Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Keep Kirikiriroa Hamilton Beautiful
2023-04-22 10:00 - 12:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Chartwell Library, 5 Lynden Court, Chartwell, 3210, New Zealand
Keep Hamilton Beautiful will be hosting a clean up event in Hamilton on 22 April 2023, coinciding with the International Earth Day celebration.The branch has partnered with Hamilton City Library this time, who will be running activities for Earth Day at the event to celebrate our planet.

Come along and get involved, it will be fun!There will be heaps of prizes, games and different crafts that kids can enjoy too. Rubbish pickers, gloves and bags will be provided, however, if you have your own please bring these along.Up to this point, the branch have successfully cleared over five tonnes of garbage from the streets through their clean up efforts.

Turua Tidiers
2023-08-04 08:00 - 11:00 | Turua School, 140 Thames Coast Rd, Whakatete Bay, 3575, New Zealand
Clean up around our school and local area.

Help Clean Up Miramar
2023-09-05 09:00 - 15:00 | Miramar Central School, 38 Park Road, Miramar, 6022
As part of Clean Up Week, Miramar Central School will be helping to clean up the streets around our Kura on 5 September 2023. We have gloves and bags ready for everyone to use. If you would like to join our Kura in cleaning up the streets, please contact the school – office@miramarcentral.school.nz.
Different classes will be collecting at different times of the day. More information will be available closer to the day.

Bluff Annual Street Clean Up
2023-09-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Bluff Service Centre, 98 Gore Street, Bluff, 9814, New Zealand
Join this Clean Up Week 2023 event. Pick up litter from streets of Bluff parks and greenbelt areas.

Allianz Partners Clean Up
2023-09-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Allianz Partners House, 1 Byron Ave, Auckland, 0101
As an organization we will be walking the beaches along Auckland’s north shore collecting all and any rubbish we see.

Care For Your Street
2023-09-15 00:00 - 23:59 | Individual streets within Marton town boundaries, N/A, N/A, N/A
“Care for your Street”Join this Clean Up Week event. The public are asked to register the street of their choice to collect litter from. The street is marked so as not to double up cover.

Clean up Long Bay Beach
2023-09-16 00:00 - 23:59 | Long Bay Regional Park, 2000 Beach Road. Long Bay, Auckland, 0630
Join this Clean Up Week event. Rubbish collection and general tidy up of Long Bay Regional Park.

Clean Up Week
2023-09-16 08:00 - 2023-09-22 17:00
Join New Zealand’s largest movement against litter and take part in Clean Up Week 2023.

Clean Up Week provides a great opportunity for schools, businesses, community groups, friends and families to get together, collect litter and make a difference in their neighbourhood.

In 2022, we had over 67,400 volunteers who collected a total of 655 tonnes of waste over an area equivalent to 5,751 rugby fields. Our most successful event ever!

Get involved and let’s make this year even bigger and better!

Clean Up Week will once again kick off on World Clean Up Day, Saturday 16 September and run until 22 September 2023. Mark the dates in your diaries now and start planning your event. Registrations will open on our website in early July.

Clean Up Ōpōtiki
2023-09-16 08:00 - 2023-09-22 17:00 | Ōpōtiki District – You choose, Anywhere in Ōpōtiki, Ōpōtiki, 3122
Let’s get into it Ōpōtiki! Volunteer your time to pick up rubbish, show your town pride and help Keep New Zealand Beautiful. Get your clean up crew together – school, organisations, businesses, kindys, friends and family.
Register online at www.opotikinz.co.nz or visit the Ōpōtiki iSite Visitor Information Centre.
KIT OUT YOUR OWN CLEAN UP! Use reusable materials for your clean up – Bins, containers, garden gloves, old gloves – This reduces plastic waste. Collect as much rubbish as you can from wherever you can – Parks, reserves, streets, water ways, beaches, rivers and other public places. All rubbish will be disposed of FREE of charge at the Ōpōtiki Resource Recovery Centre – We can pick it up or you can drop it off (more details are on the registration form). Please organise your own clean-up kit for your team (safe and reusable when you can!). If you get stuck, we’ll have a limited number of clean up kits available at the isite.
Take photos of your clean up and post them with the hashtag #cleanupopotiki!!

