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Community Compost Club celebrates sieve
July 22, 2009 8:20 AM
The Community Composting Club in Wellow has taken delivery of a giant sieve for removing sticks, large lumps and aerating the compost (thereby removing the need to shred before the material goes in), which has been paid for using the new "Ward Councillor Initiative Fund" from B&NES Council.
Neil and Joanne use the new sieve
The Composting Club built three giant compost bins in the centre of Wellow for residents' use. The volunteers running the Club hope to allow recycling to happen locally - avoiding bonfires and unnecessary car journeys - and to create a communal resource in the form of homemade compost out of a 'waste product'.
Local Councillor Neil Butters was one of the first recipients of the "Ward Councillor Initiative Fund" from B&NES Council. This fund allocates £4,000 for each Councillor to be spent on projects in his or her ward.
The rest of the money was spent on replacing children's play area fencing at Hinton Charterhouse, and helping create a Pre-School in Freshford.
Joanne MacInnes from the Community Composting Club commented, "The grant from our councillor has thrown us a life line and ensured that we have a safety net with which to confidently carry on. We have insurance costs and planning fees next year and equipment costs, such as our new and wonderful sieve, tool sheds etc and all of this is made possible by the money we were given by the Council. Unlike other sites in other Counties we do not get waste credits back from waste we divert from landfill, so we must rely on grants instead"
Councillor Neil Butters (Lib Dem, Bathavon South), added, "I was delighted to help such an imaginative project - the first such in the whole of Bath & North East Somerset. It is a show-piece, which has won over many locally who were at first sceptical."
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