Litter Picking Group - This Year

Barrow Community Litter Pickers

Barrow Community Litter Pickers Schedule for 2024

Future dates for your diary:

• Monday 2nd Dec, The Moorings car park entrance area

Tasks Completed:

• Monday 2nd December  - Bishop Meadow, Towpath Deep Lock to Navi
• Monday 4th November - Areas around both schools
• Thursday 31st October - Towpath to Pillings (as part of a Footpaths Task)
• Monday 1st July - Holy Trinity Church
• Monday 3rd June - Fishpool Brook area
• Monday 6th May - Barrow Weir Wash
• Monday 8th April - Betty Hensers Lane
• Monday 25th March - Barrow Boating - One Man Bridge - GBSC
• Monday 18th March - One Man Bridge to A6 - GBSC
• Monday 11th March - Deep Lock Hedgerow and ditch
• Monday 4th March - Willow Road Park
• Monday 26th February - Millennium Park - Fishpool Way / Brook
• Monday 19th February - Mill Lane, Pigs Close, High St car park
• Monday 12th February -  Broadway's Meadow - Post Flood Clearance

There are a number of volunteers that are now going out every day, or every week in small groups to help keep the village very tidy.  Our larger group will get together monthly and also for events such as The Great British Spring Clean

Routes around the village that get cleared regularly include:

1. Flesh Hovel Lane to Pillings Lock (+ Barrow Road to the A6 bridge, the roundabout and the slip road onto the A6)
2. Cotes Road from Willow Road to Walton Road junction
3. Nottingham Road from Fishpool Way to the White farm
4. Melton Road from Fishpool Way to (the former) Quorn Hunt dog-kennels
5. Sileby Road from Huston Close to the railway bridge
6. Slash Lane
7. The footpath from the Navigation via Betty Hensers lane to the A6 roundabout, opposite Granite Way.