Welcome to
Brimscombe & Thrupp Community Compost
Hello! This is BATCOM
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.
We don’t think that tonnes of green waste should have to travel for miles to recycling centres, or be turned into smoke and ash on people’s bonfires. And we don’t think people should have to go shopping to buy commercial compost when they can make a better product themselves, right here. So we got together, and invented BATCOM.
We need our community’s support to build our site
Composting in our Community
We need our community’s support to build our site
read about it here and pledge your support 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
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
It’s a GO!
On the 31st August 2023 we received planning permission from Gloucestershire County Council “for the development of a community composting site to serve the communities in
