BRACKLEY LITTER WOMBLES

  There are a few mini picks coming up this week. Wednesday 26th July 10:00 from the library.  Main zone will be the boarded up building by the Unicorn , Market Place and High Street. Perfect to bring your kids   Thursday 27th July 2:00 meet at The Baptist Church.  Main zone will be the baptist church field and hedges. This is a nettly area so do come protected. More for adults due to nettle hazard.   If there are any zones you have spotted that you think a group could tackle in an hour, please let us know below as we could easily set up a couple of mini picks each week. Someone mentioned allotments to me this morning but I have a brain like a sieve and can't remember which set of allotments!

 We ended up with 20 Wombles in the rain this morning to tackle the leisure centre field! Persistent rain stopped play after about an hour and a quarter so we'll be back again. Thank you to everyone that came.   17 bin bags!           A few bedraggled Wombles at the end. Thank you to the leisure centre for the subsidised drinks!      

  This week's awards...    WOMBLE(S) OF THE WEEK Year 3 from Brackley Junior School who's efforts on the field near their school was recognised by the public. Fantastic work by mini wombles!     Once again, no LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK but keep your eyes peeled for random weirdness or money!  

  12 bags recorded for last week putting us on 22 so far for July. Great work Wombles. I'm sure there are still lots that secret Wombles have done   Our community Womble on Saturday morning, 10:00 at the leisure centre, will, I'm sure, get us a good haul. Don't forget to wear something that will protect your legs as we'll be working in hedges and ditches.

  A few more donated items! Thank you toCarol Fleming from Higildipigildi who bought us some mini womble gloves!! We also have another dozen litter pickers coming.  

 This had been spotted in Wimbledon! We feel we need one for Brackley and our crochet expert is on the case. Look out for it at the start of September.

  Brilliant wombling by BJS Year 3 this morning! 7 bags of litter! FANTASTIC!   We tackled the old swimming pool car park and dog walking field. It was lovely to meet the daughter of one of our sponsors Ruben Figueira. Each child (and also the teachers) earnt their Brackley Litter Womble badges.

 In June we collected 74 bags in total, this now puts us on 244 bags collected since we started in mid April until the end of June! WOW!!

  This week's awards...   WOMBLE OF THE WEEK Sarah Timms she constantly has her eye on Evenley Green and due to her, the bin is being emptied more often and they may get a larger one in place   No LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK but keep your eyes peeled for random weirdness or money!    

  Thank you to the good person who cleaned up the litter under the towpass to Turweston  that Jacky had gathered together. She is very grateful as this was more of the same on the way there and back again tonight. So much litter still in the undergrowth and foresty bits behind Dale Close to tackle when the lushness dies back.  

  This week's awards...  WOMBLE OF THE WEEK Alan Garrett for just being the star that he is.   BEST LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK Sarah Timms (who will top her) for the £10 (yes £10!!) Womble Wage she found.    

  This week's awards...   WOMBLE OF THE WEEK Alan Garret again for clearing away all our bags and retrieving the various weird and wonderful items especially the lucky find of the week that Sarah couldn't move.   BEST LUCKY FIND OF THE WEEK Sarah Timms again for the wooden cabinet in the hedgerow. (She does find some crackers!)    

  Heads up - West Northants are developing a Resources and Waste Strategy and have a survey to see what our thoughts are...  Visit the survey here