As part of our club’s 75th anniversary President Marianne introduced 75 Days of Kindness to Nature starting on the 1st January – 15th March (75 days) which also encompassed participating in conservation and environmental scheme surveys.
Here are some of the things our members undertook during this time:
Subscriptions to North Wales Wildlife Trust, National Trust, WWF -UK World Wildlife Fund and RSPB
Listened to speaker at February Club meeting : Gem Simmons in February- representing: British Divers Marine Life Rescue (bdmlr.org.uk), North Wales Seal Research Organisation (nwsro.org) and Marine Environmental Monitoring (strandings.com)
Congratulated Secretary Vikki Williams who completed 75 Cold Water Dips during the year raising awareness of clean seas and rivers
Participated in Big Garden Bird Watch 2024
Participated in The BIG Plastic Count 11-17th March
Visited North Wales Wildlife Trust Exhibition at Storiel, Bangor.
Undertook Harvest Mouse Survey
Supported Green Peace – open letter plastics Dove
Distributed at our 75th Charter Lunch in June and then again at our 75th Celebration Tea all guests packets of wild flower seeds as a gift to take away
Recycled and/or Repurposed
Clothes – Rownd a Rownd, Clothes Ty Gobaith – Gift Aid, Food Bank Donations, Food Recycling – small brown bin, Paper / cardboard, Plastic, Tins, Glass jars/ bottles, Batteries, Plastic Carrier Bags, Electrical Goods, Spectacles, Garden waste, Plastic Bottle tops – exterior furniture project, Crisp Packets – Homeless blanket project, Stamps – North Wales Society for Blind
Participated in Volunteering and Litter Picking
Door step litter picking- outside front door, supporting local nature reserves, helping at Food Bank
Changed to reduced carbon footprint purchases
Toilet Paper (Oceans), Kitchen Rolls (Oceans), Laundry Sheets (Oceans), Bamboo Toothbrushes, Bamboo Toilet Rolls and purchasing other eco friendly cleaning and laundry products
Reduced consumption of animal based foods (one plant based day per week for a year is equivalent to taking a car off the road for a month – for each person who participates)
Repaired Electrical Appliances
Kettles, Iron, Vacuum, Washing Machine, Fridge/ Freezer
Reduced transport footprints
Investing in Rail Passes/ Bus Passes – on the bus / walking instead of jumping in the car, Driving Hybrid Car
Changed in the home
Light bulbs for LED, installed solar panels, added insulation
Supported In the garden
Bird Feeders with many different seeds and food, ice free and clean Water Stations, Compost Bins, scattered Wild Flower Seeds, planted more Wild hedgerow – brambles & berries, Hedgehog habitat, installed and renewed Bird boxes, planting with food for moths, butterflies and bees in mind
Delaying spring tidy up and cutting back (to increase habitat for invertebrates) and pledging to delay grass mowing/leave patches of long grass
