About Us

We Believe...


We are stronger together, because people need community!
Little litter Warrior’s mission is to educate, encourage and enrich children’s learning, preparing them for a lifetime of caring in their communities’ environment.

Karen Blanchfield, a litterheroes Ambassador for Keep Britain Tidy, 2022 BBCHW Make A difference environmental award finalist and a community scout leader teaching #skill4life based in Stourport on Severn, Worcestershire.


I am passionate about the area I live in and about keeping it litter free. I believe that we need to educate our children not to throw litter and to understand what litter is doing to our planet. After litter picking with local groups for the last few years I set up Little Litter Warriors. I have been a scout leader for 10 years, a community litter picker since April 2018 and a #Litterheroes Ambassador for Keep Britain Tidy. I have delivered this educational program through schools and community groups for the last three years engaging over 18,000 children.


After being approached by Wychavon District Council in 2020, who offered to fully fund a programme for Wychavon schools, I designed the Little Litter Warriors program. This hands on approach highlights community litter pollution through a fun and engaging litter pick and classroom PowerPoint lesson.

Little litter warriors will be offering this program to all Wychavon school for KS1, KS2 KS3 & KS4 from September 2021 until July 2026 as part of their Anti-Litter Campaign. Since the program has launched 40 Wychavon schools have engaged and over 9000 pupils have been inspired to take individual responsibility for their own litter choices.

KS5 are being funded for the litter workshop activity around the community areas.

A powerful community network 

 Little litter warriors workshops inspire the children to litter pick their community areas. 
To support the future health of our planet.

Everyday support
for education

Little Litter Warriors educational workshops offer children the chance to go out litter picking building awareness of why our litter decisions are important to the environment, wildlife, waterways and our planet.

Working together is key to change behaviours

Any Litter picker will tell you that they remove the litter on the road the one day and the next day more litter appears. Litter education is key to change behaviours around individuals litter management.

 30,000,000

tonnes of litter are collected from our streets every year in the UK

99%

of streets in town centres across the UK have cigarette litter

£1 Billion

Litter costs more than £1 billion a year in clean up bills nationally

62%

of people in England drop litter – but only 28% will admit to it

Mrs Williams, Cleeve Prior CE primary school
"On Tuesday 16th March, we were joined by the Little Litter Warriors whose mission is to raise awareness of the problem of littering in the Wychavon area and to encourage children to take responsibility for their rubbish and also take pride in their environment. The children worked really hard all afternoon collecting litter and it was astonishing, and disappointing, how much litter had ended up on the field"
"Karen from Little Litter Warriors came in on Monday and talked to the whole school about litter, how it doesn't biodegrade quickly, how it affects animals and what the children can do about it. The children collected litter around the school grounds and also Year 3/4 walked to the park and collected litter there and on the footpaths on the way. We collected over 2 bags of rubbish and
the oldest piece of litter was 9 years old!"
Mrs Hadsworth, Upton Snodsbury primary school
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