MIDDLEWICH Clean Team has signed up to an initiative that allows Christmas shoppers to make donations for free simply by buying online.

The popular community group, which takes part in regular litter picks as well as helping out with educational programmes in the town, relies on donations for equipment and to fund initiatives.

By shopping via easyfundraising.org.uk, shoppers can select a cause and retailers such as John Lewis, Amazon and ASOS will make a donation at no expense to the customer.

In total, EasyFundraising has helped raise around £15 million for a variety of causes.

The Clean Team, made up of volunteers, litter picks for around an hour each fortnight throughout the year, with extensive efforts for events such as FAB Festival.

They work in cooperation with Ansa, who collect the bags once full, and they also help other towns and villages start up and promote their own community clean teams.

Visit easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/middlewichct to shop online and help the fundraising effort.

Search for ‘Middlewich’ on the EasyFundraising website to see which other community causes have signed up.