Keep Britain Tidy

Volunteers across the Spen Valley constituency collected more than 100 bags of rubbish during the Great British Spring Clean.

Kim Leadbeater MP gives ‘huge thanks’ to litter pick volunteers

Kim Leadbeater MBE MP and local school children taking part in the Great British Spring Clean 2025.

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Volunteers from Batley Cemetery Support Group, the Friends of Batley Station and residents from Charles Jones Court Batley gathered at the town’s cemetery on Saturday, March 22 to help tidy it as part of the Great British Spring Clean 2025.

Kind-hearted volunteers tidy cemetery as part of Great British Spring Clean

The Great British Spring Clean 2025, backed by Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater, is set to be launched on Friday.

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Burnt out container at Weaving Lane HWRC following a fire in late May

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Kim Leadbeater at a Spring Clean event last year.

MP kick-starts environment campaign with mass litter-pick event in Mirfield

Encourage children to dispose of their litter correctly. Photo: Adobe

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250 people across Batley and Spen have collected more than 250 bags of rubbish at a string of events over the last three weeks.

Kim Leadbeater MP wraps up her Great Batley and Spen Spring Clean

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater led 60 schoolchildren, teachers, businesses, and volunteers at a mass litter pick in Heckmondwike.

MP launches Great Batley and Spen Spring Clean with town centre litter pick

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater helped out with local volunteer group Keep Hecky Tidy, Heckmondwike councillors and the Heckmondwike Scout Group to spruce-up the overgrown graveyard at the Upper Independent Chapel.

Batley and Spen MP gets ‘hands dirty’ in Heckmondwike graveyard clean-up

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater - who was appointed the new chair of the Tidy Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) last month - got her ‘hands dirty’ at a graveyard clean-up project in Heckmondwike.

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Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater has been elected as the new chair of the Tidy Britain All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

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The average Kirklees resident generated hundreds of kilograms in household waste last year, figures suggest.

Average Kirklees resident produces equivalent of 96 turkeys in waste

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Great turnout: Miss Sherriff joined over 75 local people for the Big Spring Clean. Photo: Ian Gunson.

People spring into action for tidy-up mission

Rubbish battle: Paula Sherriff MP will be holding four litter picks as part of the Spring clean drive.

MP backs big Spring clean

Oakwell Hall has gained it's 10th Green Flag tourism award. Peter O'Neil and Liz Smaje. (D543K430)

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