Community Clean Ups

Sea the Change organised our first Community Clean-Up in 2018, with an amazing 100 people all working together to clean up our coastline.Since then, our bi-annual events (March and September) have continued to grow in size and impact - thank you to everyone who has played your part in keeping Berwickshire beautiful!

Our next Clean-Up...

The next Big Community Clean-Up will be in held from:

Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd September 2024

FRIDAY 20TH SEP (PRIMARY SCHOOLS)

Coldingham Primary School
Ayton Primary School
Reston Primary School
Cockburnspath Primary School
Chirnside Primary School
Swinton Primary School
Greenlaw Primary School
Grove school Primary School
Duns Primary School

SATURDAY 21ST SEP:

Ayton - 10am, Ayton Church Gates
Burnmouth Harbour - 10.30am, Harbourside
Cockburnspath - 11am, Community Shop
Cove - 4.30pm, Cove Car Park
Eyemouth - 10am, Sea the Change Cycle Shack, Manse Road
Foulden - 10am, Foulden Village Hall
Killiedraughts Bay - 10am, End of Pocklaw Slap
Lamberton - 10am, Bridge over A1
Paxton - 10am, Paxton Village Hall
St Abbs - 10am, National Trust Visitors Centre
Westruther - 10am, Westruther Village Hall

SUNDAY 22ND SEP:

Chirnside - TBC
Coldingham Beach - 12 noon, The Community Beach Hut
Duns - 12 noon, Volunteer Hall
Grantshouse - 10am, Grantshouse Village Hall
Reston - 11am, Reston Village Hall Larder

FOR ANY FURTHER INFO ON CLEAN UP LOCATIONS OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HOST A CLEAN UP, PLEASE CONTACT:

ruth@seathechange.org.uk

Previous Community Clean-Up...

The latest BIG Community Clean-up was held in March 2024 with local people across Berwickshire's villages and towns getting involved. A massive community effort with more than 360 volunteers in 33 communities taking part and an incredible 3400kgs of litter collected over one weekend!

Our events have been extremely popular with the Coastal Clean Up in September 2021 attracting over 300 volunteers from Belhaven to Blyth, who collected a staggering 500kg of litter.

In March 2022 a total of 260 people took part, from Haddington in the north to Blyth in the south (that's about 100 miles of coast) and collected a massive 1,761 kg of litter.

Much of this was fishing gear, presumably lost during Storm Arwen which, if left in the marine environment, would have carried on ghost fishing for many years to come.

Huge thanks to our sponsors who funded these events - Tescos and Farne Salmon.

Doing it for yourself...

Sea the Change would like to support smaller community groups as much a possible, helping them to be the change they want to see in the world. Inland communities, such as Foulden and Duns have become involved too...check out the video to find out more.

If you would like our help to establish a regular clean-up group in your local area, or buy/borrow litter picking equipment, please do get in touch info@seathechange.org.uk to find out more.

Litter pickers are also available to borrow from Eyemouth Coop and St Vedas Surf Shop, Coldingham Bay.