Many thanks to all of you who helped make Love Nature Week a great success this year. Over 600 of you stepped up and donated almost 2,200 hours of your time to take part in our street bucket collection. You collected over £35,600 in total!
That’s fantastic news for wildlife. All the money raised is being spent in the region it was collected, helping the nature near you that needs it most.
Anyone can take part in a bucket collection – all you need is a big smile, just like the smile that comes naturally to one of our amazing volunteers, Philippa Pickworth.
Philippa has been helping nature for many years. She believes in living and working in an environmentally friendly way – read here about the steps she has taken that have earned her self-catering cottages a Green Tourism Award. She is also a dedicated RSPB Pin Badge box volunteer. This year she went a step further, and helped out with a Love Nature Week bucket collection in Aberystwyth.
Nice weather for ducks?
Like many collectors, Philippa found that boots and raincoat were essential parts of the kit this year, as the weather on the day was truly atrocious. But it didn’t spoil the fun, or the fundraising!
She told us: 'The wind blew and rain came down — the perfect June summer day! Despite this and a week of flooding to dampen even the liveliest of spirits, the people of Aberystwyth gave generously and asked questions and shared stories.
Kids gave their coppers in exchange for a sticker, some gave their silver to empty their pocket, many dropped a golden nugget or two in my bucket.
The lovely ladies of Pets At Home made a hot cup of coffee to warm my fingers. It seems the people of Aberystwyth really do LOVE NATURE!'
That’s the spirit!
This captures the spirit of our bucket collections — putting the fun into fundraising, and helping save nature together.
The next step
We’re looking for even more volunteers this month to take part in our Together for Trees bucket collections on 21 and 22 September. All money raised will go towards protecting rainforests around the world. Register to save a forest today here!
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