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Apr 2012 - new dates
- Middleton Sands to Sunderland Point
Jean
Ellis from Middleton Sands writes: "looking
out over our beach the task ahead looks
formidable..." Please join her and the north
Lancashire team - check the dates:
BeachCare
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7 Mar 2012 - BeachCare on the Beeb...
prime-time
The lovely Leah Gooding joins
Arnside BeachCare and talks about beach
cleans and marine litter on newsround -
watch it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/17278897
Proud to be
on prime-time, that's media city, bringing
the NW to national attention.
April 2011 - announcing the
birth of our 5th BeachCare Group
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A new group forms linking
Middleton Sands and Sunderland Point.
Many
thanks to Jean Ellis and John Gilchrist for
making this happen...
Check for
the new beach clean
dates on the
BeachCare events
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29
February 2008
190 student volunteers clean up
removing 1.5 tonnes of
plastic packaging material which came from the stricken vessel
'Riverdance' aground off Blackpool
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In spite of
filthy weather an astonishing 190
willing volunteers took part in a massive
clean up of the shore at Rossal, near
Fleetwood where the beach was strewn with
plastic packaging from the stricken
Riverdance vessel.
Many of the volunteers were taking part in
student volunteering week and came from all
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There
was tremendous satisfaction in seeing the
results of their efforts after the cleanup.
2 tonnes of material was removed,
clearing 1 km of the beach. And,
considering the dreadful weather, this was a
very robust retort from student
volunteers to anyone who mutters about the
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September
2007
Corporate
supporters:
ABP, O2, Centrica, GlaxoSmithKline,
Volker Stevin
BeachCare
has enjoyed increased support from corporate
sponsors in 2007.
Staff from Associated British Ports (ABP),
Hydrocarbon Resources Limited (part of
Centrica Energy), O2
(mobile telecoms) and Volker Stevin have
attended beach cleans in their areas.
This
has raised the profile of BeachCare and helped
us engage with new volunteers. We are grateful
for their support.
Donations from Arnside and
Silverdale Parish Councils, the mobile phone
company O2, and Associated British
Ports have enabled us to purchase two new sets
of equipment.
These will be kept in Arnside and
Barrow, and be more readily available for
community volunteer groups to use.
At
the clean on 22 September at Holgates, Barnaby
Black from O2 came along to present the shiny
new equipment that their funding support has
provided, meet volunteers and join in
the clean up. As you see above, the
beach was looking good when we were
finished.
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