Litter picking
Can you spare some time to help litter pick in the New Forest?
As well as volunteering with the New Forest NPA or a local organisation, litter picking is a great thing for people to do, helping protect wildlife in the National Park keeping its special landscapes beautiful.
The National Park Authority will occasionally lead a litter picking event and we will be able to inform you of the details, in case you would like to join us and meet others who are doing the same great work.
Beyond this, group activities are likely to need specific permission from the landowner, and group organisers may want to consider getting insurance. However, we know some parish councils want to encourage their local residents to get involved and some litter picking groups already exist including:
- Litter pickers of the New Forest
- Clean New Forest
- Dominik’s Wildlife Fund
- Lyndhurst Litter Pickers
- Parish Pickers, Copythorne and Facebook group
- Paws on Plastic
- UK Litter Picking Groups
- New Forest District Council
If you have contacts with other people and would like to become an additional venue from which people can sign for and collect litter-picking kits, do please contact us.
Staying safe when out in the New Forest.
