Notes from WAGs meeting Mon 10th Dec at 11.30am at Jills

Present: Paula, Charles, Jill, Anne, Carolyn, Esther

1. Arrangements for Plastics Collection days

These will take place on Sats Jan 26th and March 9th in Peck & Strongs car park on Lords Meadow Industrial Estate.

Jill & Anne to meet with John Peck to finalise arrangements

Charles has added PWS to Sus Cred WAGs pages

Charles to check with Tescos again re taking leaflets for checkouts after Xmas.

Anne to check with Morrisons re taking leaflets for checkouts

Carolyn to check with Hedgerow about price breaks for 2,3,4,and 5000 leaflets - need more because we have 2 dates coming up and also Tescos to put them out in. Carolyn will let us know what these price breaks are and we will make final decision on numbers by email. Carolyn will then order leaflets. Carolyn will distribute leaflets to supermarkets about 2 weeks in advance of date.

Carolyn has produced a poster which she will email to everyone. Each person to print off their own if possible.

Anne & Jill will poster High St plus other places they did last time, Charles will poster Tesco. Will put posters up at the beginning of January.

Paula to write article for the Courier for next edition (21st Dec)

2. Clothes and Household Goods Swap Day

This will take place on Sat 23rd March at the Boniface Centre.

Clothes Swap will follow same lines as last 2 years.

Household Goods Swap will be a - bring what you have and take away anything you want - format with
no ticketing and people allowed to bring stuff and take it away at any time. Jill will store anything that people who can't come want to donate in advance. We will not take electrical goods and will promote it as a de-clutter your
living space event, emphasising no junk, but only items with some useable lifespan. All goods brought on day must be carryable by one person. We will have a board where people can advertise bigger things and make their own
arrangements one on one to collect/deliver them away from the event.

Entry to both events will probably be £2.50 as before but Anne suggested we review all our costs before setting it finally so we do not make a loss. Anne will bring last years' figures to the next meeting.

Anne will contact Food Group about helping with food and drinks as in past two years.

We will produce a leaflet to give to everyone as they hand in their clothes/goods on figures and interesting/educational facts about what happens to waste clothing etc. Details to be arranged at next meeting.We are likely to need more volunteers than last time. Will work on who to ask at next meeting.

Carolyn will ask Hedgerow if they will do the artwork for the leaflet and poster on a complimentary basis as Jeff Bellingham has moved away.

3. Meeting with Kevin Finan, CEO of Mid Devon District Council

Kevin Finan had requested a meeting with us in response to an email from Charles commenting on an article he had
written in the Gazette about improving black box recycling and rewarding householders for putting more in their boxes.

Charles will arrange the meeting for 7th or 14th January 2013
and attempt to book the MDDC Council Chamber at the Council offices in Town Square. Community Transport would be considered as an alternative venue.

Charles will let everyone know the finalised date/time.

Charles will prepare some info for Mr Finan about what WAGs have achieved/are interested in with an emphasis on plastic.

4. Waste Sculpture at Community Market 22/23rd June 2013

Paula had put forward the idea of building a Waste Sculpture at the Community Market during the Crediton Festival
at the last meeting and subsequently talked to the Food Grp and Cred Fest organisers about it. Both were keen for it to happen at the Community Mkt on June 22/23rd 2013 .

Carolyn agreed to co-ordinate a small group of 'creative people' to decide how it should be organised/what form it should take.
Paula will ask Arts Centre (through Nancy Dowling) and in Sus Cred January newsletter for people who would be interested in helping to come forward.

Paula had agreed with Linda Lever that WAGs group would also run Sus Cred stall at the same event to co-ordinate
with the sculpture creation.

5. Recycling at the Food Festival 15/16 June 2013

Jill would speak to MDDC about us being provided with proper and
adequate recycling bins and sacks for the event.

Paula had spoken to Tim Harris (event organiser) about getting stallholders to use properly compostable and totally recyclable packaging for their take away food over the two days. She had provided him with samples and
price lists and suggested the stallholders set up a bulk buy scheme. Tim said he would see what he could do.

Paula would keep working on this as she did not find his response totally satisfactory.

6. Date for next meeting

This is now set for Monday 7th January

Charles will inform of exact time and location within the next few days.

There being no further business we ate a splendid bring and share lunch at Jills. Many thanks to her for organising it and to everyone for all the lovely food provided.

We all went home full and happy at about 3.30pm!!