We really enjoyed meeting everyone and getting the first visits underway! We hope you feel excited to start and let us know with any questions at all via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

The first challenges have just launched on the app today! Here are a few reminders about getting started & keeping in touch with us throughout the project: 

The app  

Access via https://app.circle-up.eu/  

• You should be able to log in  

• Challenges on the app are live today! Feel free to start engaging with the challenges and checking out the various tools available on the app  

• App webinar – if you’d like some support with getting started using the app we will be running a drop in session on 2 June at 12pm-12:45pm. You can join us with this link   

• Please check in your profile that the project ID is displayed as GB-000-00   

• Reminder about using the app: if your full name is visible in your profile, everyone using the app will able to see this (across Wantage and European countries)   

• Please avoid using the events and app features for now. We are exploring how these might be used in future but for now they are not being monitored by us. Using these features is at your own risk.  

• Keep posting your circular stories about how you are bringing CircleUp into your life – we love your posts so far!  

• Complete the Think and draw task – by mid June  

• Start weighing your waste and recording this on your spreadsheet  

Keep in the loop  

• You can keep in the loop with CircleUp Wantage on our webpage here: Wantage in the loop - we will be posting various useful links, articles, events and information here on an adhoc basis  

• We will share a monthly update with you via email on everything that is going on, so watch out for more.  

• We have lots planned across the project (including mending workshops, a visit to the Energy Recovery Facility and anaerobic digestor, and more) which we will share more information about soon!  

• There are loads of great events happening in the local community, more information will be shared on our webpage, so look out for these, including:  

• Great Big Green Week, across Oxfordshire  

• Clothes Clinic at the Beacon on Sat 6 June  

• The Mix refills delivery pilot   

As always, if you have any questions about anything or think of something you’d like to learn or see within the project, please do let us know.   

Best wishes, 

Amiee, Jess & Rachel