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Folkestone Guides to celebrate ‘World Thinking Day 2025’ with eco-themed event
8th Folkestone Guides:
With Jenny's support, 8th Folkestone Guides have been developing skills in orienteering, visiting Folkestone's Pent Stream and have written to their MP about issues important to them. They have taken beach and river walks, including a beach litter pick, and have taken part in rock pooling sessions organised by Kent Wildlife Trust.
Blue Influencer Project:
8th Folkestone Guide's project involves looking at Fast Fashion and it's impact on 'blue' matters, including water usage and pollution. They have been working with a local women's art activism group - a:dress - learning about fast fashion and plastic pollution, and even upcycling different materials into clothes and fashion accessories which will be showcased at a fashion show. The group even received a commendation for their actions in the 2024 Wilder Kent Awards!
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National Marine Week: Blue Influencers
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Those of you who have been following the development of the Blue Influencers Scheme being delivered by Kent Wildlife Trust may recall that KWT successfully bid for funding from The Ernest Cook Trust and the #iwill Fund and were awarded £20,000 a year for…
Green your Halloween: Sustainable tips from Folkestone Blue Influencers
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Here's how to make your Halloween sustainable, from trick-or-treating more responsibly to using the entire pumpkin.
A:dress is a company that turns rubbish and old plastic things that could have gone into the ocean into fashion... and for the past few weeks or so, we've been working with them to make our own outfits. We were using rubber beach rings that had blown away, we were using onion skins, crisp packets, all that type of stuff! I had a long-sleeve white shirt which I cut both the sleeves off and made them jagged, made the bottom bit jagged as well, and then I made - myself - a fish tie out of metal.Evie, 8th Folkestone Guides
8th Folkestone guides utter despair at the amount of litter found in their blue spaces, including a shopping trolley!Jenny Luddington, Blue Mentor
8th Folkestone Guides litter pick
8th Folkestone Guides litter pick
8th Folkestone Guides litter pick