{"id":999,"date":"2019-03-21T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:41:35","slug":"join-the-great-british-spring-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2019\/03\/21\/join-the-great-british-spring-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Great British Spring Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Between 22nd March \u2013 23rd April, Keep Britain Tidy is calling on #LitterHeroes across the country to help improve the natural world. With an aspiration to inspire over 500,000 people to join forces to safely collect and dispose of litter from our local areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are three ways you can get involved with the Great British Spring Clean<\/strong> \u2013<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sign up to host a beach clean<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are a childcare provider or are looking to carry out a beach clean with younger children, why not look at our <a href=\"\/gecco\/beach-clean-risk-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beach clean risk assessment<\/a>?<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Join a clean-up near you!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/get-involved\/support-our-campaigns\/great-british-spring-clean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keep Britain Tidy website<\/a> has a great search tool for you to use in order to find a clean-up happening near you!<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Pledge your support<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Everyone can join in with the Great British Spring Clean. You don\u2019t have to organise a clean-up or join others if you don\u2019t want to. You can simply register your support by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/pledge-your-support-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledge your support<\/a> and tell us how many minutes you are going to give to the campaign. ** It doesn't need to be a beach, who not pick up litter while walking the dog or on the walk to school**<\/p>\n<p>There's lots of ways of getting involved, find out about the Spring Clean or other volunteering opportunties at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keepbritaintidy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.keepbritaintidy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13729,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/13729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}