Get involved in Council initiatives

This April, take part in the big Spring Clean

Each year in the first week of April, Waltham Forest residents team up for Spring Clean events across the borough. Resident groups are encouraged to organise outdoor cleaning events where it’s most needed in their local area. We provide litter pickers and litter bags, which once filled, can be picked up by the Council's street cleaning provider. If you, your friends and family are keen to get involved, details will be added here soon.


Help us to create bee friendly streets

We are looking for residents who want to get together with their neighbours and make their street bee friendly. This means creating a space where bees and other pollinators can flourish, through hand-weeding to reduce the use of weed killer, and planting pollinator-friendly plants. Read about a group of neighbours in Leytonstone making their street more bee friendly here, and find out how to sign up here.


Flowering plants and pesticide-free weeding can help streets to become more bee-friendly (Source: LBWF)

Adopt a flowerbed this summer

Would you and your neighbours like to take care of a flowerbed near you? If so, find information here about how you can adopt a flowerbed on your street or road. Applications should be submitted during the summer months for consideration and approval so that planting can be planned during autumn.


Join the Waltham Forest Biodiversity Action Team

Join our passionate Biodiversity Action Team and help wildlife in our parks, woodlands, and open spaces. This welcoming group helps to maintain ponds and streams, manage woodlands and wildflower areas, plant trees or hedges and more. The regular group task days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Enjoy time outdoors, improve your health and wellbeing, gain skills and knowledge, help nature and meet like-minded people.


Waltham Forest's Biodiversity Action Team (Source: LBWF)


Help to maintain your local parks

Find information here about volunteering in Waltham Forest parks, including Ridgeway Park in Chingford, Lloyd Park in Walthamstow and Leyton Jubilee Park. You can also find a list of community-led green groups across the borough here.


Plant your own trees with the annual Great Tree Giveaway

Each year we host the Waltham Forest Great Tree Giveaway, and this February we gave away over 5,000 young trees to be planted in gardens, helping to brighten the borough and support local biodiversity. The Great Tree Giveaway will be back in January 2027.


Some of the young trees, known as whips, given away this year (Source: LBWF)


This April, take part in the big Spring Clean

Each year in the first week of April, Waltham Forest residents team up for Spring Clean events across the borough. Resident groups are encouraged to organise outdoor cleaning events where it’s most needed in their local area. We provide litter pickers and litter bags, which once filled, can be picked up by the Council's street cleaning provider. If you, your friends and family are keen to get involved, details will be added here soon.


Help us to create bee friendly streets

We are looking for residents who want to get together with their neighbours and make their street bee friendly. This means creating a space where bees and other pollinators can flourish, through hand-weeding to reduce the use of weed killer, and planting pollinator-friendly plants. Read about a group of neighbours in Leytonstone making their street more bee friendly here, and find out how to sign up here.


Flowering plants and pesticide-free weeding can help streets to become more bee-friendly (Source: LBWF)

Adopt a flowerbed this summer

Would you and your neighbours like to take care of a flowerbed near you? If so, find information here about how you can adopt a flowerbed on your street or road. Applications should be submitted during the summer months for consideration and approval so that planting can be planned during autumn.


Join the Waltham Forest Biodiversity Action Team

Join our passionate Biodiversity Action Team and help wildlife in our parks, woodlands, and open spaces. This welcoming group helps to maintain ponds and streams, manage woodlands and wildflower areas, plant trees or hedges and more. The regular group task days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Enjoy time outdoors, improve your health and wellbeing, gain skills and knowledge, help nature and meet like-minded people.


Waltham Forest's Biodiversity Action Team (Source: LBWF)


Help to maintain your local parks

Find information here about volunteering in Waltham Forest parks, including Ridgeway Park in Chingford, Lloyd Park in Walthamstow and Leyton Jubilee Park. You can also find a list of community-led green groups across the borough here.


Plant your own trees with the annual Great Tree Giveaway

Each year we host the Waltham Forest Great Tree Giveaway, and this February we gave away over 5,000 young trees to be planted in gardens, helping to brighten the borough and support local biodiversity. The Great Tree Giveaway will be back in January 2027.


Some of the young trees, known as whips, given away this year (Source: LBWF)