Litter Picking with the Sustainability Committee and Miss Wales 2025 finalist
Join us and Miss Wales finalist Leiah Ritchie for a collaborative litter pick fundraiser and raise awareness about waste.
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Sun 06 April 2025
14:00 - 16:00 - Location
- Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay , Further info
- Contact
- thegreenteam@uwe.ac.uk thegreenteam@uwe.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free
- Attendance
- Booking required
Description
Are you passionate about helping the environment? If so, this event is for you!
Raise awareness of the issue of waste and take part in this litter-picking fundraiser. Not only will you be helping to clean up your local environment, you'll be supporting charity.
Student of Environmental Management and Miss Wales 2025 finalist, Leiah Ritchie, are collaborating with the Sustainability Committee on a litter pick fundraiser.
This event will raise funds for the Miss World charity, 'Beauty With A Purpose', which helps children worldwide, It will also support the not-for-profit organisation, 'A-Sisterhood', which seeks to empower, support and protect women worldwide.
The route will begin and end at Arnolfini café, where there'll be a social. Along the way, we'll litter pick in local green spaces, such as Queen Square and College Green.
Litter-picking equipment will be provided but please feel free to bring along your own if you have it.
Make sure you wear practical clothes and footwear (sturdy, closed-toe shoes) and check the weather beforehand so you can dress accordingly and be as comfortable as possible.
Registration and tickets
Register your place via the sign up form.
- Cost: Free
- Attendance: Booking required
How to find us
Meet the Sustainability Committee and and Miss Wales 2025 finalist, Leiah Ritchie outside the Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA.
Location
Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol
BS1 4QA
UK
Accessibility
The Students’ Union at UWE welcomes all abilities/disabilities, ages, ethnicities, religions and gender into our spaces.
If you have any questions, concerns or additional requirements then please let us know so that we can make your time at this event as comfortable as possible.
For more information about this event, please contact: thegreenteam@uwe.ac.uk
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