Thursday, 20 December 2012

Spring Clean Appeal

Keep Wales Tidy is always willing to help communities who want to spruce up the area they live in and as such I’m planning a series of  high profile spring cleans across Wrexham starting March 2013. I’ve already started contacting local communities, community councils, councillors, environmental groups, schools and volunteers and the response has been excellent
 
Keep Wales Tidy can help organise, co-ordinate and publicise events, as well as supporting the events on the day, providing safety equipment and doing risk assessments. Tasks tackled in the forthcoming spring cleans will include litter picking, fly tip removal, graffiti removal, planting, removal of invasive non-native weeds, improving access to public footpaths and many others
 
Did you know that Keep Wales Tidy is one of the largest and most effective environmental charities operating in Wales with a strong emphasis on practical delivery covering the whole of the country and influencing a wide range of organisations and communities. Our approach leads to real sustainable change. We influence behaviour and enable groups and schools to take their own actions. Our focus is on people and their connections with their communities and environment. We deal with more than litter. Our work encompasses biodiversity, community regeneration, reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, encouraging access and recreation, health improvement, food growing, Eco Schools and a lot more. Our work is delivered by experienced and expert staff across Wales and underpinned by research and policy work including Local Environmental Quality Surveys and developing advice for Government and other stakeholders

You can follow these spring cleans as they happen and why not keep a tag on all our  community work not only in Wrexham but throughout the whole of Wales by logging on to Keep Wales Tidy’s Flicker page at     http://www.flickr.com/photos/keep_wales_tidy/collections/   

 

Monday, 17 December 2012

Winter Nest Boxes


The Three Rivers Group are an active and enthusiastic group of volunteers who carry out an amazing amount of work helping to enhance and improve the natural environment across North East Wales (the name “three rivers” refers to the Rivers Alyn, Dee and Clwyd in North East Wales which corresponds roughly to the approximate geographical area covered by the group). In preparation for next spring Keep Wales Tidy and the group were busy recently clearing old nestboxes of old nests and debris  at the North Wales Wildlife Trust’s Marford Quarry nature reserve near Wrexham – Most of the 15 or so nestboxes we inspected had old nests  so it looks like it’s been a great year for songbirds! Besides clearing nestboxes we also installed a further 5 new ones

This time of year is a great time to make and place nestboxes for our feathered friends so why not give it a go! I’ll be busy in the New Year making bat boxes with the community in Plas Madoc, Wrexham – Check this blog for updates
 


 

An old tree sparrow nest
 
                                                                         

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Keep Wales Tidy

Many thanks to all the  volunteers, groups and organisations across Wales who have worked with Keep Wales Tidy this past 12 months and helped to make a real difference in our communities 
 
Please find below the link for the Keep Wales Tidy Christmas e-card with a special message from our ambassador Michael Sheen
 
http://www.keepwalestidy.org/aboutus/keep-wales-tidy-ambassador/michael-sheen-s-christmas-message?diablo.lang=eng

Have a happy Christmas and New Year - Nadolig Llawen!!