The Evening Mail's hugely successful and much-loved community project, The Big Clean 2016, moved into its final month as the campaign sponsors teamed up with primary school pupils.
Volunteers from Kimberly-Clark's Barrow factory teamed up with Year Five pupils from Yarlside Academy and helped them to clean up their community.
Natalie Teasdale, head of community engagement at Kimberly-Clark, organised the joint clean-up on Tuesday October 3.
Mrs Teasdale had also organised a previous event for the Big Clean in the spring with Ormsgill School, as she was so keen to get herself and her colleagues active in the community.
She said: "The children at Yarlside decided they wanted to clean up an area of fields behind the school called "the muddies".
"We have worked with the school before and we really like cleaning up that area. We always bring back stacks of rubbish."
The volunteers gathered at the school at 10.30am and Year Five seemed quite happy that they would be substituting double maths for a community clean-up. There was much excitement as the children were organised into groups.
Their teacher Jill Reid announced that there would be a competition to see which team could collect the most rubbish and off they all went with their Kimberly-Clark team leaders.
There were shouts of "We are doing a good deed!" and "We've found some hidden treasure!" from the children as they combed the undergrowth for discarded litter.
A spokeswoman for the school said: "It's amazing how much enjoyment the children get out of doing something for the community. Getting out in groups and having a litter picker to use as a tool is really exciting for them."
A great deal of litter was collected by lunchtime and the children had a wonderful morning outdoors.
The Big Clean campaign has now come to an end for 2016 and it has been the best year so far. It will begin again next March and will hopefully see more schools, companies and community groups getting involved and having fun while helping their communities.
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