We had a monster clean up on Saturday 9th November. First meeting in the Josephs car park at 10am, we then tackled the Knock. Well done to everyone who turned up on the day and helped us clean this space in our town.

We removed a huge amount of rubbish and recyclable material from the area. The breakdown of the clean up was:
19 bags of cans and bottles gone to recycling at the bring bank
13 bags of plastic recycling for Kilurin on Monday
20 bags of general rubbish gone to the skip
4 broken trolleys, carpet and miscellaneous items gone to skip

At our recent, and very successful, cleanup in The Rocks, where we were joined by a large and enthusiastic group of volunteers from St. Mary’s GAA Football Club, and removed over 250 bags of rubbish plus an array of household and other appliances, we were joined by Film-makers “Highwind Films” who recorded the cleanup as it happened, and interviewed some of the volunteers. Check out their video below:

These guys produce some amazing films and documentaries, great for Social Media and Marketing projects – check out the Highwind Media Website

The following are the scheduled dates for volunteer meet-ups for litter-picking, planting, painting and Wexford Tidy Towns’ many activities, from June to December 2013. Any additional dates, or changes to this schedule, will be posted here, and on our Facebook page.

If you haven’t already, please consider joining us on one or more of our cleanups/projects – you’ll meet a great bunch of people, have some fun, and the satisfaction of helping to keep our beautiful town looking it’s best for natives and tourists alike!

1. Saturday 8th and 22nd June
2. Thursday 11th July and Saturday 27th July
3. Thursday 8th August and Saturday 23rd August
4. Saturday 7th and 21st September
5. Saturday 12th October
6. Saturday 9th November
7. Saturday 7th December

Hope to see you there!

That’s the name we are giving to today’s posting following another day of Trojan work by Wexford Tidy Towns. Keep reading!
We returned this morning to Westgate to continue with the painting of railings and gates at An Tobar / Westgate Centre. We also collected litter from the general area surrounding: Westgate Green, Selskar, George Street, Abbey Street, Spawell Road, 1798 Street, Redmond Square, Redmond Road. And following reports of a serious litter problem, a small crew was dispatched to an area called The Knock up near Bishopswater. What a mess! Then again this area, tucked away out of sight as it is beside the Horse River, has long had a reputation as a litter blackspot. Suffice to say that it looks a helluva lot better now than it did but it will take a few repeat visits to get it properly sorted. All the pix today come from The Knock … ‘cos that’s where the camera was!

Horse River, Wexford

Wexford town has just completed its most intensive and successful National Spring Clean campaign yet. Each Saturday this month there were dozens of volunteers out at various locations litter-picking, sweeping, painting, pruning and generally making our town look more beautiful.

There was also the opening, earlier this week, of the attractive new biodiversity-friendly “pocket” park on 1798 Street, an initiative spearheaded by Wexford Tidy Towns in association with Wexford Borough Council. This is the most visible result to date of the new Biodiversity Committee.

The culmination of the month-long campaign came yesterday with a humungous clean-up at The Rocks, Maudlintown. With the number of volunteers up by at least 100% over 300 bags of waste were collected and that’s not counting out-size items such as mattresses and the like. Full credit to the Maudlintown community and St Mary’s GFC for getting out in such force. One not insignificant result of yesterday’s clean-up was that it allowed Wexford people see what a wonderful asset they have tucked away in a corner of the town.

The net result of this major Spring Clean campaign is that Wexford now looks better than ever and people are going to be more insistent than ever that it be kept that way. With Wexford-in-Bloom is just around the corner we can expect the town to look even better again as it dons it floral glad-rags!

Volunteers getting their orders at The Rocks!