Welcome to
Brimscombe & Thrupp Community Composters
We are BATCOM
We are building our brand new composting site, where we will take green garden waste and turn it into beautiful compost for the Brimscombe and Thrupp community.
BATCOM will be a welcoming space for all who have a love for growing, gardening and nurturing the land – and a desire to help grow community resilience and resourcefulness in a time of change.
Composting in our Community
We are a group of people who love to make compost. Organic growers, wheelbarrow-pushers, worm nerds, call us what you will. We have fun taking the ‘green waste’ from our gardens and allotments and using it to feed our soil, right here.
There’s nothing new about community composting – us humans have
been recycling our unwanted organic waste for many thousands of years. Earliest written accounts date back over 4,000 years to southwestern Asia, and evidence from the Neolithic period has been found closer to home in Scotland.
Compost is a nutrient-rich humous made through the aerobic
biological decomposition of organic materials. It’s added to soil as a conditioner, making the ground more fertile and full of microbial life, feeding plants and supporting their healthy growth.
Some of the valuable ways community composting works for us today includes reducing our carbon footprint by eliminating the need to transport waste; cutting the amount of waste going to landfill; and reducing methane emissions which would be otherwise produced by commercial composting practices.
Additionally and just as importantly, it helps people connect, keep fit and have a laugh together.
Latest News
Working Party off to a chilly start!
Brrrr! The site was frozen solid for the first working party day on 11th January, scuppering a few plans. A bit of litter-picking (read: wrestling
Crowdfunder Smashes Target
We’re delighted to announce that our Spacehive crowdfunder raised more than we could have hoped thanks to your generous donations and a £4,000 boost from
We are Crowdfunding
The BATCOM Build is underway! Over the next few weeks, you will see things starting to happen at our new community composting site as Yatemans
BATCOM is a Community Benefit Society
Hi, we are Brimscombe and Thrupp Community Composters Ltd Happy Days! BATCOM is now a registered Community Benefit Society. This means that our composting scheme will
The fundraising post
Huge thanks to everyone who used the link in our last newsletter to pledge support to our fundraising drive to raise £8,000 to build the new community
Can you give us a push?
A call to action….. BATCOM is ready to grow! The new community composting initiative in Brimscombe and Thrupp has enormous local support. BATCOM will be
