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Spring Clean 2010
Over 100 community groups (fielding over 1500 volunteers) took part across the city
300 litter pickers given to community groups for use throughout the year |
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Thank You!
See the Gallery of photos
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Thank you very much to all of you that took part. The city is visibly cleaner and tidier after a Spring Clean – and, importantly, we have raised awareness with the general public that a cleaner and tidier city is a better place to be! We will continue to work hard to keep our beautiful city cleaner and tidier all year round with our Don’t Drop It! Campaign. We also thank our partners – Oxford City Works and The Oxford Times – and sponsors whose contribution to the success of this event is invaluable |
We are delighted with the continued show of support by such large numbers of groups from across the city during our third annual Spring Clean event held on 5 & 6 March. One hundred groups (fielding more than fifteen hundred volunteers) turned out – even more than previous events.
residents’ associations, primary schools, cyclists, community action groups, secondary schools |
nurseries, rowers/canoeists,
friends of local parks,
community associations, parish councils, neighbourhood watch,
restaurants, colleges, political groups, theatres |
An impressive cross-section of the city’s communities – location within the city, interest and age group– were represented. Each group carried out a two hour litter pick at a place of their choice. For a full list of groups which took part, visit Participating Groups. |
children’s nurseries, scouts, environment groups, sports clubs, businesses, student volunteers, street wardens
preservation societies, children’s centers,
rotary clubs |
boaters, allotment associations, student unions, self-grown neighbourhood groups, places of worship |
Whilst many groups cleaned up streets, parks and other locations within their ‘patch’, some tackled some of the city’s worst grot spots eg ring road and Oxpens Lorry and car park. Others decided to clean up some of the city’s beauty spots eg Thames and Canal towpath
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Free Litter Pickers donated to Community Groups
OxClean’s key priority in 2010 was to help local communities to make a difference within their ‘patch’ and other public places throughout the year.
To this end, we sought funds to buy litter pickers to donate permanently to community groups taking part in Spring Clean 2010 – so that they had them to hand for Spring Cleans and other times during the year. |
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Thanks to a wonderful grant from Grassroots Grants through The Oxfordshire Community Foundation, generous support from Oxford Civic Society, Carl Room, Franchisee of McDonald’s Restaurants in Oxford and The Helping Hand Company, we were able to purchase over 400 litter pickers. Of these, we gave up to 5 litter pickers to 60 community groups – a total of 300 litter pickers. The remaining litter pickers are retained by OxClean for loaning as required. |
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Achievement
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