BEACH Buddies is venturing south for the first time this year when we will be hosting a volunteer event at Langness. We will meet at the car park closest to the lighthouse at 10.30am, finishing no later than 12 noon on Sunday morning January 19th. All equipment provided, as always, and we remove the rubbish…
THE Isle of Man’s young people are setting a fantastic example to everyone as we begin the new year. After hearing about the story of 7 year old Eleanor Cain asking for a litterpicker and hi-viz vest for her top Christmas present, and then embarking on a clean-up around her home, in the plantation and…
A SEVEN year old is on a mission to clean up the Isle of Man after receiving the perfect Christmas present. Eleanor Cain, from Crosby, asked for a litterpicker and hi-viz vest as her main gifts from Father Christmas, and just a few days later she took her family for a clean-up on Peel beach, then…
BEACH Buddies has been interviewed by Paul Moulton at the New Year Dip in Douglas and the video is now available to view on the following link:-
EARLY notice – this coming weekend we are joining with the Manx Tri Club again to clean up the Mooragh Park lake. You will definitely need wellies! If you missed this last year, you missed probably the best event of the year! Last year we joined together for the first time for a memorable afternoon,…
THE first event of 2020 was held on Sunday, January 5th at Ballaugh and we had a great turnout in very cold conditions of 83 volunteers. Best of all, 14 of these were new faces, including two families who said they had a great time and will be coming back again. New volunteers…
Photographs from today’s fantastic Douglas New Year’s Dip, which raised money for Breast Cancer Now and Beach Buddies, are now on the Beach Buddies Facebook page. Many thanks to main sponsors Canada Life International and also to The Coastguard, St John Ambulance and the RNLI. Without the continuing support of these organisations, the event could not…
BEACH Buddies hosts more than 200 events each year and everyone is welcome to join in at any time. We hold events with schools, companies, clubs, families – everyone! We are very happy to also host a private event for family and friends on a beach of your choice – or, if you prefer, a…
THE TWO charities Breast Cancer Now and Beach Buddies are planning to break the record for the Douglas Dip on New Year’s Day, which takes place from 12.30pm opposite the Queen’s Hotel. A new record was created last year, when the two charities linked up for the first time, and the organisers are hoping…
BEACH Buddies is again teaming up with our very good friends at the charity Breast Cancer Now on New Year’s Day for the Douglas Dip, opposite the Queen’s Hotel. We need lots of volunteers for just an hour or so to help with the organisation – we had a new record number of dippers last…
Following an unfortunate incident this weekend, it’s been suggested that a Beach Buddies “volunteer” took a big pile of books out of the Beach Buddies bin in Ramsey and chucked them in the road. To give our official view: we don’t really care what goes into the bins (to a point), and we would encourage…
BEACH Buddies has been nominated for an award from the Institute of Directors North West. The award is for Director of the Year Third Sector. Entries will close in January when the short-lIsted entrants will be informed before the awards are presented in early 2020. • Beach Buddies is sponsored by FIM Capital. www.fimcapital.co.im
A PROPOSAL made by Beach Buddies at the EuroMAB biennial conference in Dublin earlier this year has been adopted by UNESCO and will be rolled out in 120 countries which host a total of 669 Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO has approved the proposal, backed by the Isle of Man Government, which urges all biosphere reserves around…
BEACH Buddies can officially announce that the landmark figure of 15,000 volunteers has been achieved in recent weeks. This means 15,000 different individual volunteers have now been involved in beach and community clean-up sessions with Beach Buddies since volunteer team events started in 2012-13. We started with two volunteers and five dogs in 2006 !…
BEACH Buddies was sorry to hear of the passing of Roger Watterson, former MHK and best known as a political commentator and host on Manx Radio. Roger had some very kind words for us, and he featured Beach Buddies a number of times on his “Sunday Opinion” programme. He also mentioned us many times when…
BEACH Buddies is honoured to be invited to take part in the ever popular Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce members Christmas lunch in December. Guest speaker this year is Bill Dale, founder of Beach Buddies Isle of Man. He will talk to members about the on-going projects Beach Buddies is undertaking, the…
BEACH Buddies is joining forces with University College Isle of Man (UCIOM) and Dave Smyth to beat the record for the most men taking part in a yoga session in the Isle of Man – at the NSC on November 19th. It will be a very relaxing and enjoyable event, even if you have…
BEACH Buddies has had a very nice surprise with a letter and a donation from the staff of RL360. The staff chose Beach Buddies to receive their donation, which amounted to a very healthy £552, which we will use to continue our work not just cleaning beaches but also our extensive education programme in all…
THE beach cleaning event hosted by Beach Buddies in Brighton, only yards from the Labour Party Conference, in conjunction with the Chief Minister and the Isle of Man Government, made us realise that the achievements of the people of the Isle of Man are much better known than we realised. Numerous complete strangers knew all…
BEACH Buddies is really grateful to Richard Radcliffe for his excellent support in producing a 2020 calendar for our charity, which is now on sale at various places around the Island. The costs for the calendar have been totally covered by Cains Gordon Bell which means every penny of the £6 per calendar will go…
BEACH Buddies has had a wonderful surprise and a great donation, thanks to Ernie Russell, owner of Governor’s Hill Spar store in Onchan.Customers have been paying 5p for their shopping bags, and it was decided that the small profit on each bag would be donated to a worthy local charity, and this time the store…
India’s Prime Minister, Narenda Modi, has been followed by the media as he picks up rubbish on a beach. Brilliant. By sheer coincidence, only this last few days Beach Buddies has been asked to start a beach cleaning organisation in Kerala (southern tip of India). India is the source of unbelievably massive amounts of rubbish…
THE Isle of Arran and the Isle of Man have joined forces to tackle the issue of marine litter and beach cleaning, with the announcement of the creation of ‘Isle of Arran Beach Buddies’. The link-up is the first inter-island connection on beach cleaning expertise by the charity Beach Buddies which was formed in the…
THE FIRST inter-island connection on beach cleaning expertise has been created between the Isle of Man and the Isle of Arran, following a visit to the Scottish isle by the Manx charity. The Isle of Arran is now linked to the Isle of Man to share knowledge and statistics on beach cleaning, with plans to…
RED COLOUR IN THE SEA COMES WITH AN UNEXPECTED BONUS WE HAVE had a report from regular Beach Buddies’ volunteer and very keen supporter Gill Skinner that some major discolouration of the sea has been spotted on Douglas beach. This is something which happened last year during the hot spell of weather around the same…
