IF you want to show how much you love your town, you will want to help keep it clean.

And that is exactly what a dedicated Love Barrow group are planning.

The recently launched Love Barrow Town Centre group will be swarming the streets next Friday as they undertake a Big Clean in the town centre starting at 1pm.

Love Barrow Town Centre is a collective initiated by Barrow Bid, Barrow Borough Council, Cumbria County Council, John Woodcock MP and The Mail, with its core aim being to restore pride in the town centre.

To kickstart the campaign, the LBTC group is undertaking a Big Clean and each of the five signatories to the campaign will be out in Dalton Road and the surrounding streets.

It is also hoped that many of the businesses in the town centre will join in, collecting rubbish and generally cleaning up the areas outside their premises.

Love Barrow Town Centre was keen to stress that the campaign is not there to replace the core services of either Barrow Borough Council or Cumbria County Council.

Bid manager Phil Collier said: "We ourselves as a supplement to these. However, as a ‘starter for 10’, it was felt by everyone around the table that an initial clean-up would be good to bring us to where we should be and to encourage all town centre businesses to get involved."

All five of the parties to the campaign have signed a pledge to:

 Ensure that they fulfil their respective responsibilities;

 Draw the attention of stakeholders, businesses and members of the public alike to collectively address issues within the town centre;

 Positively promote the town centre at every opportunity;

 Collaborate to achieve the key objective of winning the Great British High Streets competition within the next three years.

Mr Collier added: "Barrow is a town with a great sense of pride and community spirit – events like the Love Barrow Awards demonstrates that in spades – so LBTC is all about ensuring that the same pride and community spirit is focused on the town centre itself.

"After all, if the five partners to LBTC are fulfilling their collective responsibilities, we need every business and every individual to do the same."

Any business that would like to get involved in the Big Clean on Friday September 22 should contact Mr Collier at manager@barrowbid.co.uk