Keep Wales Tidy / Cadwch Gymru'n Daclus

Top accolade for environmental charity

3 Mar 2010

Further proof that working hard to create a cleaner, safer Wales can lead to a happy and motivated staff came this week with the announcement that environmental campaigners Keep Wales Tidy were amongst only four Welsh companies to appear in the coveted Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work For 2010 list

Top green job

3 Feb 2010

A native of Wrexham who currently lives in Cardiff has been appointed to head one of Wales’s leading environmental campaigning charities. Lesley Jones, currently Deputy Chief Executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre, takes up her post as Chief Executive of Keep Wales Tidy in March and succeeds Tegryn Jones who has been appointed Chief Executive of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.

Funding and free insurance available for community groups

1 Feb 2010

Keeping Wales tidy can be a dirty business and sometimes accidents do happen, but anyone who joins the fight to improve their local environment can sleep easy in the knowledge that through their Tidy Towns initiative, campaigners Keep Wales Tidy is now able to offer free insurance to volunteer groups.

Nation's streets are getting cleaner

28 Jan 2010

Results announced today by environmental campaigners Keep Wales Tidy show that whilst most of Wales’s streets are blighted by varying levels of litter, the good news is that there has been an overall reduction in the various types of litter recorded by the survey teams. The report, ‘How clean are our streets?’, shows in detail how much rubbish is on the ground, and where.

Litter in Wales

13 Jan 2010

We invite you to help us research litter in Wales

Nation's streets of shame

11 Jan 2010

The streets may be icy at the moment but that doesn't make them any cleaner... Extensive surveys conducted by environmental campaigners Keep Wales Tidy have revealed that the most common form of litter found on Wales’s streets and pavements is smoking related and they are calling on the public to nominate and help to name and shame ‘Wales’s most fag strewn streets’.

Bags of Pride

6 Jan 2010

Whilst politicians and industry experts debate the growing problem of discarded plastic bags, environmental campaigners are hoping that an experiment being piloted in Neath Port Talbot could make a major contribution towards reducing the problem.

Flintshire rangers scoop top award

6 Nov 2009

Traditional nursery rhymes encourage us to remember the fifth of November as a celebration of the failed attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but for members of the Flintshire-based Eco Watch Rangers it will be long remembered as the day they were judged worthy recipients of Wales’s premier environmental award.

Tidy Wales Awards 2009 – Nominees Announced

13 Oct 2009

Schools, businesses and community groups, as well as individuals, from across Wales are included in the shortlist for this year's Tidy Wales Awards.

2008–2009 Annual Review now available

6 Oct 2009

The Keep Wales Tidy 2008–2009 Annual Review has now been published.