Trash Free Trails exists to protect recreational trails and the wild places they take us to. We do this by reconnecting people with nature through the simple yet meaningful act of removing, recording and reporting single-use pollution (SUP, aka litter). Our community includes people who ride, run and roam on recreational trails and green space - volunteers and local groups caring for these spaces, young people and communities experiencing barriers to access, and the wider public benefitting from cleaner, healthier and better cared for green spaces. We report our activities and impact against 6 outcome statements within our Theory of Change. They help us look beyond immediate outputs and understand the benefits created for people, communities and places. Across all six outcomes, 2025 demonstrated that TFT can create meaningful environmental and social benefits for our community. It also reinforced that removing single-use pollution is only one part of the picture. Lasting change requires local leadership, evidence, inclusive participation, sustained relationships and greater responsibility from the organisations and systems that produce and manage single-use products. Connected communities - We have fostered an independently active community, who care passionately about their trails and feel equipped to take action to enhance them. During 2025, our network including 82 Community Hubs and 41 volunteer ambassadors, known as the A-TEAM. These volunteers and local organisations provide a visible point of connection between TFT and the communities we work with. We provided this network with training, resources, equipment and direct support. This included 3 online training sessions, an in-person A-TEAM development weekend and opportunities to participate in 14 Trash Free Races, 15 education activations, 12 citizen science project delivery and trail cleans. 50 local activities were delivered by Community Hubs and A-TEAM independently of TFT HQ Staff, demonstrating that volunteers have more confidence, knowledge and tools than ever to take action themselves, in their own communities. Not every part of the network was equally active. A relatively small number of highly engaged volunteers and Community Hubs continued to account for a substantial proportion of reported activity. We also know that some locally delivered actions were not reported to TFT, meaning that our recorded figures do not represent the full contribution of the community. Improving communication, onboarding, local support and data reporting remains a priority. Healthy trails - We have protected and restored trail ecosystems, through the removal of single-use pollution, and the reduction of ‘littering’ behaviour. In 2025, 6 TFT staff, 2403 volunteers and around 20 partners removed and recorded 225,155 items of SUP from 7943 km of recreational trails, with 3,303 volunteer hours donated. As part of the Trash Free Races programme, we worked with 18 outdoor events. These activities removed 20579 items whilst engaging organisers, athletes, teams, spectators and commercial partners in preventing SUP escaping whilst caring for host locations. This included working with AON Racing as the first Trash Free Race Team on the mtb downhill circuit. Together, we demonstrated that it is possible for event stakeholders to consider environmental action and awareness in a demanding schedule, using the teams profile to encourage athletes, teams, spectators and other event stakeholders to get involved. We cannot claim that every trail remained trash free following an activity. Many locations were visited only once and continued to be affected by pollution after the intervention. Our evidence is strongest in demonstrating the immediate improvement made and the development of local stewardship. More repeat monitoring is needed to establish sustained reductions at individual sites. Happy trail users - We have improved the overall wellbeing of participants through improvements in nature connection, physical fitness and social responsibility. 77% participants report feeling more connected to nature after taking part in trail cleans. In 2025, 2403 people participated in 913 activities, therefore having the opportunity to experience the physical, social and emotional benefits correlated with our work. We have a wealth of case studies demonstrating feelings of pride, belonging, achievement and connection following participation and involvement in trail cleans. These benefits are often more visible where people return to monitor the same place, take responsibility to organise future activities or form new relationships with fellow trail users as a result of involvement with TFT. During 2025, we began Roots to (Re)Connection, a research programme with Edinburgh Napier University supported through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership and Innovate UK. The programme will build a stronger evidence base around the nature connection and wellbeing benefits of Trail Cleaning, directly informing how TFT can enhance our offer to increase those benefits. This was an important development because our existing wellbeing evidence is self-reported and not consistently collected from every participant - participation numbers alone do not prove an improvement in wellbeing. The new research programme should allow us to assess change more consistently, understand which elements of our approach are most effective and identify where participants experience fewer benefits than originally intended. Citizen science powered - We have an academically robust citizen science SUP monitoring programme that harmonises with aquatic programmes and contributes to an increased global understanding of the causes, impacts and potential solutions to single-use pollution. In 2025, volunteers submitted 913 data sets. These submissions directly enable our team to consider, analyse and report on information that would simply not exist without the Citizen Scientists doing the work. We then use that information, whilst collaborating with peer organisations, to inform future project delivery and conversations with important stakeholders. Our 2025 State of Our Trails Report work examined SUP through the lens of developing Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility legislation. We used Citizen Science data to estimate the prevalence and environmental, social and organisational cost of eligible packaging on recreational trails. This evidence was shared with peer organisations, government bodies and packaging producers to argue that trails, land managers and volunteer groups should not be excluded from the allocation of producer-responsibility funding. By recording and reporting SUP & wellbeing data, Citizen Scientists can see, sometimes in real time, how their small, local action can contribute to a wider body of evidence with potential national impact. It gives their donation of time, talent and passion greater meaning; allowing their observations to inform national and global conversations about SUP, nature connection and wellbeing. Our