We are a friendly group of people of all ages who like to see our local areas clear of litter. We meet every second Sunday for a 2 hour pick follow...
We are a friendly group of people of all ages who like to see our local areas clear of litter. We meet every second Sunday for a 2 hour pick followed by tea & cakes and a social chat. If you'd like to come out to try us please get in touch.
Thank you to the die-hard Wombles (Diane, Kathy, Roks & Artur, Dave, Ian, Tom & Sally) who joined me today in 26 degree heat to pick Victoria Park.
I’d recced the park on Friday and met a pleasant young man called Graham, the Council Street Cleaner for the area. He’d already cleared about 8 bags of rubbish from the park but I could see there was still plenty in the woods so I was sure it would be a worthwhile pick and, being in the woods and out of the direct sun, it would be cooler.
In total we collected 22 bags weighing about 70kg (including 4 bags of recyclable cans & plastic bottles), as well as about 65kg of loose metal, N2O cylinders and bulky plastic, discarded chairs & umbrellas.
We also recovered 5 LIDL supermarket trolleys from the park and reported them to Trolleywise for collection.
A brilliant effort by all, thank you.
22 bags collected
9 pickers
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18 June 2026
Linda Mander
A woodland pick along Oakley Path for The Great BiG Green Week 🌳💚 .
We made some FUN pictures with our finds.
4 purple litter sacks filled
1 N2O canister
♻️ 65 glass bottles
♻️ 32 plastic bottles
♻️ 83 drinks cans
♻️ 3 vapes
🛒🛒 2 shopping trolleys reported
We saw a grey squirrel 🐿 hopping along his new clean green woodland home 🌳💚.
BiG thank you to Diane Hurley and Ian for coming out today. 🙂
4 bags collected
3 pickers
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07 June 2026
☀️ What a lovely day for a womble! ☀️
After several days of heavy rain, we were treated to a beautiful sunny morning as 17 members of the Laindon Wombles (including 5 first timers - welcome) took to the streets around Laindon in the High Road, around the station and its car parks, Hatterill, Laindon Link and parts of the Five Links estate.
By the end of the morning, we had collected an impressive 39 bags of rubbish, weighing approximately 174kg, including 7 bags of cans and plastic for recycling.
We also removed 5 nitrous oxide cylinders, 17 discarded vapes, a bicycle, and two car wheels & tyres weighing around 40kg. In addition, we recycled 63 glass bottles and jars, reported one abandoned shopping trolley for collection, and flagged a fly-tipped fridge freezer on Hatterill for removal.
A huge thank you to Amanda for once again providing her delicious homemade rock cakes to enjoy with a well-earned cup of tea/coffee back at Laindon Community Centre afterwards. Thanks also to fairly new member, Sarah Louise, who treated us to a superb lemon drizzle cake that went down very well indeed! 😋
If you're walking or driving through the areas we covered today, I’m sure you'll notice the difference we’ve made. Another fantastic effort from a wonderful group of volunteer.
👏 Well done, Laindon Wombles!
39 bags collected
17 pickers
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01 June 2026
Linda Mander
Went solo today. Well almost.. met Graham council litter-picker in Holst Avenue so he got some litter in his sack too✔️🚮.
Disappointing that the double mattress 🛏 we both have reported separately is still in the wood 🌳 next to Holst Avenue. Graham is going to report it again.
A summer weather pick ☀️. Cooler in Willowfield wood where I rescued the woodland from a clothes horse 🐴 and a tv aerial (a first!🙄)
Lots of general litter along Willowfield.
6 purple sacks filled
♻️17 plastic bottles
♻️18 drinks cans
🦊🌳🥰
7 bags collected
1 picker
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28 May 2026
Worthing Road Park. Rubbish left behind by group of youths who'd had water bomb 'fights' on a hot day.
9 bags of flattened plastic water bottles collected (in shopping trolleys used by the youths to get their bottles of water from LIDLs to the park) and recycled and 5 bags of rubbish cleared.
14 bags collected
1 picker
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28 May 2026
Linda Mander
Oh.. a fairy-tale castle 🏰. How magical..
Found at the address of my womble today in Princess Close👑, Palace Grove and Sandringham Road
3 purple litter sacks
1 N2O canister
♻️18 plastic bottles
♻️19 drinks cans
3 bags collected
1 picker
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18 May 2026
Linda Mander:
5 Wombles 20 litter sacks and a monster mountain ⛰️ of rubbish - an adventure in Upper Mayne wood 🌳. Thank you to everyone involved.
