Autumn Ambles!

Meeting up for an hour on a regular basis can really make a difference. Times/dates will appear on the village FaceBook Group page, or contact me if you wish to help but don't belong to FaceBook (tel:...

Following a break from litter picking (due to my shoulder surgery!) the Appleby litter Pickers are back in action! We are tackling the village and the boundaries within the village signs today. 6 sack...

An ongoing big clean up of the areas we don't clean on a regular basis. March 10 - Ermine Street south today, as far as the Brigg turn off, resulted in 24 sacks, 3 treys, drums and car bumpers and p...

Risby Road today! 8 sacks and counting! Another 15 sacks collected from Ermine Street north and south - Appleby and its surrounding area and litter free again! January 13 2013 - Today we tackled Ris...

Throughout June, July and August we will continue with walk-ups along Ermine Stet and Risby Road. If anyone would like to help they are welcome to borrow a stick and hoop and 'adopt' a stretch of road...

No! This isn't an April Fool's joke! We intend keeping on top of the 3 main roads into the village this month. Walk-ups will be scheduled every weekend to cover Risby Road, Ermine Street North as far ...

Regular Walk-Ups of Risby Road, Ermine Street north and south from the village will continue throughout March. 3rd and 4th March - Risby Road walk-up resulted in 4 sacks of litter. another 20 odd sa...

Over the next few weekends we will attempt to ''walk-up'' all of the roads we have cleaned recently. January 23 to 28 2012: This week we did a series of 'walk ups'. Risby Road, Winterton Lane, Ermine ...

We are off again - tackling the very scruffy, heavily littered B1207 from the Brigg turn off (with the B1208) to the Broughton 30mph signs. These verges are not only heavily littered but are hard to a...

We hope to clear the road all the way to Brigg this month. If anyone feels like joining us please give me a call, 735439. We tackled a section alongside Appleby Woods today, January 1st, filling 20 sa...

An ongoing even to clear the verges between Appleby Woods and Brigg, around 4 miles. These verges are really bad! I estimate we could easily fill 300 sacks. 11.12.11 We filled 13 sacks in an hour an...

While the weather holds (and before a blanket of snow arrives and hides the litter!) we will continue to keep the lanes around the village clean, going as far as Dawes Lane south and Winterton Lane No...

Risby Road clean up! A beautiful day today, time to attack the whole of Risby Road! We collected a tv, a tyre and just 9 sacks of mainly 'fast food' litter. A bit different to the first time we did t...

Meet at the cottage - we are tackling the whole length of Ermine Street today! Ring me if you would like to help, 735439 Thanks! The Big Autumn Tidy up is ongoing - we spent a couple of hours today, N...

Every couple of weeks we will spend 2 hours each weekend going over the 3 roads into the village - Ermine Street North and South, and Risby Road. Now these verges have been thoroughly 'deep cleaned' w...

The Appleby Litter-Pickers are meeting up with volunteers from Broughton (who are also registered with Litter Action) to clean the road between the two communities, a heavily littered 3 mile stretch o...

Meet at the Holmes Lane/Ermine Street crossroads at noon to Litter-Pick Ermine Street heading towards the A1077. Please ring Anita to book your equipment: 735439. We have enough tools for 8 volunteers...

Please visit appleby-lincolnshire.co.uk for details and links. We are joining forces with Winterton this weekend to clear the lane from Appleby to Winterton. Thank you WINTERTON! With your help we hav...

Watch out Winterton! We are coming!! Meet at noon at the Ermine Street / Winterton Lane junction (about a mile and a half north of Appleby). We stout boots and bring your gloves. We will provide litte...

11am start. Meet up point to be arranged. Ring Anita if you would like to join us for an hour or three! (735439) 10 sacks filled from Ermine Street towards Winterton, just half a mile, as well as Risb...

Meeting point to be decided upon - watch this space! Tilly joined us on this wet Saturday. We tackled Ermine Street, starting at Dawes Lane end and getting as far as the entrance in to Appleby Woods. ...

Risby Road - DONE! Ermine Street - almost DONE! Where will we go next? The Litter-Pick on Saturday 12th February will be a bit different. We intend walking the 3 main roads we have cleared to pick up...

Meet at 11am on Ermine Street just south of the village. Look out for my pick up! We hope to get as far as Appleby Level Crossing today. You are welcome to join us for just an hour or until we finish ...

Meet on Risby Road - we hope to get to the very end where it joins the A1077 We DID it! The whole of Risby Road cleared of litter! Around 90 sacks of rubbish plus 19 tyres/wheels. Thanks to the 5 volu...