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Showing posts with label Litter Pick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Litter Pick. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 April 2022
Spring Community Litter Pick
Excellent turnout at our Spring Community Litter Pick this morning. 12 bags of rubbish, assorted metal work and a cone cleared! Thank you and well done to all that turned up to enjoy the glorious sunshine and to have a good 'old chat' this morning.
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Sunday, 2 May 2021
Sunday, 8 March 2020
Monday, 27 January 2020
Programme Planning Meeting
28th January 2020 7:30 pm
Council Chambers, Community Pavilion,
Station Road, Chinnor, OX39 4PU
Why not come along and find out what we've been up to and our plans for the next few months.
Some of the things we will be discussing are:
Email Linda at greeningchinnor@gmail.com or call 01844 352753 for more details.
Some of the things we will be discussing are:
- Chinnor Repair Café
- Donkey Lane Community Orchard
- Community Litter Pick – once again we’ll be joining the Great
- British Spring Clean Up
- Seed & Plant Swap
- Station Road Community Garden & Pavilion Planter
- Tree Planting
Email Linda at greeningchinnor@gmail.com or call 01844 352753 for more details.
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Autumn Community Litter Pick
On the 27th October we carried out our 16th Community Litter Pick and were delighted with the turn out despite it coinciding with the Welsh Rugby semi-final and clock change day. We were very pleased that again the weather was kind to us and we had a beautiful blue sky. It was lovely to see new (and old) faces and we were particularly pleased with all the families that joined us.
We were able to litter pick most of our most popular footpaths and play areas and were particularly pleased that there was a marked improvement in the level of rubbish found in most areas. Special mention must go to the residents of Old Kiln Lakes who are now really keeping the area litter free.
We will, as usual, be organising a Spring Community Pick, details will be published shortly.
We were able to litter pick most of our most popular footpaths and play areas and were particularly pleased that there was a marked improvement in the level of rubbish found in most areas. Special mention must go to the residents of Old Kiln Lakes who are now really keeping the area litter free.
We will, as usual, be organising a Spring Community Pick, details will be published shortly.
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Sunday, 22 September 2019
Autumn Programme of Events
24 September 2019 | General Greening Chinnor Meeting | The Games Room, The Village Centre, High St, Chinnor OX39 4DH | @ 19:30. We will be discussing our ongoing projects and plans for the future. Come and see how you can get involved in some exciting and rewarding volunteering activities. All welcome.
15 October 2019 | Donkey Lane Community Orchard Working Party | 11:00 - 13:00 at the orchard. For directions, see below.
19 October 2019 | Donkey Lane Community Orchard Autumn Apple Event | 14:00 - 16:00 at the orchard. Come and join us and explore the orchard whilst having some fun and refreshments. There will be apple themed games and bakes. Free entrance - donations towards costs welcome.
20 October 2019 | Station Road Community Garden Winter Planting & Tidy up | Station Road, Chinnor | 10:30 - 11:30. Help us winterize the garden and plant up for the winter. Come and have a chat and find out about the planters.
20 October 2019 | Station Road Community Garden Winter Planting & Tidy up | Station Road, Chinnor | 10:30 - 11:30. Help us winterize the garden and plant up for the winter. Come and have a chat and find out about the planters.
27 October 2019 | Autumn Community Litter Pick | Meet at White's Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor | 10:00 - 12:30.
20 November 2019 | Donkey Lane Community Orchard Meeting | White's Field Community Hall, Mill Lane, Chinnor, Oxon, OX39 4RF | 19:30 - 21:30 | All welcome.
23 November 2019 | Repair Cafe | Village Hall, Church Road, Chinnor, OX39 4PQ | 10:00-13:00 last item accepted 12:30. Free entrance, free repairs – donations towards costs welcome.
As always we are looking for volunteers who would like to get involved in either mending things or to help organise and facilitate the Repair Cafe. We have lots of different roles and different types of involvement. If you want to find out more, please feel free to contact me.
How to find the orchard: Head up Keen's Lane, Chinnor, cross the railway crossing and the orchard is directly on the right hand side. The working parties are to help regenerate and restore the ancient orchard and to explore the social history of the site. Bring some tools if you have them and a cup so you can have some refreshments.
Friday, 5 April 2019
Thank You
A big thank you to everyone who turned out for our recent (rather chilly) community litter pick and an extra big thank you to Diane in the Field Café who very kindly donated free hot drinks to all of our volunteers. As we had lots of people, despite it being Mothering Sunday and Clock change day, we were able to cover some new sites. So in total we carried out litter picking on the following areas:
- Whites Field and Mill Lane
- Conigre field and play park
- The footpath from Springfield Gardens back to Holland Close
- The Driftway down towards Kingston Blount
- Footpath 8 towards Thame Road
- Chinnor section of the Ridgeway and the Rec
- Old Kiln Lakes including all of the ad hoc paths
- B4009 from the Henton turn up to the County boundary
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Monday, 4 March 2019
Monday, 29 October 2018
Community Litter Pick
A huge thank you to everyone who came along to the community litter pick yesterday. 24 volunteers and 16 bags of litter collected. Well done everyone.
