Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 5 August, 2008 : - - Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and Barefoot Wine have completed a very successful week long a national beach clean-up tour. The ‘Barefoot Friendly’ beach litter tour finished in Cromer and Tynemouth over the weekend. In all over 400 people helped during the week’s clean up and over a tonne of litter was removed from the 7 beaches visited!

Andy Cummins, Campaign Officer at SAS, said “Marine litter is a huge problem on beaches all over the country and by its very definition, we are responsible for this marine litter in the marine environment.  This tour gave beach-lovers a great opportunity to make a real and very positive difference on their local beach!  It’s really important that people take an interest but it’s also really important that people have fun doing it and this week certainly proved to be fun as well as productive”.

Each beach clean was followed by a delicious, free BBQ on the beach for all volunteers and for those that wanted to stay on afterwards, volunteers, friends and family enjoyed an evening of fun surf quizzes and free Barefoot wine at local watering holes.

Emily Smith, marketing manager, Barefoot wine, said “It was a real honour for Barefoot wine to work in partnership with SAS on the ‘Making Beaches Barefoot Friendly’ campaign. Beaches are such an important part of our environment and it’s crucial that we treat them with respect so that they remain fun, clean and safe places for us to enjoy.”

SAS and Barefoot Wines would like to thanks all the voluntees, surf quiz venues and local authorities who helped out with the event.

For more information about the campaign, please contact Andy Cummins at SAS on 01872 555950 or andy@sas.org.uk. Alternatively, visit the mini-site at www.sas.org.uk/campaign/littertour or write to Andy Cummins, SAS Unit 2, St Agnes, Cornwall, TR5 0RD. For more information about Barefoot wine, please contact Izzy Shirley on 020 7492 0915 or Isabel.shirley@77pr.co.uk.

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