An extremely successful river clean-up took place on Sunday 14th July thanks to the hugely dedicated efforts of 12 volunteers, supported by Billy Coburn from Thames21. With 3 land-army pickers and 9 merfolk, we managed to collect 57 bags of mainly plastic litter, a large table leg, a sizeable laminate floor underlay and 4 pallets. The latter will remain on site above the floodline to provide a skyscraper for bugs.
Try to imagine this scene with 4 times the amount of litter. That’s how much there was at kick-off: 
But nil desperandum, the crew ploughed into it and after 2 hours, woody debris had been dealt with:
Pallets purposely placed:
River bank beautified:
Litter lugged to the collection point:
And tea and Tunnocks tasted:
Our next event will be in September (date, time and venue tba).