The Davina Awards
CleanupUK proudly presents the 2025 Davina Awards, in memory of our friend and supporter, Davina Hodson.
We are delighted to announce the second year of the Davina Awards for 2025.
Davina Hodson was a long-standing supporter of and a friend to CleanupUK. She was kind, considerate, fun to be around and a very practical lady. Davina considered herself very lucky with what she had in life and wanted to share this with charities.
Davina was very charitable and preferred to give money to causes she was interested in rather than spending money on herself. Davina left a legacy gift to seven charities, of which CleanupUK was lucky enough to be one.
Her bequest has been transformational for our charity and so we wanted to recognise Davina’s contribution by launching these awards in her honour.
Davina had a wicked sense of humour, loved life and made the most of it. She would have been utterly charmed and immensely tickled by these awards in her name.
Award Categories
We will be awarding £125 each to 4 x litter- picking groups or hubs who we feel have made the biggest impact and had the most fun, cleaning up their environment together with their local communities.
Most Engaging Community Cleanup Hub
This will be awarded to the Cleanup Hub in our network, which has successfully engaged the greatest number of local people in litter picking activities, this year.
Most FUN Themed Litter Picking Event
This award is all about having fun! Here at CleanupUK, we firmly believe that litter picking should be an enjoyable activity. Nominate either a hub or a group you feel has put on the best themed event – think; Halloween fancy dress litter picks with pumpkin spiced lattes, Christmas Jumper litter picks with mince pies or maybe a Valentine’s Day event for single litter pickers?!
Whatever the theme, we’ll need to see photographic evidence and hear why the pick was so much fun!
Best Transformation of a Public Space
To go to the group who, through cleaning up their local area, have made the most effective change of use to that area – e.g. cleaning up a “grot spot” and turning it into a community veg garden.
We will need your nominations for this one with photo evidence of before and after required.
Young Litter Picker (Under 16)
We want to celebrate the next generation of community leaders. This award is for young environmental champions, under the age of 16 who have made the most outstanding contribution to cleaning up their local area through litter picking and any other environmental activities.
Tell us all about them, send in photos of their efforts and tell us why you think they deserve to win!
The deadline for nominations is 14th November
We’re looking for your nominations! If you think you know of anyone who deserves recognition in one of the categories above, please submit your nomination by 14th November 2025.
How to enter
All nominations should be entered through the link below
Please also include:
- Your name, age, and location
- The category you are entering
- Photographic evidence to support your submission
If there’s a story behind your nomination, we’d love to hear it — please include it in your email.
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