7th April 2019

The Junior Pickup Artists & Great British Spring Clean 2020

22nd March until 13th April GBSC was cancelled due to the pandemic and rescheduled to 11th – 27th September. This campaign seen over 250 children from Wyre Forest scouting and Girl Guide district take part earning them their Keep Britain Tidy badge reward.

The children collected 47 bags of litter from community streets, nature reserves and parks. The children’s efforts seen them featured in the daily mail story about the Keep Britain Tidy Campaign.  

Our little litter heroes! How youngsters led way in the Mail’s fight on Britain’s rubbish scourge | Daily Mail Online

Chloe your Junior Pickup Artist ambassador also launched her yellow kids litter bags to show the community adults that children had litter picked their areas. 

Parents can also pick up a role of bags from us and join in the challenge to beat last year’s total. A prize for the greatest number of bags filled individually will be given out to the child winner.

School can also be involved and booking are now being taken for day time litter picks, please contact junior.pickup.artists@outlook.com

We are looking for local sponsors to help towards the litter picking equipment and high visibility jackets.

Thank you for your continued support and keep an eye out on our Facebook page for the updates on this challenge.