Scottish Sailor Receives The Green Blue's Individual
Environmental Excellence Award
Carol Gilles from the Toward
Sailing Club, Argyll was presented with The Green Blue’s Inaugural
Award for Individual Environmental Excellence by Dee Caffari, an
ambassador for The Green Blue, at a special ceremony held at the
PSP Southampton Boat Show on Thursday 22 September.
The Environmental
Excellence Award is presented to an individual within the UK
recreational boating sector who has been a hardworking champion of
sustainability within their organisation, club, training centre or
business.
On receiving her trophy
for Environmental Excellence Carol said “Thank you so much for this
trophy – it means a lot to my club and all the members to have our
efforts recognised in this way.”
Speaking at the
presentation Alan Morgan, President of the British Marine
Federation said: “Carol reflects the very essence of this award –
an unsung hero, passionate and committed to sustainable
boating”
Carol has always been
environmentally aware and has implemented a number of environmental
actions at the Toward Club. Environmental awareness updates are a
regular feature of the club’s newsletters – 90% of which are now
electronic, thanks to Carol. She introduced recycling to the
clubhouse which she monitors on a regular basis and is active in
encouraging members to dispose of rubbish in an environmentally
friendly way.
The club has encouraged
members to fill their outboards as far away from the shoreline as
possible in order to prevent spills into the water. Throwing cans
or bottles, far less any plastic rubbish, overboard is now
unthinkable at the club.
The Environmental
Excellence trophy will be an annual award and was established to
honour the memory of Sally Banham who spent many years working to
improve environmental awareness across the recreational marine
sector and was instrumental in creating The Green Blue. Sally
very sadly died in 2008. We were very pleased that Sally’s sister,
Carol and her mother Angela were pable to to join us at the
ceremony.
Published
23/09/11
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