Several of our volunteers do stirling work themselves inbetween our 2 formal monthly litter picks. A great example this month was a tremendous haul of litter and rubbish collected by Ann in the area between the Honey Bee and Morley Green nursery. This extra effort was to tidy up the part of Altrincham Road that the team couldnt finish on the Saturday litter pick. She also collected a bag on Knutsford Road. All the rubbish was taken to Sainsbury’s car park and the coucil were notified for collection.
A brilliant effort – well done.
Only 3 volunteers were available for the first of our 2 scheduled November litter picks on Wednesday 4th. We met in Bank Square and covered various roads in the area including, Grove Street, Altrincham Road, Parkway, Sainsbury’s Car Park, Alderley Road, Albert Road, Victoria Road, Kennerley’s Lane and Hawthorn Avenue. We collected 4 bags altogether.
4 volunteers met at The Honey Bee on Saturday 7th along with our youngest ever volunteer (who not only helped pick litter but also drew a brilliant picture of the Clean Team in action). We focussed on Altrincham Road from the edge of Wilmslow down to the airport tunnels. We also did a short section down Morley Green Road. Altrincham Road is the litter picker’s gift that keeps on giving – it is always really dirty down there despite it being scheduled in for a Clean Team pick 4 times a year. We think that most of the litter must be being discarded from vehicles.
Despite the relatively low turn out we still managed to collect 10 bags of rubbish which were left at the bus stop by the Airport Inn (the council have been informed and will collect).
Wilmslow Clean Team had a stall at “The Party In The Park” in the Carrs on Sunday 21st June 2015. Our volunteers were around all afternoon mannning the stall and picking litter. We spoke to a lots of people including a few who are interested in getting involved with our litter picks. New volunteers are always welcome – we don’t expect people to turn up to every event – it’s on an “as and when you are free” basis. We also enjoyed talking to the children about the impact of dropping litter.
We had a competition to win a teddy – which has been handed over to the lucky owner of ticket number 4 (picked out by a Rotary member).
Thanks to everyone who came to see us – and help us raise £23 towards our bags and equipment.
A few of our volunteers returned to the Carrs this morning and cleared up some of the remaining litter. We collected 5 bags over the 2 days.
Regular litter picking event.
Meet in the Parish Hall car park (20p for 2 hours) @ 10:00
Focus will be the link road between The King William roundabout and the Ford dealership.
If numbers allow then a party will head off by car to do Prestbury Road.
New volunteers are most welcome to come along.
A “Spring Clean 2015” litter picking event
Focus will be Sainsbury’s car park, library etc
Meet in Sainsbury’s Car Park at 13:30
Newcomers welcome
Wilmslow Clean Team Co-ordinator : Stuart
A litter picking event in conjunction with 6th Wilmslow Scouts.
Meet at the Leisure Centre at 18:15
Note : The time has been moved forward from the originally published time of 19:00 (due to safety concerns because of daylight hours)
6 volunteers met in Bank Square on a wet morning for our last litter picking event of the year. As well as being a busy morning for Christmas shoppers it was also Artisan Market day – so hopefully our presence in the town centre was noticed and we might attract some new volunteers. We decided to do an hour’s pick today (rather than the usual 2 hours) but we still managed to collect 9 bags of rubbish and the odd hub cap. This has been left in Bank Square for the council to collect.
We covered various roads in and around the town centre including Bank Square, Grove Street, Station Road, Alderley Road and Water Lane.
We all then retired to Hawthorns Deli for a nice warm drink, some cake and good chat.
Well done everyone and hope to see you all in the Coach & Four on Monday night for our Christmas drinks.
The first 2 of our December litter picking events have gone well – with at least 20 bags of litter collected.
7 volunteers met at the Kings Arms on Wednesday 3rd December. 2 volunteers concentrated on the grounds of the disused Remenham council offices (owned by Cheshire East Council until March next year) – particularly the boundary fence bordering Alderley Road where large quantities of litter had been dumped over the fence. Various home made advertising boards that had also been thrown over the fence were also collected up. The other 5 volunteers covered the surrounding roads including Albert Road, Victoria Road, Sainsbury’s car park and the hedge opposite the BP garage.
5 volunteers met at the Honey Bee, on a bright and frosty morning. on Saturday 5th December. We covered Altrincham Road (between the airport tunnels and Nansmoss Lane) as well as Morley Green Road. We collected a staggering amount of rubbish, over about a mile of road, considering we have done this area before. A total of 15 bags of rubbish were collected. This has to be down to people throwing litter out of their vehicles. In addition to the litter we also collected old road signs and vehicle parts. It was interesting litter picking with a hard frost – a lot of the litter was frozen to the ground! It was nice to welcome a new volunteer too.
Our next pick is on Saturday 20th December.
A good turn out on a lovely autumn day in support of the Keep Britain Tidy “The Big Tidy Up” Campaign that is being held nationwide throughout October.
7 volunteers met at the Leisure Centre. Most of our efforts were in the Leisure Centre grounds. Some of the hedgerows were particularly bad although this may be because we haven’t tackled them before and were dealing with a build up of litter over a long period. We also did some work on Station Road.
Some of the volunteers collected litter on their walk to and from the Leisure Centre. This included Water Lane, Altrincham Road, Bourne Street and Alderley Road.
We even managed to get together for a mid morning break and enjoyed a coffee outside the Pickle Jar cafe (part of Wilmslow Leisure Centre). The problems we are up against as a team were typified by the behaviour of one of the employees from the Leisure Centre. She came out of the cafe for a smoke and then threw her cigarette end on the floor just outside the cafe door – right in front of 6 gob-smacked litter pickers!
We collected about 12 bags of rubbish altogether.
Well done everyone!
5 volunteers turned up for the third of our litter picks scheduled for September 2014.
We met at the King’s Arms and the focus was on the surrounding area.
We tackled the King’s Arms roundabout, and some of the surrounding roads.
One of our volunteers headed off to tidy Prestbury Road.
Another volunteer tackled the roundabout where the A34 meets Alderley Road. There was a massive amount of litter in the public footpath that heads off into the fields, from the traffic lights on the A34, just north of this roundabout. The photos show some before/after shots. Some videos of this litter pick, on our YouTube channel, give a better illustration of our work.
Before
After
We collected 10 bags of rubbish altogether.
Well done everyone.
Several of our volunteers do stirling work themselves inbetween our 2 formal monthly litter picks. A great example this month was a tremendous haul of litter and rubbish collected by Ann in the area between the Honey Bee and Morley Green nursery. This extra effort was to tidy up the part of Altrincham Road that the team couldnt finish on the Saturday litter pick. She also collected a bag on Knutsford Road. All the rubbish was taken to Sainsbury’s car park and the coucil were notified for collection.
