[Gayle]

Willow, I understand your concerns and I tell my kids not to pick up any old rubbish off the street but on this occasion they were picking up reusable items. I understand that some things might have germs on them but we're all capable of washing our hands after touching something nasty and I'm quite sure that hands were washed whilst the rubbish was being cleaned.

As for the money - funding is never given retrospectively so quite simply the project would not have been run if the money hadn't been received in the first place.