By Chad Addison, Street Champion volunteer coordinator

Chad manages Telford & Wrekin Council’s Street Champions – people who volunteer their time to improve our local environment. This is his plea for people to look after our green spaces:

“This is ‘My Field’. I don’t mean I own it – its Council land, public land and right near my home. Anyone can enjoy using this land and my family use it all of the time and I wanted to show it to you.

Street Champions volunteer their own time to keep this field, and fields like it tidy. We walk them everyday and pick dropped litter and report problems we see. It’s not a big deal, we’re here anyway so its easy to pick up the odd bit of rubbish as we go.

I feel we should all take stock of the green spaces around us from time to time, protect them, and look after what we have on our own doorstep. We need to love and enjoy our streets, fields, and parks.

We enjoy our field in the simplest of ways, nothing special. We walk the dog and kick a football about, sometimes we just sit in it for while and enjoy the fresh air, there’s even the odd drone flight…

What’s outside your front door could be one of the greatest places on earth. ‘My field’ is smack in the middle of Telford – Stirchley to be exact – and it’s definitely in my top 10. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s an amazing place if you’ve watched the video.

Whatever your doing this weekend don’t forget what’s outside your front door. Go out and enjoy it, look after it, because it’s yours.

Become a Street Champion

We are always looking for more volunteers to be Street Champions.

If you have the drive to be a positive influence within your community then please get in touch. You can find out more about the Street Champion role and apply on the Telford & Wrekin Council website.

Alternatively you can get in touch to ask anything you want as follows:

Email: pride.officer@telford.gov.uk 
Call: 01952 380455