Volunteers from Trent Vineyard Church in Lenton are making a positive difference to our city by cleaning up the Nottingham Canal.

The canal has been highlighted as a hot spot for rubbish and flytipping and the church have organised for 15 volunteers to go down with litter picks and bags to clear up litter around the trees and walk way.

The clean up will take place on Friday March 7 between 10am and 12 midday.

The group will focus on the Tinkers Leen section of the canal near Sainsburys supermarket.

Nottingham City Council’s Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change, Councillor Katrina Bull, said: “As part of this year’s Big Spring Clean we want local community groups and residents to get involved and work in partnership with us to improve the environment and make it cleaner and greener.

“This is a great example of a group giving up their own time to help improve an area for others to enjoy and we hope more groups will target areas around them and contribute to making Nottingham the cleaner place we all want.”

The clean up is part of the City Council’s Big Spring Clean campaign which runs throughout the city until March 28 and aims to demonstrate what can be achieved when schools, businesses, students, and local communities come together with the joint aim of making the city a cleaner place for everyone.

To get involved in this year’s Big Spring Clean campaign or if you have any ideas that could help make Nottingham cleaner and greener please phone 0115 915 2000 or email bigspringclean@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Click here for further information on the Big Spring Clean