Get Involved
As with all campaigning to make a positive change, the more people who can actually engage with the issue, the more chance there is of making a real difference.
Anytime Litter-picks
You don’t have to wait until the next Spring Clean to organise a litter-pick, you can do it at any time of the year! If you would like to undertake occasional or regular litter picks either as an individual or a group, OxClean would be happy to lend you equipment.
Spring Clean
OxClean co-ordinates annual Spring Cleans carried out by local community groups and schools to tackle litter across the city’s streets, public spaces and litter hotspots. Litter picks lasting about two hours are carried out at a time and location of choice.
DofE Award
OxClean supports the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme volunteering section, acting as assessor and loaning litter pickers and high viz vests. All the secondary state schools and private schools in Oxford now have a dedicated DofE teacher.
Other ways you can help
There are lots of ways of making even small contributions to making the streets and green spaces cleaner and Oxford a more visually pleasing city we can all be proud of. Below are some examples:
- Follow us on Twitter, and share with your friends and family (spreading the word)
- Write expressing your concerns about any aspect of litter to your local councillor
- Take a few moments to report littering issues which are bothering you (persistent littering in your area, poor bin emptying, lack of bins, …) to the City Council
- Bring new ideas of how OxClean can work more effectively by getting in touch with us via email
- Have the courage and conviction to pick up litter you see and drop it in a nearby bin. Being seen by others doing this will contribute to changing social attitudes. Here’s what a BBC reporter said about it: Rubbish job: Why don’t we just pick up litter?
- Volunteer! OxClean wants to ramp up its activities outside of the annual Spring Clean, to campaign year-round. If you would like to contribute some of your valuable time to practical initiatives which make a visible difference to our urban environment, please do get in touch. OxClean is people like you, and we would love to hear from you.
