Campbeltown Loch Community Beach Clean

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Campbeltown Loch Community Beach Clean

Sunday 29th March 2009 - Aqualibrium Car Park
10 - 12am

Wear appropriate warm and waterproof clothing and sturdy footwear.

We will provide litter pickers, gloves, bags and lots of encouragement!!!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Call Mary Turner (Campbeltown Beachwatch Group) Tel: 01685 553192 or Aisa Nebreda or Louise Robertson (the Grab Trust) Tel: 01546 604227 mobile: 07810855588 for more details. Event organised by Campbeltown Beachwatch Group and supported by the GRAB Trust.
01546 604227

[jdcarra]

Volunteers needed, all welcome.

[TYM]

Pity this is arranged at the same time as Church Services, otherwise there may be a few more volunteers, myself included.

[jdcarra]

Apologies KFN.
I take it your post was on before me and i did not notice it hence the shift.

[£3.73]

I'll go along if Rumpole is ...

[petewick]

Campbeltown Loch Community Beach Clean

Sunday 29th March 2009 - Aqualibrium Car Park
10 - 12am

Wear appropriate warm and waterproof clothing and sturdy footwear.

We will provide litter pickers, gloves, bags and lots of encouragement!!!

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Call Mary Turner (Campbeltown Beachwatch Group) Tel: 01685 553192 or Aisa Nebreda or Louise Robertson (the Grab Trust) Tel: 01546 604227 mobile: 07810855588 for more details. Event organised by Campbeltown Beachwatch Group and supported by the GRAB Trust.
01546 604227

Any chance of throwin in a few beers

[mary]

Answers to a few questions asked :

You don't have to come for the full 2 hours as advertised on the poster - if anyone can spare even 1/2 hour, its amazing the difference you can make!

We would love to be able to "throw in a few beers", but there are bye laws about drinking in public etc and we have had "flak" before over this. However, come the summer we intend to organise a barbeque in an appropriate location and there will be beers!

Meanwhile, just to give some encouragement, when we first started organising regular beach cleans 3 years ago, we would get over 200 black bags of litter. Now we we would only expect to get 50 - 60 bags - and this is reducing year on year. This is an indication that we are getting the litter out of the loch improving the environment for ourselves, our visitors and particularly for the wildlife.

For you sceptics - give it a go - beach cleaning is sociable, rewarding and it is very satisfying to see the improvement we can make with surprisingly little effort from a good turn out of volunteers.

Hope to see some of you on Sunday.......

[jdcarra]

Any chance of throwin in a few beers

Would be nice but as Mary said................

Hope to see some of you on Sunday.......

PM'd you Mary, catch you all the next time