We joined The Charlton Society for a special litter-pick to clean up Charlton Village ready for the Christmas holidays. At first glance things didn't seem to be too bad but our team have a nose for rubbish and soon found some hot spots - down Charlton Church Lane, in the car park and round the back of the Co-op. Our finds included a broken chair, quite a lot of vapes (going to a scrap metal dealer for disposal), lots of bottles, two boxes of nitrous oxide cylinders (reported to the Council).

An hour of walking, talking and picking resulted in nearly 12 bags and a sparkling village. Thanks to the Village Greengrocer for rewarding us with apples, pears, tangerines and bananas - a really fruitful morning's work!

7 Goodgymers and two friends of Clean Up Charlton, including one of our local Councillors, met on a sunny morning in SE7 to make our streets a lot cleaner.

How much fun is litter-picking with friends? It CAN be lots of fun - we filled 4 bags of items for recycling and 12 bags in total, weaving our way around the roadworks in SE7. Well done to our smallest litter-picker - showing the Councillor how to deal with those plastic bottles and impressing him enough with the CAN-do attitude of GoodGym so that he joined our usual coffee session in M&S despite his busy day. Thanks to everyone for your hard work and your laughs!

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