Love Cambridge Make a Difference Day Friday 14th May 2010
Love Cambridge held the first Make a Difference Day in the city centre on Friday 14th May which included our famous Bag Lady!
The Love Cambridge Make a Difference Day held a carrier bag exchange in order to help reduce the number of plastic bags being used in Cambridge and along with sponsor Donarbon, many town centre businesses swapped their normal plastic carrier bags for our limited edition reusable Love Cambridge paper bags which were distributed on and after Friday 14th May 2010. Companies that signed up the Charter and Bag Exchange include:
Breeze on Trinity Street
Cambridge Wine Merchants, Mill Road, Kings Parade, Bridge Street
Boudoir Femme, King Street
John Lewis, St Andrews Street
Millers Music, Sussex Street
Arthur Rank Hospice Shop, Regent Street
Wharton Goldsmith, St Johns Street
Visit Cambridge, Pea Hill
Blue Arrow, Regent Street
The Shop at Kings College, Kings Parade
Bellanapoli Café, Regent Street
Boots, Petty Cury
Boots, Grafton Centre
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel
Cambridge Market
La Raza Ltd
The Pen Shop, Grand Arcade
Wesley Barrell, Regent Street
CAMBAC
BHS, Grafton Centre
Bellanapoli Cafe, Regent Street
Marks & Spencer, Sidney Street
Marks & Spencer, Market Square
Cellini, Rose Crescent
Sandra Jane, Kings Street
Neals Yard Remedies, Rose Crescent
Cambridge Strings, Kings Street
GAP, Market Street
In addition to this we had our very own uniquely dressed ‘Bag Lady’ present in the Market Square encouraging people to swap their plastic bags for special limited edition Love Cambridge cloth bags. All the plastic bags collected as part of the project were responsibly recycled using a local Cambridge business, Marchant Manufacturing.
Marchant reprocessed all the bags collected and turned them back into black refuse sacks which are sold by UK supermarkets. Making black bags and other products from local polythene waste ensures materials are re-used not landfilled and helps ensure we don't waste the earth’s resources.
The day was a huge success, the Cambridge Evening News included articles prior to and after our Make a Difference day helping promote the Day and the Charter Project. Our Bag Lady attracted a lot of public attention with her unique costume and we were able to swap all our cloth bags in a very short space of time! Rose Crescent, headed by Cellini's kindly decorated their street with special balloons and flowers specially for the Make A Difference day. Rod Cantrill from Cambridge City Council was photographed signing up to the Charter alongside members of Love Cambridge Emma Thornton and Ian Sandison on the day outside Cellini's.
Press coverage
For more information on how to get involved in future projects like this, please call Becky Burrell 01223 457198 or email becky.burrell@love-cambridge.co.uk
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