TIDY Northern Ireland is an environmental charity dedicated to making Northern Ireland a cleaner and more pleasant place in which to live. TIDY NI is a constantly evolving organisation looking for new opportunities where our expertise can make a difference to the quality of the local environment and restore PRIDE in Northern Ireland. There are various key factors to the continuing development of TIDY NI’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.

TIDY Northern Ireland run a number of campaigns including Don’t Rubbish NI, Big Spring Clean and the Clean Coast Campaign which engage local community into taking responsibility for their local area. We also manage a number of local environmental quality programmes such as the international Blue Flag Award, Eco Schools, Borough Cleanliness Survey, TIDY Communities and TIDY Business.

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.

What we do
We produce information on the cleanliness of our province that is used to direct resources to tackle the most prominent environmental quality issues. TIDY NI 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.
TIDY Northern Ireland run a number of campaigns including Don’t Rubbish NI, Big Spring Clean and the Clean Coast Campaign which engage local community into taking responsibility for their local area. We also manage a number of local environmental quality programmes such as the international Blue Flag Award, Eco Schools, Borough Cleanliness Survey, TIDY Communities and TIDY Business.
One of TIDY NI’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 NI 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.

How You Can Get Involved:
If you are interested in any of the campaigns or Programmes that TIDY Northern Ireland offer you can contact us via e–mail:
Beaches/Anti–littering: patricia.magee@tidynorthernireland.org
Eco–Schools: carmel.fyfe@eco-schoolsni.org
Local Environmental Quality: chris.allen@tidynorthetnireland.org
Or call us on 028 9073 6920