National Tidy Towns was established in 1958 by Board Failte. The main focus was to encourage communities to improve their local environment and ensure their area was a nicer place to live work and visit.

Fifty two towns entered the first year Tidy Towns ran their competition, today there are around 700 enterants per year.

Belmullet first entered the competition in the 1960's and after a lapse they reformed Belmullet Tidy Towns in the 1980's and this is still going today. In the time since, it has developed areas around the Belmullet town area in order to make the town more appealing and environmentally friendly.

In recent years Belmullet Tidy Towns has been awarded for it's efforts with silver, bronze, commended and litter free status. They are continuously striving for results to make our town an environmentally friendly place to live and visit.

Belmullet Tidy Towns organise a variety of events for everyone to participate in. These include a national heritage week, community recycling information, an annual Corncrake tour. Working alongside Mayo County Council organising workshops with schools/youth groups and to educate with the public about An Taisce's (clean coasts) and Irish Water 'Think before you flush' campaign.

The Tidy Towns group have an ongoing project with Western Care, where they use their polytunnels to grow bedding plants and in return teach participants sustainable gardening skills and how to recycle, make compost and how to harvest the rain water.

Our current project of the areas biodiversity is currently underway. We are carrying out training with Leave no Trace. The training is available to community groups, farmers, landowners, residents and school children. The training will make us aware of how to manage our natural habitat and species in our local area.