Prestonpans beach needs your help!
As part of the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) Adopt-a-Beach scheme, Prestonpans beach has been adopted! Volunteers are needed to help with litter clean-ups ands surveys, which take place at the beach on a seasonal basis.
The information gathered during the surveys will be used to raise awareness of the problems and dangers of coastal marine litter to both humans and wildlife. It will also enable the main sources of local litter inputs to be identified and the polluters responsible to be targeted.
This is a real chance for everyone who knows and uses Prestonpans beach to get involved and help look after it. The surveys take place four times a year and provide an ideal opportunity to have fun and learn about the coast, whilst making a real difference to the local marine environment!
The Adopt-a-Beach scheme, supported by the Crown Estate and DEFRA's Environmental Action Fund, has been developed from the hugely successful annual Beachwatch event, which continues as the flagship of Adopt-a-Beach. Nationally, the project aims to create a network of 500 adopted beaches around the UK cost, making it the country's largest coastal environmental initiative.
The next beach clean and survey is due to take place on Saturday 17th September at 4.00 p.m. and Sunday 18th September at 4.30 p.m. The meeting place is the Goth Car Park.
The survey of the 100m length of beach (stretching from the steps opposite the Prestoungrange Gothenburg westward past the murals) should only take about an hour (although you are welcome to clean other parts of the beach!) and volunteers will receive a free Gothenburger.
So what happens now???? Well, if you would like further information please take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions. If you have already decided to volunteer, GREAT! please contact me with your details and take a look at the Volunteer Guidelines which will tell you what you need to bring with you etc. Please note that if you are 17 or under you should get a parent or guardian to sign the Consent Form (which they should read in conjunction with the Risk Assessment Form).
If you can help publicise this event in any way, then please print off a flyer or make use of the press release.
Further information and forms
FAQs - here (PDF format)
Volunteer Guidelines - here (PDF format)
Sponsorship Form - here (PDF format)
Press Release - here (PDF format)
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