Our award-winning, 196-acre Park is a conservation area, a home to 694 different types of plants, animals and fungi, including 212 different types of insects and 38 species classed as rare or protected…plus 153 tonnes of rubbish.
That’s the amount of litter we pick up each year, the equivalent weight to 6,375,000 iPhones or 28 elephants.
Our Park team work every day to combat the problem, while our brilliant volunteers and the Friends of Alexandra Park also complete regular litter collections to help out.
You can help us too: please be mindful of the packaging and perishables that you bring with you to the Park and please take any litter home with you. Doing so will mean we can spend less of our charity’s resources on litter picking, and more on improving the Park and Palace for everyone.
If it’s any inspiration, and to mark Keep Britain Tidy’s annual Spring Clean (15 – 31 March), our Park team from John O’Conner Ground Maintenance have shared some of the more unusual items they have found in recent times:
- Word War 1 style gas mask
- A male mannequin
- Bowling ball
- Stuffed mounted stoat in glass cabinet
- Wheelchair
- One set of false teeth (nobody attached)
- All the household goods: TVs, fridges, toasters, microwaves, settee, blenders, washing machine.
- Bags of Royal Mail letters – all recovered by Royal Mail and finally delivered
- Many buggies and prams
- Set of skis and a snow board (we did have a dry ski slope in the Park, but that was in the 1980s!)
To find out more about how you help us in the Park contact us at visitor.services@alexandrapalace.com
