Washington Clean & Green - Community Opportunities

01/10/2026

Our Volunteers visited Biddick Village for the first time on Tuesday morning and painted various items of distressed and graffitied street furniture including four sets of railings.

We also collected four bags of litter and some fly-tipping!

16/09/2026

🌿 Give Princess Anne Park a helping hand 🌿

Looking for a great way to get outdoors, meet new people and make a difference in your local area?
Join us on Tuesday 22 September, 9.30am to 11.30am, for a volunteer session at Princess Anne Park.

Meet near the Viewpoint carpark off Parkway, Lindisfarne, Washington, NE38 7JR
What3Words: thing.falls.frogs

Whether you're helping with litter picking, repainting park features (weather permitting), or supporting conservation work, every helping hand makes a difference.
✅ Free to attend
✅ No booking required
✅ Equipment provided
✅ Open to everyone
Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy footwear ☀️ 🌦️ 🥾

This work is part of the wider efforts by Connecting Through Nature Team, which is working with community groups, local organisations, residents, and Safer Sulgrave and Concord to make Princess Anne Park an even better place for people and wildlife.

Find out more - https://orlo.uk/Jz9SR
🌱💚

🌿 Give Princess Anne Park a helping hand 🌿

Looking for a great way to get outdoors, meet new people and make a difference in your local area?

Join Washington Clean & Green - Community Opportunities on Tuesday 22 September, 9.30am to 11.30am, for a volunteer session at Princess Anne Park.

Meet near the Viewpoint carpark off Parkway, Lindisfarne, Washington, NE38 7JR
What3Words: thing.falls.frogs

Whether you're helping with litter picking, repainting park features (weather permitting), or supporting conservation work, every helping hand makes a difference.

✅ Free to attend
✅ No booking required
✅ Equipment provided
✅ Open to everyone

Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy footwear ☀️ 🌦️ 🥾

This work is part of the wider efforts by Connecting Through Nature Team , which is working with community groups, local organisations, residents, and Safer Sulgrave and Concord to make Princess Anne Park an even better place for people and wildlife.

Find out more - https://orlo.uk/Jz9SR

🌱💚

27/08/2026

Our volunteers were out this morning performing the annual cutback of the popular cycle path/footpath which runs between Barmston and Glover Industrial Estate.

The area is also a hotspot for littering and we collected 4 bags of litter!

17/08/2026

Our Washington Clean & Green volunteers have renovated the signpost in Springwell Village, sanding and hand painting it. Attached are before and after photos, we think it looks a lot better! 😃

07/08/2026

Yesterday our volunteers cut back overgrown vegetation along the footpath between Oxclose and Blackfell next to St John Boste Church.

Afterwards we visited the footpath between Blackfell and Armstrong (opposite Westernmoor) to cut back the bushes only to collect a large amount of fly-tipping including 2 car tyres and a lorry tyre!


Washington Sunderland Community
Community Opportunities - YOUTH & PLAY

30/07/2026

Our volunteers have been spending this week in Springwell Village re-habilitating the much-loved but much neglected signpost.

The old paint and rust was removed and most of the post and signs were painted. We will return next Thursday to paint the lettering and complete the job.


Washington Sunderland Community

02/03/2026

Washington Clean & Green is proud to be once again taking part in the annual Great British Spring Clean in 2026!

We would love the help of local residents - if you have any spare time and would like to help out, please see the lists of dates and meeting places below 😃

Washington Sunderland Community

17/02/2026

Our volunteers were out enjoying the rare sunshine this morning litter-picking the residential areas and park near to Swan Industrial Estate.

10 bags were collected!

12/02/2026

8 of our volunteers braved the rain this morning litter-picking the southern part of Albany. Thanks to Liz of KWT who pointed out a bad site of litter and fly tipping in the grounds opposite Arklecrag (pictured).

Altogether 12 bags were collected and we have set a future date to complete the task!

29/01/2026

Despite poor weather our volunteers spent 2 days this week litter-picking Oxclose, collecting a total of 31 bags!

On Wednesday we collected 9 bags from the village centre, and this morning we collected 22 bags from the flats.

Many thanks to Hope Church Cafe for shelter and refreshments.