Railway Reserve Clean Up
2023-09-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Levin Railway Station, SH1 Oxford Street, Levin, 5510
Co hosted by Horowhenua District Council. Meeting at Railway Station SH1, bring suitable footwear, sunhat/block Water bottle. Wait for instructions, head off in groups pick up litter along the rail reserve.

Lake Dunstan Annual clean up
2023-09-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Butcher Drive Carpark, Butcher Drive, Cromwell, 9310
Join in the annual lakeside clean-up and help your community improve our shoreline! By clearing the weeds and rubbish, we can make the shoreline more accessible for swimmers, picnickers, and boaties and encourage native plants to thrive.
Please register before cleaning at: Butcher Drive carpark, behind the Town & Country Club
AREA: From Richard Beach to McNulty Inlet – Join anywhere
WHAT TO BRING:
* Appropriate clothing (weather dependent; closed-toes shoes)
* Water and snacks
* Gloves
* Buckets, boxes, bags for rubbish and green waste
** Limited gloves and bags available at registration point **
For more information, visit: https://www.lakedunstan.org/lakeside-clean-up.html

Cleaning Our Neighbourhood
2023-09-16 09:00 - 13:00 | Lake Hayes Estate, Queenstown, 9304
Cleaning the lovely trails and streets in Lake Hayes Estate, Queenstown

Keep NZ (Addington) Beautiful Clean Up Event.
2023-09-16 09:30 - 11:30 | Church Square, 21a Church Square, Christchurch, 8024
We will gather at 9.30am at 21a Church Square, in front of the Belltower with Heidi, our local park Ranger, who will lead us on how we can volunteer, maybe with planting, raking leaves, rubbish removal- from some local streets, and just general tidying up in and around the square.
If you have gardening gloves please bring along otherwise we will provide some cotton ones. Any leaf rakes also appreciated. We will finish at 11.30am with a BBQ.

Go Do Good Month
2023-09-16 09:30 - 11:30 | Selwyn Reserve (Mission Bay), Mission Bay, Auckland, 2019, New Zealand
Ciena Care urges its employees to support and give back to their community by means of donations and volunteer work. Clean Up Week provides an excellent opportunity for individuals to participate in New Zealand’s biggest clean-up event and make a positive and tangible impact in their local community. The Keep New Zealand Beautiful charity organization has been organizing Clean Up Week 2023, which will take place from 16-22 September, starting on World Clean Up Day. As part of the initiative, Ciena NZ employees will be performing a beach clean-up at Mission Bay Park to contribute to a cleaner and more sustainable environment.
Meet Up 9:30am at Selwyn Reserve (Mission Bay).

Keep Kaitaia Beautiful
2023-09-16 09:30 - 12:00
Last year we cleaned up a 3km space around Kerikeri Airport, so this year we are going to head out to Kaitaia to Bonnetts Road where rubbish gets dumped, we will be bringing a trailer and possibly collecting large materials. Feel free to come join us, we will meet where the road turns to gravel in Kaitaia

Clean Up Whitianga
2023-09-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Buffalo Beach Reserve, Buffalo Beach Rd, Whitianga, 3510
Join us on World Clean Up Day, Sat 16th September, to pick up litter around our beautiful town. Meet at the Buffalo Beach Reserve at 9:30am for a briefing and to select an area of Whitianga to collect rubbish for the morning. Please bring gloves and reusable bags, buckets or boxes for rubbish collection. Let’s keep Whitianga beautiful!

