Registrations are open! Clean Up Barbados is on Saturday, June 7, 2025 and we invite Group Leaders and individuals to register now! Only the leader of the group needs to register once for the whole group and start scouting for a suitable location to cleanup. Individuals can also register, and we will help you to find a location where you can join a group. 

Clean Up Barbados is an annual, island-wide event that is volunteer-driven and keeps Barbados beautiful while highlighting the harmful impacts that littering and illegal dumping have on Barbados’ ecosystems and residents’ wellbeing. Volunteering has many known benefits and leading a group to participate in Clean Up Barbados is an especially good opportunity for anyone who wants to practice their leadership skills by forming a group to be a part.  The event’s success – as always – depends on people like you, to bring yourselves and your groups to #PickUpDeTing! 

Since 2009, 733 volunteers have removed 241 tons of rubbish from Barbados’ beautiful landscapes. That’s a lot. And the bulk of this rubbish has been removed from illegal dumping in our gullies, which are watercourses that lead to where our drinking water is sourced. We also take each opportunity to educate the public about the need to work on reducing their waste and managing responsibly the waste they do produce.

The Future Centre Trust is again partnering with Nation Publishing’s Green Team to collaborate on delivering Clean Up Barbados 2025. Look for our co-branding on publications and notices! 

Please register with Clean Up Barbados today to receive a ‘welcome’ email with information to help you to get ready. We cannot do this without you!

You can support Clean Up Barbados in many ways:

• Sponsorship donations provide funds for marketing of the event and its message to the public through multiple channels, and for any resources beyond those supplied through donations which are necessary to achieve the cleanup,
• Donations in kind of materials and loan of tools and equipment provide essential resources used by volunteers in the cleanup effort,
• Donations of prizes that are awarded to individuals and teams in several categories based on the actual cleanup results achieved,
• Organize your own team and register as a school, church, company, or community group to join the clean up, and (optionally) purchase event t-shirts for your team.

Clean Up Barbados is a volunteer opportunity which can provide great satisfaction to yourself and your team. Volunteering is known to be a good way to improve social ties, positively engage with others and be active within the community, gain experience with new challenges, raise awareness of social and environmental issues, interact with different cultures, contribute to social change, as well as to develop professional networks. We are all ready to get out and do something positive!

Clean Up Barbados operates primarily through the efforts of Group Leaders, who each lead a group of volunteers from their church, community, company, industry, or social group. We work with Group Leaders to identify a location suitable to your group and provision you with bags and gloves. Select your own clean up location or join with other groups to clean inland sites where we find the most rubbish. Win one of our competitions, where prizes are given for biggest group, biggest cleanup, youngest and oldest participants and we even have surprise prize categories!