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Knowl Hill Clean up and BBQ
Monday, July 28 2008
This event was really well attended and we received a lot of positive responses from all who came along.
The residents taking part in the Clean Up were mainly from four families, with the mums out with their children. A couple of other families joined in at different points during the Clean Up to help out. The children had a really good time, running off with the rubbish pickers and coming back to put what they found in the rubbish bags being held by their mums.
Feed back from the Clean Up was that although the estate is well maintained and kept clean, the mum’s found that we were picking up more rubbish than they had expected. One of the boys even found an abandoned tire!
We were very lucky to have some great entertainment throughout the event provided by Rachel a steel pan soloist. Rachel started off performing by the shops where we meet everyone at the start of the litter pick. She then moved all her equipment down to the grass where we had our BBQ. The music was well received by the residents there, and along with the weather, which was very sunny and warm, we had a really good summer atmosphere.
Once the litter pick was over and all the children had washed their hands we gathered everyone to start the BBQ. While we waited for the food to cook we got the children to draw and colour pictures of things about their neighbourhood. This activity was also well received, and nearly all the children had a go at drawing a picture.
Friends, neighbours, the play park area, and space to play football were the main themes from the pictures of things the children did like. Rubbish, cars going too fast, and neighbours having their bonfires in the middle of the day were the main themes from the pictures of things the children did not like.
People enjoyed the BBQ and most stayed for over an hour, which gave us a chance to get a couple of our census surveys filled in, and for Lyndsey the Area Housing Officer to answer a couple of residents’ queries and take down a couple of complaints and neighbourhood issues. Although the Mobile Office was present at this event, as the weather was so nice and people were happy to sit outside residents did not feel that they could give overly informative feedback on the Mobile Office. However people did comment that it was good to have something there with all our logos on, and people could use the toilet facilities on the Office if they wished.
Friends, neighbours, the play park area, and space to play football were the main themes from the pictures of things the children did like. Rubbish, cars going too fast, and neighbours having their bonfires in the middle of the day were the main themes from the pictures of things the children did not like.
We also gave away a number of our free energy saving light bulbs and held a free raffle for all the residents who had participated in the Clean Up. We had three sets of gift vouchers valuing £5, £10 and £15, and residents felt that these prizes were generous as a thank you to their help on the litter pick.
The children stayed for quite a while around the BBQ area and got involved in some of the other games we had with us like the giant connect four.
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