Category: Events

We had a fun morning learning how to plant and nurture our own vegetables. Local expert Sara Kopp showed us the best ways to plant the seeds, and we had a go at doing it ourselves.

Finally, the big skip returns again – for the Big Spring Clean on 25 April 2009! We managed to fill the skip, sponsored by Reading Festival organisers Festival Republic, in 4 hours – and recycle some of the more useful stuff too!

On 16 August 2008 we continued where we left off with our clean-up of Vastern Ditch. During the Reading Rescue weekend back in March we worked with Caversham GLOBE to clear the ditch of litter – this time we had a go at clearing the main obstructions to get the ditch flowing again.

On 15 March 2008 the Bell Tower Community Association joined Caversham GLOBE for the annual Reading Rescue clean-up event. Around 10 of us spent the afternoon clearing litter out of the ditch alongside the Rivermead, and fished out several sacks of rubbish, along with over 50 car tyres and various traffic cones and bails of newspapers.

We’ve been wiping out the graffiti from our area!

Since the spring of 2007 we have cleaned or painted over all the graffiti in our area, including a few extras on the other side of Caversham Road, and have been busy cleaning any new graffiti as it appears. There are picture stories on the web about our Ross Road graffiti clean-up in April and our emergency graffiti clean-up after an overnight attack in June, which we managed to clean up by the next lunchtime. So far we have wiped out over 300 tags – here is a selection of “before and after” pictures…

On Saturday 11 August 2007 we got out the big skip again! We managed to fill the skip, sponsored by Reading Festival organisers Mean Fiddler, in 4 hours – and recycle some of the more useful stuff too!