Last week I joined Keep Britain Tidy at an event in Westminster to promote the Great British Spring Clean 2025 .

The Great British Spring Clean is a campaign aimed at encouraging communities to pick up litter and improve local environments. In 2025, the campaign will run from 21 March to 6 April. Residents are encouraged to pledge to pick up at least one bag of litter during this period. For more information on how to get involved, you can visit the Keep Britain Tidy website, keepbritaintidy.org .

We are blessed with a lovely group of dedicated volunteer litter pickers in Castle Point in the castlepointcleanupcrew who are out regularly at weekends come rain or shine. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram to find when their next litter picks are in your area and join them if you can