Helping the Glasgow Warriors clean up the park

Litter is a problem in any city in Scotland (unfortunately) and to make sure that our streets and the parks of Glasgow are kept just a little cleaner, members of HF got to join Glasgow Warriors yesterday to do just that.

Organised by the Friends of Victoria Park, members of the Glasgow Warriors playing team and staff hit the Scotstoun Nature Park Trail and Victoria Park armed with bin bags, gloves and litter pickers to try and do their part to clean up the neighbourhood.

As a partner sponsor of the Glasgow Warriors, we were thrilled to be asked to help contribute to this worthwhile endeavour. So members of our Glasgow branch downed their usual tools and headed to the park to help out on the day.

Thankfully the rain clouds stayed away and while it was a tad cold and overcast, there was a real sense of accomplishment for everyone involved as we did our part to try and help keep the 20 hectare park clean.

Seeing how much rubbish was collected in a relatively short period of time highlighted just what a problem this is and while we all did our best, there is still lots more to be done to keep this beautiful park in Glasgow’s West End clean.  We hope that this neighbourhood initiative can continue and we hope to be a part of it as we help to give back to the city where the HF journey first began.