Upchurch Parish Council once again pledged its support for this year’s Great British Spring Clean, organised by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy and supported locally by Swale Borough Council and Biffa.
The Great British Spring Clean is the country’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign and aims to bring together individuals, community organisations, businesses and councils to make a difference to the environment on our doorstep.
The campaign was first run in 2017. In 2018, despite the Beast from the East, more than 371,566 litter heroes (including more than 126,651 school children) collected over 630,000 bags of rubbish. In total 13,500 events were held over the campaign period and 300 local authorities took part.
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All set to Spring clean Upchurch! |
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Heading off along Chaffes Lane. |
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Looking for litter on the Recreation Ground. |
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Busy filling sacks. |
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Litter pickers at the ready. |
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Cleaning up in Chaffes Lane. |
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Well done Holywell. Look at all that rubbish you collected! |
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Sunday's volunteers. |
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Another huge pile of rubbish was collected again this year. You wouldn't believe some of the things we found! |
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Our Great British Spring Clean in Upchurch took place this year on Friday the 5th and Saturday the 6th of April.
Our Great British Spring Clean in Upchurch took place this year on Friday the 5th and Saturday the 6th of April.
Friday 5th
Saturday 6th
Rain didn't stop volunteers setting off from the Recreation Ground car park in Oak Lane shortly after 10:30am, to litter pick the planned routes around the village. 1st Upchurch Brownies and Guides were there in force, accompanied by their parents and leaders, Tracey and Sophie Snellings. Helen and Eddie Tydeman joined the litter pick for a second day as did Margaret Packer and Dave Warren. Jan Bunting came to help as well. Councillor Richard Palmer litter picked, helping organisers, Councillor's Tyrone Ripley and Alan Horton who drove around the routes collecting the full sacks and large items of rubbish, before dropping them to the Recreation Ground car park to be collected later by waste contractor, Biffa.
Another tremendous village effort resulted in dozens of sacks of litter and large items of rubbish being picked from our public spaces and the surrounding country lanes.
Well done everyone. The village looks lovely!
Thanks to Swale Borough Council for the loan of the equipment again, and to Biffa for collecting all the rubbish.
To find out more, visit >> www.keepbritaintidy.org
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