Thames Clean Up
2023-09-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Seagull Centre, 104 Burke Street, Thames, 3500, New Zealand
Head down to the Seagull Centre on the day to register your participation and receive your FREE Clean Up kit sponsored by Mitre 10 Thames. Once you have filled your bucket head back to the Seagull Centre and exchange your rubbish for a FREE hot sausage. We will weigh it and dispose of it for you.

Keep Pukehou Beautiful
2023-09-16 09:30 - 12:30 | The Paper Mulberry cafe, 89 State Highway 2, Pukehou, 4276, New Zealand
A co-ordinated working bee to tidy the Main Highway which runs through our community. For anyone keen to help we plan to meet at The Paper Mulberry Cafe carpark, on Saturday 16th September, at 9.30am. (If wet we’ll try for the Sunday)
Please wear bright clothes, or high-vis vests, bring gloves. We need sacks for collecting into, and more sacks and fadges to sort and store the rubbish in. We plan to take it to the Hastings dump.
Contact Geoff or Jan on 068781511 or 0274538895 to let us know if you’d like to help.

Otago Student Volunteer Army Brackens View Clean Up
2023-09-16 09:30 - 13:30 | Brackens View, Brackens View, North Dunedin, Dunedin, 9016
Kia ora tima!
Get some good mahi in during Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean-up Week with the SVA whānau! 🤝🏽
We will be cleaning up Brackens View lookout. Equipment will be provided so just come dressed warm and ready for the job! We’ll conclude our event with some kai and good vibes ❤️
Meet outside St. David’s at 9.45am for a walking bus to the lookout!
As usual, sign up via the SVA app

John Wilson Drive Clean-up Keep Dunedin Beautiful
2023-09-16 10:00 - 11:30 | John Wilson Ocean Drive, 25 John Wilson Ocean Drive, Dunedin, 9013, New Zealand
Come join the Keep Dunedin Beautiful Team for a short clean-up to kick-off Clean Up Week 2023! Meet in the carpark. Rubbish collection sacks, gloves, and tongs will be available, but we encourage those with their own to bring it along to ensure there is enough to go around. We look forward to seeing you out there!

Stadium / Marina Clean-Up Dunedin
2023-09-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Corner of Anzac Ave and Logan Park Drive, Corner of Anzac Ave and Logan Park Drive, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
We are excited to be hosting another clean up event around the stadium and marina this year as a part of the first day of Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s national Clean Up Week (September 16th – 22nd), and also World Clean Up Day! 🌱We will provide the rubbish bags and gloves or feel free to byo. We’ll remove any rubbish we can find from the surrounding area, and sort into the different groups before it is disposed of.
There may also be some spot prizes donated from the Keep Dunedin Beautiful office 💛Bring your friends along for a great start to the weekend.Stay as long or as little as you like 😊

Balclutha Rotary & Balclutha Lions Clyde Street Clean Up
2023-09-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Balclutha Bridge Park, Cnr Clyde St & Lanark St, Balclutha, 9230
Rotarians and Lions will be walking the length of Clyde St, Balclutha, collecting rubbish as we go.

Clean Up Otago Harbour
2023-09-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Vauxhall yacht club, 153 Portobello Road, Vauxhall, Dunedin, 9013
As part of Clean Up Week, we will be helping to clean up the Otago Harbour on 16 September 2023 starting at the Vauxhall Yacht Club then moving along the Otago Harbour picking up trash as we go. If its high tide, we’ll only concentrate on the harbour beaches/car parks/access points. Please come with your gloves and bags ready if you would like to join us help clean up our harbour.

