Thank you to our 54 volunteers on today's Walmer Beach Clean. 36.7kilos collected most of it small stuff and about 1.5kilos of recyclables. 

We also had use our sharps box for the first time in 4years :( 

Next one on 14th April at Sandown Castle end of the beach.

This clean was part of #GreatBritishSpringClean #GBSpringClean with hundreds of events around the country cleaning parks, streets and localities … 

Thank you to the organising team Vicky, Paul, Wendy, Nick, John, Rose, Steve for making all happen

There is a Beach Clean on tomorrow at Kingsdown 10:30am if you need a fix or you join the Deal Station Clean Up Crew on Thursday from 3.30pm

Dover Repairs Cafe - Monday 25th March

Got anything that needs fixing? 

Don't throw it away - drop it down to the Dover Repairs Café

All fixings are FREE

Deal Town Council - Pollution Public Meeting 12th March 7:15pm

DON'T BE AN IDLER!

Air pollution is increasingly being linked to

Asthma

Heart Problems

Dementia

Other Lung Conditions

Would you like to help clean up the air we breathe in Deal?

Deal Town Council is looking for volunteers to help reduce air pollution caused by vehicles idling at road junctions and outside schools.

Find out how you can help at a public meeting on

12 March 2019

at 7.15pm

Deal Town Hall

High Street

Deal
CT14 6TR

For more information please visit our website

 www.deal.gov.uk

Or contact the Events Manager by email joanne.harper@deal.go.uk

Deal With iT - March Update

Very successful Beach Clean this month with over 70 volunteers plus a donation from the Landmark Ukulele Club of £200 towards new pickers… 60 people at the 3rd season launch meeting of Deal Hop Farm & so far nearly 40 new members plus we are supporting a new group in Hythe … lots happening at the Captain’s Garden and Deal Station Garden and a very successful Seedy Saturday


A number of supporters have been supporting the eXtinction Rebellion events and School Students Climate strikes in Canterbury – all trying to get the IPCC report of only 12 years to do something meaningful for climate change higher on the political agenda. A number of colleagues will be holding an open meeting at the Landmark Bar on 12th March and are supporting the Green Councillors motion to Dover District Council on 6th.

Tuesday 5th March Plastic Free Deal - Landmark Bar 6pm

Tuesday 5th March Captain’s Garden Community Garden @ Deal Castle - 10:30-12:00
(then Weekly)

Wednesday 6th Climate Emergency lobby & motion at Dover District Council 5:30pm-7:30pm Whitfield DDC (Organised by D&D Green Party/Cllrs)

Thursday 7th March - Captain’s Garden Community Garden @ Deal Castle - 10:30-12:00
(then Weekly)

Thursday 7th March – Deal Station Clean Up Crew – 2pm to 4pm

Tuesday 12th Deal Climate Emergency initial chat 5:30pm Landmark Bar

Saturday 16th March Deal Hop Farm Rhizome pick up Landmark Garden 10:30 to 12:30

Saturday 23rd March – Walmer Beach Clean – Sea Café 9:30am
Part of the UK wide – ‘Great British Spring Clean’

Sunday 24th March – Kingsdown Beach Clean – Zetland 10:30 to 12:30
Part of the UK wide – ‘Great British Spring Clean. Organised by Kingsdown Conservation Group

Monday 25th March – Dover Repair Café Biggin Hall Dover 5:30

Monday 1st April – Deal Station Garden 10am to 12 Deal Rail Station

Tuesday 2nd April - Captain’s Garden Community Garden @ Deal Castle - 10:30-12:00
(then Weekly)

Weds 3rd April Plastic Free Deal - Landmark Bar 6pm

Thursday 4th April - Captain’s Garden Community Garden @ Deal Castle - 10:30-12:00
(then Weekly)

Thursday 4th April – Deal Station Clean Up Crew – 4:30 to 5:30pm (1st Thursday of Month)

Sunday 14th April – Deal Beach Clean (Sandown Castle end) 9:30am
Part of Surfers Against Sewage ‘Big Spring Beach Clean’

Easter Monday 22nd April – Open Garden at the Captain’s Garden @ Deal Castle

Sunday 28th April – Special Deal Beach Clean for World Scouting day

Monday 29th April – Dover Repair Café Biggin Hall Dover 5:30

Saturday 25th May – Spring Seedy Saturday 10:30 -12:30 Landmark Garden

Sunday 30th June – Landmark Garden National Garden Scheme (NGS)

Wednesday 31st July – Get Buzzing at Betteshanger County Park 11am to 3pm

Deal Beach Clean 24th Feb 2019

Thank you to our 70 volunteers on today's Community Deal Beach Clean. 

Over 15kgs collected & logged on today's clean supporting the work of Marine Conservation Society.

