Our Community Ranger Leaders shared important information about the need to recycle unwanted toys – did you know that over 80 million Lego bricks end up in landfill each year? Children were invited to bring their old toys into school and swap them for another toy. Their toys found a new home and they have also helped the planet too!

Our Community Rangers met with local councillors, our PCO, the local community team, our local MP and volunteers to give the area a nice clean up. They collected many bags of rubbish. The children were unhappy with the amount of rubbish we found in their park but were happy to be leaving it in a better state. “Why can’t people just use the bins?” was an often heard question.

We had a special and moving memorial service on Friday for our local shopkeeper hero, Vipin, who passed away last year. He was always so kind to the children and now his family look after us too. We planted a beautiful tree in our memorial garden in his memory.

Our Community Rangers met with our Neighbourhood Development Officer and Housing Patch Manager, to share their ideas for developing the local community. They all want to make our community a better place to be.

The Community Rangers joined their CPO leaders to take a walk around the local area, looking for improvements that they can perhaps make. They discovered that litter is definitely an issue and reducing this will be on their action plan!