We were surprised at how much litter there was this time as over the years, the amount we have collected at each event has reduced. Sadly, this time it had increased and we're still having to pick up 'poo' bags!!!!!
Our thanks to the Parish Council for the loan of the litter picking equipment and for collecting the bags.
Look out for our next community litter pick which will be held in the spring.
We were surprised at how much litter there was this time as over the years, the amount we have collected at each event has reduced. Sadly, this time it had increased and we're still having to pick up 'poo' bags!!!!!
Our thanks to the Parish Council for the loan of the litter picking equipment and for collecting the bags.
Look out for our next community litter pick which will be held in the spring.
Sunday, 30 September 2018
Monday, 21 May 2018
What a year... so far!
I think the first part of 2018 must be one of the busiest we've ever had. So just in case you missed it, here's what we have been up to.
First was a tree and hedge planting session in January where together with some of your local Parish Councillors, we put in some glorious young trees to replace those that needed felling in Conigre. In addition a row of native hedging was planted in order to help prevent youngsters having easy access to the traffic dangers of Station Road
Our expert team of volunteer fixers were able to mend or offer progressive advice to everything that was brought in with the exception of a single broken iron.
24 items examined
61.6 kilos weighed
Fixed 20 (40 kilos)
Advice given 3 (20 kilos)
Unfixable 1 (1.5 kilos)
The cornucopia of items received were:
a bike, 2 cd players, a ceramic bowl and tray, a waxed jacket, an iron, an extension lead, a printer, a lamp, a padlock, taps, a small watering can, a spider catcher, tent poles, a tyre gauge, a drill charger, chicken bone cutters, secateurs, a hobby horse, small action toys, a small wooden dolls chair, a small Victorian chair and a small leather mystery. If the owner ever finds out what it is, please let us know.
Look out for details of our next Repair Cafe coming up in the autumn. In the meantime, if you would like to get involved either as a fixer or facilitator please email Linda at greeningchinnor@gmail.com.
Spring Community Litter Pick
We had our belated Community Litter Pick on Sunday 29th April. Despite winter not wanting to finally depart we had an excellent turnout. We were particularly pleased to see some children from the Beavers group turning up to lend a hand. For the first time we made sure that Old Kiln Lakes was included on our clean up. As always, unfortunately, there is still much too much rubbish discarded by the thoughtless.
Incredible Edibles
As part of Chinnor’s contribution to the Incredible Edible Network started in Todmordon, we have planted up our first Community Herb Planter in half an oak barrel outside the Pavilion. There is a good selection of some common and not so common culinary herbs and are there for community use. So go along an take a pinch or have a snip of chives and use them in cooking or in salads. Please just take a what you need and leave some for your fellow residents.
We will be inviting you to join us in placing our next community planters soon so watch this space!
Seed & Plant Swap
Nearly there (phew). We had an excellent turnout of plant donations and garden 'stuff' (as well as customers) at our Seed and Plant swap at the Green Living Event/Giant Swap Shop Event on Saturday 12 May. We even had some garden tools donated which soon found a good home. Last year we swapped or gave, for a small donation, almost 1000 plants - well this year we did even better and totally lost count of what came in or went out. Thanks to your generosity we made enough in donations to help fund next years event. Any plants that were leftover after the event were split and given to Open Gardens and Christian Aid Week.
First was a tree and hedge planting session in January where together with some of your local Parish Councillors, we put in some glorious young trees to replace those that needed felling in Conigre. In addition a row of native hedging was planted in order to help prevent youngsters having easy access to the traffic dangers of Station Road
| Chinnor Repair Cafe We are pleased to say that Greening Chinnor are part of the innovative Repair Cafe Oxfordshire Programme supported by The CAG Network and Oxfordshire County Council. This initiative is happening across Oxfordshire to tackle the growing issue of waste and change the way we view normal household items like toasters and radios. Repair Cafes are a social event where people with broken items are matched with skilled people who like fixing things. The focus being on skill-sharing where rather than throwing items in the bin, attendees will be invited to learn how to fix their item alongside the volunteer fixers. April saw the launch of Chinnor's first Repair cafe. We all had a great afternoon and huge thanks go to our team of “experts” and fixers who worked wonders on the stream of varied items placed in front of them. Also to our team of facilitators who made sure everyone was looked after as well as serving a steady stream of tea and homemade cakes. In addition one of our fixers gave a couple of excellent sessions where he demonstrated how householders can make simple inexpensive fixes to some common plumbing problems.   |
Our expert team of volunteer fixers were able to mend or offer progressive advice to everything that was brought in with the exception of a single broken iron.