dataset, nevertheless, has limitations. Reporting is voluntary and often inconsistent, geographical coverage is uneven and many trail cleans take place without data being submitted. The information cannot, therefore, be treated as complete or a statistically representative measure of every recreational trail in the UK. Improving sampling, reporting rates, data quality and integration with related environmental datasets remains an important area of work. Equitable collaboration - We have contributed significantly to changes to practices and culture that will reduce single-use pollution, increase nature connection and promote the value of our trails and wild places. In 2025, we worked with academic institutions, peer environmental organisations, schools, land managers, event organisers, community groups, athletes and commercial partners. These collaborations provided access to expertise, funding, venues, audiences and relationships that TFT could not have developed alone. These relationships helped take Citizen Scientist data, and the resulting evidence into spaces where decisions are made, while bringing resources back to the communities generating that evidence. Collaboration is not always straightforward. Different organisations operated to different timescales and levels of capacity, and not every potential partner was able to contribute as originally hoped. We also remained reliant on restricted project funding and commercial support to deliver some areas of work, limiting how quickly successful approaches could be expanded. Everyone is welcom(ed) - We have created a community that welcomes everyone, by delivering accessible activations with marginalised communities in the UK, contributing to an increase in the diversity of trail users. Access to outdoor spaces can be restricted by cost, transport, equipment, confidence, representation, previous experiences and whether an invitation comes from somebody who is known and trusted. During 2025, we continued to deliver the TrashMob Academy with schools, alternative education providers and outdoor delivery partners. Approximately 400 young people across 20 schools or settings took part in activities combining environmental education, physical activity, nature connection and practical stewardship. We also supported approximately 7 activities or projects through the Purposeful Adventure Fund and Community Hub delivery. These activities enabled locals to work with people who we describe as Hardly Reached: not because those communities are inherently difficult to engage, but because the outdoor and environmental sectors have historically invested too little in reaching, representing and sustaining relationships with them. Our work showed that locally led and flexible delivery was more effective than a single national model. Community organisations were able to adapt the language, activity and pace of delivery to the needs of their participants, while TFT provided resources, training and financial or practical support. Some programmes experienced inconsistent attendance, and not every participant completed the full sequence of activities. Transport, staffing, equipment and the time required to build trust made this work more resource-intensive than standard public events. As our demographic data capture grows, we will develop a better picture of the change achieved here. Targeting those otherwise underserved by the outdoor industry remains a key focus of work.

Community Hub / Permanent (A-TEAM) / regular volunteers Our community is structured so that our most important stakeholders - our volunteers - have the most opportunity for feedback, and whose feedback is taken into account at the highest level of importance. Both Community Hub volunteers and A-TEAMers are directly representative of their trail communities and the regular volunteers within. We consult with our A-TEAM at least weekly, and Community Hub network monthly to consider their needs and how they might be able to enhance the benefits available to them. We then constantly envelop that feedback into the project delivery of the moment. Corporate Partners Depending on the level of their support, partners are consulted on TFT’s activations at regular 3 or 6 monthly intervals. Usually, the majority of partners are happy to support our work whatever it looks like, and we provide them with bespoke impact reports on request. Occasionally, these consultations require more direction, and in these cases bespoke projects are developed with the partners aims and objectives at the forefront of planning and delivery. Towards the end of the year, we will conduct further consultation with all partners to ensure alignment to their aims and objectives for the year ahead, and create projects and programmes that meet the needs of all stakeholders. Grant Funders Grant funders are consulted at the point of application, with some requiring interim reports and all requiring a final report. Usually there is no further need for consultation, except in situations where the original application needs to change. In these situations an alteration request is submitted via a formal channel, and has always been approved in our case. All funders tend to be understanding of the changing landscape, and happy to accommodate requests. Research Partners We currently work with 2 Universities on specific projects. The nature of these is that the University Supervisor works very closely with the TFT employee, so they are constantly consulted about the nature of the project and work, with any feedback being acted on immediately due to the constant nature of the interaction. Steering Group Members As the steering group remained dormant, we overhauled the system behind its development, recruitment and involvement. We recruited new members to the group from a diverse and varied range of backgrounds and expertise, targeting recruitment towards known gaps in the organisations governance. At the end of 2025, this new group met with a renewed structure, vision and direction. We ask for the groups advice on a topic - they are presented with 3 options and we ask for feedback on how to proceed on a specific topic. For 2026, this process is formalised and operating smoothly. Landowners / Managers Landowners are vital in the delivery of our work. Without their consent and buy in, it would be very difficult to achieve our mission! We are lucky in that we have excellent relationships with the largest landowners in the UK - Forestry England and Natural Resources Wales. With these large landowners, we are able to consult with them in a broad, mission focused nature that they are usually co operative with. In situations where they are not, we simply have to adapt our projects in a way that works for them and us. There are of course smaller landowners that we need to consult on project delivery. This is usually through a direct request for permission that we need to adhere to. Permission is either granted or it is not, so they often dictate the nature to which projects are delivered.

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