The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Two areas of Spalding are looking tidier this week after litter picks by volunteers.
The purges – carried out in showery weather on Saturday lunchtime – were part of last weekend’s Clean For The Queen campaign, which encouraged communities to smarten their areas in readiness for the monarch’s 90th birthday celebrations.
One group targeted Spalding town centre riverside and another including cubs and Coun Angela Newton collected litter in the Monkshouse Playing Field area.
Coun Jack McLean, founder of Spotless Spalding group which regularly holds litter picks, said: “Getting together as a community with help from The Spalding Voice, Spalding Round Table, the cubs and Spotless Spalding, has been a birthday celebration like no other.
“We had over 20 bags across the town and I know that others have even been doing their bit around their homes and streets.”
The litter pick was such an inspiration to some younger participants that when time was called on the official event, some did not stop.
Mum Sarah Walker said: “After the Clean For The Queen event my children Harry and Emma, and their friend Lottie Wallace, continued to clean the whole of Pennygate on their way home.
“Emily has started her own litter picking group at school after being inspired by her grandad John Cooper who cleans Pinchbeck Road every weekend.”
A free lunch for all participants was provided at The Pennygate Foundation.
Coun Jack McLean (fourth from left) with the group which collected litter along Spalding riverside. Photo: VNC050316-21
