Granger Teenagers Are Awesome Out litter picking this afternoon/evening I got talking to a group of teenaged girls. One said how it used to be where children had their own groups and kids/teens didn’t mix but now everyone mixes. We also discussed how important our younger estate children feel when they help litter picking and […]
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Granger Litter Ninjas and Teenagers
Grange Making Positive Good Impression
It seems we have made a very positive good impression… Daventry Express: Community campaign to give Daventry estate a clean Three years ago I took a walk around the Grange Estate, you couldn’t walk more than a couple of steps without encountering litter Before and after 2 years later I decided to get to the cause […]
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TEAMWORK – What A Transformation
It was teamwork today as Amey call centre staff from Liverpool came out to Daventry to do a volunteer litter pick. The Grange Estate was their first port of call, I met with them at the Pike Park and apologised if I ever sounded abrupt when I have spoken with them on the phone I […]
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Do It For The Grange
‘Do it for the Grange‘ is our event slogan for this years ‘Keep Britain Tidy‘ – ‘Clean for the Queen‘ Last years ‘National British Clean Up Day‘ was a huge success – let’s make this one even better. Join the UK’s largest litter pick Waitrose – Daventry who are supporting Keep Britain Tidy will be […]
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Grange Estate Videos
I had a visit from my techie son who has given me a crash course in video making so I thought I’d have a go at transforming pictures of events that have taken place on The Grange Estate over the past 2 years into short videos. I thought I’d experiment with a time lapse video […]
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January Facebook Posts – Grange Estate
All in one place, January Facebook posts – Grange Estate Follow blue highlighted links : A beautiful afternoon led to an unplanned litter pick. 20/01/16 Two hours with Harleys help, 3 sacks filled Dog Fouling my favourite subject – NOT 19/01/16 It is NOT ok to leave your dogs mess on our parks. Grab it, Bag it, […]
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The Grange Estate Funday
The Grange Estate Community Funday was a huge success, we arranged this to run alongside the opening of ‘Butterflies Toddlers Stay and Play’. We only had 6 weeks if that to plan this event, there was a lot of work to do behind the scenes. Volunteers spent 2 days sprucing up the outside play area and […]
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The Clean Sweep Event
Clean Sweep at Tamar Square and The Wye I can’t thank everyone enough for turning out today to do your bit. We had two main areas to tackle Tamar Square and the communal area on The Wye. British Gas has been digging up all over the estate replacing gas pipes, as a result maintenance has […]
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The Clean Sweep
The Clean Sweep Saturday July 11th from 10am onwards at The Pike and Eel. The Clean Sweep Saturday July 11th from 10am onwards at The Pike and Eel. This will be our 6th event Daventry District Council will be providing litter picking equipment for those who want to join in. Let’s get that last bit of litter that […]
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Grange Residents help Middlemore
Middlemore held its first Community Cleanup event on Saturday A huge thank you to all the volunteers who joined in Myself and Wendy Randall from The Grange Estate helped out. The event was organised by Karen Tweedale who is a Daventry Town Councillor and also part of the Middlemore Residents Association. The aim of the clean up […]
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