HUGE TURN-OUT FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY DIP

WE HAD yet another fantastic turn-out for the New Year’s Day Dip in Douglas, in conjunction with our good friends at Breast Cancer Now, with hundreds of people taking to the stormy waters, and a huge crowd watching from the promenade. Many thanks to the event sponsors Canada Life International and to our patrons the Lieutenant Governor Sir John Lorimer and Lady Lorimer, who were once again amongst those taking a dip! A huge thank you aswell to Douglas Lifeboat and especially the team from the Coastguards who ensured the event was safe for everyone and spent a lot of time in the water making sure everyone was safe.. We will have official statistics soon. Meanwhile, you can see the photographs on our Facebook page . .

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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.