PEOPLE across the country are preparing to work together to clean up the nation.

The Great British Spring Clean, a national campaign organised by charity group Keep Britain Tidy, starts tomorrow.

Following this, a series of related events will be held in Brighton and Hove, lasting until April 22.

Volunteers from Brighton and Hove City Council’s Tidy Up Team and members of other organisations are teaming up with the council’s park rangers to take part in the events.

Councillor Gill Mitchell, chairwoman of the council’s environment committee said: “It’s great to see communities coming together to help organise a packed programme of Great British Spring Clean events to help us tidy up our city.”

The first Keep Britain Tidy event will be held in New Road tomorrow.

Then, on Saturday, a second event will take place in Surrenden Field.

On Sunday a spring clean will be hosted in Whitehawk Hill and on Tuesday there will be a tidying event at the Ladies Mile Nature Reserve.

The Great British Spring Clean will also teach people how to reduce their waste.

On Wednesday visitors to Brighton’s Withdean Park can learn how to make a dog poo bag dispenser for their nearest park.

A series of clean-ups will then be held in Coney Wood, Patcham, on Thursday, Hodshrove Woods in Moulsecoomb and the Three Cornered Copse off Dyke Road Avenue, Hove, on Saturday, March 30, and Bevendean – in an event called Bevenclean II – on Sunday, March 31.

The cleaning events continue into April with an event at the Racehill, Brighton, on the first of the month.

After this, there are tidy-ups in Benfield Hill, Portslade, on April 2, Blakers Park, Fiveways, Brighton, on April 3, Stanmer Park on April 4, Craven Woods, East Brighton, on April 5, Falmer Pond on April 8 and Saltdean Oval on April 9.

The next day, an event will be held at the Falmer multi-use Track, followed by cleans at Horsdean Recreation Ground in Patcham on April 14, Coldean Woods on April 15 and a second Whitehawk Hill event on April 20.

To round off the month-long programme of events, there will be two special classes on the final two days of the campaign.

An Easter egg hunt and rock painting workshop will be held at Preston Park, Brighton, on April 21. Then, on April 22, there will be a demonstration by an “ecobrick” maker at Old Steine in the city.

Ecobricks are reusable building blocks created by packing clean and dry used plastics into plastic bottles to make them more dense. This demonstration will show people how to create their own effective bricks.