Our next clean is on Walmer Beach on Saturday 23rd March at 9:30am

Thank you to Wendy, Vicky, Sonja, John and Rose for organising today

Deal Beach Clean Sunday 24th Feb 10am Deal Pier

Our next beach clean is this Sunday - Part of the Marine Conservation Society's Survey of rubbish around the UK Coastline

Meet us at Deal Pier at 10am - Equipment supplied but if you have your own gloves that would be useful :)

Deal Hop Farm - Stalls for Rhizome pick ups

Deal Hop Farm has three dates for rhizome pick ups

• Saturday 23rd Feb - Seedy Saturday - Landmark Garden 10:30 to 12:15
• Saturday 2nd March - Landmark Garden 10:30 to 12:15
  Saturday 16th March - Landmark Garden 10:30 to 12:15

Always best to order in advance for existing and new members

info@dealhopfarm.org.uk

Deal Seedy Saturday 23rd Feb from 10.30

Deal 'Market of Green Ideas'

Thank you to everyone who came to our Market of Green Ideas on Saturday - Hope you all got some cake!

Special thanks to all those who ran the stalls, those who helped organise the event and baked and the staff at the town hall.

• Beach Clean Team
• Trees for Deal
• Deal Station Gardeners & Clean Up Crew
• Deal Hop Farm
• Dover Repair Café & Transition Dover
• Guardians of Deep
• Deal Frock Swap
• Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
• Plastic Free Deal
• Deal NGS
• Refill East Kent
• Deal & Dover Fairtrade
• Captains Garden Group

It was great to celebrate our 12th birthday with a very busy 2018:

• 5,369 Volunteer Hours
• 15 Community Beach Cleans
• 1,106 Kilos of rubbish collected from Deal & Walmer Beaches
• 22 Refill stations in the Town
• some 902 volunteers on our community Beach Cleans
• 15 Plastic Free Businesses
• 210 sites growing hops with some 330 people involved
• 3,815 people engaged on public events like Seedy Saturday, Captain's Garden Open Days etc
• 2 great local beers brewed with over 12k pints
• 100+ trees given away
• and probably the smallest barley field in the world

We are grateful for the Deal Town Council kindly waiving their rental of the town hall.

Deal Hop Farm - 3rd Season Launch - Thursday 7th Feb 6:30pm

Market of Green Ideas and DWI Hoohaa (birthday party+AGM=Cake) Sat 2nd Feb

Deal Hop Farm 2nd AGM

2nd AGM of the Deal Hop Farm was held the Astor Theatre on Sunday. 

42 sites / 52 people including colleagues from Hythe Hops our sister organisation in Hythe. Special thank you to Dr Peter Darby for his interesting talk on where our Prima Donna hops came from and managing the diseases and pests.

The launch of the third season starts in Feb ...

DHF will have stall at the Market of Green Ideas on the 2nd at the town hall and a launch meeting at the Lighthouse on the 7th at 6.30pm Plus stalls at Landmark on 10/23rd Feb and 2nd March

'Cuddle Earth' Beach Clean at Sandwich Bay

There was 50+ volunteers on the 'Cuddle Earth' ( a local Sandwich toy company which is supporting Surfers against Sewage) at a cold and windy Sandwich Bay today.

About 90kgs collected by the volunteers in about 1.30.

Thank you the Deal With It volunteers who helped run the event - Rose, Rosin, Wallace, John, Graham and Steve. Great to see many Guardians of the Deep there :)

The next Deal With It Beach Clean will be at Deal Pier on Sunday 24th February at 10am. This will part of the Marine Conservation Society's national survey of beaches so we will be logging what we find

Dover Repair Cafe is on Monday 28th Jan

Deal With It - January Update

We had a great start to the year with 120 volunteers out on our first Community Beach Clean of 2019 on the 1stJanuary

Lots happening and to get involved with in 2019.

It also our 12th Birthday in February !

Sunday 27th January – ‘Cuddle Earth’ Sandwich Bay Beach Clean 10am

We are supporting a local Sandwich Toy Company who wants to organise beach cleans at the bay as part of their support for Surfers Against Sewage charity.

Please tell the Toll Operatives you are here for ‘Cuddle Earth Beach Clean’ and you will not be charged for accessing the bay

Meeting on Princes Drive nr the first bin store on the beach - Its going to be cold so please dress toastie + bring a flask with a warm drink

Sunday 27th January – Deal Hop Farm AGM 6pm Astor Theatre
Special guest speaker: Dr Peter Darby of Wye Hops/British Hop Association

Monday 28th January – Dover Repairs Cafe
Biggin Hall, Biggin St Dover – 18:30 to 20:30

Thursday 7th February – Deal Hop Farm:
3rd Season Launch Meeting 6:30pm
Lighthouse Pub, Strand (new 2019 membership form enclosed)


Saturday 2nd February – 'Deal Market of Green Ideas' (+Inc DWI HooHaa/AGM)
Deal Town Hall 10:30 to 1pm
Come to our 12yr Birthday Party ! Includes Deal With It AGM, Cakes + Tea, stalls on Beach Cleans, Deal Hop Farm, Station Garden, Captains Garden, Plastic Free Deal, Refill East Kent, Deal Forest, Landmark Garden, Guardians of Deep and Trees for Deal project.

