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What are Junior Street Champions?

Junior Street Champions are young people who want to help look after their street or their local area.

Update- 3rd May

I am proud to report we now have 118 Junior Street Champions signed up- they have already reported many issues they have seen in their local street/area for fixing and 56 Champions have requested equipment to help them tidy their street.

See below for the latest Junior Street Champion newsletter.

What do they do?

As a Junior Street Champions you can;

Clean up litter...

Champions can get a pair of litter picker, gloves, a handihoop and bin bags that fit onto the hoop to clear up litter from your street or local area.

Clean up graffiti...

Champions can get a pack of graffiti wipes and gloves to clean up graffiti from street signs and other street furniture.

Report environmental issues in your street...

Complete a street audit of your area and note down any broken/damaged areas like street lights, street signs, potholes etc then send to the Council so they can be repaired.

What do you get as a Junior Street Champion?

All Junior Street Champions get a free high visibility vest, cap and bag as part of their starter pack. Champions can earn pin badges to attach to your cap, your vest or even your bag.

Some of the equipment a Junior Street Champion can request;

Other fun events Junior Street Champions you attend

Junior Street Champions will be invited to take part in lots of other fun volunteer events such as rivercare, wildlife watch, daffodil bulb planting, tree planting and also the annual Junior Street Champion fun day which took place for the first time this year on the 12th April- a report on the fun day will appear here soon!

Junior Street Champion mini newsletters

Junior Champions have their own dedicated newsletter which is sent out every quarter.

Past issues;

Winter/Spring 2013 issue

Summer 2012 issue

Important information for Parents/Guardians

Junior Street Champions is the junior version of the adult Street Champion scheme. We would encourage parents to sign up to the adult scheme at the same time. Children must be accompanied and supervised whilst undertaking all activities such as street audits, picking up litter and cleaning graffiti. Junior Street Champions will be encouraged to attend other volunteer events and unless stated these will also require parental supervision. Parental guidance sheets will be issued with all Junior Champion packs.

PLEASE NOTE: Children have to be 5 years old or over and reside in Bedford Borough to join the scheme.

Download Section

Junior Street Champion Leaflet

Junior Street Champion folder

Street Audit form

Report form

Equipment Request Form

Bin log form- to keep a log of bags of litter collected for the litter bag badges

Sunflower Growing Competition 2013

We have free packs of sunflower seeds available to Junior Street champions to plant in their gardens. Packs were available at the Seed Sharing Saturday event in March and everyone that attended the fun day in April got a pack in their goodie bag. We still have packs available please contact us to request.

Send us photos of your sunflowers and the best will be used in the next junior street champion newsletter and the tallest will win a special prize.

Litter art competition 2012

Over the school summer holidays we held an art competition for Junior Street Champions in which they had to design a piece of artwork that reflects the piece of litter they see the most. The winning entries were Edward Reed and Ned Liley who created two lovely pieces of artwork based on a drinks can and a cigarette. They won a bag stuffed full of goodies and their artwork formed part of the Pride in Bedford display in Bedford Central library at the end of September.

Now for the fun stuff.....

Flynn himself