Twas a lovely morning to help the environment and help a local park that is in desperate need of volunteers to help maintain it.

After the weekly park at Locke Park, the four of us headed to Ardsley Park where we were met by Roy and his son, the main two people trying to keep the park looking beautiful.

We split into two teams, the edgers and the pickers. The edgers task was very physically demanding with lots of digging up of soil and grass, followed by a long walk to move the soil to the area the park wanted it to go. Meanwhile, myself and Sharon aka the pickers, got to work picking up the litter around the childrens play area and football cage. To our horror, we found a knife, some scissors and tinfoil, which we think might have been used to take drugs, not good near where children play! We then teamed up to tackle all the broken glass around the football cage, sweeping it into pile and putting it into a wheelbarrow.

Two hours later and we were saying our goodbyes! A job well done and a visible improvement - lots more to do for this park, we'll be back!