Up Sewage Creek : Save the river Severn from Pollution

Having raised £1265 for water testing equipmemt (thank you!) we are now back up and running testing our river for pollution and logging our findings with national data base CastCo and making a vital difference.

Now Up Sewage Creek needs to raise £775 for our Peoples Assembly for Water at the Severn Theatre on World Water Day 22 March 2025.

We plan to ask the people:

"How will we ensure that future generations have clean water and healthy river ecosystems?"

This important event in the national stuggle to save our rivers is an exercise in grass roots democracy. We aim to inform as many local Shrewsbury residents as we can comfortably manage about the situation and then ask the people what we can do to save our Severn and together we will make it happen!

We have Feargal Sharkey, the spokes person of the water pollution struggle and a representative of the River Don project from Sheffiled to talk about to situation as it is now and to show what is possible when all stakeholders work together to manage a whole catchment in an integrated way, giving the local community agency and input. The speakers are there to inform and set the scene before inviting all the assembled to be heard in small, facilitated groups. The findings will be collated and we will take the top 3 foreward and make them happen.

Up Sewage creek (www.upsewagecreek.com) are a group of Shrewsbury residents who are striving to clean-up the ‎Severn. Since 2021, we’ve donated our time and our money to hold Severn ‎Trent Water to account for sewage dumping. We’ve succeeded in making ‎pollution a key local issue for councillors and our new MP. ‎

Now we need YOUR help raise the money to secure the Severn theatre for our peoples assembly on water 22nd March 2025 ‎

Collecting water from the source of Severn

Every penny we raise will be spent on the peoples assembly for water on 22nd of March 2025. Should there be any money left over, it will be put ‎towards local legal challenges relating to water pollution.

Up Sewage Creek is entirely run by volunteers and everyone involved ‎donates their time for free because we care about our precious river. If you ‎want to help us save the Severn please donate and share, share, share this ‎fundraiser!

Thank you!‎