At the beginning of April, fed up with inconsiderate dog owners who fail to clean up after their dogs, local community activist Sarah Moore decided to launch her own dog fouling campaign.
Following conversations with the local dog warden and with the full support of Bath & North East Somerset Council, Sarah contacted 3 local schools in the South West of Bath, St Michael’s Junior School, Twerton Infants School and Roundhill Primary School.
The campaign involved getting pupils to design a poster to be displayed across the area to highlight the issue, in an attempt to reduce the number of incidents.
168 posters were returned from the schools as part of the competition and Bath’s Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse chose one from each school to be reproduced.
Sarah Moore recently accompanied Deputy Mayor Councillor Rob Appleyard on a visit to each of the schools to announce the winners and award their prizes.
Sarah who also knits toys that she sells for charity, handmade each of the prizes that were given to the children along with their very own dog themed bags.
Sarah said she would like to congratulate all the entrants, but specifically, Ruby Lucy at St Michael’s Junior School, Lily at Twerton Infants School and Poppy at Roundhill Primary School on their winning designs.
Posters are now starting to go up across the area, and with residents and dog walkers being fully supportive of the initiative, it is hoped the visual impact of the posters will have a positive outcome.
In conjunction with this campaign, Sarah and several other residents in Twerton have set up Twerton & Whiteway Wombles, who arrange monthly group litter picks around the whole area with a view to making Twerton one of the cleanest urban areas of BANES to live.
Sarah recently met with a representative from the Keynsham Wombles to discuss how they could work collaboratively to tackle the ‘ever-increasing’ issues experienced by all residents.
