Welcome to the very busy September/October news sheet.
Thank you to everyone who has just subscribed, we thrive on your support. I hope this news sheet will motivate everyone to be able to do something for our environment.
Everyone in the Strandliners family has a part to play, whether joining an event, passing on this news sheet to friends and family, discussing your thoughts and ideas with us and more.
If anyone has any spare time and wishes to help, please email me at strandlinerscic@gmail.com. If we all do a little, then more can be achieved with less.
Enjoy the rest of the summer (it’s still going!),
Andy Dinsdale
Adding value to beach cleans and litter picks –
Talk by Strandliners’ CEO Andy Dinsdale
The Clean Earth Show, Azur, St.Leonards-on-Sea
11am to 3.00pm, Sunday 19th September (Talk at 1pm)
Future Events
With the COVID-19 guidelines changing we are beginning to organise events. There may still be changes as we need to continually assess the situation, but here is what is planned so far.
Dungeness (Galloways)
Great British Beach Clean
9am to 1pm, Saturday 18th September
Marine Conservation Society survey. 30 to 45 minute walk on shingle (each way) and a 2/3 hour survey activity. Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to book a place.
The Clean Earth Show, Azur, St.Leonards-on-Sea
11am to 3.00pm, Sunday 19th September
Clean Seas Please and Strandliners will have a stand in support of The Clean Earth Show.
Our talk, “Adding value to beach cleans and litter picks” will be delivered at 1pm.
Free entry.
Hastings, Rock-a-Nore
Great British Beach Clean
4pm to 6pm, Friday 24th September.
This is a Clean Seas Please event for the Marine Conservation Society.
Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to book a place.
Pett Level
Great British Beach Clean – nearly full
9am to 11am, Saturday 25th September.
Marine Conservation Society survey.
Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to book a place.
Winchelsea Beach
Great British Beach Clean – nearly full
4pm to 6pm, Saturday 25th September
Marine Conservation Society event.
Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to book a place.
Bexhill
Great British Beach Clean
9am to 11am, Sunday 26th September
This is Clean Seas Please event for the Marine Conservation Society. Galley Hill, Bexhill. Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to book a place.
Hastings & Online
Ocean Symposium 2021
10am to 4.30pm, Saturday 2nd October
This is at the Hastings Museum and online, hosted by the United Nations Association Climate & Oceans. Strandliners and Clean Seas Please will have a stand here and look forward to chatting with attendees.
In person registration through Eventbrite.
Online registration through Eventbrite.
Bexhill
The Great Nurdle Hunt
10am to 12noon, Sunday 3rd October
(Not Saturday as previously advertised)
This is a Clean Seas Please event. On the prom near the Colonnade by the De La Warr. This event will involve a micro plastic challenge searching for nurdles and bio-beads as well as other micro plastic. Fascinating to get up close with this plastic pollution that most people overlook. Open to all ages but children to be accompanied by an adult.
Camber Sands
The Great Nurdle Hunt
9am to 11am, Saturday 9th October
This event will involve searching for nurdles and bio-beads as well as other micro plastic in the sand. Fascinating to get up close with this plastic pollution that most people overlook. Meeting in Central car park at 9am. Car park charge.
Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to register.
River Rother
The Great Nurdle Hunt
10am to 12noon, Saturday 16th October
This event will involve searching for nurdles and bio-beads as well as other micro plastic in the riverbank. Fascinating to get up close with this plastic pollution that most people overlook. Meeting at the small parking area by Monk Bretton Bridge, New Road, Rye.
Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to register.
River Cuckmere
The Great Nurdle Hunt
10am to 12noon, Saturday 30th October
This event will involve searching for nurdles and bio-beads as well as other micro plastic in the riverbank. Fascinating to get up close with this plastic pollution that most people overlook. Meeting where the concrete path meets the beach (20 min walk from car park). Car park charge. Please email strandlinersevents@gmail.com to register.
If anyone has already registered/booked for any of these events, there’s no need to register again.
Past Events
Bexhill “Meet the Team” @ Glyne Gap, Bexhill
Saturday 21st August
This marked Strandliners first Bexhill event for some years. We are working with RVA to run the Clean Seas Please project and it was fun to engage with many beach visitors some in a rush and some happy to spend time collecting any plastic pollution before a demonstration of a brand audit.
Bexhill “Meet the Team” @ the Colonnade, Bexhill
Wednesday 25th August
Our second event was equally busy and we welcomed local and district councillors, and the newly established Bexhill Town Council Mayor. It was a pleasure to talk about our past work and why we all do what we do (apologies if I went on too much – Ed!). We ran a small brand audit and it was amazing to find so much when we thought it was a clean beach.
Pett Level Independent Rescue Boat Open Day
Sunday 29th August
Thank you to everyone who made this amazing event to raise money for the PLIRB. Great to see you if you signed up to subscribe to this news sheet, and we hope you enjoyed “discovering” the micro plastic tubs full of trash and treasure!
Our unique “Awareness Gifts” sold well, a truly different Christmas gift perhaps (even though we should not contribute to over-consumerism – what a dilemma!).
River Rother Brand Audit
Saturday 28th August to Sunday 5th September
We started this weeklong Break Free From Plastic event and discovered that the salt marsh along the River Rother was very healthy and was covering up much rubbish. So after much thought we decided to cancel the clear ups to ensure that the fragile salt marsh strandline habitat was not damaged. We aim to return next spring to collect in multiple sessions, remove all bagged rubbish to another venue and sort and identify. Remember that last spring we were able to identify nearly 15,000 items of mismanaged waste (deliberately or accidentally lost to the environment).
Camber Sands Brand Audit
Weekend evenings in August & September
We parked at the Rye Harbourmaster’s Yard and walked down the river path to the beach. We completed 4 surveys towards the end of busy days at Camber Sands to begin identifying the types of rubbish left by visitors. This summer brought higher numbers of visitors and the resulting rubbish left is greater than ever. We have nearly completed uploading the data so will be able to discuss the results with the Camber community, parish council and organisations over the winter.
Sea Heart Competition
Congratulations to Wendy, she won the Clean Seas Please competition to count the number of sea hearts (sea beans) found on the strandliners website. Her answer was the nearest to the actual amount of 14 – Strandliners volunteers have found 14 sea beans in the last 8 years as part of their analysis of the plastic pollution along our coastline. Sea beans are a very special treasure as they have travelled (they can float for up to 30 years!) from Tropical America across the Atlantic Ocean to East Sussex and Kent shores. And it was one such discovery that started the Strandliners movement at Pett Level back in 2005!
Free Training Available
23 September from 12:00 to 14:00
Excel spreadsheet training with Break Free From Plastic.
How to best use Microsoft Excel software in data recording and production of infographics
If interested please email strandlinerscic@gmail.com before 12noon Friday 17th Sept.
Becoming a member of Strandliners gives you an exciting opportunity to join with other volunteers doing something about the increasing level of plastic pollution in our environment that harms wildlife. Additionally, by joining you will help raise funds to develop our area of work and the events Strandliners holds, monitoring and recording plastic pollution in our communities.
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