Sunday, May 13, 2012

Friday, May 11, 2012

Instructions for the day

Dear Volunteers!


The big clean-up day is nearly here!


On the day, please meet us at the park at Mercury Court (1pm at the latest) and tell us you have arrived. All volunteers will receive a pair of gloves from us. If you have pair of heavy duty gloves at home, please bring them with you! Also if anybody has a shovel, it would be helpful in cleaning some parts of our route. Please bring it if you can! Once the team leaders have introduced themselves, and given the health and safety briefing, you can ask them any further questions. We will then set off together and begin picking up the rubbish. After around an hour, we will all meet again in Mercury Court and go for tea & coffee.


What to wear?


Volunteers should wear appropriate clothes, preferably long trousers, suitable for any weather conditions (e.g. rain, wind) and comfortable, protective shoes. Please don’t wear any type of high-heels, sandals or flip flops. We suggest avoiding wearing jewellery (earrings, bracelets, necklaces) or keeping it as simple as possible.


We would recommend all volunteers to wear something green. We need to catch the eye of the general public as a distinct and united group! 


Bear in mind:
  • Wearing gloves during the collecting process is mandatory. Dangerous objects (e.g. sharp objects, pieces of glass) should be handled with extreme care; please put these objects into the wheelie bin, not in a bag. Please use litter- pickers where appropriate. Watch out for cars when collecting rubbish close to the road.
  • If you suffer from a medical condition that we should know about, please tell us asap, preferably before the event. If you start to suffer from fatigue or feel unwell during the event, tell one of the team leaders. Any accidents during the event should be reported to one of the team leaders asap. In case of a serious accident call 999.
  • The consumption of alcohol during or before the event is forbidden.
We may exclude any person or persons from our activities who do not follow these instructions.




We hope you’ll have a good time at the event!

Friday, April 20, 2012

Download our poster!

Please help to spread the word!


Can you help us get the word out and more people to join? 


Does your organisation have energetic people who'd like to volunteer, who care about the environment and who would like to take part in the biggest cleanup in the world? Does your company have a spacious and appealing noticeboard, home for an invitation to an environmentally-conscious gathering of like-minded people? 


If yes, please download and print the poster and display it in your local area!


Thank You!


Click Here to download the poster.


Click Here to download our flyer.





Sunday, April 15, 2012

Let's Do It Liverpool!

Liverpool joins world-wide cleanup on 13 May


The recently established JCI Liverpool (Junior Chamber International) is taking part in the global “Let’s Do It! World” project, which will take place on 13th May 2012. It involves volunteers coming together to clean up illegal garbage in local areas for the benefit of the community. The project has been organised in many countries, particularly in Estonia, where it started in 2008. More than 2m people around the world have already started cleaning up their countries as part of the project (see www.letsdoitworld.org for further details).

Volunteers in Liverpool will be taking part in this project for the first time. The cleanup will be on 13 May 2012 from 1pm to 2pm. The volunteers will meet at the park at Mercury Court, Liverpool, and clean up several areas close to the city centre. The cleanup will last for around an hour, after which the volunteers will meet for coffee & tea.

Kai Graf von Pahlen, solicitor at Hill Dickinson and head of JCI Liverpool, said that the cleanup will be attended by people in Liverpool who are keen to make a positive difference to the community they live in. Anybody can take part.

JCI Liverpool is working with the Commercial District BID, the body responsible for delivering the development and improvements in the commercial district of Liverpool and many local businesses are keen to support the project, including Hill Dickinson and the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.

JCI is a global network of young professionals that offers its members opportunities in (local, national and international) networking, training and volunteer work (see www.jciuk.org.uk for further details).

If you are interested in taking part in the “Let’s Do It! World” project or would like some more information, please contact Kai at the following email address; kai.grafvonpahlen@hilldickinson.com