Charity holds first coffee morning of the year
THE BRITISH Heart Foundation’s first fundraising coffee morning of the year, was held at Macclesfield Conservative Club.
It was attended by both MP David Rutley and Mayor of Macclesfield, Coun Adam Schofield.
The event was organised to raise funds for the charity’s crucial work in and around Macclesfield such as visiting local schools to teach young people vital resuscitation skills as well as supporting their premises in Macclesfield Town Centre.
The coffee morning was successful due to stalls selling home-baked treats and hot drinks as well as a tombola raising £110, to be directly invested in the work of The British Heart Foundation. Mr Rutley spoke at the event alongside the BHF’s Corporate and Community Relationship Manager, Leah Goodhind on the positive work that the charity has done for the local community.
A cardio-pulmonary resuscitation demonstration was also given by Macclesfield and Bollington’s First Responders.
After the event, David commented, ‘I am pleased to support the important work of the British Heart Foundation locally, and would like to thank all those volunteers who helped to organise the coffee morning, and the generosity of local people for donating to this positive cause.’ OUR residents’ survey tells us that near the top of Macclesfield folk’s concerns - just behind the future of our health services - is litter.
We agree - a healthy, happy population needs a clean, healthy environment to thrive in.
Cheshire East actually runs a very good kerbside waste collection service, with regular emptying of bins and just the one “silver” bin for all recyclables.
However, they are maybe not so hot when it comes to dealing with litter dropped on the pavement or in the park.
But it’s not just about cleaning up the rubbish that has already been dropped. We need to look for ways to reduce the amount of packaging that so much of our everyday goods come wrapped in.
For example, in the UK as a whole, 35 million plastic bottles are bought every day – that’s 200 per person every year – and 44% of these are not recycled.
This means 16 million plastic bottles every day end up in our environment, whether sent to landfill, incinerated or simply dumped in the countryside, parks, streets or beaches.
We need to move towards a culture of recycling, reusing and refilling. Cheshire East or the Town Council could introduce a bottle deposit scheme, free public water dispensers and a community refill scheme.
Nationally and globally, we must work to phase out unnecessary singleuse plastics.
Perhaps, like other areas, Macclesfield could have a “Clean Team” of volunteers who come together to help keep their local areas clean.
It was tragic to learn of the death of most of the carp in Ryle’s Pool in South Park the other week. We have a responsibility for the wellbeing of creatures we keep in captivity - let’s hope the aerators that have now been installed help the remaining fish to live out full healthy lives.