The Great British Spring Clean

What is it?

The Great British Spring Clean is a campaign with one simple ambition, to bring together people from across the country to clear litter that blights our Towns, villages, countryside and coastline. The initiative follows on from the Clean for the Queen campaign in 2016 which involved 250,000 people in local clean ups.
 

Why did Fareham get involved?

Around 2.25 million pieces of litter are dropped on the streets of the UK every day, with 30 million tons of rubbish collected from England's streets each year.

Here in Fareham alone we collect over 800 tonnes of street litter from our bins and streets each year across the Borough.

We think the Great British Spring Clean is a fantastic initiative inspiring us all come together, encouraging the local community to help clean up the borough to make it a beautiful place for us all to live and work.
 

What is the Council doing?

Our main clean up event will take place on Thursday 4 April in Lincoln Close from 10am-2pm, focusing on the area around the Sheltered housing and communal lounge, open spaces nearby, and shrub beds at junction of Litchfield Rd and Lincoln Close.

With help from the local community, Fareham in Bloom volunteers and Fareham Borough Council staff members we will be:

• Re-planting shrub beds
• Litter picking the area.
• Re varnishing benches and replace 2 benches.
• Re place street name plate.
   

How can you get involved?

If you want to help there are a couple of things you can do:

• Come and help us on Thursday 4 April. Email parks@fareham.gov.uk if you're thinking of coming along.
• Tell us about local litter hot-spots. We may be able to get a team together and help clean up the area.
• Pull together your own team of volunteers and clean up your local area! We can provide some litter-pickers and plastic bags to help you out and arrange for any litter you collect to picked up.
   

Other events

Other local groups that are taking part in the initiative that we know about include:

Eaton Aerospace Group

Sunday 24 March 2019

Meon Shore Beach

Poppy Rhodes (Student Involvement Officer)

Fareham College Students

Thursday 28 March 2019, 1pm-3pm

Approx 30 students litter picking around the college area

Woodlands Early Roots Day Nursery

Saturday 30 March 2019

Holly Hill Area

Locksheath Junior School

Thursday 4 April 2019

Around the school

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) & Fareham Society

Saturday 13 April 2019

Salterns Beach, Hill Head 

Caroline Mannell

Sunday 14 April 2019

Hook lane to beach along Warsash  

More info

For more info about Fareham events please contact parks@fareham.gov.uk or call 01329 236100.
For more info about the Great British Spring Clean visit www.greatbritishspringclean.org.uk .