Our work
Recent Clean up activities
Before and after appearance of street signs after some clean up work
Billingham Tidy Up Group awarded £2000 from the Teesside Charity!
On June 13th 2024, BTU members attended an event hosted by the Teesside Charity at Middlesbrough FC Riverside ground, the Golden Giveaway awards. We were delighted to have been awarded a grant of £2,000 from them. We thank all who voted for us.
A video of the event is available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
Over 50 local charities submitted bids for grants and we were very pleased to have achieved third place. Results
Winners SNAPS Tees Valley (Special Needs Activities with Parents)
2nd Place Skelton Primary School
3rd Place Billingham Tidy Up
Other recipients of at least £500 were:
37th Middlesbrough St. Johns Brownies
Nite Light CIC
Rubies Charity
Stockton Baby Bank
TEES Together.Engage.Encourage.Support CIO
Look A Head Cancer Campaign
Creative Minds Middlesbrough
Soccability Frame Football
Sea Cadets and Royal Marines Cadets Middlesbrough
Parkfield Lighthouse
SEND Family Voice, Redcar and Cleveland
Red Balloons
The Bungalow Partnership
Young At Heart ULO
ReGenerate – Hope For Autism
Teesside Academy of Gymnastics
Billingham Tidy Up group 4 year anniversary
February 25th 2024 was the 4th birthday of Billingham Tidy up group. On that day, the group carried out a litter pick of Cowpen Bewley Village and surrounding areas. The group gathered together after that litter pick for some celebratory tea, coffee and cake! Martin Scully & Jamie Hughes very kindly took pictures & videos of the event which are on our YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@BillinghamTidyUpgroup Some pictures are also shown below (click on them to open the gallery).
Areas we have cleared since formation
Since 2020 we have cleared many areas in Billingham of litter and some outside the town too.
We have mapped out the areas that our group have visited and cleared of litter.
You can view those maps by clicking on the links below:
Background mapping courtesy of www.streetmap.com
Here is a list some of the locations we have tackled - in some cases several visits have been made.
A1185 near Marsh House Avenue & A1185 Seal Sands Road
A689 lay-bys & A689 roundabout and verges near Wolviston
Area enclosed by Chiltons Avenue, Roscoe Road & Mill Lane
Cemetery Road back lane to A1185
Barkston Close & Barkston Close Woods
Wooded areas around St Michael's School & Hastings Way
Daffodil Park including Beck
Bedford Terrace inc land near "Tin Lizzy"
Belasis Avenue & Belasis Business Park
Billingham Railway Station Area
Braid Crescent, Cotswold Crescent & Brendon Crescent area
Station Road.
Central Ave
Chalrton's Pond
Clifton Avenue
Causeway Community Centre field
Country Valley Food Road Area & Linkway
Cowbridge Beck up to fields between Billingham and Greatham.
Cowpen Bewley Wolvison Back Lane Area
Cowpen Ind Estate, Nuffield Road Macklin Avenue/Lagonda Drive
Cowpen Lane
Dorset Avenue going east along Cowpen Lane
Woods East of Hastings Way
Field on Gilside Road & footpath to Cowpen Bewley at the side of railway line.
Fields at or near Pentland Avenue, Neasham Ave, High Grange & Easby Road
Forum
Greenwood Road
John Whitehead Park
Kingsway
Leeholme Road
Macklin Avenue/Lagonda Drive
Mill Lane & Mill Lane Field
New Road
Norfolk Crescent grass bank
Northfield School
Path from Wolviston to old A19
Norton - Path South of Norton Avenue/A1027 Junction
Pentland Avenue vicinity including field opp school
Old A19 & Wooded Areas East of Wolviston
Woods between Hastings/Flodden Way and Wolviston Back Lane
Remembrance parade area (Station Rd - Bypass Rd - Billingham Bank - A1027)
Rievaulx Avenue & Rievaulx field
Roscoe Rd including Basketball Court
River Tees between Newport & Victoria Bridges
Seaton Carew beach
Holy Rosary School Corner
Station Road south of railway line to Greggs next to Esso
Stokesley Crescent Field & Path East to Cowpen Lane
Thames Road
Windlestone Road Shops area
Wolviston Back Lane including Red Brick Road
Wolviston Road from Rievaulx Avenue to A139
Wooded area near Hastings Way & St Michaels School
Major milestone achieved in July 2023
In July 2023, a total of 10,008 bags of litter had been collected and removed since this group started in February 2020.
The milestone was reached during a litter pick on Wolviston Back Lane on July 30th 2023.
In that litter pick items we found included:
Car exhaust Metal barrel lid Pants A door handle Shoes Crisp packets Lots of glass bottles Vapes Other plastic waste.
We all had a cuppa and some cake after the litter collection finished.
Collaborations
From time to time, we team up with other litter picking groups from nearby towns to participate in collaborative litter picks. We have done this with groups from Norton, Hartlepool, Thornaby, Stockton, Yarm, Ingleby Barwick, Thornaby and most recently from North Yorkshire's former Hambleton District Council area.
Ingleby Barwick Community Litter Project
Thornaby Community Litter Project
Keeping Yarm & Eaglescliffe Tidy
Infinity Litter Pickers
With Hartlepool Big Town Tidy up we cleaned up two Layby's on the A689.
We teamed up with Norton litter pickers to tackle the A1027 in the vicinity of the Billingham Beck Valley ecology park and a walkway near the Norton Aldi on the A1027.
With Hartlepool & Norton, we tackled grass verges either side of the A178 Seal Sands Road.
In April 2023, all the groups above came together to clear 130 sacks of litter from the River Tees banks west of Newport Bridge
Appearances at Public Events & Meetings
Billingham Tidy Up group were present at the September 2023 Billingham Festival of thrift. As well as showing examples of the kind of litter we have collected, displays were also posted to educate and inform the public about the harmful consequences of certain types of litter. Displays also reminded people about how long certain types of discarded material can remain intact for hundreds of years without significantly decomposing.
