Cleaner Safer Greener Conference 2009

Brighton16th March 2009

Phil BartonChief Executive

ENCAMS

A WARM WELCOME FROM ENCAMS…….

…. TO CSGN MEMBERS AND GUESTS

Tomorrow’s PlacesCreate, Maintain, Sustain

2008 – 2009: A BUSY YEAR FOR CSG NETWORK

• Your Annual Conference

• 9 Regional meetings

• 3 Super Regional meetings

• 9 Learning Academies

• 1 Study Tour

• 2 Advisory Group Meetings

• Training

• Advice service

You are Already Doing a Lot!

You participated in events and increased know-how through:• 3 Learning Academies on:

• Effective Contract Writing, • Voluntary Action in LEQ, • Get it Cleared Keep it Cleared

• Training courses attended by 325 of you • Over 200 legal queries through the ‘Ask the Wig’ service• Additions to the service including:

• Evidence gathering toolbox • Enforcement matrix• 37 new offence charts• New pictorial guides

You worked with us on…..

• Eco-Schools – over half the schools in England are taking part

• Fast Food Litter – brands named and shamed

• Big Tidy-up – over 12,000 groups involved and more than 23,000 bags of rubbish collected

• Media and publicity e.g. Panorama, Litterbugs report

• Research on Littering and Fly-tipping

• Local Environmental Skills

But External Challenges Abound

• End of PSA 8 – Cleaner, Safer, Greener

• Change from BVPI 199 to NI 195

• Media criticism – from sausage rolls to collection schedules!

• Financial stringencies driving improvement & efficiencies

• Comprehensive Area Assessment

• Skills shortfalls and lack of strategic connections

• Mixed messages from the public and changing social attitudes

In 2008 we Asked, and you Told Us, About ENCAMS……..

• ‘Back to basics’ approach welcomed

• Name/branding needs changing

• National campaigning and policy leadership

• Less jargon; better partnerships.

• Focus should be on behavioural change, especially through schools and communities

• Provide a tailored service to local authorities & sort out charging

… and About Cleaner Safer Greener Network

• Use and understanding of CSGN varies amongst members; the more you use it, the more you value it.• Some caution about ‘safe’ not being included.• Need more information/help to understand the structure of ENCAMS (who does what).• Lost the ‘personal touch’ with loss of regional structure. • Finances constrained; value for money is all important; specify the benefits.

And we’ve listened…

PUTTING ENCAMS AT THE LEADING EDGE

Passionate about Cleaner, Greener Places

Our vision is for cleaner, greener places respected and enjoyed by all

Our purpose: To inspire and equip everyone to work together for cleaner,

greener and more attractive places

Keep Britain Tidy

We Campaign: FOR better cared for and more attractive

places; AGAINST litter and neglect

We help: By providing knowledge, advice and support

We lead: By inspiring policy and practical action

Our objectives…

Supporting communities to take local action which lasts

Improving Building land management political and skills & standards public profile

Understanding Leading

how places work & can become through example, cleaner, safer and more creativity and excellence

sustainable

People & placesClean & greenSustainable

5-year Development Strategy

• Ambitions rather than targets/ objectives

• Set the direction for the organisation

• Stretching but potentially achievable

• Unifying focus for planning & delivery

Taken together they aim to put usat The Leading Edge

5-Year Development Strategy

1. Keep Britain Tidy ‘Manifesto’ for delivering cleaner, greener and more attractive places

2. 19,000 Eco-Schools and 8,000 Eco-School green flags in England

3. Launch one major new programme supporting community improvement of place

4. 90% of English local authorities actively participating in improvement networks

5. 30% of social housing land in England working with Keep Britain Tidy in managing their estate

5-Year Development Strategy

6. Green Flag Awards for Parks introduced and existing programmes reviewed to meet stakeholder needs

7. High profile ‘clean England’ campaign involving 20,000 local groups

8. Research centre established

9. Keep Britain Tidy a Leading Edge organisation through:• increased stakeholder satisfaction, • Well equipped and valued staff • demonstrating quality in all we do

10.Utilise Defra grant to lever other Government resources

Looking to the Future

SO WHAT WILL CHANGE?

Branding

From May 2009 we will no longer be known as ‘ENCAMS’ but will start a

new era under the name

‘Keep Britain Tidy’

New Website

State of the Nation

• Evidenced

• Progressive

• Achievable

• Aspirational

• Manifesto process starting with this conference

• Publication in early 2010

Keep Britain Tidy

• Green Flag Awards for Parks- With GreenSpace & BTCV - Revised for 2010

• Review of our relationships with local and regional government is underway

• Appointment of Keep Britain Tidy Ambassadors

• The Big Tidy Up promoted this month and September

• Vehicle Litter Campaign – Summer 2009

• New Keep Britain Tidy Research Centre- Launched Autumn 2009

A Warm Welcome To Your 2009 Conference

• Presentations• Workshops & Site visits• Awards • Celebration Dinner• Consultation session & Defra surgery• Defra Minister, Lord Hunt• Information/new reports• Demonstrations• Exhibitors – Durham Hall