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.
Rev Canon Roger Royle (Patron) writes : From an early age two things were made clear to me by my mother. I was to stand up on a bus and let someone older sit down. I was not to drop litter and if I saw litter I was to pick it up.
Times have changed. Now I am very grateful to those people who stand up for me so that I can sit down on the bus or the tube. But I am still as vigilant about litter. That is why I am both pleased and honoured to be associated with CleanupUK. As a charity it focusses on bringing out the good side of litter by bringing together people of all ages and backgrounds who take a pride in where they live. They want to see it looking good. So, armed with pick up sticks and black plastic bags, they gather in groups to make their borough brighter as they do their bit to CleanupUK.
I was born in Cardiff in 1939. My father who was the vicar of an inner city parish died when I was one year old and so I was brought up by my mother and my older brother. But I followed in his footsteps and was ordained into the Church of England. I have served the church as a parish priest, a hospital and a school chaplain, a broadcaster and a columnist. Now I am retired, whatever that may mean!
