TIDY Northern Ireland has been providing structured and bespoke training courses for over 4 years. Our experience in tackling the issues relating to Local Environmental Quality make us trainers who can address the very latest issues, and provide you and your staff the best training courses delivered by our experienced team.

Legal Seminar - Fixed Penalty Notices

This seminar covers all aspects of issuing Fixed Penalty Notices, following the high levels of interest generated at the recent TIDY Northern Ireland Litter Summit. The seminar leader was the legal speaker at the Summit, David Armstrong of Mallard Consultancy Ltd, who is acknowledged as a leading national authority on measures and tactics to combat environmental crime and nuisance, and is the resident 'wig' for the Keep Britain Tidy Cleaner, Safer, Greener Network. David also personally authored Defra's guides to cleansing enforcement and street litter control notices.

A course outline is available for download at the bottom of this page.

The Fixed Penalty Notices seminar has now been offered twice owing to high demand. Similar seminars on related topics are envisaged for the future.

Eco-Schools Assessor Training

1 March 2010

TIDY NI holds one-day training sessions for anyone interested in becoming a volunteer Eco-Schools Green Flag Assessor. The training covers all aspects of the Eco-Schools programme and equips participants with the knowledge and skills to assess schools against the criteria set down for the international Green Flag standard. The day also includes a mock assessment of a local school. A course outline is available at the bottom of this page.

Training For Surveying

TIDY Northern Ireland offers training courses to help you assess both how effective your cleansing standards are, as well as ones that concentrate on identifying the littering habits of residents of your borough.

Grading Training (For Supervisors and Cleansing Operatives)

A popular training course, which can be adapted for various grades/scales, helps you to meet required cleansing standards as stipulated in the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 and its associated Code of Practice on Litter. This short course teaches cleansing operatives about the different cleansing grades and how to identify them. This course can also be adapted for supervisors to help them monitor and guide cleansing operatives in maintaining a clean, safe and pleasant environment.

TIDY Campaigns

TIDY Northern Ireland runs courses that help you develop and run campaigns to reduce the impacts of littering. This course includes information on market research, identifying the audience, the important of behavioural changing advertising, as well as how to monitor and evaluate the success of your campaign. This course can be used in conjunction with pre-existing TIDY Northern Ireland campaigns that you may wish to replicate in your area.

TIDY Business

This course consists of training assessors as part of the TIDY Business Standards Scheme. Candidates are trained how to audit businesses using a pre-determined list of criteria concerning both legislation and enhanced townscape features.

TIDY Communities

This is a community empowerment-training course. Training is given to Action Teams from communities to teach them how to assess their own environment and identify existing problems. It teaches them how to use this information to develop action plans and monitor their implementation. The outcome of this training leads to residents taking more responsibility for their communities as well as improvements to local environmental quality.