Council Nappy Initiative!

[melfi]

OOh I have to tell someone who cares about my freebies. DP is a bit bored with my new nappy obsession!

Anyway, I found out my council were doing a nappy initiative. I thought it might have been a money off voucher or something to help fund my new nappies.

I phoned and this lady said she would come out and chat to me about it. So at 4pm today this nice lady arrived at my door with a bag.

In her bag was

1 mother ease AIO
1 bamboozle
1 little ewes terry
1 motherease B2P
1 motherease rikki wrap
1 tots bots wrap (the new design blue with white starts)
3 nippas
1 Roll of Liners.

I thought they were just to talk me through my diffeernt options and then she said.

"so these are yours now, you don't have to give me them back!"

Wooohooo free nappies for my collection!!

I am so chuffed!

You lucky thing! I wish my council was a bit more proactive about encouraging people like this.

All I got was some cheapy junior joy prefolds and wraps - that leaked everywhere! Really not the way to encourage people to try washables. Luckily I was already addicted and had a wide selection.

Crikey, freebies from councils !!!!!!!! Where are you two ????

Well, my council gives free tots bots

Glagow City Council don't seem to do anything (shame! shame!) but my sil sneakily applied to the Edinburgh scheme for me and I got a lovely minki wet bag containing:

1 x meo
1 x airflow wrap
1 x rainbow bots
1 x red tots bots wrap
1 x little ewes terry
1 x nippa
and some paper liners

Along with lots of info on using resuables & the benefits.

It's so worthwhile as I was vaguely interested in reusables before this but it gave me the impetus to do something about it and even though the nappies I now use are not the ones I got in the pack it gave me the chance to see, feel and get a handle on what was involved.

I think if councils really want to cut down on waste they should be running more of these schemes. Hurrah for Edinburgh City Council. Boo to Glasgow

Shona, a little west and you'd be heading for some free tots bots

my council gave me £50 to spend on nappies that was for dd3 it was a £20 voucher and then £30, and gave a list of places I could use it

dd2 I had to spend £100 and get £50 back, but was only at one place

Am so jealous! My council will sell you a starter selection for £50 and give you a £20-off voucher for Cotton Bottoms (I think?) if you decide to go with them, but that's it. No freebies. Boo to Hammersmith & Fulham!

Hooray!

This is what I got from my local nappy project:

For £10 (£5 if on benefits) you get a nappy bucket with:

a motherease one size nappy
a totsbots nappy
a fuzzibunz pocket nappy with booster
a totsbots fluffle nappy with booster
a prefold
a terry square

and
a motherease rikki wrap
a motherease airflow wrap

and
a nappi nippa
an extra totsbots booster
2 fleece liners
a roll of flushable liners

well done Highland!

wow!where do you live?im moving there!we get £250 loan for washing machine or nappies but only on new nappies which to me misses whole reuse recycle bit of cloth!but our washing machine has died so were making use of the washing machine loan.

Ours give... oh that;s right - NOTHING!

last week i thought ours didnt but recieved news that it does!so sorry cornish real nappy project!
flame email your council this thread!

Believe me - I have a whole big essay I email them each week with various examples

The people standing for elections kept shoving email addresses through my door - they will live to regret that

Seeing as they got in by sending out mailing slaggin off the other party, they can prove how much better they are.

(Sorry, still a bit they won by a big majority, but its a hell of a lot easier when you can pick apart the current group's mistakes rather than showing how YOU will make it better!!!)

Ours do nothing either - despite waste disposal being high on the council's agenda of priorties (not convinced!!!). When I was on mat leave I emailed them and suggested as a starter why not put some info on the council website about the benefits and some links to the real nappy network etc etc etc (well its a start!!). Anyway didn't bother to reply so I chased and eventually someone sent me an email telling me all the benefits of real nappies (durrrr!!! - I know that - thats why I contacted you!!) anyway without being too stroppy I emailed them back and restated my suggestion and eventually got a reply to say they would pass it on to the their managers!!! - needless to say I haven't heard any more. I have gone back to work now so don't have much time (confession time - I work for the Council myself but in a completely different area) so haven't followed it up - but I kind of lost the will to live!! (though use it as an example to the team I work in of how not to respond to the public!!)