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Hi Everyone,

Please be sure to book a place at our “Festival Feast”. This is going to take place twice during our Eastbourne Spring Water Festival 22, so whoever cannot make one will be able to make the other!

Please choose either Sunday 15th May or Sunday 22nd May, both sitting down at 7 pm. Please email plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com with your choice of date and menu choices.

Please send a £10 deposit by the end of March to me. The total charge for the 3-course meal will be £24 which includes a tip. You can take the option of just 2 courses. There is also a Children's menu so the whole family can join in.

See here for your menu choices:

Planning of our Eastbourne Spring Water Festival:

Celebrating Water ~ is continuing. The dates for your diaries, planners and calendars are Friday 13th to Sunday 22nd May 2022.

In our next Newsletters, we will be providing details as they appear.
We have many events planned already. There are new events too.

Friday 13th “Opening Ceremony” with our Mayor ~ Sovereign Harbour (venue to be decided)
Closing date for sending in entries for “Sea” Creative Competition

Friday 13th to Sunday 22nd “Refill Quest”
“walks to visit and use Refill Stations”
Start of Catch 22's planning for their event

Saturday 14th “Become a Citizen Scientist for an hour” ~ Cuckmere Haven
“Studio on the Beach” ~ Cuckmere Haven
“Seaweed Search” ~ Cuckmere Haven
Eco-Stalls Fair ~ Western Lawns

Sunday 15th “Big Beach Clean”
“Festival feast” ~ Crown and Anchor
“RunWednesdays H20 Run”

Monday 16th “Pilgrimage Walk from St Mary's Church”
“Defiant Sports Harbour Litter Pick” Friday 20th Litter pick on Western Lawns” (Closed event)

Thursday 19th Litter pick in Price's Park” (Closed event)
Rock and Blues Concert by “Southern Spirit” ~ Crown and Anchor

Saturday 21st “Become a Citizen Scientist for an hour” ~ Holywell
“Studio on the Beach” ~ Holywell
“Seaweed Search” ~ Holywell
Litter pick in Prince's Park” (Closed event)
Conference: Blue Planet@Eastbourne ~ Lansdowne Hotel Conference Suite

Sunday 22nd Closing Ceremony ~ with our Mayor ~ Holy Well
“Festival Feast” ~ Crown and Anchor

Planning future activities:
we need and are searching for volunteers for 2 events:

1. Eastbourne Carnival will be held on Saturday 4th June 2022. Plastic Free Eastbourne is looking to be using a float. We will need to decide on decoration and participants and other things! We are looking for creative and willing volunteers!

2. Eastbourne Eco-Festival on the weekend of 29th, 30th, 31st July. We have been invited to be part of this festival with our publicity stall. We need several volunteers each day to help run it and for somebody at the end of the festival on Sunday to take the stall home until the following 15th August.

If YOU want to volunteer for either of these, please email plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com

Refill

The new model of our future Refill Stations will hopefully be with us early this month! Anticipation and excitement are building ~ watch this space...

We have been accepted by Aviva again to run a fundraiser. This time we are seeking £1500 as a contribution for a Refill Station in Shinewater Park.

Please contribute whatever you can and also please share this among your contacts, family and friends. There are rewards too for donors: 1 of 10 stainless steel refillable drinking bottles, worth £20 for a donation of £20. 2 pairs of tickets to our Rock and Blues Concert by local group “Southern Spirit” worth £16 a pair for a donation of £50.

Creative Competition

There is a Writing/Media “Creative Competition” for all ages including adults. Entries will be judged in age categories. The Title of this competition is “The Sea”. Your responses can take the form of poetry, creative writing or video.

If YOU wish to enter, please email suedixonjwg@gmail.com There will be prizes! This competition is ON NOW with the closing date Friday 13th May ~ this is the opening day of the Festival itself.

For further details of events and how to book, please look at social media and next month's ~ April~ Newsletter.

Many more events are being created. Tickets will be available from MyTicketShop.co.uk ~ a free local service and Eventbrite.

Alex Hayter of Titan360 is going to be launching a publicity campaign that will encourage businesses to sponsor our publicity with benefits for them/you! Please “watch this space”

A big THANK YOU to the Beacon Shopping Centre ~ since August 2020, we have had the use of an empty shopfront for publicising our campaign. We have now had to give it up so that a retail outlet can set up here. We are grateful!

Talk to St Wilfred's Hospice W.I.
This was a face to face event. We were paid a fee of £50, which I divided so that Plastic Free Eastbourne donated £25 to St Wilfred's Hospice.

Biomass Plastics

Our lobbying campaign has stalled. We have made 3 attempts to persuade the parliamentary committee to agree that it can be published as a petition. I have now had discussions with a Member of the House of Lords. He has offered to discuss with colleagues about the wording to make it more likely for the parliamentary committee to pass this potentially important petition. I await his response.

Show the Love

Show the Love was a small event to promote the things you want to protect from Climate Change. Thank you to Evie Sier of Eastbourne Greenpeace and also to Robin and Sue Sykes for holding our banner as part of this event.

Eastbourne Half Marathon

Please remember to support Christina Kearley, who is running in the Eastbourne Half Marathon. She is fundraising for Plastic Free Eastbourne. Please help her raise £1000 for a Refill Station...

Well done and GOOD LUCK Christina! YOU could be their 6th Supporter. The fund is growing - but it has slowed down and could do with your support as we are approaching her event! Please donate!

DONATE NOW

March's Monthly Challenge

Number 19: Decide how you are going to get to being Carbon Neutral by 2030

Monthly Meeting

March's Monthly Meeting is a hybrid one: we are meeting face to face and online session. It will take place on March 6th.

Below is the link to gain access to the meeting, via Microsoft Teams, it starts at 7 pm. The face to face meeting will be in the Eastbourne Chamber meeting room. Thank you to Christina Ewbank for offering this venue:

49 Gildredge Road BN21 4RY

Click Here to view the Agenda

Dates for your Diary

1st March
Eastbourne Greenpeace meet on the first Tuesday of each month, at 8 pm in the Crown and Anchor, Marine Parade, and also on zoom, for people who don't want to meet in person

6th March
Monthly Meeting number 39

11th March
Our seventh “Eastbourne Spring Water Festival 22” Steering Group Meeting

27th March
Mucky Mermaids Beach Clean
Eastbourne Redoubt 10 am

BHASSEXPLORE collective #greensockmovement ebook page [date & event not available at time of writing]

We can all help to be Plastic Free!

We hope you have enjoyed our newsletter.

How YOU can take part in our campaign:

Sign our “Biomass Plastics” petition
Join in with our Adopt a Beach scheme
Make a pledge
Spread the word
Sponsor our campaign
Enjoy helping to improve our Planet bit by bit!
Interact with our Facebook group: Plastic Free Eastbourne and with our website:
plasticfreeeastbourne.co.uk
Become involved via plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com

What we would also welcome is for participants to help lead one of our various projects. For example, Ray Jarvis has volunteered to take on the management of our Adopt a Beach project. Also, Jill Shacklock has volunteered to help manage our Refill Network in our town.

Thank you,

Oliver Sterno, Community Leader

Plastic Free Eastbourne

Tel: 07971 909454

plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com

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