott including a huge section of Rosemary. 

It was very informative and we even made tea using dried herbs, flowers and fruit. We would very much like to go again if we had the opportunity! 

Volunteers Barbecue

Thank you to everyone that came to our volunteers BBQ. We all had a great time and the food was yummy too! 

A special thank you to Becky, Alex, Becca and Maggie. Becky and Maggie came early to make sure everything was set up and ready to go, Alex was our BBQ man of the hour and Becca made the most amazing Nectarine Tart! 

We all had so much fun the only picture we managed to get was of Patrick's kebabs! 

Lets get together again soon!

Repair Cafe

6th +20th September, The Eco Hub 10AM - 1PM

We had another great week at the Repair Cafe last week, from vacuums to dishwashers this week!

We are still on the look out for fixers that would like to join in, so if you are handy with a screwdriver, a needle or Operating Systems come join in the fun on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month! 

Growing 🌱 Group

Saturdays, 10:30am -12:30pm at the Eco Hub

Our Growing 🌱 Group publish a leaflet on growing your own produce. Please find their new leaflet HERE

Whilst at the Garden Organic foreign walk, Patrick our trustee, was able to highlight the amazing work of our Growing 🌱 Group and its planters in Caldecott Park. Coming to the end of harvesting our planter still looked amazing!

Then on Saturday our lovely kitchen team made lunch and it looked and tasted so good!

We had stuffed courgettes with salad followed by Apple with Banana Ice Cream!

Hats off to the chef!

We meet up regularly and communicate through our WhatsApp group. Please click to join the group, find out about our future activities, and help us both to maintain and water the planters as well as help plan our future growing projects across the Borough. 

Library of Things

The Library of Things have now introduced more products which you can find on our catalogue HERE. 

Just some of the great items we have on offer are;

Supporting the Library of Things 

If you are having a spring clean and see some items that you would like to donate please contact us!

We are also hosting Library of Things working parties on the 20th August and 1st September. Come along if you are able to help!

As the Library of Things continues to grow, we would love it if more and more people start using this amazing community resource.  You can help make this a reality by distributing flyers to the local community.  If this is something you feel you could help with, simply come to the Hub to collect some flyers and let us the know the street(s) you are able to do.  You can find the list of priority streets here. 

Knitting Classes

7th + 21st August 7pm - 9pm

From Thursday 5th June, we are fortunate to be able to offer Knitting Classes at Rugby Eco Hub, kindly hosted by Irina Meier.  We welcome absolute beginners, rusty old-timers and unsure novices, but also experienced knitters might be interested as the 'continental knitting technique' will be shown.  

To book a space, please complete this google form.  Suggested donation: £3.  

*We will need a minimum of 6 people for this to take place.   

FreVktchn, the Eco Hub, 3pm-5pm

FreVktchn is a charity organisation that helps vulnerable people, if they need a hot meal or advise on benefits or housing, FreVktchn is there to help. 

They hold their free meals in a session at The eco hub every Saturday 3pm - 5pm and is open to all that may need it, 

If you, someone that you know or someone you meet in the street may need some help please make your way down to the Eco Hub and grab some delicious home cooked vegan food.