REGULAR Beach Buddies volunteer Roger Birtles keeps a frequent watch on the coastline in the south of the Island, especially in the Castletown area and has made some interesting (but also sad) discoveries. He keeps finding bunches of new wrappers from food and sweets, all knotted and twisted and dumped in the same area in…
THERE’S a special event for Beach Buddies this weekend when we team up with the lovely people from Culture Vannin who joined us on a number of occasions last summer for our beach cleaning volunteer events. We will get together this Sunday morning (June 26th) at 10.30am in Peel, meeting at the swingbridge from where…
We are having our traditional Easter break from beach cleaning this weekend, so there’s no event on Easter Sunday. However, we are encouraging all volunteers to use some of your spare time over the holiday weekend to maybe have a clean-up in your local area, or a park, a playground, a forest, a plantation, a…
BEACH Buddies will go to the northern tip of the Island this weekend for Sunday morning’s volunteer beach cleaning session from 10.30am to 12 noon. The meeting point is the car park with the Beach Buddies’ bin to the right of the main lighthouse and very close to the “Winkie” lighthouse which overlooks the Cumbrian…
BEACH Buddies will go to the northern tip of the Island this weekend for Sunday morning’s volunteer beach cleaning session from 10.30am to 12 noon. The meeting point is the car park with the Beach Buddies’ bin to the right of the main lighthouse and very close to the “Winkie” lighthouse which overlooks the Cumbrian…
BEACH Buddies will go to the Point of Ayre for Sunday morning’s volunteer beach cleaning session from 10.30am to 12 noon. The meeting point is the car park with the Beach Buddies’ bin to the right of the main lighthouse and very close to the “Winkie” lighthouse. The meeting point is the car park with…
We have received a message from local photographer Mike Radcliffe who took the attached photograph at The Sound, which includes a seal with green fishing net around its neck. The fate of this seal looks inevitable. Moves have been made to encourage the fishing community to prevent this sort of thing happening. Maybe this will…
We have received a message from local photographer Mike Radcliffe who took the attached photograph at The Sound, which includes a seal with green fishing net around its neck. The fate of this seal looks inevitable. Moves have been made to encourage the fishing community to prevent this sort of thing happening. Maybe this will…
BEACH Buddies received the sort of message this week which gives you hope for the future and also a boost to the many thousands of people on our beautiful island who have made such a difference in recent years. It came from Nick Wilkie who very recently visited Fleshwick to clean up and found that…