Volunteers heading to Glen Wyllin

GLEN Wyllin is the destination for this weekend’s volunteer beach cleaning session with Beach Buddies, at 10.30am on Sunday morning, February 26th.

The venue gives the opportunity to clean the beach both north and south from Glen Wyllin, and also to clean up around the glen area itself. It’s also a good venue for members of newly formed River Buddies to clean the banks of the stream which runs through the glen.

• Beach Buddies is sponsored by FIM Capital and receives annual funding from DEFA.

• Event date:: Sunday, February 26th. 10.30am to 12 noon.
• Event venue: Glen Wyllin
• All equipment provided – gloves, bags, litterpickers.
• All ages welcome, especially families.
• New volunteers especially welcome. Just come along and say hello. No age limits, young or old!
• We have full public liability insurance and risk assessments, if needed.
• Duke of Edinburgh volunteers very welcome.
• We remove all items collected and recycle as much as possible, such as plastics, glass, tin cans and metals.
• Website:  www.beachbuddies.net
• We survive entirely on donations, and it’s been very difficult raising funds. Please see our QR code if you can help in any way, no matter how small.

Collection Bins

Beach Buddies provides, manages and maintains a network of 50+ collection bins around the island to encourage and enable members of the public to collect and safely dispose of beach rubbish. Our team visits each of the bins each week or fortnight depending on location and season to empty the contents and ensure the bin is in good order. We recycle what we can and depose of the remainder at the Energy From Waste facility. Last year we deposited over 20 tonnes of rubbish in this way. This is at the core of operation as well as being the most intensive of our activities.