Erewash Borough Council's Pride in Erewash initiative is a fantastic campaign with the community at its heart. It aims to create a cleaner, greener and safer borough for our current residents and future generations. Now into its fourth year, the campaign is going from strength to strength with hundreds of residents, partners and volunteers taking part in environmental and community events throughout the year.
The campaign is the driving force behind projects such as the 'Adopt a Park' scheme, community clean-ups, graffiti removal, Erewash in Bloom, School Recycling and the successful 24-hour confidential ‘Pride Line’ which enable residents to report fly-tipping and other environmental crime.
Many successful projects have already been delivered as part of the Campaign, the aim of which is to develop a sense of respect and ownership of our environment and improve the quality of life for all in the Borough.These Projects include:
- Community Clean Ups
- Graffiti Removal
- Promoting Tidy Business Standards (Food on the Go)
- Environmental Education Projects
- Healthy Life Styles
- Street Scene Improvements
- Recycling
- Erewash in Bloom
- Adopt a Park
- Pride Line
- Festival of Light
- Good Town Trader Awards
- 3916 Volunteering hours spent on environmental projects
- 41 Community Litter Picks took place
- 153 entrants in the Erewash in Bloom 2009 competition
- 408 residents came to collect 2000 trees on the Free Tree give away days in Long Eaton and Ilkeston. In addition a further 33 community groups organisations and schools in Erewash each received 50 free trees as well
- 10,556 people viewed the Pride in Erewash website
