Name: Pick N Chips: Meet Up - Clean Up – Eat Up: Litterpicking event
Start: 2023-05-21T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-12-29T13:00:00Z
Location: The Real Food Cafe

Pick N Chips: Meet Up - Clean Up – Eat Up: Litterpicking event

The Real Food Cafe

Fed up seeing roadside litter? Get together with like-minded people to litter pick, then fuel up on award-winning fish & chips.

<p>Are you concerned about the state of our countryside and the impact of litter on local wildlife and our beautiful environment? Do you want to take action, meet like-minded people, spend time outside and make a difference in your community?</p><p><strong><strong>Then join Pick N Chips Litterpicking Campaign at The Real Food Cafe!</strong></strong></p><p>The Real Food Cafe started organising regular litter-picking events in 2021. Since then and over the course of 18 events, in excess of 3.5 tonnes (over 530 sacks) of litter has been collected by over 280 volunteers, aged from 1 to +81.</p><p>The battle against litter is nowhere near over and we need your help to keep our stunning Scottish landscape looking beautiful.</p><p><br></p><h2>2023 Litterpicking at The Real Food Cafe:</h2><h3>Dates:</h3><ul><li>Sunday 21 May</li><li>Sunday 25 June</li><li>Sunday 30 July</li><li>Sunday 27 August</li><li>Sunday 24 September</li><li>Sunday 29 October</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><strong><strong>Festive litterpick Friday 29 December - meals on us afterwards as a Christmas pressie from us!</strong></strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><strong>Sign up for one or all!</strong></strong></p><p>Our most recent events became so popular, that they became difficult to manage with the number of volunteers turning up, which is why we're asking volunteers to sign up.</p><p><br></p><h3>Time:</h3><p>11am to 1pm.</p><p><strong><strong>Volunteers who have never attended our litterpicking events are asked to arrive by 10.30am for a safety briefing.</strong></strong></p><p><br></p><h3>Location:</h3><p>The Real Food Cafe, Tyndrum</p><p><br></p><h2>What to Expect:</h2><p>The litter-picking events are inclusive, and everyone is welcome to join - children, dogs, adults.</p><p><br></p><h3>Meet-Up</h3><p>Volunteers arrive at the venue from 10:15 and will receive warm drinks and refreshments. We'll be serving our freshly made scones to give you an energy boost.</p><p><strong><strong>Volunteers who have never attended our litterpicking events are asked to arrive by 10.30am for a safety briefing.</strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve attended before, you don’t need to arrive until shortly before 11am depending on how fast you can finish your scone &amp; cuppa and to collect your equipment.</p><p><br></p><h3>Clean-Up</h3><p>Volunteers collect their tools (we provide hi-vis jackets, litter pickers and bags for all of our volunteers), get briefed, and go litter-picking, usually for two hours, depending on the weather.</p><p><br></p><h3>Eat-Up</h3><p>All of the participants then sit together to share a meal (fish &amp; chips or equivalent) as a reward.</p><p>There is a small (£5) contribution towards the meal (with a drink) to help cover the Cafe's costs.</p><p>Apart from the Chrismtas litterpick where meals will be on us afterwards as a Christmas pressie from us!</p>

<h2>Why Join - The Benefits of Litter-picking:</h2><p>Litterpicking is  curiously therapeutic outdoor activity with no screen time that will benefit our beautiful environment and wildlife. </p><p>It will make you feel good and help you create new relationships with like-minded people.</p><p>It is also an excellent role modeling opportunity for kids.</p>

<h2>Pick N Chips - Meet-Up, Clean-Up, Eat-Up</h2><h3>About the Campaign:</h3><p>Pick N Chips is a litter-picking campaign that aims to organise <strong><strong>coordinated social litterpicks across Scotland</strong></strong>.</p><p>The vision is to bring like-minded volunteers together to meet and work as a team and clean up their local community, then enjoy fish and chips and chat afterwards.</p><p><br></p><h3>Campaign Aims:</h3><ul><li>To clean up our local communities</li><li>Help protect our natural environment</li><li>Promote that message that littering is antisocial</li><li>Create welcoming events open to all which encourage mixing and socialisation</li><li>Raise awareness of the important role the Fish &amp; Chip industry plays in local communities</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>JOIN THE CAMPAIGN!</h3><p>We’d like the campaign to become nationwide and need more businesses get on board. Get in touch, if you'd like to join and make a positive difference in your community.</p><p>Find out more on our website at<a href="https://therealfoodcafe.com/pickinglitter" title="https://therealfoodcafe.com/pickinglitter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> therealfoodcafe.com/pickinglitter </a>and sign up for our litter-picking events via Eventbrite.</p><p><br></p><h3>Spread the Word</h3><p>Let's keep Scotland beautiful and spread the word with the hashtags <strong><strong>#fuelledonfishnchips #picknchips #KeepScotlandBeautiful #CleanupScotland</strong></strong>.</p>

Agenda

10:15 - volunteers start to arrive, 10:30 - safety briefing for first-time attendees, equipment collection, refreshments

Arrival, safety briefing for first-time attendees, hot drink & scones

Litterpicking

Group lunch - fish & chips or equivalent

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