litter pick

Local Burngreave resident and Pitsmoor litter picker Karen Malone was moved recently by the work of the Roma community after they cleared streets of litter in their area. Writing on Facebook, Karen said on the [Read more]

Story by Malcolm Camp. I’ve heard people say, “There’s no point bothering cos our area’s a sh** **le!” I realised it wouldn’t take long to reverse that opinion – picking up the worst of it, [Read more]

Story by Patrick Moran Back in July a small group of local volunteers led by Safiya Saeed, turned up to carry out a covid-19 secure litter pick at Ellesmere Park. This is a lovely slightly [Read more]

Whiteways litter pick Story by Patrick Moran Whiteways Community group is finding ways to continue the work that they do within the new rules. Members of Whiteways Community Group organised a litter pick on Saturday [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones On 6th January Sheffield and Rotherham’s Wildlife Group’s ranger and local volunteers gathered to perform the usual monthly maintenance at Crabtree Ponds nature reserve. We did a litter pick, shifted some [Read more]

Story and Pictures by Deborah Blencowe Since the last issue of The Burngreave Messenger and following on from the front page article “Ellesmere Cleans Up” there have been a further two clean up sessions which [Read more]

Story and photos by Sahdya Ali. Our new litter picking group held our first litter pick at Ellesmere Park on Saturday 16th November. There were sixteen wonderful volunteers on the day. We did get some [Read more]

Story by Kevin Stapleton | Photo courtesy of Oasis Academy Fir Vale Oasis Academy Fir Vale held a week of events for pupils, staff and parents to raise awareness of recycling, picking up litter and [Read more]

Story by Lucy Davies | Photos by Fran Belbin and Safiya Saeed If you were out and about on the roads around Rock Street, Melrose Road and Spital Hill on Saturday 18th May, you might [Read more]

Story by Patrick Moran and Deborah Blencowe | Photos by Patrick Moran and Deborah Blencowe Over 70 people braved the cold weather and participated in a litter pick in Fir Vale organised by Fir Vale [Read more]

Story by Mustafa Ahmed Saturday 22nd September saw Wensley Community Centre alive with activity, as people from all over the area joined forces for a clean-up day organised by Wensley TARA and Eden, a Christian [Read more]

Story by Usman Yousaf On Saturday 13th October Fir Vale Community Hub held a community litter pick. The plan was to tackle the residential streets behind Fir Vale Community Hub. Local community were also joined [Read more]

Story by Farhaan Warsame | Photo by Sahra Abdi Sahra Abdi is the manager of a local football team (Future Football Stars of Burngreave). Sahra came from Somalia in 1992 at the age of seven [Read more]

Story and top photo by Deborah Blencowe | Litter art photo courtesy of Endeavour Over 100 people turned out for the Sheffield Litter Pickers organised pick around Firth Park Road and Page Hall on Saturday [Read more]