Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful

Who we are

TIDY Northern Ireland is the organisation which runs the Keep Northern Ireland Tidy Campaign, and manages a number of local environmental quality programmes such as Blue Flag, Borough Cleanliness Survey, TIDY Communities, TIDY Business and Eco-Schools.

What we do

We produce information on the cleanliness of Northern Ireland that is used to direct resources to tackle the most prominent environmental quality issues. TIDY Northern Ireland is best known for its campaigns and public information on litter including car litter, gum deposition, drugs related litter, fast food litter and youth litter. However, we have also campaigned on a number of other anti-social behaviour issues such as fly-tipping, dog fouling and neighbourhood noise.

One of TIDY Northern Ireland’s primary aims is to enable the public and private sector agencies to deliver more effectively on Local Environmental Quality (LEQ), and relate it to the needs of their community. Much of our work is pertinent to The Litter (NI) Order 1994 and The Waste and Contaminated Land (NI) Order 1997.

TIDY Northern Ireland endorses the government’s wider aim to deliver sustainable development. This work falls into three main areas: campaigning to get public action, the delivery of programmes to enable partners to deliver action in the community and the production of research and survey results to measure the quality of the local environment.

TIDY Northern Ireland is a constantly evolving organisation looking for new oportunities were our expertise can make a difference to the quality of the local environment in Northern Ireland. There are various key factors to the continuing development of TIDY Northern Ireland’s activities. The growing momentum of the Sustainable Development Agenda, and its links to Local Environmental Quality and the Anti Social Behaviour Agenda, demonstrating the connection, impact and benefits of high quality local environments.

The vision for TIDY Northern Ireland is:

" To be the recognised leader in developing excellence in local environmental quality and stimulating a real sense of responsibility, thereby reducing anti social behaviour and encouraging a litter free sustainable Northern Ireland."

We aim to do this by:

 enabling others to improve, maintain and own their local environment;  encouraging the disposal of material, which could become litter, correctly;  deterring gum deposition;  deterring graffiti, fly posting, vandalism, dog fouling, anti-social behaviour and other activities that have a negative impact of the quality of our local environment;

As part of this work, we help local authorities and other agencies to deliver better local environmental services, which are tailored to meet the differing needs of the communities that they serve.

TIDY Northern Ireland is an environmental charity and not a private ‘with profits’ organisation. Much emphasis is given to our ethical approach, particularly working in partnership and collaboration, achieving success through prograssive human resource policies and our impact as an organisation on the environment.