Keep Basingstoke and Deane clean

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Keep Basingstoke and Deane Clean campaign for a second year by organising and joining in litter picks during our two weeks of action in February.

Keeping our streets, parks, play areas and countryside clean and tidy is a key priority for us at the council. But we can all play our part to reduce litter and stamp out antisocial acts like graffiti, dog fouling and fly-tipping which blight our communities.

We're delighted to see that the litter picks and tidy up events are continuing to take place throughout the year to help keep our communities clean and you can find these below.

Anyone looking to stage a litter pick or tidy up event can find guidance on how to plan and run an event safely using our Guide for litter pick event organisers.

Upcoming events

Future events will show on this page. Alternatively, if you want to get involved in helping keep our green spaces clean, and help our local wildlife, you can join one of the Conservation Volunteer groups, view the button below for more details.

Green space volunteering

Get creative to help keep Basingstoke and Deane Clean

Following several weeks of litter picking action across the borough, we’re now asking our younger residents aged 16 and below to design a poster to help keep our play areas, parks, open spaces and streets clean.

In return they could win some litter picking equipment for their school or community and the chance to see their poster put up in areas in the borough for a year.

How to take part

On the template available below or an A4 portrait piece of paper, design a poster focusing on reducing littering and encouraging people to put their rubbish in a bin or take it home with them.

To support entries, find more information about the council's approach to littering

Keep Basingstoke and Deane Clean poster template(DOCX) [94 kb]

Keep Basingstoke and Deane Clean poster template(PDF) [565 kb]

How and when to submit the poster design

Designs must be received by Sunday 3 May 2026.

Details of the entrant's name and age must be provided to enable the entry to judged in the correct category. The name, email address and telephone number of the entrant's parent or guardian must also be provided.* You can print off a template from this page which includes space for these details.

Entries can be scanned and emailed to keepbdclean@basingstoke.gov.uk or sent by post to: Keep Basingstoke and Deane Clean Poster competition, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, Communications and Marketing team, Civic Offices, London Road, Basingstoke, RG21 4AH.

Please keep hold of the original design if it is being scanned and emailed.

*Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council confirms that it will only process personal data gathered for purposes relating to this competition only. We will keep your personal data for only as long as is necessary for us to choose the winners. Please see our privacy statement for more information.

Judging and prizes

Entries will fall into four categories:

Children aged 4 to 7
Children aged 8 to 10
Children aged 11 to 13
Children aged 14 to 16

One winner will be picked from each category.

Prizes

Winners will get to have their poster displayed in areas around Basingstoke and Deane for a year.

A donation of litter picking equipment will also be made to our winners’ local school or community group.

Competition rules

This competition is open to all children aged 16 and under who live within the borough of Basingstoke and Deane.
The artwork competition will be advertised on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s website, its residents’ magazine, e-newsletter, social media channels and through the local media.
Winning artwork will be chosen by a panel of judges without details of the name/ age displayed.
Entries must be received by Sunday 2 May 2026.
By entering the competition the parent and/or guardian consent to the use of their and the entrants' personal data (name, email and address) by the promoter for the purposes of the administration of the competition and the data will only be held long enough to carry this out.
The winners may be requested to consent to take part in reasonable post competition publicity and the use of their names and photographs in such publicity but this will only happen if their parent/guardians give written consent.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, as the promoter, may disqualify anyone whose entry does not comply with these terms and conditions in the Promoter's sole opinion. Or anyone who, in promoter's sole determination, has acted in a manner that is fraudulent, dishonest or unjust.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding selected winning artwork.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has the right to withdraw this competition at any time.
The promoter is Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.

Litter pick collection