Tag: litter pick

Yorkshire in Bloom judging day 8th April

The spring judging for the Yorkshire in Bloom competition is on 8th April. We have been busy planting, tidying and weeding, trying to make Otley look as lovely as we can ready for the judges. This picture shows the little garden at Bremner Street opposite Asda, after we’d pruned and litter-picked (a whole bin-liner-full of litter this time!), and planted some new flowering plants.

We will be out on 7th April in the evening picking up litter, trying to show the judges Otley at its best. if you’d like to help us, we’re meeting at the Buttercross at 7pm. (This will be instead of our normal monthly meeting.) If you have floral displays outside your house or business, it would be lovely if you could make sure they’re looking their best too.

Litter picking on Ilkley Road and thereabouts

Here’s the latest litter-picking news from Leonie:

Edie, Bob and I went litter picking last Tuesday afternoon. We made quite a difference to Ilkley Road and the grassy areas on either side of the tunnel under the A660, then we ventured into the green and wooded area just behind the bus stop. We’ve had a go at it before with Margaret, Jacquie and Jane. On previous occasions Ernie, Ian and David have also collected litter from the other side of the main road. 

The little wood is full of wild garlic and probably bluebells, as well as discarded bottles, cans, food containers and other more disgusting objects. It could be a wonderful green space and haven for birds as well as people. Altogether we removed a couple of rubbish bags each – there’s plenty more! Although there’s now a replacement covering of sweet wrappers, cans etc  around the edges we did start reclaiming a wasted patch of ground. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could reclaim it as an unlittered patch of woodland?