Volunteers, from three Wigan primary schools and Wigan and Leigh College made their way to the Brick Community Stadium, where they piled up their collected bags of litter.
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00:00So today has been, is the end from a weekday perspective of the Great British Spring Clean.
00:05We have activated schools within the area and with Wigan Athletic and Wigan Youth Zone to really
00:10come together as a community effort to support cleaning up Wigan. And how have the peoples been
00:17involved with this today? So we've brought peoples that have been part of the Eco Schools which is
00:21run by Keep Britain Tidy and they've been just walking the streets and they just want to make
00:25their area a lot better place for them for themselves to live in. And have they done a
00:29good job today? We've collected over 70 bags today which has been absolutely fantastic.
00:33What's the response from the pupils been like? They've just really enthusiastic and really eager
00:37to actually want to do good and I think that's just really empowering thing for us adults to
00:43see that there's young children there that are wanting to really make a difference.