During 2026, we organised two City Clean Up events. One in March, in association with Newham BID (on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th March) and the other on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October.

 

For the March two-day Clean Up, Some of the Truro businesses and organisations involved included: Ask, Barclays, CLEAR, Cornwall Council, Francis Clark, LiveWest and Natwest. 

 

Truro City Council’s Countryside Rangers, Damien Richards (Community Development Officer at the city council), and Local volunteer community leader Paul Caruana helped getting local community groups on board for the clean-up.

 

A total of 155 bags of rubbish were collected during the two-day spring City Clean Up event, and over 80 people took part. Fifteen ‘lost’ road signs and cones were found and returned to the Cormac depot. Some of the larger and usual items included a bike, car parts, a pushchair, and even a kitchen sink! A big thank you to everyone who took part. For more details see our media release..

 

For the October, two day City Clean Up (our tenth event), participants included Kartha Commercial Cleaning, Truro and Penwith College students, Lloyds Bank, Truro Cathedral, Visit Truro, Clear Emotional Trauma & Therapy Specialists, David Rhodda (Truro City Council Town Clerk), Naomi Belert (Cornwall Council), MP Jayne Kirkham, the Friends of Newbridge Park and the Truro GRIT Team.

 

Volunteers washed signs and removed stickers on Friday, with litter picks held on both days.

Over two days, volunteers collected 104 bin bags of waste, along with: two prams/pushchairs, lengths of guttering and 100mm pipe, a sofa/sofa bed, three tyres, two broken recycling boxes, two bikes, a scooter and a sun lounger.

 

Ten trolleys were collected: four returned to Tesco/Sainsbury’s and six recovered from the river and riverbank/scrub and sent to Truro Harbour Master for recording and recovery.

Volunteers also collected 75 reusable abandoned road signs, cones and barriers, returning them to the CORMAC compound at Newham.

 

The Truro GRIT Team worked throughout both days, and Bryan Skinner also collected the equipment and a van, and supported the cubs’ and scouts’ litter picks. Huge thanks again to everyone who gave up their time! We plan to organise further City Clean Up days in 2027.