OUR EVENT GALLERY
These are just some of the previous events that SEA have organised...
The Great British Spring Clean March 2025
The Great British Spring Clean (Sunday 23 March 2025) 16 hardy souls braved the rain to collect 11 bags of rubbish from off the beach, streets and Enbrook Park. They then enjoyed some well deserved refreshments in the Reading Room at the Old Fire Station afterwards. A big thank you to everyone who joined in and to The Sandgate Society for letting us use their beautiful room.
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All Wrapped up
Festive Meeting 2024 Chris Porter kindly came along and gave us a practical demonstrations of sustainable wrapping including Furoshilka, the Japanese art of wrapping with objects. Everybody brought along some food and drink to share and it was a lovely way to start the Festive Season.
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The Great Cable Challenge October 24
In October SEA supported the Great Cable Challenge for International E -Waste Day with a collection box in Sandgate Library. A big thank you to them and to everyone who brought down their cables. · Many people don’t realise old cables can be recycled; in the UK alone there are approximately 627million binned or unused cables languishing in a drawer of doom. These unwanted cables are enough to stretch to the moon and back and contain a whopping 3,252 tonnes of copper. There is a growing need for copper in new technologies and as ‘urban mining’ has none of the detrimental environmental and social impacts of mining for raw materials. Cables can still be recycled every Saturday (not over Christmas and Easter Saturday) on Hythe High Street outside the 101 Open Door Project (next to Boots) from 9.30 – 4pm and in Folkestone on Sandgate Road (opposite Boots) from 10 – 2pm or any day at the Folkestone Household Waste Recycling Centre.
The Great British Beach Clean September 2024
The Great British Beach Clean Sandgate(Sunday 29th September)The Great British Beach clean is an annual event run by the Marine Conservation Society . As part of this citizen science project SEA collected and logged every individual piece of litter collected on 3 x100m stretches of Sandgate Beach. Although at first glance the areas of beach looked reassuringly litter free they found 236 pieces of rubbish out of which 119 were made from plastic or polystyrene. The greatest concentration found was around the Enbrook Stream outfall pipe where rubbish had been washed into the stream and out onto the beach. A big thank you to all the volunteers who got involved
Eternal Style
Eternal Style (Sunday 8th October) on an exceptionally hot day but thankfully 260+ people braved the heat to replenish their wardrobes with sustainable items from the 12 stalls; be inspired by the Fashion catwalk show and learn mending or upcycling skills from the demonstrations. There was a pop up tearoom and bar to provide much needed refreshments and The Chichester Memorial Hall was buzzing from start to finish. We received a lot of positive feedback from the event and after costs, £820 was raised to fund future SEA projects.
The event really was a community effort with people donating clothes, cakes, time and of course coming along and buying generously, plus who knew Sandgate had so many models in its midst.
A big thank you has to go the working party for the event ‘The Wardrobe Warriors’ without hardworking volunteers these popular community events couldn’t happen.
Sandgate Safari Sale
The Sandgate Sale Safari 2023 (Sunday 2nd July) had 41 stalls but was slightly different to the previous years in that we had more stalls concentrated in the village centre with the High Street full of people with bulging bags. Reports from stall holders on the edges were that less people made the climbs up the hill than previous years. The SEA stall raised £120 for project funds.
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Jog your memory walk
SEA organised a ‘jog your memory’ walk led by Peter Bamford to support the work done by Rosie Sanders and the Sandgate Society to encourage people to fill out forms so that a much used local path can be officially classified as a footpath
Bee Walk
We had training on Bumblebee identification skills and set up two bee transcepts ‘BeeWalks’ which SEA volunteers walk from March to October identifying, recording and reporting on Bumblebees.
This data supports the work of The Bumble Bee Conservation Trust.