A big thank you to Eastbourne’s beach clean volunteers

want to say a big thank you to all of our hundreds of volunteers who participated whole-heartedly in our Eastbourne Big Summer Beach Clean with Covid-19 compliance.

This was a unique event, made possible by the fact that our beach is divided into 93 separate beaches by groynes.

Each volunteer group was able to be completely socially distanced by cleaning just their own allocated beach.

Every one of these beaches was cleaned, and people who still wanted to volunteer agreed to clean the promenade, beaches beyond our main beach eastwards beyond the Marina and westward towards Beachy Head.

This event has had a knock on effect of groups wanting to get involved in cleaning on the Downs, more of our local parks and continuing with beach cleaning.

Well done all of you! What a great weekend it was too with the weather.

I want to thank Neil Peters, Sally Mildner and Sue Dixon in particular for acting as co-hosts – a great help!

If you would like a copy of our recently published minutes from our July Monthly Meeting, please email me a request at [email protected]