On Wednesday 6 July 2011 the 1st Upton & Blewbury Brownies spent their evening picking up litter from around the village. Using equipment borrowed from South and Vale district councils, the brownies divided into groups with leaders and adult helpers and scoured the village for litter.
The Brownies had recently been doing various activities based on the Brownie promise, and litter picking seemed an ideal task to cover the element ‘to serve my Queen and my Country’. The Brownies also understood how untidy litter looks and how dangerous it can be sometimes.
The Brownies were pleased they didn’t find too much litter and consider Upton to be quite a tidy village, but still found enough to fill a few bin bags. They did actually enjoy picking up litter, and are keen to do it again some time in the future.
