The Marine Conservation Society, the UK’s leading marine charity, is hoping for a last push in volunteers for this year's Great British Beach Clean.
The national initiative, which runs from Friday September 16 to Monday 19, will include many spots around the Cumbrian coastline.
The events aim to ensure that some of the most beautiful beaches in the UK aren’t being taken for granted.
So far just two volunteers have registered to clean up at the six Cumbrian beaches where events are planned - which is incredibly disappointing for the MCS.
The Evening Mail's Big Clean campaign hopes to contribute as much as possible to the GBBC and already Big Clean sponsors Kimberly-Clark have stepped up to the challenge.
The Barrow-based firm has already carried out their own big clean at the beginning of the summer with the help of Ormsgill School. Now, as September heralds the start of a new school year, Kimberly-Clark will once again team up with a local primary school to make a big difference to the community.
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This September, to coincide with the GBBC Kimberly-Clark will be teaming up with Yarlside Primary School to conduct a thorough cleaning of a local beach.
Kimberly-Clark mill manager Crichton Waddell said of the campaign: "We have a proud team at Kimberly-Clark and we want to ensure that we are playing our part in support of our community, as they support us.
"The Big Clean is a great initiative that engages a wide range of community members in stepping up and helping improve our environment, our community and helping ourselves.
"This initiative perfectly aligns with some of our company values that we aim to promote – Authentic, Caring, Accountable and Innovative.
"This is our third year being involved with the Big Clean campaign and we have appreciated the opportunity to be part of it. It was brilliant to work with Ormsgill School in July and we are looking forward to getting involved with Yarlside too."
The MCS beach clean event takes place every third weekend in September as part of the charity’s year round Beachwatch programme. Volunteers who get involved in Cumbria will be joining an army of beach cleaners not only around the UK, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, but all over the world as part of the global International Coastal Clean-up, which takes a snap shot of beach litter across the planet on a single weekend.
Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch manager, says all the Great British Beach Clean events are organised by volunteers who are the lifeblood of the event.
She said: “We want to match last year’s figures and see at least 6,000 volunteers taking part – 148 of which were from Cumbria. We’d love to see people heading to the county’s beaches and helping clean up at the events that have been organised."
During the GBBC weekend there is a beach clean taking place at Walney Nature Reserve, volunteers can find out more information at: www.lovemybeach.org or to find out about more GBBC events visit: www.mcsk.org/greatbritishbeachclean.
To get involved in the Evening Mail's hugely popular and exciting Big Clean campaign please contact: gabrielle.rowley@nwemail.co.uk.
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