Nursery Visits 2012

Clean Team volunteers Hilary Jones and Carol Eccles at Rainbow Day Nursery in Brooks Lane,
with Emily Smith, three, Marco Azakli, four, Millie Lane, four and Matthew Hitchen, four.
Photo: Middlewich Guardian

Middlewich Clean Team has been helping to nurture the responsible citizens of tomorrow. Carol Eccles and Hilary Jones visited the town's nurseries to speak to youngsters about having pride in where they live and keeping the streets litter-free.

Hilary said, "We talk to the children about the importance of putting litter in the bin and the role of Middlewich Clean Team. We let them have a go with our junior crocodile litter pickers placing litter into our bin. Then we sing our song, which they all love to do, before they are awarded a MCT sticker. The idea is to sow the seed that litter does actually belong in the bin and to encourage using it." 

Article reproduced by kind permission of the Middlewich Guardian

Litter Pick Centurian Way and Ravenscroft Wood

The Clean Team were out in force on Saturday 12th November with 12 members (including 2 new members) to litter pick along Centurian Way and Ravenscroft Wood. It was a beautiful afternoon & well worth the result of 12 bags of rubbish were collected.

Bulb Planting, Holmes Chapel Road

Photographs: Bill Walmsley

Middlewich clean team have been out and about again, this time bulb planting on the area outside the Salt Cellar alongside the roundabout on the Holmes Chapel Road. Twenty three people took part - Brownies and their leaders, Clean Team and Community Pride members, a Girl Guide, Street Pastors and residents old and young - making this a true community event. We all worked hard for about an hour digging trenches for an assortment of daffodils, tulips and crocuses, had our photo taken with the Salt Cellar's manager, then went inside for some very welcome refreshments.

The annual planting is organised by Middlewich Clean Team with bulbs funded by the Middlewich Community Pride Group. Previous areas to be tackled in this way include the lay-by on Croxton Lane and the land opposite the Boars Head on Kinderton Street.

Town set to bloom this winter

Bernice Walmsley and Hilary Jones show off their latest floral displays at St Michael’s Church.
(Photo and article Middlewich Guardian)

MIDDLEWICH is set to bloom this winter thanks to the green-fingered efforts of the town’s Clean Team. The organisation recently joined forces with the community payback scheme to plant pansies along the borders of the path in St Michael’s Church grounds.

And on Sunday, October 23, busy Lizzies in the group will be armed with hundreds of bulbs to bed along Holmes Chapel Road. The planting session is open to everyone and will start at 2pm at the Salt Cellar pub. 

The next litter pick will take place at Tesco car park on Monday, October 10, from 1pm.

Original article by Katie Durose, Middlewich Guardian, reproduced by kind permission.

Clean Team Bags Some Hoops

Photograph by MCT member Chris Robinson

Ten people came along to the litter pick on the 10th October in mizzly weather, but Janet was delighted to hand the new hoops to Middlewich Clean Team members which had been donated to the team by Cheshire East Council. The hoops will be a great help in windy weather.

 

Beavers Litter Pick

There are more photographs from the litter pick in our 2011 photo archive.

Katy's Wall Tidy Up

On Saturday 17th September, under the keen eye of Kevin - "the Plant Man" a Clean Team member with Horticultural knowledge - we bravely dodged the downpours to complete the tidy up of Katy's Wall for winter. Under Kevin's advice we will be revisting in the spring with some new planting, no doubt we will be asking his advice a lot more in the future. There are more photographs from the tidy up in our 2011 photo archive.