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Join the Big Clean Up on 17 September, CSV is ITV's lead partner in this one-off campaign to get people to clean up their environment
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CSV teamed up with v and ITV, to deliver the Big Clean Up campaign on 17 September.

Thank you to all volunteers on the day! Please complete the online evaluation form and you may win £150 of 'experience' vouchers!

Now spot yourself on telly
The Big Clean Up events were filmed by ITV teams for a special programme to be screened on ITV1 on 24 October 2006!

Photos of the day
Click here for links to photos from the day from each region as they come in.

What happened

Each event team was led by a young volunteer between the age 16 – 25. Their work inspired thousands of volunteers to make a real difference in their local community. A huge thank you to those who took part!

Underwater cleans

The sun shone and volunteers got stuck into making huge transformations. In Plymouth and Ipswich for example, experienced divers carried out underwater cleans, finding items such as tyres, shopping trolleys and even a couple of motorbikes!

Clearing public spaces, building bridges

Elsewhere, groups of volunteers made huge differences to public spaces: clearing shrubs and bushes, renovating play equipment, planting bulbs, and even constructing new paths and bridges.

Entertainment and art!

Many of the event teams had arranged entertainment for the volunteers and in some locations artists turned rubbish into sculptures to brighten the area even further.

More information about each of the eighteen projects will be added over the next couple of days. Watch this space.

Photos from Burnt Oak, London

Photos from Gateshead

Photos from Lee Valley, London

Background to the event:

This was an exciting one-off campaign day which raised awareness about environmental issues, while enabling young people to improve their communities.

Big Clean Up events took place across England and Wales on Sunday, 17 September giving up to 6,000 people an opportunity to take action, get involved and improve our environment.

For more information about the campaign go to www.itv.com/bigcleanup.

This campaign is funded by 'V' the UK's new youth-led charity set up to encourage more young people to volunteer.

click to visit V's website - the organisation set up to encourage more young volunteers

Also visit www.cleanuptheworld.org - a major United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) campaign, where achievements each year are celebrated on the third weekend in September. ITV's Big Clean Up campaign was timed to coincide and highlight this UN campaign.
photo of young volunteer, face painted as a tiger, standing in a pond surrounded by long grass

Mucking in - tiger in the long grass!
photo of lots of volunteers, misty morning on a rocky beach

A beauty spot again, through the work of Big Clean Up volunteers.
photo of volunteers on ITV Big Clean Up day having dug a huge pond watching the final preparations to fill it

After all the hard work, volunteers watch the filling of a new pondat Lee Valley, London.
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