Litter Free Leeds

20/05/2026

12/04/2026

Litter Free Leeds volunteers filled over 30,000 purple bags in 2025. That's an amazing achievement.

If you want to join our fantastic purple army, then contact us via our website - www.litterfreeleeds.co.uk - or by email [email protected].

Help us spread more of our purple magic 💜💜💜

WE CAN TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE We have over 50 groups who go out regularly litter picking throughout the whole of the City.

08/04/2026

Another great effort by the Wednesday Gang this sunny morning, in a joint operation with the Beeston Womblers. There were about 14 or 15 of us in total.
We covered a stretch of the Ring Road Beeston from the M621 junction to the roundabout near the Sulzer plant. Not a great distance, but there was lots of litter. We have had a “No Mow May”, but there seems to have been a “No Mow April” here, with litter very difficult to see in the long grass.
We filled at least 46 purple bags, most of which were left in a big pile in the car park outside the B & Q store.
Thanks to Burger King UK for some very welcome drinks afterwards.

04/02/2026

Back where it all started. Some of the first litter picks by the Wednesday Gang were on Redcote Lane during the 2020 Covid lockdown.
Unfortunately, nearly 6 years later, we’re still finding far too much litter here. Our 7 volunteers today filled 21 purple bags with litter, 2 full bags of cans for recycling and 2 boxes of glass bottles. There were 15 nitrous oxide cylinders, and we even found one toilet seat.
Thanks to Goals Leeds for our hot drinks afterwards, and we were very grateful that it stayed dry.

08/01/2026

Joan Kaye. You can share from this page. We have 2 different Facebook accounts. This one is open to public and can be shared.

When you add together what all our local groups are doing around Leeds, it shows what a difference we are making. 27,000+ bags in 2025, and still counting.

08/01/2026

When you add together what all our local groups are doing around Leeds, it shows what a difference we are making. 27,000+ bags in 2025, and still counting.

19/12/2025

Spotted this in Headingley. So pretty and cheerful. It certainly brightens up the pavement 💜

31/03/2025

Operation A65. Several Leeds and Bradford teams work together over the weekend to tackle 19 miles of the A65, from central Leeds out to Addingham, and the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales. Look what we can achieve when we work together. And the sunshine helped too.
Thanks to all the volunteers involved.
Litter Free Leeds Kirkstall and Burley Litter Pickers Horsforth Litter Pickers Rawdon Litter Pickers The Friends of Nunroyd Park The Litter-Free Guiseley Campaign Free Menston Wharfedale Wombles Litter Free Ilkley

- and parts of Bradford too.

23/02/2025

8 years ago today Litter Free Leeds was started after a meeting at Pudsey Civic Hall.
It often seems that progress is very slow, but look how we have grown! All our local teams around Leeds. And at least 22,000 purple bags of litter filled by volunteers around our city in 2024.
Onwards and upwards.

16/01/2025

If you live in the Gipton and Harehills area, then why not come along on Saturday 18th January 2025 from 2.00 pm until 4.00 pm to support your local litter picking group and make a difference around your local community. It's fun and free!

Meeting at the Compton Centre, 322 Harehills Lane, Leeds LS9 7BG. These are held on the third Saturday each month.

Litter pickers are available to borrow if you don't have your own. Please bring along your own gloves.