{"id":796,"date":"2026-03-30T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:42:07","slug":"long-bennington-rivercaree-run-by-the-charity-keep-britain-tidy-and-sponsored-by-anglian-water-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/796\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Bennington Rivercaree, run by the charity Keep Britain Tidy and sponsored by Anglian Water, launches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seventeen bags of rubbish \u2014 including an old office chair and part of a fence panel \u2014 were collected after a group of residents officially launched their new group.<\/p>\n<p>Operating as part of the RiverCare BeachCare programme, run by the charity Keep Britain Tidy and sponsored by Anglian Water, Long Bennington RiverCare officially launched on Saturday, March 28, with over a dozen people attending to find out what the group has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>During the launch event, held near the Witham Meadow Nature Reserve, the group\u2019s 16 new volunteers collected 17 bags of litter in two hours, covering around 250m of riverbank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 5197 3465\" alt=\"The launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"66VWNX4BPM3594Y8XC18.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/66VWNX4BPM3594Y8XC18.jpg\" alt=\"The launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\"\/>The launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 5177 3451\" alt=\"Debbie Ashby and Bill Gibson of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"RNLE5TJYXWUVNPLHKWTD.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RNLE5TJYXWUVNPLHKWTD.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Ashby and Bill Gibson of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\"\/>Debbie Ashby and Bill Gibson of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media<\/p>\n<p>Just some of the more unusual rubbish collected included a car tyre, a window pane, roof felting, part of a fence panel, an office chair, and a scooter.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s aim is to clear litter, manage vegetation, remove invasive species and monitor water quality along their 3km stretch of the River Witham.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of the group, Vikki Threlfall, said: \u201cThe launch went really well, we had 16 people come along and it really captured people\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 5568 3712\" alt=\"Nicola Hutchinson, Ian Simmons, and Stewart Adams of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"BQMKQF3Z9TBQMGXOWD83.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BQMKQF3Z9TBQMGXOWD83.jpg\" alt=\"Nicola Hutchinson, Ian Simmons, and Stewart Adams of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\"\/>Nicola Hutchinson, Ian Simmons, and Stewart Adams of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 5219 3480\" alt=\"Vikki Threlfall, Alison Longden, John Tadman, and Lorraine Gibson at the launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"13FGQNRH5X2010AHLRZH.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/13FGQNRH5X2010AHLRZH.jpg\" alt=\"Vikki Threlfall, Alison Longden, John Tadman, and Lorraine Gibson at the launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media\"\/>Vikki Threlfall, Alison Longden, John Tadman, and Lorraine Gibson at the launch of Long Bennington Rivercare. Photo: David Dawson\/Iliffe Media<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were able to see how they can engaged and get involved and take ownership of their river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long Bennington RiverCare will meet on the last Saturday of the month at 2pm at the nature research.<\/p>\n<p>Any more people who would be interested in getting involved with Long Bennington RiverCare to help raise funds can contact the group via social media by searching for RiverCare Long Bennington or email rivercarelongbennington@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the group is also planning to extend their work along the river to tackling invasive species such as Himalayan balsam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen bags of rubbish \u2014 including an old office chair and part of a fence panel \u2014 were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,528,530,529,531],"class_list":{"0":"post-796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-grantham","11":"tag-human-interest","12":"tag-lincs-surrounding-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}