Monthly community litter pick
From "Manor Park Community Assemblies 2022"
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Flats Pickers is a community litter pick. We meet once a month and volunteers litter pick on Wanstead Flats and surrounding areas. We have been running for 7 years and have removed around 2500 bags of rubbish. Between 15 and 50 people take part every month and regulars have formed friendships through the group.
We started the pick in frustration at the regular fly tipping and littering on our street and area and hope that a cleaner green space will attract more people to use our wonderful resource
We’d like to make the pick and equipment more widely and easily available and less reliant on individuals to fund running costs. We’d like to reach more people who can benefit from an increased feeing of belonging and community by taking action together in the outdoors. We’d like to be able to reward regular attendees with litter picking equipment they can take home and use in their locality and attract more new people with accessible information on how they can take part.
Funding would be spent on the admin around publicising the pick, equipment to loan and give out, a secure outdoor storage box in a front garden accessible with a code and hi vis vests printed with our info and how people can join. When people ask what we’re doing (as they often do) we’d like to be able to give them printed cards on how they can get involved. Funding could pay for a temporary banner to be put up during litter pick sessions. A small trolley would enable us to safely get equipment from my front garden to the litter pick
We believe it meets the Manor Park priorities by making our green space cleaner, removing litter to improve our neighbourhood and encourages people to meet their neighbours and take action to support nature in our area
