• mounting anti-litter public awareness campaigns
• lobbying of City Council – and other organisations and businesses
• campaigning for litter awareness and responsibility amongst schoolchildren
• co-ordinating Spring Cleans – and encouraging local communities to clean up throughout the year

Our public awareness campaign is aimed at getting people to think twice before dropping litter and works in harmony with the City Council’s Cleaner, Greener Oxford enforcement campaign. 

Posters and roundels are displayed on community notice boards, in retail outlets, cars and Oxford's buses and licensed black cabs.  Extended coverage will include educational establishments and staff notice boards at major employment centres.

We lobby key members and officers about improving facilities and services which will lead to a cleaner, litter free Oxford.  We look for improvement across all areas of Oxford – residential, commercial, the Ring Road (and other similar busy roads) and the city centre where we aim to achieve a high standard of cleanliness befitting a prime visitor destination and heritage city - Summary of Developments.

We aim to establish litter-free environments and raise awareness of the benefits of a litter-free environment to encourage pupils not to drop litter in or out of school. OxClean volunteers carry out assessments over the school year with a shield awarded to best performing Secondary School and graded Certificates of Merit to Primary Schools.  We encourage participation in Spring Cleans supported by curricular activity.

Since 2007, OxClean has co-ordinated annual Spring Cleans carried out by local community groups and schools.  127 groups (fielding over 2000 people) took part in 2012 - ridding the city of a great deal of accumulating rubbish.  Our over-riding objective is to raise the profile of the litter problem and encourage behaviour change.  In addition, these events encourage civic pride and responsibility at a grass roots level. We have raised funding and donated 270 litter pickers to community groups, a key part of our drive to encourage clean ups throughout the year.  We also hold large stocks of litter pickers for loan.