Saturday, June 30, 2018

Deal Hop Farm Wins top horticultural award

The Deal Hop Farm - our Community Hop growing project in and around Deal - has been awarded a top national horticulture award - the Horticulture Week Custodian Award for 'Best Community Initiative'

Nominated by Mark Brent, Head Gardener for English Heritage's Walmer Castle Gardens

https://www.hortweek.com/horticulture-week-custodian-award-best-community-initiative/parks-and-gardens/article/1486144

Friday, June 29, 2018

Deal Town Council votes to support 'Plastic Free Deal'

Deal Town Council has voted to support 'Plastic Free Deal' this week. 

Addressed by Helen Matthews and Sarah Loftus from the campaign who detailed the progress of the project so far which is actively involving the community thru beach cleans and meetings, has over 15 businesses signed up the three pledge as well as number of local community organisations



The aim is to get individuals, community groups, businesses and local authorities to pledge to ditch at least three items of single use plastic.

The national initiative is run by Surfers Against Sewage and has over 300 local communities working in their #PlasticFreeCommunities award winning scheme

www.plasticfreedeal.org.uk

FB & Twitter @PlasticFreeDeal


Refill starts in East Kent


Launching in early summer 2018 in the Dover, Deal & Sandwich area, Refill East Kent is a joint project of Kingsdown Conservation Group, Deal With It – Transition Deal and Transition Dover.



Ian Williams, from Kingsdown Conservation Group and local coordinator for Refill East Kent said:

"The Refill team are delighted to have such great support from local businesses and our volunteers.

We have signed up over 35 before launch and are looking forward to many more joining us as the summer progresses.

Participating Refill Stations include the Deal Maritime Museum, Astor Theatre, Smugglers Records, Chequers Cookery School, Just Reproach, Slow Food Café, Seaward Gallery, Café at Pines Calyx, Park Café, The Post Room at Deal Station, Mrs Knotts at South Foreland Lighthouse, Spires Bar, Goose on the Green, Sea Café, St Margaret bay kiosk, Tempted Café at Eastry, White Cliffs Centre, The Lighthouse, Freedman, Piece of Cake, Scrumalicious and the Sandwich Shop.

The Refill App shows the nearest Station and every time you refill using the app you get points which go towards a Chilly’s water bottle. It is a simple idea which will reduce the amount of single use plastic bottles.

We are also taking the Refill message to many schools in the district and targeting the districts walking and cycling trails"



Refill is a national, free tap water initiative designed to reduce plastic pollution, and make refilling a water bottle easy.

The aim is to reduce the number of plastic bottles ending up in our oceans, while keeping you healthy, hydrated and saving you money at the same time.

So now over 10,000 friendly cafes, shops, hotels and businesses are welcoming you in to refill your water.

Anyone can download the free Refill app to see where they can Refill on the go, and always have access to a growing national list of refill points on their mobile device https://www.refill.org.uk/get-the-refill-app/

The local campaign welcome new sites and supporters and can be contacted by email at RefillEastKent@gmail.com, Facebook and Twitter at @RefillEastKent or at the www.refill.org.uk






Sunday, June 17, 2018

Thank you to Sue and Adrian

Massive thank you Sue and Adrian Sullivan who had a 'Open Wildlife Garden' for the last three days and raised over £400 for Deal With It. 

Thank you everyone who contributed. 

A great testament of the power of nature, beauty and cake. x

Friday, June 1, 2018

Thank you Landmark Uke Club for Donation to Deal With IT

The Landmark Ukulele Club (which meets every Friday at 10am at the Landmark Centre - £1 per session) has very kindly made a second donation of £200 to Deal With iT today.

Early in the year the club donated money so we could buy more pickers for our Beach Cleans.

This money will go towards some heavy duty builders truggs for the Beach Cleans (we are looking at ways to reduce the amount of plastic bags we use on the cleans and truggs will also help us to sort the litter into recyclables

The rest of the donation will be spent at the community garden at the Captain's Garden - we want to put in about 40 Lavender plants alongside the path

Thank you Ukes!

Donations are always welcome - we have three community garden projects plus expanding beach cleans :)


Deal Good Neighbour Week 1-7th June


Deal Good Neighbour Week starts today. 
Why not get involved with our beach cleans, community gardens, green energy, Deal Hop Farm, Guardians of the Deep, Wildlife, Bees and other stuff ?

Good for the planet, good for our community and good for you 

We will have a stall at Deal Town Hall on the 7th June and 9th at the Landmark or come down to our beach clean on Tuesday 5th at Walmer Castle 9:30am