This project encourages delegates to work with a local municipality to clean up a beach. It can include either buying or building trash and recycling containers, working with local organizations and educating local groups.
- To plan and organize a community event
- To consider ways to achieve corporate social responsibility
- To improve cooperation as a team
- To work on creativity, critical thinking and innovation
- To consider ways in CSR can be translated into a work environment
- To learn new skills with uses outside the workplace
- To explore a new culture
The group comes together at a beach that is in need of a clean-up and works together with the people from a local community to help or educate them, these can be schools, hotels, orphanages, or a local municipality. The clean-up can also involve building and placing trash cans for future prevention. The group can be divided into teams to encourage a bit of competition. After a hard day’s work the group comes together to celebrate the achievement.
CSR Beach Clean-up can be run with as little as 10 people or as many as 200. As this is a community CSR event splitting into teams is not required unless stipulated by the client.
Projects vary and depend on the group size and local needs of the moment. Projects often not only include the actual beach clean-up but also building and placing trash separation bins for future prevention and sometimes educating the locals to separate their waste.
The location for the event is at a beach nearby the client’s hotel.
Scoring and a winning team is not applicable as this is not a competitive activity, however this may be implemented upon the client’s wishes.
Insurance and instructor supervision are important safety factors with any event, and in the event of an emergency, transport and medical backup will be standing by.
The event briefing takes place at the activity location or the client’s hotel meeting room or lobby. In the briefing the group is separated into teams and introduced to the facilitators, then the lead facilitator gives an introduction of the event including instructions and objectives for the activity.
In the de-brief the lead facilitator goes through the event challenges and asks each team questions to assess their own performance before announcing and awarding the winning team if applicable.
There’s also time for providing further donations to the beneficiary and a group photo with the people of the beneficiary.
Briefing and de-brief usually take around 15 minutes each but can be extended upon request for more in-depth analysis of team performance.
The half day program takes up to 4 hours and the full day program up to 8 hours.
09.00 am – Event brief by lead facilitator
09.15 am – Start activity with teams going out to collect waste from the beach
10.15 am – Break
10.30 am – Teams construct waste separation bins
11.15 am – Teams deposit their collected waste into bins
11.30 am – Representatives of local municipality join for a talk on the subject
12.00 pm – Local recycle company comes to collect waste with proceedings donated to charity
12.30 pm – Event de-brief and group photo
01.00 pm – End of the program
Max People
Hours
Challenges
People per Team
Below are three options for CSR Beach Clean Up with different inclusions and rates all tailored to best match your budget and requirements. The Bronze option is a fixed program with few inclusions but the Silver and Gold packages include extra benefits and allow selection of some or all challenges. On the pricing page we offer further optional extras. The full day activity will have up to double the number of challenges.
All options include
One Western lead event facilitator
Ice-breaking activities
One bottle of water per person, first aid kits, rain coats
BRONZE
Basic materials for activity; garbage bags and rubber gloves
One facilitator per 40 pax
SILVER
Better materials for activity; garbage bags, grabbing sticks, better gloves
One facilitator per 20 pax
Bronze inclusions+
+Construction of waste separation bins
+Visit from local recycle company
+Free photos taken by facilitator
+Pre-event meeting
GOLD
Better materials for activity; garbage bags, grabbing sticks, better gloves
One facilitator per 20 pax
Silver inclusions+
+Visit from representative of local municipality
+Colored headbands to use
