Still time to help ‘Tidy Thame’ – Here’s how…

THE well-oiled machine that is Thame Tidy Day will be ‘kick started’ tomorrow morning (Saturday), when the team, lead by Sue Martin Downhill, will be out and about in the town putting up signs where the collection points for rubbish will be.

Volunteers and the pile of assorted rubbish collected on the first Thame Tidy Day in 2011

Volunteer numbers are growing but anyone who would like to help in anyway (suggestions coming up) can just turn up at Raquets in North Street (at the back of the Cattle Market carpark) any time after 9am Sunday, and you’ll be allocated a team or somewhere to work.

Lea Park residents will be working on both Saturday and Sunday on Lea Park, so call if you want to join them. They are graffiti cleaning along a public footpath from Overton Drive to Vane Road on Saturday, and cleaning up around a car park in Ormond Road on Sunday morning.

The local fire fighters and others will be in a Thame Service Station van driving around to pick up heavier objects on Sunday. Also on the Sunday, if you like DIY, then you can help the Cornerstone church group paint the old Long Crendon bridge. There will be a team clearing the weeds and dog dirt from the bridge too.

The fire service will start to clear large items of rubbish from the Phoenix Trail, along with the van from Thame Service Station, from 10am on Sunday.

ASM recycling vans will arrive for duty from 9am Sunday. They will be particularly looking to pick up metal that can be recycled.

Sue and the team would really like some people to turn up with gardening equipment, especially hedge trimmers and strimmers. Hoes too would be good for clearing weeds from path edges.

If you want to join in but don’t already know where to start, then please just turn up any time after 9am at Racquets.The following equipment can be loaned – you can call to organize a pick up on any day other than Sunday, otherwise on Sunday just turn up and we can supply :

· litter picker equipment

· hi-vis jackets

· trash, recycling and compost bags

· surgical gloves and more robust gloves

· Men at work signs

Tea and coffee will be provided free to all workers, all day at Raquets.

Sue had this message for all the local businesses and organisations who are contributing people and muscle to Thame Tidy Day: “I’d like to thank MP printers and Block 9 for their help in producing some signs and the leaflets, and for Paddy of Cornerstone church for designing the leaflet. Also Thame Town Council for sorting out the gloves, ‘men at work’ signs and Biffa for the equipment and hopefully for the collection of the rubbish.

Finally, please take plenty of photos of the piles of litter and other trash, and send them back to me. See you there!”

Follow Thame Tidy Day 2014 on Facebook: HERE You can contact Sue and team via Facebook too.