Yr Wyddfa Big Clean Up | Volunteer with us | August 1st & 2nd
The Yr Wyddfa Big Clean Up is back again for 2025.
Following on from the success of last year's big clean up, we're heading back to Yr Wyddfa with our litter pickers and bags.
Last year we only scratched the surface of the work that needs to be carried out, and despite nearly 3000 individual items being found, we still have a long way to go to protect this rare and beautiful landscape.
This year we are hoping to recruit more volunteers, cover more of the upper Glaslyn bowl, and remove more single use pollution, and we’re going slab bang in the middle of the holidays to engage with as many members of the public as possible.
When?
- Training day - Friday 1st August
- Main Cleaning day - Saturday 2nd August
This year we will be running the event over two days, the first day will be a training day which will allow us to ensure that all of our volunteers are aware of the Arctic Alpine Species we are hoping to protect, have been introduced and experience the surveying technique, and have hopefully had a learning experience of other projects underway in Eryri National Park. This way. we can start Saturday by heading straight up the mountain to begin the work.
The full details and what to expect from the event are in the Eventbrite link above. The work will be tough, and we need a team ready to work hard on the mountain.
What do we want to achieve this year?
Remove 5000+ individual items of single use pollution.
Inspire greater ownership by everyone on looking after the uplands.
Increase pressure on brands who are making profits on the items that are left in the mountains.
Increase the ask from governments to reduce the amount of single use pollution that can be sold.
Inspire communities all over the world to look after their own local hills and mountains, and if you cant join us on this weekend, have a go at doing this locally and send us your own pictures!
Like last year we thank all of our partners for the help in organisation: Trash Free Trails, Plantlife, Cymdeithas Eryri and Eryri National Park. To the Baron Hill Estate for the permissions to undertake this work, and we’d like to welcome Deuter as a new partner this year helping to fund the work.
Many thanks to our Big Clean Up partners:
