Thought we would share this message that we have just received from Councillor Len Lauchlan, Chair of Washington Area Committee. Dear Chairman and Secretary of Keep Washington Tidy. On behalf of Washington Area Committee we wish to convey our sincere thanks for all the hard work you and your volunteers do as a Keep Washington…
Spring is here!!!!
Well it’s official Spring is here!!!! As our numbers are growing Clean and Green Volunteers are takling another site as well as the Barmston Plantation. We have started work at the Subway leading from Avebury Drive to Burnhope Road (Barmston). Volunteers have already started to trim back and remove the overgrown vegetation and litter pick…
Litter pick across Albany Village
What better to do than a litter pick on a really windy day. We must be mad!! We’re not the only ones as we were joined by Washington Forge Rotary Club and students from Thorbeck College in Albany today. We fancied a change of scenery so we carried out a litter pick across Albany Village…
Footpath next to B&Q
Volunteers were out in the rain today, a great way to start the New Year. They managed to collect a total of 32 bags of litter from the footpath next to B&Q which leads to Parsons Industrial Estate. Overgrown vegetation had been trimmed back by volunteers which exposed a large amount of litter. A great…
Footpath behind B&M
Clean and Green volunteers collected over 23 bags of litter from the footpath behind B&M on Peel Retail Park. We previously visited this site in October and removed overgrown vegetation which covered part of the path along with 84 bags of litter. Volunteers worked alongside Grounds Maintenance from Sunderland City Council which was a great…
Snow! What snow?!
Clean and Green volunteers were out again today carrying out work at the pathway running alongside the B&Q store on Armstrong leading to the underpass at Parsons. We started to cut back vegetation to widen the path and collected 20 bags of litter. Unfortunately the weather won and we had to cut short our day.…
James Steel Park Tidy Up!
A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who took part in the James Steel Park ‘tidy up’ on Thursday. Volunteers removed dead and broken branches, trimmed hedges collected 44 bags of litter from the park and Bonemill Lane. Well done to everyone and thank you for caring!!!