TFT Community Hubs
Local people, local passion,
local trails.
TFT Community Hubs enable everyone, everywhere to step into the TFT HQ. They're Trash Free Trails on your doorstep, in your towns, and on your local trails.
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Representing community establishments - everything from bike shops to cafes, pubs to community centres - Community Hubs bring our mission to their local area.​
What do Community Hubs do?
Community Hubs offer a place for members of their community to go to, share time on the trails and think of new ways of protecting the places they love and above all, hang out.
They organise regular trail clean events throughout the year, and get to attend some of the key events in the Trash Free Trails calendar. As part of the events they host, Community Hubs and those that visit them contribute vital data to the State of Our Trails Report.
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They are the physical embodiment of TFT, and we wouldn't be able to reach as far and wide without them. Why not pay your local a visit?
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Find Your Local Community Hub!
Click on the pin to see what's happening in your area!
The beauty of our Community Hub Programme is that it can be customised to each location, user group, or environment. To see this in action, check out some of the local Community Hub Heroes below!
No Community Hub near you? Then you could become one! It's completely free to join an international ecosystem of inspiring members who are helping their communities reconnect with nature and protect their trails for the future.
Join Our Vision!
Our vision of a trash free future isn't about making TFT HQ bigger. It's about contributing to build an ecosystem of passionate communities across the world who are taking collective action.
This is why we are continuing to invest in local trail community leaders who have the knowledge and passion to protect their wild places. By supporting Community Hubs directly we aim to help communities all over the world increase their connection to nature as we move toward a future where we no longer encounter single-use pollution when we ride, run or roam.
Becoming a Community Hub: How it Works
Get in touch!
Reach out to Leigh on leigh@trashfreetrails.org to arrange an initial meeting.​
Receive Kit
Get your hands stuck into all of our physical and digital resources available
Host a Clean
What better way to start engaging your community than with your first trail clean!
Amplify & Connect
Share stories around the whole TFT ecosystem
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​Physical branded kit and trail clean equipment
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Digital kit of resources to share and promote your news
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Promotion of your events through Trash Free Trails channels
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Invitations to TFT events across the year
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The support of the Programme Coordinator and local A-TEAM ambassadors to help you with your activations
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An opportunity to create a unique community​
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Become a valued contributor to not one, but two, world first research projects.
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Hard to Reach or Hardly Reached?
We believe that the terminology “Hard To Reach” has somehow placed the impetus upon the very people in that bracket. Somehow, it’s the fact that they are apparently Hard To Reach that has stopped the outdoor community being able to reach them. Hard To Reach implies that there is something that these communities have done or not done. That simply cannot be the case!
What is the case, is that these communities are drastically underserved by society as a whole. They are underfunded, not listened to and ignored. Does that make them hard to reach? We don’t think so.
These communities are not hard to reach. They are Hardly Reached.
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What are we doing?
We are putting our money where our mouth is and working with our Community Hubs to go to people in their places and listen to them. To learn more about what will support them to experience the outdoors in a safe and welcoming way.
Our Community Hub leaders are paving the way for this. Every community is different and has different needs and desires. Instead of creating a blanket programme, we’re providing our Community Hubs with the resources to meet members of their community who are hardly reached in a way that works for them.
To help us enable more people to access adventure and experience all our wild places have to offer, check our Purposeful Adventure Fund!​
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For any questions, email our Community Hub Coordinatior Leigh on leigh@trashfreetrails.org
