Friends of Mile End Park

As many of you know, the Friends usually do a monthly litter pick of Mile End Park on the second Sunday of every month. But we get requests to litter-pick for other days and times. Indeed, some of our regulars including Andy, Abdul and Iain enjoy “solo litter-picking”. So we’ve been looking at ways to open things up so … read more

The Friends host a litter-picking session on the second Sunday of every month, apart from November where we litter pick on the Saturday so as to not clash with November’s Remembrance Sunday service. Our first litter pick of 2024 is on Sunday 14th January, We meet up by the Art Pavilion at 10am for a short Health & Safety briefing, … read more

Over the past month I have been trying out a FREE way of fundraising for the Friends. By using a site called easyfundraising.org.uk I have raised £9. It might not sound much, but that is just one person in less than a month.

The Friends has 100s of members and there is potential for easyfundraising.org.uk to become a useful source … read more

This Sunday is our December litter pick, our last litter pick of 2023. Why not not pop along and join us? It is a relaxed event. We pick up as much litter as we can before it gets broken down into microplastics.

We will be targeting the northern part of the park – meeting by the Art Pavilion at 10am … read more