Brushes at The Ready! Town Centre Cleanup Scheduled For April

Brushes at the ready! A team of volunteers are set to come together next month to give a bit of TLC to the town centre during an upcoming cleanup event.

The cleanups, which were unveiled last Spring, consist of a collaboration between a number of local businesses, volunteers and members of the Town Centre Forum.

On Sunday April 10th the group will come together and take part in the third event.

The topic of the cleanups were high on the agenda during a recent meeting between Andrew Atkinson, Welsh Conservative Party Candidate for Wrexham when he met with Stewart the franchisee at McDonalds in Wrexham.

Mr Atkinson heard about McDonalds’ community work including their three local litter picks a day and was keen to re-enlist their help for community clean-up days.

Mr Atkinson commented: “Along with colleagues from the Wrexham Town Centre Forum we organise town centre clean up days to blitz parts of the town and encourage members of the community and businesses to take pride in their town.”

“McDonalds have helped us before and I’m pleased to say that after our meeting they will be continuing to do so again, they are a huge help and send a good number of staff.

“We are getting lots of support, even Gateway Church who meet at Glyndwr met with me recently and they are changing their service time to fit our next clean up so that they can bring the whole church to help! It’s amazing.”

Mr Atkinson meeting Stewart from McDonald’s, Wrexham

Mr Atkinson has previously undertaken some early Sunday morning sign cleaning in the town centre, with his actions attracting some controversy.

During a recent clean up of signs around the Waterworld area, a number of people took to Mr Atkinson’s Facebook page to both praise and question his actions – with some asking why the appearance of the town isn’t being covered Council Tax / why isn’t the work being undertaken by Wrexham Council.

Addressing this Mr Atkinson said: “Maybe the Council should do it, we all pay a lot of Council tax but the Council also has much smaller budgets and they can’t do everything they once did. I’m happy to help and it’s quicker for me to just get on and do it.”

Although the cleanups have raised questions from some, the previous two have gained a large amount of support from members of the pubic – with plans already underway for April’s event.

Details of where the cleanup will be focused on have not yet been confirmed, however previous events have seen the teams tackle Regent Street, Lord Street and Hope Street.

Mr Atkinson organises the events with Matt McHale from La Baguette, Councillor Phil Wynn and Nigel Lewis Chair of the Town Centre Forum.

Speaking about the upcoming evening, Cllr Wynn said: “We are all very grateful to the businesses, individuals, organisations and Gateway Church for their help, we want the town to look it’s best.”

The town centre clean up days see bins and benches painted, streets jet washed by the council, fly posters removed, empty shop doorways cleaned and more.

If you want to get involved or just want to find out more about the events, you can contact Andrew Atkinson on 07914211631 or email [email protected]