One of the activites we undertake a few times a year is to extend our litter picking efforts further upriver from the Esplanade Gardens to the stretch of foreshore by the Medway Towns Rowing Club. It's always great to meet up with the Rowing Club's members and work together to gather the flotsam and jetsam that washes up around their clubhouse. We teamed up with them again in April, and as usual, we collected a huge amount of litter, as well as some larger and more interesting items!
We were once again pleased to welcome a group from the Medway Volunteer Police Cadets who are becoming regular fixtures at our volunteer sessions, and we're grateful to them - and all our volunteers and partners - for giving up some of their weekend to lend a hand.
We were also pleased to be joined by Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards, pictured below with some of the interesting items we collected this time around: a shopping trolley (these always come in handy for transporting sacks of litter to the collection point), a child's bicycle and an old fibreglass dinghy which was a little worse for wear. The foreshore was left looking wonderfully free of rubbish and plastic waste by the time our volunteers were finished.
As always, we're really grateful to everyone who gave us a little of their time to make a difference to the health of the river foreshore. If you'd like to get involved, you can find out about our upcoming volunteer sessions or read more about all of our projects.