Middlewich Organisations Brighten up the Town with Daffodils

Photos: Maxine Bland & Fiona Bruce.

The Middlewich Clean Team’s annual community bulb planting event took place on Sunday, 21st October. We were joined by Fiona Bruce MP, representatives of Middlewich Cricket Club, the 2nd Cledford Brownies and other residents and in less than an hour had planted hundreds of daffodil bulbs. The planting went like clock work and everyone was in good spirits. The whole event was lovely and Middlewich Cricket Club kindly hosted refreshments afterwards.

Janet Chisholm, the Chairperson of the Clean Team said “It was wonderful to see so many people willing to help to brighten up our town and particular thanks go to the Cricket Club and the Brownies for their valuable help and to Tulloch Private Hire, Winsford and Middlewich Rotary Club and Middlewich and District Round Table for sponsoring the event”.

A press release for this event is available here.

Sea Cadets Help to Keep Middlewich Ship Shape

Photo: Hilary Jones.

Last February we were pleased to have the Sea Cadets involved in one of our litter picks and now we have had the pleasure of a return visit to help keep Middlewich ship shape.

This all came about because Darren Green, the Waterway Manager for Central Shires Canal & River Trust, had been keeping an eye on our events and spotted the litter pick scheduled for Saturday 13th October. Darren contacted the Sea Cadets Commanding Officer for approval and from that point it was just a case of exchanging a few emails with all parties concerned. Sea Cadets from Middlewich and Winsford together with their supervisors assembled with other volunteers at the Kings Lock car park where members of the Middlewich Clean Team were on hand to provide the tabards and litter pickers. Once the initial showers had cleared up it was a lovely sunny day made all the better by the removal of the unsightly litter.

Annual Community Flower Planting

Photo:Maxine Wrench.

On the Tuesday 29th May 2012, Brownies, Cubs and other volunteers met up at St. Michaels Church for the Middlewich Clean Team Annual Community Planting. 

We usually plant bizzy lizzies but last year’s plants succumbed to disease so this year begonias and lobelia have been used instead. As this is the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year and the public holidays to celebrate it were only a few days away it was not hard to choose the colours for the plants – red, white and blue of course. Everyone worked hard and the job was soon finished resulting in a fine floral display. Well done and thanks to all involved.

Janet Nominated For Cheshire Woman Of The Year Award

Our Founder & Chairperson, Janet Chisholm, was secretly nominated for the Cheshire Woman Of The Year Award 2012 and the awards the ceremony recently took place in the Long Room at Eaton Hall. Janet set up the Middlewich Clean Team in 2003 and the accolade recognises her service to the community.

The occasion has been reported in the Middlewich Guardian and the article appears below
(alternatively click here to read the article full size):

Middlewich Clean Team in the Daily Mail and Granada Reports

Photographs courtesy of the Daily Mail.

We had visits from the Daily Mail on Thursday 3rd May to find out about our work and on Saturday 5th May to join us on a litter pick. The resulting feature 'The town that went to war on litter' appeared in the Daily Mail the following week. Granada Reports followed on with a visit too and that was broadcast on Wednesday 9th May.

Both articles portrayed the work of the Middlewich Clean Team in respect of dealing with litter and we are pleased and excited to have been featured by them. You can learn about the other things we do by browsing through this website. 

The Daily Mail article appeared in the Mail Online and appears below (alternatively click here to read the article full size):

Highlighting Dog Fouling

Centre photo courtesy of the Middlewich Guardian.

On 30th March 2012 Middlewich Clean Team joined forces with Streetscape, British Waterways & the Community Dog Wardens to leave a fluorescent purple message for irresponsible dog owners. The spray paint is chalk based and will eventually wash away but in the mean time will serve to remind pet owners of the awful mess they leave behind. The campaign at The Moorings found eight cases of dog dirt alongside the childrens play area and all where duly highlighted with the message "Clean It Up". 

The campaign was reported in the Middlewich Guardian Newspaper and you can read the online version of it here:

Last Autumn's Bulbs Bloom

Last autumn we planted daffodil and crocus bulbs on Holmes Chapel Road near to the Salt Cellar pub. We planted two rows of bulbs and now they are in full bloom in the spring sunshine.