Bute Wombles are a Litter Action Group and have been made a local Hub for Bute. We are out most weekends walking hiking and wild camping when weather and work permits us to. We pick up litter on our hikes around the island and up and down from our highest points to. Your more then welcome to join us just contact us with your information and one of our members will be back in touch with you ASAP.
Bute Wombles are a small group of volunteer Litter Pickers started during the Covid 19 outbreak, we love nature and the great outdoors but unfortunately we find a lot of rubbish left behind on our tracks, especially since lockdown. We are passionate about keeping our town and country litter free. Many of us have mental health problems and unseen disabilities and find collecting litter while walking, hiking and camping helps with our depression and anxieties. It's good getting together with like minded folk also passionate about keeping our Town and Country litter free.
"Volunteering has the ability to improve the quality of life and health including longevity of those who donate their time"
(Altruism, Happiness, and Health: It’s Good to Be Good
Stephen G. Post)
We are registered with Litter Action UK and Keeping Scotland Beautiful. We follow strict health and safety protocols set down by these agencies to keep ourselves and others safe.
For the future we would like to carry on as a group collecting litter from our hill tops, woods and trails plus liaise with local authorities and other groups here and on the mainland for bigger areas needing support. We would also like to involve other people on our walks now that social distancing has been relaxed; educational talks at schools and colleges, running fund raisers and ultimately achieving funding ourselves as we are currently self funded. All our equipment and PPE is supplied by ourselves from our own pockets and we've had to adhere to special protocols because of the Covid Virus as well as running our own risk assessments on safety.
Securing funding would help us with advertising, posters, website, PPE and replacement PPE (personal protection equipment) a cart for carrying equipment and rubbish, bicycle and trailer so we can cover the country roads safely and most importantly, group public liability insurance.
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