A team of community volunteers collected over twenty bags of rubbish from Prestwich Clough during an anti-litter action day recently.
The volunteers, from across Prestwich, first came together to clean up the local area earlier in the spring, with a graffiti clean up day. This time their attentions turned to litter, with an attempt to shift some of the rubbish which blights the Clough.

The group have been supported by Liberal Democrat Councillor for St Mary’s ward Richard Baum, who attended both the graffiti clean up and the litter pick, and got stuck in cleaning up. Cllr Baum said “It’s great to see a group of local people giving up their free time to help the community like this. We cleaned a lot of graffiti a few weeks ago, and today we collected over twenty bags full of rubbish between us. It makes a real difference to the local environment, and it’s actually surprisingly good fun!”

But Cllr Baum had some words of criticism for the authorities who have done little to help the situation. “It’s a shame that the Council don’t seem to be helping keep the Clough clean as much as they should. We’ve found everything from old tyres to broken mirrors today, some of it clearly dating back years. It’s obvious that stuff is getting dumped here and not cleaned up by the Council when it should. We all need to do our bit not to drop litter, but I will continue to press for more help from the authorities as well as a crackdown on the people responsible for spoiling the beautiful Prestwich clough with their litter.”