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#CleanUpMaidstone – 22 March 2022

 ‘Get Involved’ in #CleanUpMaidstone Project 

We are on a mission to #CleanUpMaidstone and as part of the campaign we have launched a community project by inviting you to ‘Get Involved in the MBC #CleanUpMaidstone Project’: a campaign designed to provide community and volunteer groups, local businesses, residents, retailers, parishes or existing charities with the equipment, resources and support to help improve an area of land they would like to see cleaned up and restored for the community.

The ‘Get Involved Project’ has been introduced for an initial eight community projects to create volunteer groups that will help carry out the clearance work with the first being started in Tovil at Reed’s Cut-through (which runs from Tovil Green to Tovil Hill by the side of the Lidl store), in order to restore it to the community.

The #CleanUpMaidstone and ‘Get Involved’ campaigns will see MBC teams supporting the projects by:

• Working with newly formed groups to plan and undertake the work
• Support purchasing of equipment, materials, tools and street furniture
• Provide required training and Health and Safety guidance
• Provide an ongoing maintenance programme with the aim to hand over the long-term upkeep of the area back to the local community.

Any volunteer group that would like to apply to the Council to have their community area cleared as part of the Get Involved campaign should: