Join us - we’re a collection of volunteers who want to make our area a better, cleaner and more social place! We are working on tackling litter & f...
Join us - we’re a collection of volunteers who want to make our area a better, cleaner and more social place! We are working on tackling litter & flytipping, restoring access to pavements, establishing a community hub, bringing back some form of banking and brightening up our area with our creative team. We are organsing the community to regenerate Ball Hill and build a sense of pride through collaboration!
Join us at our monthly litter picks on the first Sunday of every month at 1pm at the 2-Tone Village on Walsgrove Road, or you can get in touch to set up your own litter pick locally.
We have now established a Clean Up Hub at All Saints St Margaret's Church (50 Walsgrave Rd) with litter picking and gardening equipment so that people from the local community can access these tools. For drop-in times check in with the hub. Alternatively check in on the Destination Ball Hill website, Facebook or Instagram.
Equipment available includes litter pickers, bags, bag hoops, high vis vests, protective gloves and a how to guide.
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Car’s worth of litter
Wheelie Bin’s worth of litter
250 Bags collected
200 Bags collected
150 Bags collected
100 Bags collected
75 Bags collected
50 Bags collected
25 Bags collected
1st Litter Pick
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04 May 2025
Litter picked along Walsgrave Road cleared a large amount of cans, bottles, vapes and litter from the planters and around the William Hill betting shop. Plus general pick along the road. Moved a car parcel shelf and a broken bin lid to the pick up area. Jac and a colleague came along to see how we operate our clean up. Lovely meeting you both. Had a meeting after the pick and refreshments courtesy of Sukhi. Next pick is 1st June.
12 bags collected
9 pickers
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06 April 2025
Met at 2-Tone, signed in, then went to our new hub to collect equipment at St. Margaret’s church. Flower beds were heavy laden with bottles, cans vapes and paper litter. By the side of William Hill was bottles some broken some not, used dust-pan and brush to get all the fragments up. 3 young boys helped for a few minutes voluntary which was quite refreshing. Lots of take-away litter and cans and broken glass and rear light glass off a car that was attacked in the week. Looks much better. Not sure for how long. The weather was lovely and we met up after the pick for our usual monthly meeting at 2-Tone cafe. Thank you once again for free refreshments. See you all next month.
9 bags collected
9 pickers
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02 March 2025
Cleaned planters, lots of bottles and vapes - more than normal. Walsgrave Road and St. Osburgs one large box and a fold up tent a nitrous oxide bottle . A lovely sunny day
8 bags collected
6 pickers
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02 February 2025
These 32 bags were collected by our volunteer Bill Lambert from 29 September 2024 through to 2 February 2025. 16 days for 1 hour a day. From Britain Road to Clay Lane along Walsgrave Road
32 bags collected
1 picker
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02 February 2025
Firstly a massive thank you St. Margaret’s Church for allowing us to erect a brand new storage shed in their locked up grounds. A huge thank you to James and Anton who spends weeks clearing the area putting a base down and slabbing it. We can now store our litter-pick equipment in there instead of taking it home - bonus.
Spent a lot of time around the 2 bus stops at the top of Ball Hill. Lots of bottles, cans and vapes in the planters. Used the heavy brush to brush around the area lots of cigarette ends and litter stuck to the pavement’s and paths. All drains completely blocked with rubbish. Large piece of chip-board just left there rotting for people to trip over. Left both areas looking good. Lots of rubbish around and behind those commercial bins and just left anywhere. A good day considering there was only 7 of us. Went into 2 -Tone for a meeting and the same guy paid for our teas and coffees as he does every litter pick. Most gratefully received.
13 bags collected
7 pickers
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05 January 2025
Litter pick today on Walsgrave Road. A few pickers were unwell but those that turned up did a good job
11 bags collected
7 pickers
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21 December 2024
4 bags of litter collected along Walsgrave Road during the week by Bill. Well done Bill
4 bags collected
1 picker
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14 December 2024
Litter picked throughout the week on Ball Hill near 2-Tone up until Saturday.
9 bags collected
1 picker
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01 December 2024
Litter picked Walsgrave Road from Harefield Road up to Argyll Street. Heavily littered around the bus stop (lots of full jars, tins, sachets and rotted food peelings absolutely awful), the Old Ball Public House and opposite by the post office going towards the zebra crossing. Overflowing commercial bins and other rubbish in this area. It appears to be getting worse each time we do the monthly litter pick.
Next litter pick will be Sunday 6 January 1-2 then meeting afterward. The new shed to store our equipment in has been ordered and is due this week. Once erected all our equipment will be stored there permanently.
14 bags collected
9 pickers
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10 November 2024
Bill collected litter on his own on 10th, 17th, 26th and 30th of November. Most of this litter was discarded take-away containers empty drinks bottles and cans. He spent 1 -1.5 hours on each of these days.
8 bags collected
1 picker
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09 November 2024
During this week 3 people collected 4 bags of rubbish along Walsgrave Road
4 bags collected
3 pickers
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03 November 2024
Our monthly litter pick today we collected litter, cigarette ends, foliage and a few dumped items. Our planters were slightly overgrown so they were trimmed back for safety reasons. Of the 5 new people that attended 3 were children. A guy from the council picking up waste on his normal round took our bags away which was a blessing (thank you), perfect timing. We then had a meeting afterwards at the 2-Tone cafe where drinks were provided free of charge.
9 bags collected
15 pickers
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28 October 2024
Litter collected daily on Walsgrave Road
6 bags collected
4 pickers
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19 October 2024
32 bags of litter collected over the past week from Walsgrave Road and adjacent side streets where it meets Walsgrave Road. No photos as 4 pickers went out at different times.
32 bags collected
4 pickers
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12 October 2024
12 bags collected during this week. 7 bags collected by Phil. 5 bags collected by Anton and Bill. Good work guys
12 bags collected
3 pickers
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06 October 2024
Good turnout for our usual monthly pick. 13 people with 3 new pickers. Welcome to Phil, Karima, and Paul. Lots of litter up and down Walsgrave Road and fly tipping at the bottom of St. Osburgs Road. Not a pretty sight. Well done to Matt and Karima for sorting the weeds out around the fences by the traffic lights looks much cleaner. We were asked if we were doing community payback with our high-vis tops on. We explained we were volunteers. Hopefully we can have the word volunteer put on the tops.
One of our planters with pollution absorbing plants was recently painted and looks absolutely beautiful. Well done to all those involved in creating this amazing piece of artwork.
20 bags collected
13 pickers
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27 September 2024
Litter picked around the Walsgrave Road area of Ball Hill this week.
4 litter picks this week by 3 people collecting 10 bags
Due to weather the new shed due to be erected will be hopefully installed in November.
Next monthly litter pick Sunday 7 October meeting at 2 Tone from 1-3pm.
Next Community Hub meeting Wednesday 10 October at 2 Tone
10 bags collected
3 pickers
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18 September 2024
2 pickers, 2 bags.
No litter hub next week, but all hands on for McMillan coffee morning at the hub supporting Angela 11-12pm
The ground for the new litter hub shed is nearly complete ready for the shed to be erected for the litter picking equipment. Hopefully ready early October.
2 bags collected
2 pickers
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06 September 2024
2 pickers, 2 bags
2 bags collected
2 pickers
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04 September 2024
1 litter picker, 1 bag
1 bag collected
1 picker
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