Care home staff give up spare time to clear rubbish from local stream

Care home staff in High Wycombe have given up their spare time, working with others on a community project to clean up a local stream.

Staff at the Royal Star & Garter Home donned their wellies to pick out bottles, crisp packets, cigarette ends and other debris from a stream that runs behind the new care home which opens to residents this month.

The clean-up, which took place Monday April 8 was part of the wider waterway project by Chiltern Rangers and Thames Water River Wye Restoration Project to return local waterways to a suitable condition.

A 45-person team made up of the care home staff, Chiltern Rangers, Hughenden Garden Village residents and Bucks New University cleared a skip full of rubbish, and were given free refreshments by local pub, the Spindle & Thread.

Home manager Chelle Daly said: “It was great to work with Chiltern Rangers and our neighbours to tidy up this beautiful stretch of water, for our residents and the whole community to enjoy.”

Chiltern Rangers’ mission is to enhance local habitats through conservation, education and community engagement.

Paul Stack, Education and Community Engagement Manager at Chiltern Rangers, said: “It was a hugely successful community event. It was great to see everybody joining in and working together. This is only the start, we have more to do!”

The Royal Star & Garter Homes is a charity founded in 1916 to care for the severely injured men returning from the battlegrounds of the First World War and now cares for ex-Servicemen and women and their partners living with disability or dementia.

Staff at The Royal Star & Garter Homes also worked with Chiltern Rangers and 60 school pupils to clean up a part of Hughenden Stream in 2016.

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