Supporting the Southern Show

IT’S show time for Beach Buddies! Over the next three weeks we will be once again giving our support to the two biggest local community events of the year – the Southern Agricultural Show (Saturday/Sunday July 26th and 27th) and the Royal Agricultural Show (Friday/ Saturday August 8th and 9th).

Beach Buddies cleans up the show grounds at both events – something we have been doing for many years – at least a decade – and we have made lots of good friends within the Island’s farming community over the years.

There’s a slight change this year at the Southern Show as we will be waiting until the morning of Monday July 28th before we send our team to the showgrounds at Orrisdale Farm, Ballasalla.

Any help our volunteers can give is much appreciated. We will have our two Beach Buddies big red trucks and a trailer there from early on Monday morning. It usually takes around two hours maximum to leave the fields spotless.

There is a very comprehensive website for the show where you can buy tickets in advance

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.