Details of completed Clean Up projects in Derbyshire Dales:

Ashbourne

Various activities went ahead in Ashbourne during 2007, including graffiti removal and improvements to the parks, public toilets and recycling sites. To complement this, youth diversionary activity started under the banner of Street Sports with between twenty and fifty young people attending each session. The Probation Service has been involved with some of the landscaping on the parks.

Matlock Town Centre

Similar activity has happened in Matlock, with graffiti removal, improvements to recycling facilities and youth diversionary activities.

Members of the public have been provided with ‘Graffiti Kits’ for the removal of low level graffiti, providing some local ownership of the problem. Staff from Derbyshire County Council and the Police also assisted in graffiti removal.

Wirksworth

Volunteers cleaned up the skate park and surrounding area on 6th September 2007 with the help of Police Community Support Officers and the Derbyshire Dales Community Safety Team. 

Matlock Hurst Farm

A working group was formed consisting of representatives from various agencies including local councils, the Safer Communities through Sport project, Hurst Farm Community Association, and Dales Housing to share ideas of what each agency could do to improve the area.

The resultant project included a range of diverse activity such as a Clean Up and litter pick by the community (with a competition for the most litter collected), extensive planting of trees and shrubs, a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) and an entrance feature to the estate commissioned with a local artist.