Also some very interesting projects for 2019 on Deal Preserves Co-op, work on rare Kent moths with Butterfly Conservation Trust and supporting Cycle Friendly Deal

Thursday 7th February - Deal Station Clean Up Crew 2pm to 4pm

Thursday 15th February - Deal Station Clean planting 10am to Noonish

Saturday 23rd February – Seedy Saturday: Seed and plant swap
Landmark Garden 10:30 to 12:30pm

Sunday 24th February – MCS Beach Clean Deal Pier 9.30am
One of two annual Marine Conservation Society cleans where we log what we find.

Saturday 23rd March – Big Spring Clean Beach Clean – Walmer 9:30am
Meet at Sea Café

Sunday 14th April – Surfers Against Sewage ‘Big Spring Beach Clean’ Sandown Castle 9:30am


PLUS Our Regular weekly sessions at the Captain’s Garden are every Tuesday and Thursday 10am to Noonish – All Welcome. can be weather dependent

Cuddle Earth Beach Clean at Sandwich Bay 27th January 10am

Deal With It is supporting the 'Cuddle Earth' Beach Clean at  Sandwich Bay on Sunday 27th January 2019 at 10am meet at the first set of bins on Princes Drive (direction of Princes Golf Club).

If you tell the attendents on the Toll booths you are coming to the 'Cuddle Earth Beach Clean' you will not be charged the Toll fee of £7

More info on Cuddle Earth  - They are local Sandwich toy firm supporting Surfers Against Sewage

Extinction Rebellion is coming to Kent 5th January 2019

There will be an Extinction Rebellion event in Canterbury 11:00 Saturday 5th January 2019 near the Guildhall.

The event is part of the global protest at the lack of local, regional and national action to mitigate the causes of climate change. The rebellion objectives have been well documented in the media and perhaps you and some your group members have been participating in recent London action. The objectives are:

The Government must tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency, reverse inconsistent policies and work alongside the media to communicate with citizens.
The Government must enact legally binding policy measures to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025 and to reduce consumption levels.

A national Citizen’s Assembly to oversee the changes, as part of creating a democracy fit for purpose.

Please do circulate this to your members to let them know about the event so that as many as possible Canterbury and surrounding areas environmentally concerned citizens can participate.

 Together we hope to demonstrate the scale of our collective demand to have a new and bolder approach to tackling the causes of climate change

Event and contact details: facebook.com/XRCanterbury/

More about Extinction Rebellion www.rebellion.earth

Volunteer day at Captain's Garden Tuesday 8th January 2019 from 10am

Deal With It working with English Heritage are trying to bring the buildings at the Captain's Garden back into use in 2019.

There are plans for a café in the Cottage and to make the Stable block into a community space / art exhibition area.

On Tuesday 8th Jan we will clearing the stable 10am to 2pm and volunteers are very welcome.

If you can make it please bring gloves / broom/ brush etc

This is part of our partnership with English Heritage to bring the full Garden back in use by the local community.

This work day will be one of a series to get the Stable into a condition that it can be used by the community. There will be a need for EH to do some minor building work to the ceiling and getting the toilet /kitchen operational again during the year.

The Space has electricity, later on water and hopefully WIFI once the Café in Cottage is operational.

We think the space has a lot of potential for community use; classes & meetings, exhibition space, workshop space. please drop us a line with ideas to info@dealwithit.org.uk

The Captains Garden Group has a Facebook page at @CaptainsGardenDeal

The garden team are there every Tuesday and Thursday between 10am to Noon. New volunteers very welcome

The idea for 2019 is to formalise the arrangements with English Heritage for the site by establishing a Community Interest Company (CIC) or similar, with the objective for this year to develop a master plan for the whole site which the wider community in Deal and Walmer can shape.

The site at the Captain's Garden is not a priority for English Heritage within their portfolio nor is it likely they will be able to fund any major development in the near future but they very supportive of our initiative and willing to work with us.

First Deal Beach Clean of 2019

Thank you to our amazing 120 volunteers on our first community beach clean of 2019. 

Over 75 kilos of rubbish picked up (21 kilos bottles + Cans, 1kg of plastic bottles all recycled) on a beautiful morning to be on our beach.

DDC had been out early to take most of the celebratory rubbish off the prom

Thanks to Deal With It Volunteers Vicky, Sonja, Rose, Paul, Graham, Mark,  Nick & Steve for sorting stuff out, setup and pack away

Our next scheduled clean is on 24th Feb again at Deal Pier (this one is part of the national Marine Conservation Society's monitoring programme) plus we are supporting the 'Cuddle Earth' clean for Surfers Against Sewage on Sunday 27th January 10am Sandwich Bay (more details soon on this)

Great start to 2019 - Happy New Year Deal

Future dates:

Saturday 23rd March - Walmer Beach part of the National 'Big Spring Clean'

Sunday 14th April - Sandown Castle end

New Year's Day Community Beach Clean - 1st January 2019 10am Deal Pier