For the sixth consecutive year, Community Payback has taken part in the annual Global Beachwatch event (left), helping to clean up local shorelines and record the kinds of marine debris deposited on our beaches. Shown right, a Community Payback team rejuvinating a conservation area at Stacey Community Centre.

Liss Parish Council

The project was carried out on behalf of Liss Parish Council between 29.07.09 and 18.08.09 completing 221 hours of work.

The project was to remove an old stile and replace it with a new 'kissing' gate and also to replace a sleeper bridge leading down to the gate. Where the ground was very churned up and wet, due to cattle, hard core was laid down and fencing erected  on both sides of the new path to them keep out. The group also put in a second gate at the opposite end of the field.

This is a current project, restoring of a cemetery in Bembridge on behalf of the Bembridge Parish Council.  A Community Payback team has been working there on one day each week for approximately 2 months.  They have cleared all around the tombstones and the pathways and restored order to an otherwise rather depressing site.  The Parish Councillors and the rest of the community are extremely happy with the work that has been carried out.

So far we have paid twelve visits to the historic Lido site in Hilsea, Portsmouth, completing 627 hours to date.

For the past thirty years the Lido has been neglected. Faced with the Council decision to close the much loved Hilsea Lido, a group of local people got together and were determined to save it. Hilsea Lido Pool for the People is now a Trust with six Trustees, a member's committee and a large number of supporters.

Community Payback has done a tremendous job clearing overgrown vegetation, removing a huge volume of weeds and generally restoring the site. Recently they have painted some of the building in preparation for a Heritage day.

The groups will be returning in the new year and will be painting and decorating the entire interior of the Lido. The work will also include repairing and fixing changing room doors and other repairs. The agency are extremely happy with the work already carried out stating, "it's great to get Community Payback involved in such a historical worthwhile project"

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The project was put forward by Mr. Abrams through the ‘Justice Seen Justice Done’ campaign.

Mr. Abrams is a double amputee who uses a mobility scooter. The only access into his flat is via the rear alleyway which was so heavily flytipped and overgrown with vegetation it made it nearly impossible for him to get down the alleyway into his property.

He had seen some of the other excellent work the Community Payback team had carried out in Portsmouth and contacted the Probation Service to put forward the project.

Within two hours of commencing the work nine Offenders had already cleared twelve bags of flytipping and debris – metal girders, rolls of rotting carpets, a children’s paddling pool, bottles, cans and huge amounts of vegetation. By the end of the day the alleyway was spotless with 52 bags of rubbish collected.

The offenders had done an excellent job and Mr. Abram’s was delighted with their hard work and the end result.