BRACKLEY LITTER WOMBLES

 After a very successful year of wombling in 2025, we begin another. Lots of litter around! You can tell we haven't been out and about, but we'll soon get that sorted.   We start our monthly Saturday Wombles this week with a pick around Big Tesco and next month we'll meet up at the Paisley Pear to check around there and the BP garage.   

  We have just finished our last planned Brackley Litter Womble for 2025.   Thank you to all our regular Wombles who tackle all sorts of areas and come out every week to clear the litter we see around our town.   Just under 1200 bags of rubbish collected by us this year which is around a 23% reduction in litter from 2024.   We wish you all a wombling Merry Christmas and we'll be back out on the 7th January. In the meantime, if you can help keep your street litter free, it will be much appreciated!    

  Brackley Litter Wombles Tesco blue token money   We were so grateful that the people of Brackley supported us with the Tesco blue tokens and now we've spent a chunk of it, we'll let you know how it's being spent.   We have bought..   * More hi Viz vests (vital as lots have grown legs and we have new people joining us all the time,) * More bag rings * Arm protectors ( for summer hedge diving) * Litter pickers for school visits * Litter pickers for Turweston Scouts group * Litter pickers for our vintage Wombles at Brackley Care Home * Sets of gloves for Brackley 5th and Turweston scout groups * 4 x 50 litre bins for Top Station car park * Branded bum bags for our regular Wombles   We've also got a few tote bags to sell and we are trialling cigarette butt pouches to see if they are worth promoting/ selling as part of our "war on cigarette ends"

  Good haul this morning by the gang as we tackled the shrubbed and wooded walk as you head out of Brackley from the zip wire park. 15 purple bags and a pile of assorted items. Plus 32 bags from the "magic bag tree"!! The little stream needed wellies to clear it and "the den" needs checking, so something for another day. We were unable to yank out the shopping trolley in the stream so we are seeing if our local council can help.    

 Although we had a scoot around the Wellington Road area a few or so ago, we had a really hood bush dive this Saturday to get at the grot around that area. We were also joined by a couple of people who were filming a piece about Local Litter Heroes for Northampton Film Festival. 27 bags in total from the zones we checked. This looked impressive for the filming as at the start, that end of Brackley looked quite tidy until you got in a ditch or a bush.   Thank you to today's gang.  

 We've started back on lay bys and you can be guaranteed that they deliver every time.   26 bags, loads of detritus and 24 tizer today collected by 12 Wombles. Plus unearthing of no end of road signs n stands. There is a real grot zone on the path by the exit to Evenley on the roundabout. The entrance to the route Evenley Wood Garden has bits of car in it! We'll return in around a month to get that cleared.   Thank you to the truck drivers that gave us a beep!