Krystle and Diane Hurley filled purple litter sacks as myself Ian and Kathy (and two trolleys) removed the large items we had left in the wood on our last pick.
These included: a single bed mattress / carpet / garden chairs / sunlounger / plastic crates / pc printer / shopping trolley / sleeping bag / kitchen bin 😟 bricks from a chimney stack / metal / builders rubble and concrete.
It did bring nature back into the wood 🌳. A black and white pussycat came to say hello and a robin hopped onto my trolley 🙂.
So far we have removed 63 litter sacks from this wood 🌳 and there are further visits planned 🦊
Before I left a guy walked by the pile of everything collected and saw me in my car. He gave me a huge thumbs up 👍
20 bags collected
5 pickers
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14 May 2026
Linda Mander
19 purple litter sacks from a small wood 🌳 in Upper Mayne.
Ian, Diane Hurley and myself today. So much litter - it was very old. As Ian said to Diane "this is Bonkers." 😲
One crisp packet looked new and it was eat by 2019.
Lots of sacks of household waste. We found large items too.
Amazingly we kept quite dry when rain 🌦 fell and we also worked through a BiG rumble of thunder 🌫 .
19 bags collected
3 pickers
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12 May 2026
Karen Lee was sent a photo of an area in woods full of gas canisters and rubbish. This morning, she and Denise picked a bit of Durham Road and then crossed the railway and picked the wood.
Before and after...
3 bags collected
2 pickers
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11 May 2026
Solo pick by Karen lee in woods by Helmores/Durham Road this morning
3 bags collected
1 picker
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10 May 2026
A HUGE well done to the Laindon Wombles today, and a big thank you to the 14 members who turned out for a womble in Willowfield Woods alongside the London-bound A127. 👏🌿
Today’s team were:
Amanda, Caroline (her first time out with us), Clark, Dave, Diane, Ian, Kathy, Linda, Lloyd, Paul, Roks & Artur (only their second time out with us), Sarah (also her first time out with us) and Stella.
We were also joined by Jason Alexander, the official Roving Reporter for the Wombles Community Charity, who came along to see what the Laindon Wombles are all about! 😊
https://www.facebook.com/WomblesOfficial/videos/665646689254760/
Linda, Diane and Ian had previously cleared an old encampment from the woods, but the area was still full of years of accumulated rubbish and needed a larger team effort to fully clear it.
By the end of the pick we had removed:
🗑️ 59 bags of rubbish weighing a conservative 250kg
♻️ At least 350kg of un-bagged waste including an old lorry wheel, car tyre, roof tiles, metal, plastic, sheeting, wood and buckets of rubble.
An incredibly impressive haul which has left the woods ready for nature to reclaim once again 😎🌱
This also brings the Laindon Wombles’ total for rubbish collected in 2026 to an amazing 8.6 tonnes! 💪
59 bags collected
14 pickers
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27 April 2026
Linda Mander:
More photos from a new wood 🌳 in Upper Mayne. Wombles needed!
3rd visit I collected 6 purple litter sacks
A sink plug on a silver chain
A ladies sandal 👡
2nd visit I collected 10 purple litter sacks
A crisp packet from 2005🤨
A trainer 👟and boot 🥾
A scary friend (from The Simpsons🤔)
To start I collected
6 purple litter sacks
Random items included a fishermans tarpaulin 🎣
A sleeping bag
A dustbin lid
22 bags collected
1 picker
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26 April 2026
Lloyd Carter
Done my good deed for the day by clearing 3 dumped black rubbish bags by East Mayne bus stop 🚏.Then walked over to bin by Northlands Park where the kebab van parks & removed all the cigarette 🚬 butts on the floor & put them in the bin 🚮 where they should be
3 bags collected
1 picker
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26 April 2026
A huge thank you to Amanda, Amy, Clark, Dave, Diane, Ian, Kathy, Muriel, Sally, Stewart & Tom for coming out today to litter pick across the Basildon Road area (near Larkins Garage), through the woods on Basildon Rise, down to St Nicholas Lane and the SS&C building, then back up to St Nicholas Church and along Church Hill to Laindon Park School.
