Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful
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Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, known until 2014 as TIDY Northern Ireland,[1] is a non-profit environmental organisation based in Northern Ireland.[2] It runs the "Keep Northern Ireland Tidy Campaign", and manages or provides grants for local environmental programmes such as Blue Flag, the 'Beautiful Beach Awards',[3] Green Coast Awards, Borough Cleanliness Survey, litter surveys,[4] a 'Marine Litter Report',[5][6] local gardening projects,[7][8] Cleaner Neighborhoods Report,[citation needed] TIDY Business,[citation needed] Young Reporters on the Environment and Eco-Schools.[citation needed]
The organisation is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and, as of 2022, had 13 employees.[2]
Overview
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Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful produces information on the cleanliness of Northern Ireland that is used to direct resources to environmental quality issues.[9] It has conducted campaigns and public information on litter including car litter, gum deposition, drug related litter, fast food litter, and youth litter. It has also campaigned on a number of other anti-social behaviour issues such as fly-tipping, dog fouling and neighbourhood noise. The organisation's work falls into three main areas: campaigning to get public action, the delivery of programmes to enable partners to deliver action in the community and the production of research and survey results to measure the quality of the local environment.[citation needed]
One of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful's primary aims is to enable the public and private sector agencies to deliver on Local Environmental Quality (LEQ), and relate it to the needs of their community.[citation needed] Much of their work is pertinent to Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment (NI) Act 2011, The Litter (NI) Order 1994 and The Waste and Contaminated Land (NI) Order 1997 with later added amendments.[clarification needed]
As part of this work, the organisation aims to help local authorities and other agencies to deliver better local environmental services, which are tailored to meet the differing needs of the communities that they serve.[tone]
See also
- Keep America Beautiful
- Keep Britain Tidy
- Keep New Zealand Beautiful
- Keep Scotland Beautiful
- Keep Wales Tidy
References
- ^ "Our History". keepnorthernirelandbeautiful.org. Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ a b "Search - Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful". charitycommissionni.org.uk. Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful [..] Charity no. 102973 [..] Date registered. 19/08/2015 [..] 7 Trustees [..] 13 Employees [..] 50 Volunteers
- ^ "Northern Ireland bathing waters improve through partnership working". Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. July 8, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Plastic packaging litter continues to be an issue on NI streets — but we've cleaned up our act". Belfast Telegraph. November 16, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "£100K for marine litter funds available to groups in Coleraine". Northern Ireland World. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Plastic pollution: 2021 'was worst year for marine litter' in Northern Ireland". BBC News. October 8, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "School Pollinator Scheme has Fleming Fulton buzzing". Northern Ireland World. October 25, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Queen's Jubilee Pollinator Garden". Northern Ireland World. November 22, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ "Eco-Schools Northern Ireland Handbook - A complete guide to implementing the Eco-Schools programme" (PDF). Eco-Schools Northern Ireland. Retrieved December 16, 2022.