Over the last six weeks or so, students in Year 7, from Riddlesdown Collegiate have been carrying out litter picking near to the Collegiate building, ably assisted by Tracey Bellamy, the Council’s Street Champion Co-Ordinator.

They have carried out litter picks, 30 students at a time, and they have litter picked for an hour, choosing to pick up litter, on the ‘White Path’, the footpath from Dunmail Drive to Grisedale Gardens, Honister Heights, the footpath to Hamsey Green on the ‘Common’ and the farm fields opposite the Mitchley Avenue. This has resulted in over 60 bags of litter between the groups. This is throughout the year with Year 7 students.

We are told, all the students have embraced this activity and been really interested in the effects on the environment of the litter they have been finding.

On behalf of the RRA, well done to all students who took part and to the Staff at the Collegiate for supervising.

Photos; Credit and permission from Lee Harkness, Head Teacher – Pegasus, Riddlesdown Collegiate.