Beinspired by Wombling!!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the environment and what more I can do to help heal this beautiful planet we live on. The ‘Found on the Beach in Guernsey (Beachcombers)’ Facebook group have inspired me, as they are always out wombling on the beaches collecting litter and held a large group event recently to clean up Le Grande Havre.

Travelling by electric bike as much as I can (which has been positively life changing might I add and I can highly recommend), has made me realise how much litter there is cluttering the roads, lanes and hedgerows here in Guernsey. Then, while I was pondering all this, Elijah came from home from school and excitedly told me that the planet is currently being cleaned up as if it’s some agreed worldwide project! I loved the simplicity of his understanding of it. Yes, I thought, let’s just focus on cleaning up the planet, as if we were cleaning up the house, or cleaning up ourselves. The more I thought about it, the more I’ve started to consider that there is a link – the more we do clean up ourselves, the more we want to clean up the environment we live in, and the more we clean up the environment we live in, the more we want to clean up ourselves!

We’d love it if you got wombling too, but off the beaches, in our many lanes and roads. Perhaps taking a bag out with you to collect litter while dog walking, or when you’re walking the children to school, or just taking a quick stroll around your neighbourhood; anything you can do to pick up litter will help! More hands make ‘light’ work as the saying goes.

To start this off I thought we could have an impromptu Beinspired ‘Cleanup’ event this Sunday 19th January. We could meet at Jerbourg main carpark and then split up to comb the area for rubbish on the cliffs, at the side of roads, in hedges and so on.

But whether you can join us on Sunday or not, please do share with us photos of your wombling efforts, which we can post here. Email to me, emma@beinspiredby.co.uk.

Don’t forget to bring gloves and something to put the rubbish in

Happy cleaning!!