I have just been down to Jacobs Ladder beach. There was another storm last night and an extremely high tide, so it is always worth a nip down to get whatever the sea spews back at us. In 20 minutes I had almost filled 2 bags. I don’t mind doing this as it is mainly Read more about Another storm, another messed up beach[…]
So far the monthly beach cleans are proving hugely successful, so we will continue with them as they are. Remember it is always the FIRST SUNDAY of every month, ready to start at 10.00 (ie if you need to borrow any equipment, come earlier). If you can help setting up, get there for 9.30, hugely Read more about Monthly Beach Cleans – Progress Report[…]
Dear Warriors As we approach the New Year, the Warriors team have had a burst of energy and are ready to pick things up again. It has been quite a year for me personally with lots of injuries and ill health but I’m back! I’m sure we’ve all noticed that things are a bit of Read more about SPW Email to relaunch Adopt A Spot[…]
It’s so nice to do a write up again – the last two cleans we organised were very sadly attended and we were too demoralised to write about them! But a huge THANK YOU to everybody who came along to the Treasure Hunt Beach Clean on Sunday, as part of the Regatta weekend. We had Read more about Treasure Hunt Beach Clean August 2023[…]
A small but select group of wonderful warriors collected 4 bags of rubbish, several disposable barbecues, over 1800 cigarette butts (thanks in a large part to some wonderful visitors to our town who joined in so enthusiastically). Some of us braved the road side and pulled loads of plastic out of the road drains again Read more about Beach Clean 8th May 2022[…]
I wrote an article for Sidmouth Nub News in January 2022 By Cllr Denise Bickley (Independent East Devon Alliance, Sidmouth Town Ward) I’m writing my first column for Nub News linked to my ‘passion’ – the environment, litter and specifically this time to shine a spotlight on recycling and waste collections in the area. Being Read more about Nub News January 2022[…]
We have kicked off the Plastic Warriors’ year, and started our plan of SECOND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, with a fantastic community clean up hosted by the lovely Debi at The Balfour Arms. Warriors today were Lesley, Simon, Roger, Jan, Penny, Des, Mick, Angie, Kate T, Colin, Phil, Kate R, Niall, Anna, Cherry and her Read more about 2022 – 9th January – Community Cleanup[…]
With apologies for the length of time since the last post, let me give an update. March 20th saw the government announce a lockdown as we all know. For many of us the quiet roads and blissful sunshine gave us an opportunity to use our daily walks to get Sidmouth totally litter free. We walked Read more about Post Lockdown Blues[…]
48 wonderful people came along to throw everything at Woolbrook today. We met at the Youth Centre, and a big thank you to Ben for hosting and getting fully involved too. For 2 hours from 10 o’clock we litter picked, chopped back weeds, pulled up ivy, walked several miles and put a huge amount of Read more about Community Clean Up, (SAS Summit To Sea) April 6th 2019[…]
Not surprisingly, we didn’t have a big crowd for this not-very-attractive test that Anna B and I came up with. We ran a little competition, with the help of Louise from Becketts Coffee Shop who donated a prize of tea & cake for 2, to see if we could highlight where the worst areas were Read more about No Butts ‘Competition’, from Dukes, Sidmouth March 23rd 2019[…]