Latest news with #LitterHeroes
BBC News
5 days ago
- General
- BBC News
How to improve your high street
Here are all the links from Rebecca Wilcox's item about how to influence your local community:A tool to find consultations taking place in your area (Link, external)Keep Britain Tidy's 'Litter Heroes' Facebook group (Link, external) and Keep Britain Tidy's contact details (Link, external)Find a community garden near you (Link, external) and a guide to setting up your own community garden (Link, external)Find your MP (Link, external) and find your local councillors (Link, external)
Yahoo
23-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Annual national litter-pick campaign launched
A national environmental charity has launched its tenth Great British Spring Clean. Keep Britain Tidy's campaign sees thousands of volunteers across the South West picking up litter to protect the environment. The charity revealed that 64 per cent of the South West's adults love where they live, but for 74 per cent, seeing litter makes them less proud of their neighbourhood. A YouGov survey carried out on the charity's behalf ahead of the campaign found that 86 per cent of the region's adults said they demonstrated their love for where they live by not dropping litter, while 19 per cent - more than any other region - said they litter-picked and 16 per cent volunteered in their local community. Read more: The Royal Oak in Old Town given food hygiene score Since 2016, the Great British Spring Clean has become the nation's biggest mass-action environmental campaign, empowering #LitterHeroes across the nation to pledge to pick more than four million bags of harmful rubbish from streets, parks, and beaches. Some have joined the charity's ambassador programme and four people from the South West - Ash Samuels and El Clarke from Plymouth and Emily Stevenson and Pat Smith from Cornwall - are currently fronting the charity's national advertising campaign to Love Where You Live. Keep Britain Tidy's chief executive, Allison Ogden-Newton OBE, said: "We know there's a problem - but we also know that people-power is part of the solution. "While our YouGov research shows people perceive that litter is a significant problem in all kinds of areas, each year the Great British Spring Clean's fantastic and dedicated #LitterHeroes take positive action to tackle litter and show they love where they live. "This growing culture of small individual actions has added up to an enormous impact with 25,147 bags pledged in just two and half weeks in the South West in 2024 alone. "Thank you to everyone who has been involved." Read more: Swindon's Biplob owner 'unsettled' after 'dine and dash' incident People can pledge to pick via the charity's website: and can also register for free for the charity's #LitterHeroes programme, enabled thanks to funding raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery. Laura Chow, head of charities at People's Postcode Lottery, said: "It's fantastic that players of People's Postcode Lottery have raised funds that are going directly towards the Great British Spring Clean and are supporting the passionate #LitterHeroes who are custodians of the places they live and work. "It's heartening to see unsung heroes who work hard to take care of the places they live and work celebrated in a national advertising campaign that will – hopefully – encourage everyone to think about how they too can 'love where they live'."
