Citygate High Wycombe helps Revive the Wye

Citygate, has been reaching out to the local communities and recently completed an environmental clean-up of the river Wye in High Wycombe.

The river Wye flows through High Wycombe, Wycombe Marsh, Loudwater, Wooburn and Bourne End before joining the River Thames. It is home to some of the UK’s most rare and endangered species. The river and its backstreams flow under and around Citygate’s High Wycombe dealership and around Citygate’s new Commercial Van dealership in Wooburn.

8 volunteers from all areas of the Citygate business worked alongside members of “Revive the Wye” a partnership project to protect and improve the River Wye, headed up by the Chairman Mike Overall of the Chiltern Society. Wycombe District Council supplied the equipment and during the course of 6 hours, a large skip was filled with rubbish and debris removed from the section of the river running parallel to the London Road.

Mark Hudson, Head of Business for Citygate Volkswagen High Wycombe, who organised the clean-up said: “As part of our immediate environment, we all felt it was of upmost importance to get involved with the maintenance and preservation of the Wye.

“Our intention is to carry out this work on a regular basis and keep the section of river around the dealership as clean as possible so that our staff and customers can enjoy the local surroundings.

“I was really impressed with the number of staff that expressed their interest in, and completed the event. It really goes to show how important environmental conservation is to all of us and we look forward to getting involved again in the near future.”

Mark Overall added: “It was fantastic to see so many Citygate employees get involved, it really helped raise the profile of the work we are doing to the Rye. We look forward to embarking on the next project with the Citygate team.”

More information on the Revive the Wye project can be found at www.revivethewye.co.uk.