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BIG Spring Clean

The BIG Spring Clean 2023

The Big Spring Clean 2025!

Join Live Here Love Here’s flagship volunteering programme, the BIG Spring Clean, running from 1st March to 30th April. This campaign invites individuals, schools, businesses, and community groups to unite in tackling litter and enhancing Northern Ireland’s environment.

Register upcoming clean-ups or report results from past clean-ups by filling out the form below. Together, we can inspire positive change this spring!


Register your litter pick or log your results 


Join a BIG Spring Clean Litter-Pick

1st March - Dromore, Co. Down; with Higher Ground Community Group 

1st and 2nd March, 2pm - events taking place across Ballyclare and Doagh; with Countryside Custodians. Register here.

2nd March, 9.30am - Ballyholme Beach; with Ards & North Down Beach Cleaners. Many more events are being hosted by AND Beach Cleaners—find out more here.

4th March, 12pm - Armagh; with South Regional College & Armagh Banbridge & Craigavon Council

4th March, 10am - Riverside Walk; with Fermanagh & Omagh District Council

4th March, 10.30am - Tidal, Toome; with Antrim & Newtownabbey Council

6th March, 11am - Red Bridge, Milner Street or Grosvenor Road Community Centre, Belfast; with Translink

7th March, 10am - Crannog Way, Dungannon; with Choice Housing

8th March, 9am - Randalstown; with Tidy Randalstown & Young Farmers Group

8th March, 11:15am - Groomsport Boat House, Groomsport; with Groomsport Village Association 

8th March, 11am - Newcastle Beach; with Unit T

9th March, 9.30am - Seapark; with Ards & North Down Beach Cleaners. Many more events are being hosted by AND Beach Cleaners—find out more here.

15th March, 9.30am - Chapel Hill, Lisburn; with Countryside Custodians

5th April - Six Mile Water Park, Ballyclare; with Antrim & Newtownabbey Council

10th April, 11am - Belfast City Centre; with Linen Quarter Bid

15th April - Omagh Town Centre; with Fermanagh & Omagh District Council

23rd April - Cranfield Beach; with Mae Murray Foundation


Sign up to attend


Check out our Litter-Picking Quick Guide and H&S resources here for all the information you need to keep your volunteers safe. A huge thank you to Helping Hand Environmental for generously providing a limited number of free litter-picking kits for attendees of the above events.


Acknowledgements

The BIG Spring Clean 2025 is proudly sponsored by Helping Hand Environmental.

A special thanks to the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs for their support of the campaign.

Live Here Love Here is not responsible for (and will accept no liability for) any losses or damages you incur or suffer in connection with your participation in any of our programmes and campaigns, save to the extent that such liability cannot be limited or excluded by law.