Turn the Tide Dawlish
We had the pleasure of attending the ‘Turn The Tide’ festival in Dawlish recently with the Waste Education Team from Devon County Council and Resource Futures!
Turn the Tide was a festival to raise awareness about our marine environment and wellbeing. CAG was there to support this message and support our CAG groups Turn the Tide and Dawlish Against Plastic.
The atmosphere at the festival was buzzing with activity, a testament to the passion of its volunteers. The festival kicked off with a fundraiser featuring Troubadour Theatre’s “Whose Wild World?” and on World Oceans Day there was an 18m whale installation with an exhibition inside, eco-friendly stalls, and various activities, with a lively evening of music and dancing.
There were lots of great organisations including the Mossy Carpet from the Art and Energy Collective, Circus Skills, an Exeter University Marine Biologist, Devon Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency, Devon Waste Education, Teign Estuary Coastal Partnership, Rise and Rewild CIC, Dawlish Against Plastic, Sustainable Dawlish and Shores of South Devon.
The Waste Educators and CAG Devon stands had a safe children’s play environment with various games, such as the litter picking game and the bean bag game. Activities that honed the message about plastic pollution and littering.
The ‘bean bag’ game: Where children have to put the bean bag in the correct bin to either, reduce, reuse, recycle, Energy from Waste or compost. Each bean bag is labelled with an item like ‘carrots’, ‘crisp packets’ or ‘blue paper towels’. Which bin do carrots, crisp packets and blue paper towels go in?
The litter-picking game: Where children race with each other to see who is the fastest litter picker, picking litter from a hula hoop and then putting it in a bucket. Afterwards, the children celebrated with some exercise by hula hooping.
Bonster the Hungry Monster: The waste educators held story time sessions at the stand like the reading of the fun story, ‘Bonster the Hungry Monster’. A book created to encourage children to think about food waste, click the link for the full story Bonster the Hungry Monster.
Overall, the event was a testament to the power of community and education in promoting environmental awareness. The enthusiasm of volunteers, the engaging activities and diverse organisations all contributed to a brilliant day. Well done to everyone involved in putting together the event and we look forward to next year!
