What can I do in my community?
Organise a community clean-up
Community litter picking events tackle plastic pollution, protect local wildlife and clean up local space for everyone in the community to enjoy. The council’s Clean Leeds team can provide equipment and help promote your event.
Get in touch by emailing cleanleeds@leeds.gov.uk.
Plan an event to celebrate Earth Day, Car Free Day or Clean Air Day
Organise a fun physical or virtual event to bring your local community together, raise awareness of environmental issues and promote action.
To promote Clean Air Day, have a look at these useful resources from Global Action Plan
There’s lots of ideas for events and activities on the Earth Day website
Encourage your friends and other pupils in your school to walk, scoot or cycle to school
For Car Free Day, your community could host a Play Street—a scheme which allows you to close a local street to cars so that your community can safely play out.
Raise awareness of recycling
Lots of people accidentally throw things away that could be recycled. By raising awareness of what can and can’t be recycled and where to recycle glass, textiles and electrical items in your community, you can help reduce carbon emissions and save unnecessary waste.
As well as making sure we recycle correctly, it’s also really important that we reuse and repair as much as possible to reduce the amount of rubbish going to waste in the first place.
For more tips, check out the Leeds By Example website’s ‘Stuff’ page.
Extra tips
Volunteer. Whether it’s doing conservation work or helping to run community events, there’s lots of ways you can volunteer and make a difference to the environment right here in Leeds. Find out what volunteering is available near you by checking Doing Good Leeds.
Youth groups. WWF’s youth groups programme provides resources and activities to help community led groups learn about sustainability in a practical way. If you’re a member of a youth or community group, sign up to the programme here.