So… what is RESCUE Reading?
RESCUE stands for Rivers and Environmental Spaces Clean Up Event.
During three days in March, over 25 clean up teams take on the task of clearing up a local woodland, waterway, or green space from litter and fly tipping.
The teams are made up of volunteers from local businesses, community & neighbourhood groups.
They are provided with litter pickers, gloves and bags and the rubbish is removed for them by the local authority.
Thames Water has sponsored the event for the last four years.
In March 2011, we contributed:
1000 working hours to clear up 43 sites across Reading.
This work was carried out by 30 clean up teams.
In 2011 Reading RESCUE held an extra event in October and welcomed new groups to the campaign.
On this occasion, we concentrated our efforts on the waterways. We cleared 17 miles of river and canal in Reading which took 120 volunteers a total of 300 hours over two days.
The next Reading RESCUE will be from the 8th to 11th March. If you would like to join one of the groups around Reading, or like your community groups or friends to lead their own event, then please get in touch with us or fill out the registration form found on the ‘contact RESCUE’ page.
A volunteer pack with all the information you need to know about Reading RESCUE is available as a PDF here Volunteer_pack rescue