Eastside Neighbourhood Clean-Up
2023-09-16 10:00 - 13:00 | Tairangi School, 3 Omapere Street, Waitangirua, Porirua, 5024
One of the key themes that came up from our recent community engagement – Hui tahi tātou o Porirua – was that the neighbourhood needs a clean up.
As part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean Up Week we are running a neighbourhood clean up event on 16 September from 10am-1pm. Te Rā Nui will be working alongside community, providing rubbish bags and skip bins to collect in all four neighbourhoods in the project precinct. We’ll also have marquees set up where the community can bring things that are still usable, but they don’t need anymore, and others can take them home if they need them. Anything not used will be picked up to be rehomed by our second-hand shop partner.
The locations include:
Cannons Creek: Nuanua Kindergarten – 5A Warspite Avenue, Cannons Creek, Porirua 5024Waitangirua: Tairangi School – 3 Omapere Street, Waitangirua, Porirua 5024Rānui: Pahina O Tokelau – 13 Kivell Street, Rānui, Porirua 5024Ascot Park: Rangikura School – 95 Conclusion Street, Ascot Park, Wellington 5024
We’d love to see you there!

Taupiri Community Clean Up Rubbish Day
2023-09-16 10:00 - 14:00 | War Memorial Hall taupiri, 8 Greenland road, Taupiri, 3721
Saturday the 16th September we would love you to help us pick up all the rubbish around our community to keep taupiri being the beautiful clean town it is we are encouraging our local schools , businesses and pre schools to get involved , on the day our local community board will also be participating we hope to see use all there meeting location will be at the war memorial hall on Greenland road near taupiri school. If this date doesn’t suit you the campaign is running from the 16th – 22nd September. Rubbish disposal bags will be provided and are free to dispose of at local refuse stations

Otago Peninsula Community Clean-Up!
2023-09-16 10:00 - 14:00 | Coronation Hall, 853 Portobello Road, Dunedin, 9014
Join us, Otago Peninsula community residents, in cleaning up our harbour beaches, and anything else that may need tidying up!

We’ll meet up at Coronation Hall in Portobello, and go from there. Plan on walking a fair bit, and/or carpooling/riding in between suburbs.

Good shoes and high visibility vests are ideal. And as always, be prepared for any kind of weather.

(If weather is too bad, we’ll postpone for another weekend.)

Please spread the word. We need all the help we can get to keep our little piece of paradise that is the Otago Peninsula, beautiful.

Paraparaumu Beach clean up
2023-09-16 10:30 - 12:30
16–22 September is Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s Clean Up Week. Join the staff from Kāpiti Coast District Council to clean up Paraparaumu Beach!
Meet by Kāpiti Boating Club at 10.30 am.
You’re encouraged to bring your own reusable gloves from home, however some disposable gloves will be available on the day.
Sausage Sizzle from 11.30am to12.30pm, location to be confirmed.

Waimairi Beach Residents Association Clean Up
2023-09-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Aston Reserve, 53 Aston Drive, Christchurch, 8083
We’ll meet at Aston Reserve and head off to the various parks, beach and sand dunes in our area.
Park areas included:

Aston Reserve
Eastwood Reserve
Sandpiper Reserve
Broad Park
Beach/Dune area (North of Beach Rd to the forest edge)

Rubbish bags and gloves will be provided.

Island Bay Clean Up
2023-09-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Island Bay, Island Bay Rd, Beach Haven, 0626
Join us at Island Bay for World Clean Up Day 2023 – www.worldcleanupday.org

There’s plenty of parking and a toilet block handy – this is where we’ll meet, at the bottom of Island Bay Rd.

As always, there’s no need to register for this event, but if you would like to let us know you’re coming or ask any questions you’re quite welcome to contact us.

People of all ages and abilities are most welcome to attend, the more the merrier. Although we happily accept latecomers, and no one is obligated to stay for the entire duration, we would prefer everyone to arrive at the start time so we can ensure you all receive the health and safety briefing, and don’t miss out on the group photo!

We’ll supply the buckets and gloves, just bring yourselves and your friends and family because many hands make light work. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Keep Horowhenua Beautiful, Waikawa to Ohau River
2023-09-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Waikawa Beach Carpark, Waikawa Beach, Horowhenua, 5510
Co hosted by Horowhenua District Council. Meet at Waikawa beach car park area.
Need suitable footwear, sunhat/block, water bottle. Wait for health/safety instructions, then move off in groups.
