Rubbish Bags Collected around Wilmslow Leisure Centre on 7th June 2014
Another good effort. There were 6 volunteers and we collected about 10 bags of rubbish. We met at the Leisure Centre and picked up litter in the surrounding area. We also tidied up Station Road and some of Macclesfield Road.
Well done everyone!
Another good litter pick with 8 volunteers turning up. We met at Bank Square and then spread out in various directions. The area covered included Church Street, Manchester Road, Alderley Road, Knutsford Road, the car parks near Sainsbury’s, the library, Parkway, Water Lane, Altrincham Road and Prestbury Road. We collected about 12 bags of rubbish.
We are finding increasing numbers of small discarded laughing gas cylinders.
Concern was raised about the state of the shop frontage outside Tesco Express.
We were also shocked by the amount of litter found in the memorial gardens.
Wilmslow is aiming to do well in the 2014 Britain In Bloom competition. The judges will be in the town on Thursday 10th July. The judges will be interested in the quality of planting but the cleanliness of the town will also be taken into consideration.
Various organisations are involved in this competition – e.g. Wilmslow Town Council, Incredible Edible Wilmslow, Wilmslow Business Group.
Incredible Edible Wilmslow have asked the Clean Team to get involved. We are planning to do 2 litter picks along the judging route : one the day before and a final clean up on the judging day itself.
More information about the competition can be found on the Incredible Edible Wilmslow website and on wilmslow.co.uk.
Wilmslow CleanTeam Logo Designed By Adam Richardson
We are pleased to announce the new logo for the Wilmslow Clean Team. The logo was kindly designed by Adam Richardson who is undertaking a university course in “Graphic Design and Advertising” at Fielden College, Manchester. Adam is working towards becoming a freelance graphic designer and has set up a blog of his work in preparation for his website. Click here to see Adam’s blog.
The Wilmslow Clean Team would like to thank Adam for all of his hard work and effort in designing the logo.
We are proud to have it on our website and will be using it in our publicity information going forward.
Another good litter pick with 6 volunteers turning up. We met at the Farmer’s Arms and then spread out in various directions. The area covered included Chapel Lane, Moor Lane, Oak Lane, Racecourse Road, Westward Road, Strawberry Lane, Wingfield Drive, Buckingham Road, Bourne Street, Hawthorn Street, Altrincham Road, Albert Road, Holly Road North, Victoria Road and Sainsbury’s car park.
We collected about 7 bags of rubbish.
Well done everyone.
Rubbish collected by Wilmslow Clean Team on 7th May 2014
5 volunteers turned up today.
The focus was on Lindow Common, Racecourse Road and Altrincham Road (from Boddington Arms to the Waters roundabout). Well done everyone.
Around 10 bags of rubbish plus an abandoned traffic sign were collected.
Well done everyone.
The CleanTeam assisted the 6th Wilmslow scouts with a litter picking event organised by their leader Ian Ross.
We provided the equipment plus a couple of CRB checked volunteers. The scouts provided most of the man power – at least 12 scouts and 2 leaders.
The main focus was the pond near the leisure centre and the surrounding area.
The CleanTeam volunteers were impressed by the enthusiasm of the scouts and a large amount of rubbish was collected and bagged.
Thanks to Ian and the scouts for a tremendous effort. Hopefully we can arrange some similar events together in the future.
7 volunteers turned up today despite the miserable weather.
Some volunteers focussed on the area between the Honey Bee and the airport tunnels. It was noticable how much car related rubbish there was (hub caps, de-icer, scrapers, wipers, hoses, air filters etc). 11 bags were collected in this area.
Other volunteers focussed on the area between the Boddington Arms and the town centre (e.g. Altrincham Road, Gorsey Road, Hawthorn Street etc) . 4 bags were collected at Carnival Fields.
So – another good event with 23 bags of rubbish collected altogether.
Well done everyone.
Wilmslow CleanTeam and Wilmslow Town Council volunteers preparing for the litter picking event on 2nd April 2014
The first of Wilmslow CleanTeam’s “Spring Clean Week 2014” events was a great success.
We had a good turn out from both the CleanTeam and the Town Council.
Most volunteers started at the Boddington Arms and picked up litter on Altrincham Road, Racecourse Road and Mobberley Road.
Some of the volunteers started at the Honey Bee and focussed on Altrincham Road.
Thanks to everyone who turned up. Well done to everyone who managed to make it through both events this week !
Another good collaborative effort.
Some Wilmslow CleanTeam volunteers assisted with the Town Council’s “Spring Clean Week” litter picking event this morning.
The event was a success with a large amount of litter collected.
We focussed on Sainsbury’s car park, Alderley Road and Chapel Lane.
We worked with some volunteers from the Town Council and from the Wilmslow TSB branch. TSB encourage their staff to help out in the local community. It sounds like they will be able to provide a volunteer on the regular Wednesday litter picking events which would be fantastic.
Overall a good team effort – so well done everyone. Hopefully we can continue the Spring Clean efforts and have another good turn out on Wednesday 2nd April.