Govanhill Community Litterpick — Saturday 31 August

Join the Govanhill Litterpick group for another community organised clean-up in Govanhill on the last Saturday of the month!

Poster design by Eddie Philips

During the last litterpick, the group asked all those who came along and volunteered some of their free time to join the clean-up, to collect cans and plastic bottles that would be exchanged in Lidl using their recycling machine. Together they managed to collect four big bags of recyclables which were exchanged for a sum just shy of £30!

As a community-led initiative to keep Govanhill’s streets and lanes clean, this was a huge boost to the groups small pot of funding, which is usually supplemented by various other local businesses and community organisations who have shown their support either by providing them with food, refreshments, or vouchers to help pay for the latter.

The group are immensely grateful to any individual, business or organisation who is able to support them; either by volunteering their free time and labour, or by helping feed those volunteers at the end of each litterpick.

Once again they are inviting anyone in, or neighbouring, the community to join them for another litterpick at the end of this month, and are encouraging people to collect any cans and/or plastic bottles (in decent condition) that have been discarded in our streets since it proved to be a successful way of raising some funds.

The group is also calling on volunteers to join them and is asking local businesses to consider sponsoring their monthly community clean-up to help pay for equipment and refreshments needed. If any local businesses are interested in supporting the Govanhill Litter Pick group, they can contact them by email at govanhill-litter@greatergovanhill.com

You can now stay up-to-date with the Govanhill Litter Pick group by following them on Instagram at @govanhill_literpick and liking their page on Facebook; just search for the Govanhill Community Litter Pick.