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 the Community Grants team at Stroud District Council. Now we can buy everything we need to complete our build – and have a bit left over to go towards the […]
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 the builders move in to install groundworks and build our six big composting bays. Next we will be on site painting, making signs and fences, building a shelter, planting a […]
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 belong to anyone living in Brimscombe and Thrupp who has bought a share for the princely sum of £1. This will allow BATCOM to grow as the community want it […]
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 composting site. We are chuffed to report that BATCOM has to date received £2,810 in pledges – well on the way to our target! Please use this link to pledge your composting […]
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 a facility where residents can drop off their garden green waste and pick up bags of quality peat-free compost made on site – offering a sustainable circlular alternative to burning, […]
