Woodsetton Charitable Trust

19/11/2025

📣Morning everyone 📣
Some of our lovely volunteers from Woodsetton Community Litter Pickers and Community Group will be attending some Christmas events during December to talk to the community about some planned projects such as cleaning the war memorial, bulb planting and maintenance of our local nature walks to name a few 💚🌳💚
We will be having a raffle to raise more funds to do this and welcome donations please such as bottles, Chocs, unwanted gifts etc 🙏🏻
Please message myself or Laura Evans if you are able to help 🥰

08/11/2025

Morning
A message from Cllr Carol Littler and Cllr Adam Aston
Remembrance Sunday 2025 🥀

Our local Acts of Remembrance taking place on Remembrance Sunday 9th November will take the usual format and again give our community the opportunity to pause, reflect and remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. 🇬🇧

Woodsetton War Memorial at 9.00am
A short Act of Remembrance and wreath laying. (The earlier time allows folk to make their way directly to church or other local remembrance services).

Upper Gornal War Memorial at 10.45am (The Arcade).
An Act of Remembrance and wreath laying in conjunction with local church services.

*Please arrive a little earlier as both events will begin promptly.

Many Thanks and Best Wishes

Councillor Adam Aston
Councillor Keiran Casey - Castle and Priory
Councillor Carol Littler
Councillor Mushtaq Hussain

30/10/2025

Remembrance Sunday 2025 🥀

Our local Acts of Remembrance taking place on Remembrance Sunday 9th November will take the usual format and again give our community the opportunity to pause, reflect and remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. 🇬🇧

Woodsetton War Memorial at 9.00am
A short Act of Remembrance and wreath laying. (The earlier time allows folk to make their way directly to church or other local remembrance services).

Upper Gornal War Memorial at 10.45am (The Arcade).
An Act of Remembrance and wreath laying in conjunction with local church services.

*Please arrive a little earlier as both events will begin promptly.

Many Thanks and Best Wishes

Councillor Adam Aston
Councillor Keiran Casey - Castle and Priory
Councillor Carol Littler
Councillor Mushtaq Hussain

14/10/2025

27/07/2025

Afternoon
Woodsetton Litter Pickers and Community Group have been out and about this morning 💚

It's not often I feel deflated when I'm with our fantastic volunteers but today I have a little in the 4 years since we started the group so I will list this mornings events in the 2 hours we were out so you can see the reality of what is going on in our small patch of Woodsetton 💚💚
* Met up with the lovely Janina Jenkins, Jayne Bartley and James Storer and split into 2 teams so we could cover as much as possible💚
* Jan and Jim covered some of Birmingham New Road, Vicarage Road West and several side streets. The alley way was terrible! See before and after pictures 👍2 bags alone from the alley off Vicarage road west 🙄
* Jayne and myself tackled Oak St 😪and Chad Road and several side streets (see Jaynes post on her way back).
* Over 41 small vodka bottles in Chad Road!!! We only picked it last week. Who is doing this? Someone is selling these and they are just being tossed into the streets😪
* Met up with Julie Sheldon, her hubby and fur babies 🐕🐕, had a positive conversation and made plans for the community 💚
* Had lots of thanks from other dog walkers and horn t***s 💚
* Picked up the dumped charity bag by the Chinese that someone had rummaged through and discarded! Why??🤷‍♀️
* When carry bags to bin outside Bramford Hardware & DIY a gang of lads on road bikes parked on path and road, one asked if he could give me his rubbish, I said bag was tied and please don't drop and pointed to bin. He said I was being arsey so felt the need to throw it towards me has he wheelied off 🤷‍♀️🙄🤷‍♀️
If you live local and help keep the litter down during summer holidays we can provide equipment 💚

02/07/2025

Good evening
📣We wanted to share some good news with you all📣
Woodsetton Litter Pickers and Community Group is now a formal constituted group. This will enable us to apply for funding opportunities and do more to improve and maintain our local area and Green spaces, which in turn will make a big difference to North Dudley 💚🌳💚
We will share our exciting plans in the coming weeks but in the meantime please share our group with your social networks and thank you for all your support, it really does make a difference 💚🌳💚

02/06/2025

Woodsetton Litter Pickers💚
A fabulous start to the month this morning with some of our regular volunteers, 15 bags picked! 💚 Arcal Park had a good pick, plus Tipton road, Setton Drive, Turls Hill and Arcal Estate and other roads 🌳🌷Downfield Drive was particularly bad and could do with being adopted if anyone living nearby is interested, we can help you get set up 💚
Lots of thank you's and positive conversations, shout out to the Grey Hound rescue volunteers 🐶
Some of the pictures show exactly why we do this!! 🦊💚🌳💚🐴

27/05/2025

Evening everyone a reminder Woodsetton Litter Pickers have a group pick planned for Sunday morning, 1st June at 9.30am. Meeting place is Setton Drive, hoping to give Arcal Park and other areas a tidy up💚
So, if you have recently joined our FB group and want to try it out and have an hour or so to spare we would love to see you💚
*Exercise guaranteed✔️
*Fresh air guaranteed✔️
*A lovely bunch of like minded people guaranteed✔️
*Sunshine not guaranteed 🤣
Comment on the main FB page post if you can make it and/or need to loan kit👇

21/03/2025

Morning
Great British Spring Clean launches today which coincides with our planned Sunday group pick (weather permitting) 🌞
We will be tackling King George field which is now covered in plastic following the council mowing 🙄🙄
If you can join for an hour or so this would be appreciated. 9.30 am meeting at Coppice Chapel in Caddick Street 💚
Comment below if you can make it 👇

12/03/2025

Evening all
Just a reminder,
Woodsetton Litter Pickers next Sunday group pick will be the 23rd March at 9.30 am meeting at Coppice Chapel in Caddick Street 💚
Not the usual last Sunday of the month but we wanted to give the moms a rest on mother's day 😍
Comment below if you can make it 👇

23/02/2025

What a fabulous turn out this morning in windy Woodsetton 🌬13 volunteers, including our youngest member yet with over 27 bags of litter collected, Sedgley and Tipton road, Chad Road (including the steep embankment at the bottom), loads of side roads and the team also but a dent in Arcal Park 🌳💚
The war memorial got a tidy ❤️ and so did the Bramford pub car park and the school entrance 🙄
Lots of fly tipping to be reported and I'm sure the team will add other locations in the comments below👇
Some lovely members of the community stopping to chat and some dogs saying hello 🥰🐶🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

17/02/2025

Evening
Woodsetton Litter Pickers next group pick is Sunday 23rd Feb, 9.30am - meet at Bramford shops 💚
Please share, invite your friends and comment if you can make it 👇
All welcome 😁