Group Volunteering
We need your help!
Our Local Environmental Quality team at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful conduct marine litter surveys every quarter on 12 beaches across NI. As part of this work, the beaches must be cleaned after each survey has been carried out. This is to ensure that there is no duplication of litter data in the next quarter’s survey.
If your group, business or organisation could help us by cleaning up any of the beaches listed below during the noted timeframe, please get in touch.
Beach | Survey Date | Beach clean to be completed by: |
Ballywalter | Wed 4th Oct | 18th Oct |
Portavogie | Wed 4th Oct | 18th Oct |
Kilkeel | Thurs 5th | 19th Oct |
Rostrevor | Thurs 5th | 19th Oct |
Culmore Point | Fri 13th Oct | 27th Oct |
Tyrella | Wed 4th Oct | 18th Oct |
Hazelbank | Thursday 5th | 19th Oct |
Ballyhornan | Thursday 5th Oct | 19th Oct |
Ardglass | Thursday 5th Oct | 19th Oct |
Runkerry Strand | Wednesday 11th Oct | 25th Oct |
White Park Bay | Wednesday 11th Oct | 25th Oct |
Rathlin | Thursday 12th Oct | 26th Oct |
Corporate volunteering
Live Here Love Here can support businesses who wish to get involved in litter picking activities. If you would like to join a clean-up as extra hands, have a look at our Events Calendar for clean-ups happening near you. If you want to arrange a clean-up just for your colleagues or staff members, check out our Volunteering page for more advice. For information on team building and volunteering opportunities, please take a look at the Live Here Love Here Corporate Brochure below.
Council contacts
Whether you want to take a small group of staff out to do a quick clean-up or you are organising a large litter picking event, it's always useful to get in touch with your local council in advance of your event. Most councils can provide information on local litter hot-spots, arrange litter waste collection and provide landowners' permission, if required.
Councils want to hear about your event and may be able to support you further with equipment and resources. Our list of contacts makes it easy for you to speak to the right person, have a look below:
Council | Council Contact | Tel. Number | Email Address |
Antrim & Newtownabbey | Leanne Smits | 028 94463113 | |
Ards & North Down | Alastair Kerr | 0300 013 3333 | |
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon | Kate Campbell | 0300 0300 900 | |
Belfast City | Community Cleansing | 028 9032 0202 | |
Causeway Coast & Glens | Fiona Watters | 028 7034 7034 | |
Derry City & Strabane | Yvonne Lecky | 028 7034 7034 | |
Fermanagh & Omagh | Emmett Brogan | 028 7125 3253 | |
Lisburn City and Castlereagh | Waste Education Group | 028 92447300 | |
Mid & East Antrim | Barry Tapster | 0300 124 5000 | |
Mid Ulster | John Murtagh | 0300 032 132 | |
Newry, Mourne & Down | Liam Dinsmore | 0300 013 2233 |
Got a question?
Didn't find the information that you were looking for on this page? Please get in touch with Live Here Love Here Enquiries and we will get back to you as soon as possible.