A very warm welcome as well to Roksoliana (Roks) and her son Artur, who joined us for the first time today – great to have you with us! 😊
I was taking it a bit easy recovering from a chest infection, but the team still delivered an incredible effort:
👉 29 bags of litter
👉 7 bags of recyclables (including around 80 glass bottles, 75 cans, 40 plastic bottles, plus other plastics)
👉 16 nitrous oxide cylinders
👉 5 vapes
👉 Around 200kg of loose metal, hard plastic and wood
An amazing result from a brilliant group of people on a sunny Sunday in Laindon! ☀️
Afterwards, we headed back to the Laindon Community Centre for refreshments and some delicious rock cakes (thanks Karen & Amanda!), followed by a short committee meeting where members unanimously agreed to continue focusing our efforts in Laindon Park and Lee Chapel North Wards.
Upcoming focus areas include Durham Road, the High Road, Laindon Station, Victoria Park, and the Laindon Link area (Markhams Chase/Mellow Purgess) but if you’ve spotted a local ‘grot spot’ that needs attention, please let us know – or better yet, come and join us! 😊
📊 Our 2026 totals so far:
• 817 bags collected (approx. 3,743kg)
• 33 fly-tipped bags (116kg)
• 2,223kg of loose metal, wood & plastic
• 163 nitrous oxide cylinders
• Recycled: 2,963 cans, 954 plastic bottles, 1,285 glass bottles, 169 vapes.
That’s a combined total of 6.22 tonnes of rubbish cleared so far this year! 💪
Pride may be considered a sin… but I think we’ve earned the right to a little bit of it. 😊
35 bags collected
14 pickers
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20 April 2026
Linda Mander & Diane Hurley
A fox(y) 🦊 time in the wood in Hornbeam Way..
I climbed the steep bank among the tall white scented cow parsley🌾 in search of litter and Diane Hurley picked in the undergrowth.
12 purple litter sacks filled
Random items included a bedsheet / cushion / hose from a hoover / hooded jacket / trainers / broken streetlight / big perspex screen / large plastic containers
Recycled♻️ 28 glass bottles and 9 drinks cans
🦊🌳🐞
12 bags collected
2 pickers
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17 April 2026
Linda Mander
Finding more eatables (not!!😮) in a new wood yesterday with Diane Hurley. We could not get all the way in past a BiG pile of cut down branches dumped there😿. This did not stop a brown spot bengal pussycat from exploring near us🙂. So glad we cleaned up his wood and removed
5 purple litter sacks
planks of wood with nails in
4 N2O canisters
A black lamp-base for the previously found leopard lampshade 🐆
🌳🐌🐞
5 bags collected
2 pickers
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14 April 2026
Today Diane Hurley and Linda Mander were in Upper Mayne wood .
We first wombled the grass verges around the wood and when we were in the wood suddenly two guys in orange hi-viz 🦺appeared with orange flymos and cut the grass. Perfect timing⏰✅️️.
Filled 13 purple litter sacks
See photos for more... 😬😁
13 bags collected
2 pickers
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07 April 2026
Linda Mander pick.
Decided to hop to it today. Oh.. found signage in buried down undergrowth🐿 😯in the wood at Upper Mayne. Did someone move to Australia 😃🇦🇨.
Thank you to the passer by who carried one of my litter sacks to the collection spot ✅️.
See photos for more.
🌳🐞
8 bags collected
1 picker
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06 April 2026
Pick by Tina Dodds
A good Easter womble 🙌
7 bags , 1 trolley , 1 car seat, N2O cannisters , traffic cones and much more collected 🥰happy with the outcome 🤗
7 bags collected
1 picker
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30 March 2026
Oh..such pretty litter today covered in pink cherry blossom 🌸.
Where was I? 🤔
Upper Mayne Wood between Basildon Road and St Nicholas Lane.
What was there?🤔
5 purple litter sacks filled
1 NO canister
Garden parasol / garden pots / skirting boards / wood with nails sticking out (not nice for squirrel 🐿) plywood / bricks
Recycled♻️: 25 glass bottles 7 plastic bottles and 8 drinks cans.
Loose ring-tag cans were discontinued by 1990😯. The orange tango🍊 was the oldest litter item today.
5 bags collected
1 picker
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Litter picking groups
Litter Picking Groups are people who join forces to work towards a cleaner and greener community.
