Da Voar Redd Up is the UK’s most successful community litter-picking event. It makes a huge contribution to the protection of Shetland’s natural environment and wildlife, clearing Shetland’s beaches, coastlines and roadsides of litter and the debris washed up by winter storms. Naturally here in Fair Isle, our peerie school plays a part in keeping the isle clean. So, we donned our gloves, armed ourselves with litter-pickers (kindly provided by Pat) and set off on a 3 kilometer walk to clear as much rubbish as we could find. Our Shared Headteacher, Christie, has been visiting us from the mainland this week too so we were delighted she could see how eager-eyed we are and how we take pride in our surroundings.

We managed a whopping three whole bags full of rubbish. Because we were out and about in the community, we could not resist the chance for a stop to see some newborn lambs and one of our mums, Eileen, provided us with some delicious cake to keep us going at the halfway point! A big thank you to everyone who joined us and a massive well done to our children for their efforts.

Stay tuned for more updates from our collaboration with the Bird Obs and the first of the cruise ship visits…