Crowdfunding campaign for Wombles statue
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to build a bench with a bronze statue of Orinoco in Wimbledon. The plan is for a high-quality wooden bench...
Wombles news
Orinoco visits Wimbledon shopping centre
Orinoco Womble showed off his glossy new look on a visit to Wimbledon town centre on 11 February. He took an afternoon stroll through Centre Court...
New-look Wombles revealed
The Wombles are back, with a fresh new look. They revealed their updated CGI style as part of the launch of the Great British Spring Clean on 25...
Orinoco launches the Great British Spring Clean
The Wombles have joined forces with Keep Britain Tidy for this year’s Great British Spring Clean.
New official Wombles social media account launched
A new ‘WomblesOfficial’ account has appeared on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, teasing us with Womble figures in silhouette and the hashtag...
Green Plaque for Wombles author Elisabeth Beresford
Elisabeth Beresford has been honoured with a Green Plaque on her former home in Wandsworth, south London. The children’s author and creator of the...
The Wombles feature in Fortnum & Mason documentary
A new documentary about Orinoco’s favourite luxury food emporium includes an interview about the Wombles with author Elisabeth Beresford’s children....
Write Said Fred: Bernard Cribbins publishes his autobiography
Bernard Cribbins’s autobiography, Bernard Who?, was published on 11 October - targeting the Christmas book market, just as he approaches his 90th...
Common origins: 50 years since the first Wombles book was published
First edition of The Wombles, as seen on the Antiques Roadshow It’s 50 years since the very first Wombles book was published, in September 1968....
Wombles book appears on the Antiques Roadshow
The original 1968 Wombles book was featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, thanks to Elisabeth Beresford’s daughter Kate Robertson. Kate went along...
Wombles’ place names on Only Connect
Hot on the heels of The Chase, now the BBC2 quiz show Only Connect has featured the Wombles. In the ‘Dandies v Gaffers’ episode broadcast on 29...
Tidy Bag appears on The Chase
Tidy Bag was featured as a question on the ITV quiz show The Chase, presented by Bradley Walsh. In the episode aired on 11 September 2017, one of the...