Clean Up Your Doorstep 2022

#Clean Up Your Doorstep 2022 is here!

Keep an eye on this page as we update it throughout this summer campaign…

 

 

What is #CleanUpYourDoorstep?

 

Doorstep Arts’ annual campaign is back! 

 

#CleanUpYourDoorstep encourages daily and small actions which can make a big difference to the environment on our Doorstep. A lot of us can make a massive difference just by taking 30 seconds out of our day to stop and sort out some litter in Torbay and surrounding areas this summer. 

 

Please get in touch with amy@doorsteparts.co.uk to share your upcoming litter picks, actions, campaigns and fundraisers. Have an idea on how your organisation can get involved? Please let us know! We want to use our community-focused platform to amplify the awesome work that is happening right now in Torbay and surrounding areas.

 

Check out the winning poster designs of Clean Up 2021!

Daniel Howe, Age 6 (Online Campaign Deisgn Winner)

 

Winter Jones, Age 5 (Print Campaign Design Winner)

 

 

Read our latest blog post on Young Voices in the Fight for Climate Justice & #CleanUpYourDoorstep here.

 

 

Check out the rest of this page to discover how you can get involved, whether it be taking part in our competition, cleaning up your street or attending a litter pick!

 

“The idea of #CleanUpYourDoorstep is to encourage daily and small actions which can make a big difference – in the spirit of beach cleans […] A lot of us can make a massive difference just by taking 30 seconds out of our day to stop and sort out some litter.

It’s a little thing – but small actions create bigger ripples.” – Erin Walcon, Co-Director of Doorstep Arts

Check out a blog post in our archive from a previous campaign here!

 

 

How can I get involved and be a part of this campaign?

 

 

Organised litter picks and campaigns:

Are you organising a litter pick/campaign that you’d like us to share? Email amy@doorsteparts.co.uk to let us know!

Upcoming local litter picks and campaigns:

 

Saltern Cove Beach Clean

  • Beach stretch: Saltern Cove

  • Date and time: 23 Sep 2022, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

  • Meeting point: Goodrington Sands in front of Brewers Fayre

  • Capacity: 20 volunteers

“Love your beach? Care about your coast? Join us for a beach clean on Beach Clean Week and help record data to input into the annual summary report for the Marine Conservation Society. After the beach clean, join our marine ranger for a rock pooling session to learn more about the marine life within Torbay and how it is affected by the rubbish along our coastline.”

 

 

The 2 Minute Foundation is a registered charity that is devoted to cleaning up our planet 2 minutes at a time. They believe that simple, achievable acts can add up to make a great difference.

Their #2minute campaigns (#2minutebeachclean, #2minutelitterpick, #2minutestreetclean and #2minutesolution) use social media and direct action to empower, educate, inspire and enable individuals, groups and businesses to make simple changes or take part in simple actions that will contribute to the planet’s wellbeing, as well as their own.

 

Love Parks Week is back, taking place from 29 July to 5 August 2022, giving people across the country the chance to shout about their wonderful green spaces.

Whether it’s walking the dog, picnicking with friends, or pushing our little ones on a playground swing, our parks give our communities, our children, and our pets a vital space to play, grow, and bond.

Find out what’s happening near you by checking out the hashtag #LoveParks on social media, or contacting your local park.Help us protect parks and write to your MP to ask them to join our Parks and Green spaces APPG.

 

Every September thousands of people across the UK head to the coast to take part in the Great British Beach Clean. This year’s event is taking place between Friday 16th – Sunday 25th September 2022. Click the link to find out how you can get involved and how it helps.

 

Challenge 1 : Organise a #CleanUpYourDoorstep party – get together with some friends and see how much difference you can make in a single day. Take before and after photos, and share them to social media – let’s start a movement!

 

 

Cleaning up your doorstep:

 

Challenge 2:  Don a pair of gloves, grab a bin bag and go out on a ‘Doorstep Walk Challenge’ like this – see how much litter you can pick up in a 15 minute loop walk from your front door.

 

Recycle, recycle, recycle. (And check to make sure you know what is recyclable and what isn’t – I was surprised when I checked the Torbay recycling centre website!)

 

 

 

“My local neighbourhood is a litter-magnet area. I live right off a fairly main road, and there is a lot of commuter traffic and a lot of pedestrian footfall. It’s a thoroughfare, and it seems like litter just accumulates really quickly here.

So I took a quick meander, and I found a few odd and wonderful treasures along the way, including a set of greyed-out polaroids (??), a discarded card to a special boyfriend (!!) and the top of a badminton racket […] I got home from my 15 minute ramble and sorted the contents of my black bin bag into the recycling.”

 

Daniel holds an orange litter grabber in one hand and a bag full of rubbish that they have collected in the other hand. Another bag of litter sits infront of Daniel as he stands happily in the park.
Daniel age 6, litter picking in Torbay after entering the competition! Thank you Daniel!

 

Leo stands holding a litter picker in a green park space, looking very happy.
Leo (aged 4) collecting litter at their local park in Torbay after entering the competition! Leo says “litter picking helps protect our planet, if everyone helped to pick up rubbish then our world would be better”

 

Local organisations and groups:

This is your campaign too.

It’s important to say that Doorstep is not an environmental specialist organisation – we’re an arts organisation that is passionate about environmental advocacy. We are here to collaborate with, support and tell others about your group/organisation and the brilliant work you are already doing for Torbay’s environment.

This is our movement.

Please get in touch with amy@doorsteparts.co.uk to share your upcoming litter picks, actions, campaigns and fundraisers. We want to use our community-focused platform to amplify the awesome work that is happening right now in Torbay and surrounding areas.

 

 

Sharing and advocacy:

 

Challenge 3: Advocate – design a poster, join a protest, write to your local councillor, post on social media or even organise a community clean-up!  All of us can make a difference.  Click here to find out who your local councillor is, and click here to learn more about the protest and rebellion project we did last year.

 

→ Find an email template to send to your MP here 

→ Find out more about the Climate & Ecological Emergency 

→ Find out who your local MP is here

 

 

 

Try / Learn something new:

 

Challenge 4: Have a shopping trip where you try to avoid single-use plastics (it’s really hard!) and then write an email to your supermarket asking them to eliminate single-use plastics.

 

 


 #CleanUpYourDoorstep

Use our hashtag on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook and tag us in your posts. Why not share a picture of your competition entry, a photo from a protest or litter pick you have been to, or a picture of the litter you managed to collect on your street? We will share our favourites here!

 

 

Leo & max’s #CleanUpYourDoorstep litter pick photos in Torbay!

 

Daniel holds an orange litter grabber in one hand and a bag full of rubbish that they have collected in the other hand. Another bag of litter sits infront of Daniel as he stands happily in the park.
Daniel age 6, litter picking in Torbay after entering the competition!

 

Leo designing his #CleanUpYourDoorstep Poster for the competition!