1949

Volunteers

2947

Kilos Collected

62

Cleans Completed

279681

Volunteer Hours

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Lunchtime Litter Picking

We ran a lunch time litter pick with our long-term charity partner ProCook in March. The event, while only a hour long, was a huge success with almost 70 kilos of litter being collected. Following the success of this event…

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2nd Dursley Brownies Clean-Up

We joined up with a Brownie group, the 2nd Dursley Brownies, in our local area to tackle a nearby park. 27 brownies, aged 7 to 10, first listened to a talk from Sophie at Life’s a Beach about how we…

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Eric Torrington, A Local Litter-Picking Hero

Driving to and from our office, we noticed a man regularly litter picking at the side of the road. Through local social media groups we managed to track Eric down for a chat about his incredible solo efforts to tackle…

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Keeping Stroud Clean With Our MP

We joined a litter pick in Stroud, a nearby town, with local litter pickers and our MP for Stroud, Siobhan Baillie. Siobhan and her team gave their time to better learn about the amount of litter in our local area…

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Cheltenham Town Centre Clean

We teamed up with the wonderful staff from Willians LLP solicitors to clean Cheltenham town centre. Cheltenham is a very pretty town with lots of people working and visiting the shops, and green spaces. We wanted to work together to…

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Keeping Our Local Area Clean

We have teamed up again with our corporate partner ProCook to keep our local area clean. Life’s a Beach and ProCook have moved into a new eco-friendly office; so to celebrate our move, as well as B Corp month, we…

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Waste Less School Initiative Launched

Here at Life’s a Beach, one of our core missions is to focus on educating the public about plastic waste. As part of this charitable objective we have developed the Waste Less initiative to not only educate children about how…

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Swansea Beach Clean-up

We have returned to Swansea Beach for yet another beach clean, opposite the Singleton Campus. 32 volunteers from the Standing Paddle-boarding, Wild Swimming, and the Environmental Action societies from the University of Swansea, came down to give their time to…

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Susan Spink, On a Litter-Picking Mission

We first noticed Susan’s incredible litter-picking efforts on LinkedIn. She posts amazing photo collages of everything she collects and after seeing several of these posts, we knew we had to reach out and find out more about what Susan has…

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First Clean of 2023, Castle Beach.

We have kicked off our beach clean activity for the year, by heading back down the Cornwall. We held a clean at Castle Beach in Falmouth in mid-November but due to bad weather, we didn’t pick up as much as…

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Microplastics. The what, why, and how.

What are microplastics? Microplastics is a wide term that refers to small plastic particles that are a by-product of plastic waste. This could be fibres, fragments, and spheres that usually, but not always, are formed by the breakdown and deterioration…

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