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Saturday saw Gorefield’s Street Pride second meeting which was attended by 18 volunteers, a considerable increase on the last meeting. Jeanette Milner, Street Pride coordinator, organised the group into 4 units. One went litter picking around areas of Gorefield not covered at the first meeting while another group did some bulb planting. A third group cut back the trees which had overgrown the path next to the school and the fourth tidied up the Pocket Park. Click on the video blog to find out more about what was achieved during a worthwhile couple of hours.
The purpose of the Street Pride project is to build community pride and ownership through improving the local environment and making Fenland a cleaner, greener and safer place to live, work and visit.
Street Pride gives volunteers the opportunity to make a difference to their local environment by holding clean up events. It is a great way to meet like-minded people, good exercise and very rewarding.
People feel they get on better with their neighbours, contributing to the Safer Fenland Partnership key priorities, reducing crime and fear of crime by improving community cohesion, reducing anti-social behaviour through building respect in communities and improving community engagement.
If you are interested in joining the Gorefield Street Pride group please contact Jeanette on 01354 654321, email jmilner@fenland.gov.uk or visit the Gorefield Website
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I just wanted to say what an improvement cutting the trees back in the chapel next to the school has made. Previously the pavement was overhung and the fallen leaves made the path slippery and precarious to walk on but having used the path this week when dropping my daughter off at the school there is a huge improvement so thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to do this.
Hi Helen
Vilage voices received a similar notice thanking the volunteers. As one of the many it was nice of you to note that things had been cleaned and tidied. The path in front of the chapel did need the clear up now comes the bigger issue can we persuade the small miniority of dog owners who still alow their animals to foul the paths leading to the school to clear up after their aniamls.