Join us for our Family Friendly Litter Pick and help clean up the Common! We will provide litter picks, bags and gloves (or bring your own), as well as drinks and treats.

Dress appropriately for the weather, it will go ahead, rain or shine! Everyone is welcome, children need to be supervised by an adult. Please register for this event so we know how many people to expect.

BARNES COMMON GROUP LITTERPICK INSTRUCTIONS

• Please sign on before starting.
• Work in small groups with at least one adult per 3 children.
• Please use one bag for general litter and another one for recyclables. Bring your recyclables home to be recycled if you can as we have no facilities for this.
• Full litter bags can be tied up and left by the roadside, we will collect them later. Please leave them somewhere we can stop to pick them up easily.
• Do not litter-pick roadside verges.
• Please do not approach tents you see in the woods as these could be active rough sleeper camps. Please let us know about any tents you find. We work with the council and Spear to try and resolve these cases sympathetically.
• Let us know if you see any graffiti or vandalism. We will call in the graffiti team who have got the best equipment to clear this.
• Once you are finished, please bring your equipment and any recyclables you collected back to base.
• Do not pick up any sharps (broken glass, needles etc), hazardous waste or heavy objects, but let us know where you found them.

Any issues or questions, please call your coordinator: Frankie Doorgachurn on 07469 202 711.

Not a member of Barnes Common yet? Why not join us and support all of our activities? Find more information and join at http://barnescommon.org.uk/membership

Please fill out our volunteer registration form here. We also have a Young Volunteers form here.