Kings Heath Litter Pick events – Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery https://fbec.org.uk Restoration, conservation and respectful enjoyment of Brandwood End Cemetery and Chapels Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:11:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.3 Well attended Litter Pick. https://fbec.org.uk/2020/09/05/well-attended-litter-pick/ https://fbec.org.uk/2020/09/05/well-attended-litter-pick/#respond Sat, 05 Sep 2020 14:11:14 +0000 https://fbec.org.uk/?p=3612 The Friends are so pleased to have met so many new people today supporting our Litter Pick, as well as our stalwarts!

18 adults and 3 children collected 26 bags of litter. Most of it was flower paper- so can we remind everyone that if you are leaving flowers at a grave it would be helpful if you could remove all the paper, as the flowers degrade naturally….the wrappings don’t and the wind scatters it all to the edges of the cemetery.

If you leave a display of artificial flowers, please make sure it is well secured, as we found many bunches windswept around the grassland today. Our apologies if your flowers now adorn someone else’s grave but we have no idea where they truly belong, so we have deposited them on the nearest grave.

Thank you everyone for a job well done. Next litter pick will be Sunday 6th December (Weather permitting!)

]]> https://fbec.org.uk/2020/09/05/well-attended-litter-pick/feed/ 0 Reminder- the last Litter Pick of 2019. https://fbec.org.uk/2019/11/25/reminder-the-last-litter-pick-of-2019/ https://fbec.org.uk/2019/11/25/reminder-the-last-litter-pick-of-2019/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2019 23:32:28 +0000 https://fbec.org.uk/?p=3228 On Sunday 1st December we will be holding our last litter pick of 2019.

Please come along and support us. We have the litter pickers and the bags- we just need the volunteers. Meet at the Lodge on the main drive at 10am. Remember you will need stout footwear !

]]> https://fbec.org.uk/2019/11/25/reminder-the-last-litter-pick-of-2019/feed/ 0 Litter Pick tomorrow……. https://fbec.org.uk/2019/03/01/litter-pick-tomorrow/ https://fbec.org.uk/2019/03/01/litter-pick-tomorrow/#respond Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:04:08 +0000 https://fbec.org.uk/?p=2877

 

This is the final reminder that we will be holding our usual LITTER PICK tomorrow and everyone is welcome. This event is part of the annual event organised by Keep Britain Tidy, but we are holding it on our usual first weekend in March.

Saturday 2nd March 10am-11.30am. All welcome. Stout footwear and gloves advised. Litter pickers and bags provided. Meet at the Lodge on the main drive.

(We may not be quite as festive as we were in December !!)

]]> https://fbec.org.uk/2019/03/01/litter-pick-tomorrow/feed/ 0 10+ bags at today’s litter pick. https://fbec.org.uk/2018/12/03/10-bags-at-todays-litter-pick/ https://fbec.org.uk/2018/12/03/10-bags-at-todays-litter-pick/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:25:46 +0000 https://fbec.org.uk/?p=2835 Five and a half of us collected over 10 bags of wind blown rubbish today in the cemetery. The December litter pick always discloses lots of rubbish hidden in normally leafy shrubbery. Still some litter in areas that are hard to reach but generally everywhere reasonably clean and tidy. Next litter pick-March 2019.

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