‘It looks lovely and inviting now’: Hanging Heaton community comes together for clean-up operation on playing field

The mass of litter on Bywell playing fields was cleaned up on Tuesday, March 31, with the help of a group of school mums, children, members of Hanging Heaton in Bloom and other volunteers.

The hard-working group filled around 15 bags of rubbish and made the park “nice and clean” for local children to play in.

Rebecca Eatherley, who helped to organise the clean-up operation, said: “It was a really good turnout and we cleared it all out. The kids loved helping out.

“It needed doing as there was just rubbish everywhere - bottles, cans, every sort of rubbish you can think of was there.

“It felt good to do it. Everybody that did it felt really good afterwards. The park is nice and clean now for the kids to play in.

“The playground was newly done last year with new equipment, but there was all this rubbish which was making it look really scruffy and not nice. It is all litter free now.

“I would just like to say a massive thank you to everybody who helped out.”