So you want to hold your own clean event? Amazing! Here’s our 5 step process to organising the event. Questions? See our FAQ’s below as well as our top tips.

1. First things first, choose a location, it doesn’t have to be a beach! Sadly plastic pollution is a global issue . Larger, more remote beaches will be harder hit.

2. Please download and fill in the following documents

Pre-Event Checklist– This lets us get to know you and your event to provide as much help as possible.

This lets us get to know you and your event to provide as much help as possible. Owner Notification Letter – This notifies the owner of the area, often the local council or the National Trust, that you are intending to carry out a clean. * If your beach clean is on Cornwall Council land please see below.

– This notifies the owner of the area, often the local council or the National Trust, that you are intending to carry out a clean. * If your beach clean is on Cornwall Council land please see below. Beach Clean Risk Assessment, River Clean Risk Assessment or Street Clean Risk Assessment – Please read through our risk assessment and add any additional risks that may be specific to your chosen clean site.

or Please read through our risk assessment and add any additional risks that may be specific to your chosen clean site. SAS-Safety-Guidelines – Please read our safety guidelines and use them to add to your risk assessment if necessary.

3. Send the completed ‘Pre-Event Checklist’ to Jack via email at beachcleans@sas.org.uk (please send this as a Word document or PDF as we are unable to open Pages files).

4. Print off the following documents to have with you on the day of the beach clean to show volunteers who wish to read them:

5. Don’t forget to Say ‘Thank You!’ – Your clean volunteers are donating a valuable thing to support us, their time! Weekends are precious things and the fact that people not only want but actually look forward to spending that time with us is a truly inspiring thing.

* Thanks to an ongoing partnership with Cornwall Council and Clean Cornwall we have been given blanket permission to run cleans on their beaches. If your beach is on the list here; Council Owned Beaches you no longer need to complete the Beach Manager Notification Letter above. Just let the SAS Beach Clean Team know.