This evening we were at Salthill park doing a litter pick task. It never fails to amaze us on how much litter this one park alone generates! Even though we collected 4 bags on Sunday there was still so much to do tonight.

Whilst we waited for everyone to get to the meet up point outside the activity centre, we started on the car park with our named session.

Whats my name!

So the task was to see if we could find litter that spelt out our names..

Agnija found actimel; gum and nails

Jen - using her full name found - Juice; exciting things; novelty toy; napkins; ice lolly; Fanta; exotic things; ribena

Pam aka Parmjit found Plenty of plastic, rubber balloons; ice cream wrapper, juice cartons

Peter found Paper, plates, playing cards, tickets, rappers (lots of pees; no e's and a phonetic way for spelling wrapper!)

I found a mayo wrapper and a napkin!

But the overall winner was Jean who managed to spell out her first name and surname!

Juice; Egg shell in egg cup, Air freshener packet, Napkins

Water; Apple core , Tissues; Toys; Spoon

Well done Jean!

All these items filled 6 bags! and we only covered the car park and play area.

Next week is our 6th birthday which means there will be cake. Please do come along

Wow! whatever happened at Salt Hill Park last night! It looked like Slough's very own Glasto without the top notch musicians!

When we arrived to do junior parkrun this morning we knew we had to put on our super hero capes and clear the park off the hazards before the kids could do their event.

Luckily I keep all the litter pickers and bin bags in my car so whilst the briefing was going on, the team got to work and cleared the start and finish lines off litter.

Thundered at 800

Chuffed to get my 800th good deed today. With fairy liquid, plastic bottles, wet wipes, fish and chips, beer cans as the main hord of litter, I'm pleased my 800th was an environmental clean up task

Four good gymers met at Upton Court Park and walked to Eton for coffee and cake before returning to litter pick the park. A lovely morning spent catching up, walking in beautiful surroundings and coffee and cake treats all round.

It's Bank Holiday Monday and it's bin a while since we actually did a task on a holiday Monday but I'm glad we did as 8 of tonight did something good and got fit doing it!

Great to have Claire join us on her first session with us. Lovely to meet you Claire and see you again in a couple of weeks.

We started the session with some warm up exercises and a game of 'tribe', followed by a run/walk to the motorway bridge where we did 8 reps of hill sprints!

We then headed back to the car park at Upton for the litter pick task, where we collected enough rubbish to be happy with although sad that we filled the bags!

Thank you for coming along today.

Next week we are meeting at Langley memorial park on Langley Rd and will be helping The Langley Academy Primary with a playground tidy up task.

Well done to everyone who took part in this Great British Spring Clean event

Plenty of bags collected in Cippenham by Ruth, Agni and Jen, whilst Sut and I focused on the back allies in Langley

Back for its ninth year, the Great British Spring Clean is the nations biggest mass-action environmental campaign.

The Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean 2024 will take place from 15 - 31 March, and tonight was our efforts to help as the Slough #LitterHeroes

For Keep Britain Tidy's 70th year we pledged to pick up 70 items in 70 minutes today...and we might even pledge to collect 70 bags till the 31st! #PlatinumPledge

Waste no time

So as Hamid and I went for a 2 lap run of the park, our Dumpster Divas (Jen, Ruth and Agnija) got started on counting their rubbish!

The good news is we didn't find any Retro Rubbish - (rubbish that is years old and still causing harm to our environment today, releasing greenhouse gases as it slowly breaks down in our soil and water, which contributes to the climate crisis)!

What we did find was nappies!, lottery tickets, fast food trash, beer cans and plenty of wet wipes!

We ended the evening having collected 5 bagfuls of rubbish tallying in at over 1000 pieces

We would like to continue with this effort so I have listed a litter pick community mission till the 31st of March - #GetInvolved!