24 items examined
61.6 kilos weighed
Fixed 20 (40 kilos)
Advice given 3 (20 kilos)
Unfixable 1 (1.5 kilos)
The cornucopia of items received were:
a bike, 2 cd players, a ceramic bowl and tray, a waxed jacket, an iron, an extension lead, a printer, a lamp, a padlock, taps, a small watering can, a spider catcher, tent poles, a tyre gauge, a drill charger, chicken bone cutters, secateurs, a hobby horse, small action toys, a small wooden dolls chair, a small Victorian chair and a small leather mystery. If the owner ever finds out what it is, please let us know.
Look out for details of our next Repair Cafe coming up in the autumn. In the meantime, if you would like to get involved either as a fixer or facilitator please email Linda at greeningchinnor@gmail.com.
Spring Community Litter Pick
We had our belated Community Litter Pick on Sunday 29th April. Despite winter not wanting to finally depart we had an excellent turnout. We were particularly pleased to see some children from the Beavers group turning up to lend a hand. For the first time we made sure that Old Kiln Lakes was included on our clean up. As always, unfortunately, there is still much too much rubbish discarded by the thoughtless.
Incredible Edibles
As part of Chinnor’s contribution to the Incredible Edible Network started in Todmordon, we have planted up our first Community Herb Planter in half an oak barrel outside the Pavilion. There is a good selection of some common and not so common culinary herbs and are there for community use. So go along an take a pinch or have a snip of chives and use them in cooking or in salads. Please just take a what you need and leave some for your fellow residents.
We will be inviting you to join us in placing our next community planters soon so watch this space!
Seed & Plant Swap
Nearly there (phew). We had an excellent turnout of plant donations and garden 'stuff' (as well as customers) at our Seed and Plant swap at the Green Living Event/Giant Swap Shop Event on Saturday 12 May. We even had some garden tools donated which soon found a good home. Last year we swapped or gave, for a small donation, almost 1000 plants - well this year we did even better and totally lost count of what came in or went out. Thanks to your generosity we made enough in donations to help fund next years event. Any plants that were leftover after the event were split and given to Open Gardens and Christian Aid Week.
Monday, 26 March 2018
Rescheduled Litter Pick
A reminder that our Spring Community Litter Pick scheduled originally for the 4th March is now happening on the 29th April.
Come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF at 10:00 am. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to the event can be found here.
Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.
Come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF at 10:00 am. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to the event can be found here.
Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Spring Community Litter Pick
Reminder that our Spring Community Litter Pick will be held on Sunday 4th March.
Come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF at 10:00 am. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to event.
Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.
Come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF at 10:00 am. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to event.
Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Spring Community Litter Pick
Sunday 4th March 2018
Once again, Greening Chinnor is linking up with Keep Britain Tidy for The Great British Spring Clean, a campaign with a simple aim:
... 'to bring people across the country together to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, countryside and beaches'.
... 'to bring people across the country together to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, countryside and beaches'.
We are also combining the clean up with the new Scandi craze of Plogging. Do you want to try it? Well now is your chance to stride out energetically and pick litter whilst getting fit.
Alternatively you can join us to amble around some of our beautiful network of paths and catch up with the latest gossip with your fellow villagers (whilst picking up litter).
Either way come and join us at White’s Field Car Park, Mill Lane, Chinnor, OX39 4RF 10:00 Sunday 4th March. Just bring yourself and some old gloves. Everything else supplied. We will be finished by lunchtime latest. All welcome. Directions to event.
Together we can make a difference and clean up the environment on our doorstep.
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Autumn Community Litter Pick
It's back - both Autumn and our marvellous Community Litter Pick. Mark Sunday 15th October in your diary and as usual we will meet up in White's Field car park at 10:00 for a prompt start. We aim to finish no later than 12:30 and many of our walks finish much sooner (depending on the area being picked).
As an addition, we thought we would include some of the public access areas at Old Kiln Lakes. This lovely area is now in good use and unfortunately, as with most popular areas, it is popular for litter louts as well. If you are interested in litter picking this area, join us at White's Field and we will put together a party to work there.
There are no refreshment available on these litter picks so bring some water or light refreshments and garden gloves if you have them All other equipment will be supplied on the morning.
As an addition, we thought we would include some of the public access areas at Old Kiln Lakes. This lovely area is now in good use and unfortunately, as with most popular areas, it is popular for litter louts as well. If you are interested in litter picking this area, join us at White's Field and we will put together a party to work there.
There are no refreshment available on these litter picks so bring some water or light refreshments and garden gloves if you have them All other equipment will be supplied on the morning.
Saturday, 18 March 2017
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