AN environmentally-conscious mum is supporting Surfers Against Sewage when All Saints’ Church fete is held in her garden at The Old Vicarage in Rockwell Green on Sunday (July 22).

The event, from 12.30-4pm, features live music, bar, light lunches, cream teas and stalls, and visitors will be able to enter the church and have a go at ringing the bells.

Mum Sarah Warner said: “My son recently returned from New Zealand, having travelled close to some of the islands of plastic waste in some areas of the Pacific. He was horrified at the rate at which these waste areas were accumulating plastic rubbish.

“I felt I needed to find a charity which was working to highlight this issue and SAS (Surfers Against Sewage) fitted the bill perfectly because it’s a South-West based charity which was keen to be involved and already has projects that are helping to tackle this issue on a local level.

“They are famed for their coastal litter picks but have also been involved with clean-ups that are non-coastal as well.

“I am hopeful that a beach-style’ clean up can be organised here next year. Isabel Ward and Wellington Town Transition Group seem to be keen to get this off the ground.

“I am regularly frustrated when out walking or cycling in our beautiful countryside around Wellington by the ever increasing amount of litter - mostly single use containers - which are littering the countryside.

“I decided to take a walk over Linden Hill and Burchills Hill curious to see how much waste I could find. Several carrier bags should do!

"Wrong! Two large and heavy black sacks later stuffed full of a variety of classics: a boot, somebody’s broken picnic table and several hundred single use containers that their owners couldn’t be bothered to take home.

“I am surfing through the items I picked up on my walk!”