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, […]
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 Brimscombe and Thrupp”. The site is to be developed on the Parish Council land off Hope Mill Lane that adjoins the playing field. We have the land, we have a […]