Bulmershe Community Association

The BCA team collected 14 bags of rubbish and found a burnt out shopping trolley, a jemmy, an artificial Christmas tree and an abandoned vacuum cleaner. Of our 14 bags of rubbish, half were filled with recyclable materials such as cans and plastic bottles. Our efforts were covered by the local press and a slideshow of pictures can be seen on the Big Tidy Up page.

The litter pick was part of Wokingham's Big Tidy Up event. More than 500 people from across the borough including residents, neighbourhood action groups, community groups, Junior Wardens and environmental groups joined in the nationwide litter pick aimed at keeping Britain tidy. The final count confirmed that more than 600 bags of rubbish were collected from parks, beauty spots, community areas and village centres across the borough. The rubbish varied from the usual drink cans and crisp packets to the more unusual items such as car tyres, £10 note (since donated to charity), crates of unopened beer, unopened wine, a fire extinguisher, a camping gas stove, a teddy bear, three bicycles, three canisters of petrol/oil, 12 rolls of kitchen foil, a moped and a plastic cow’s head.

Thank you to all who helped with the tidy-up.

For more information about Wokingham's Big Tidy Up, please see their press release which describes the huge effort from lots of different community groups over the weekend.

Thank you to all those who helped with our October tidy-up. We cleared the perimeter of the school, concentrating our efforts on the area around the 6th form block, the pedestrian pathway between Pitts Lane and the back of the school and the shrub areas around the Goals car park. Despite disturbing a wasp's nest and having to beat a hasty retreat, we picked up 5 bags of recycling (cans and bottles) and around 6 bags of ordinary rubbish.

The cans and bottles that we found were recycled via Wokingham's kerbside recycling scheme. Even squashed flat, we collected enough to fill three of the black containers.