Gather Rubbish and Bag it!

1. Cheese & Meat: cut down on vegetables wrapped in plastic, buy loose from farm shops and grocers, buy local.
2. Bread: buy from a baker and take a paper/ cloth bag with you to store it in.
3. Shampoo the question is do you go for a shampoo bar or refill bottles. If you live near a refill service then refill is the obvious choice, however if you don't then a shampoo bar is the way to go. They are easy to use and store, say good bye to bottles lining your shower/bathroom shelf/cabinet. Lots of people complain that the bar can leave hair limp/with residue; if this is the case use an ACV rinse (apple cider vinegar) just pour a glug (very scientific!) of cider vinegar into a jug add warm water and rinse your hair, you can add you favourite essential oil for aroma, peppermint is my fav.  

This project hopes to develop narrative and plant ideas. Plastics are disliked by all of us when picked up...but once in the bag, just like at home in your kitchen bin they are forgotten, this community art installation show us all what we are collecting en mass and allows the whole beach commiunity to experience the plastics that the whole group has seen.

Where ever we can, we teach about why we pick up beach debris, we teach about the marine environment we are protecting. we work directly on the beach at every event, but we also work in partnership with schools and groups.

We clean local beaches on a regular basis, we run Marine conservation beach watch beach cleans https://www.mcsuk.org and support Surfers against sewage beach cleans https://www.sas.org.uk.

• Sun 6th May Rottingdean Beach clean festival (10am-5pm)
• Sun 3rd June Ovingdean
• Sun 1st July Saltdean 
• August - Time off for good behaviour!
• Sun 2nd September - Rottingdean
• ** Sun 16^thSeptember - MCS GBBC Ovingdean 10am -1pm **
• Sun 7th October - Saltdean
• Sun 4th November - Rottingdean 
• Sun 2^ndDecember - Ovingdean
• Sun 6^thJanuary 2019 - Saltdean – silent disco. 

Cleaning local beaches on a regular basis with friends and family, I needed to share all my passion for keeping our marine conservation zone safe and clean for future generations became apparent. Social media played a massive part in this. Our beach cleans and volunteer support grew from just a few to upto 150 at a beach clean. Every time we hold an event we attract 20-30 volunteers, depending on so many environmental issues...the weather plays a huge part in this!

After 6 years of cleaning beaches I worked out that we have recovered approx 6 tonnes of litter. That’s given use something to celebrate!

THE ORDER OF THE DAY -

10.00 - Unite The Beat will greet you at the slip road and offer a short 5 minute workshop and invite you to join them in a procession to the beach

10.00 Natural History Museum seaweed survey - low tide 09.52am

10.30 - Yoga frogs will start some yoga sessions for our younger volunteers.

11.00- Marine Conservation SocietyBeach watch beach clean welcome.

- Teach on the beach table
-Silent Disco equipping

11.00- Artpod on the beach, mosaics and larger object des art!

11.30 - Come and make a memory jar with our lovely Alex Rickman.

11.30 - Amanda Davidson invites us to join in Rottingdean cave art project launch.
12.30-1.30- 5 rhythms silent disco experimental dance class

12.30-13.00 - plastic spiralling out of control

12.30-Plastic free lifestyle workshop

13.00-Scouts to recycle.

1.30- picnic lunch please bring your own or buy from our local cafés.

2.00 - Rockingdean Studio will offer some drumming workshops.

2.30- Chanting & meditation with Diana Sampson

3.00-Luna yoga

4.00 Close

This new project wants to inspire our volunteers to become Beach Clean Guardians and lead on beach cleans, create their own events and share the GRAB feelgoodfactor. Our Cliff top keepers will take teams of volunteers up on to the cliff tops and help clean up the wider environment. Drop us a line through Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thedeansvolunteers/ or email us at thedeansvolunteers@gmail.com

Recent work Country Living Magazine UK and Friends of the Earth UK was amazing. We held a bespoke event to give them an insight into what a beach clean and plastic free lifestyles look like. They were all surprised to find the amount of plastic litter they did, they admitted to arriving on our beach and thinking that there was nothing to pick up. After collecting 31kgs of plastic debris and finding out that only 4 kgs can be recycled they all took an important message away with them, single use plastics have to be reduced.

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/a22753048/country-living-beach-clean/

Drop us a line through Facebook if you are interested in a team building workshop.

https://www.facebook.com/thedeansvolunteers/ or email us at thedeansvolunteers@gmail.com