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Life’s a beach… and Virgin staff cleaned it

Staff from Virgin Money stepped out of their day jobs in the bank and headed out to clean part of the beach at Seaton Sluice with Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Head of Conservation, Steve Lowe and Living Seas Officer, Aurelie Bohan.

In a little over two hours, the Team from the Company’s Gosforth office mastered their litter-picking equipment and cleared a whopping 300kgs of waste from Collywell Bay on the lowest tide of the year.

So enjoyable was the event, another two groups from Virgin Money have booked in for beach clean-up sessions with Steve and Aurelie before the end of 2015.

Trust Head of Conservation Steve Lowe said: “Fired on by their bacon sandwiches, the team from Virgin Money worked non-stop and for them to collect as much rubbish as they did in a little over two hours is no mean feat! It’s great for staff in other organisations to leave their desks behind for the day and come out with us… the great outdoors is a wonderful way to charge your human battery, plus they help us with work which we would not normally have the time to tackle.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sue Bishop .