The long-awaited Parish Council / School collaboration on litter picking began this month as part of The Great British Spring Clean 2024 (organised under the banner of Keep Britain Tidy). On the first Sunday, March 17th, Cllr Deeks and his wife Clare did a test run and on the second Sunday we had a great little group of volunteers shown here including a couple of local children and their mums.
Highest item of rubbish? A beer can in a hedge!
Most interesting / old item of plastic? The ancient-looking Safeways Christmas shopping bag shown on the ‘featured image’ on the upper left of this post.
On both weekends we had lovely weather.
Next event booked is a School-organised litter pick on the sports field and around the Sports and Community Centre and playground – this is currently scheduled for after school on April 22nd.
From here on we hope to organise at least one ‘youngster-friendly’ litter pick a month across the spring, summer and autumn (staying within the safer village roads) and possibly additional ‘grown-up’ picks to tackle further-flung and slightly riskier trouble spots. Keep an eye out on the village and school noticeboards for updates (and the regular Parish Newsletter) if you’d like to be involved.
– Cllr Sam