Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Important: Litter can be contaminated, so we have put together some information to help you handle it safely. Please click on this link to have a read through our Health and Safety Guidance before you go out litter-picking.
Sarah Hayes (Project Manager) manages the Project Coordinators supporting people on CleanupUK’s projects setting up community cleanup activities in north and east London and in Birmingham. Previously she headed up a national grant-making team for Volunteering England (now National Council for Voluntary Organisations) distributing funding on behalf of the Department of Health to local health & social care volunteering projects across the country.
She has been a volunteer herself since the year 2000 when she started visiting immigration detainees for the Gatwick Detainees’ Welfare Group. Sarah then spent 7 months volunteering in Ghana, for Africatrust Networks, where she led a community library-building project. She has also provided volunteering development consultancy to Family First Aiders, a local charity in North London.
Being a parent of two small children, Sarah spends a lot of time in parks and open spaces. She loves the huge amount of green space that her city has to offer and feels it is essential that all children be taught how to take care of their environment.
Since working for CleanupUK Sarah has taken part in various community litter-picks and has been struck by how much these community cleanups really have brought people together and made those areas feel cleaner, friendlier and safer.
