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BOSS Today #51 MEMBER STORY

Keeping It Pure

Last November - just before they won a Community Heroes award at the BOSS Awards night -
BCD approached Pure Sea about supporting their efforts to clean up the world’s oceans and
beaches. This support began in January 2021 and, as lockdown eases, the first fundraising

event being run by Pure Sea is happening on the 22nd May at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

We caught up with Paul Duffield, make a difference. assisted by fundraising events and
Managing Director of BCD, and Lisa I’d like to think that Pure Sea is parties to keep the funding coming
Good, the Founder of Pure Sea, to hear an organisation that the industry in to provide the equipment we need
more about this feelgood story. could get behind. Of course, we all as to carry out the cleans. Our intention
businesses have different charities is also to help fund individual teams
Q: How did this link up that we support, but it would be nice around the world to maintain and
come about? to have one environmentally-focused protect marine life, as it is essential to
charity that we could say we all our ecosystem.
PD: I’d been looking for a second support between us. Hopefully, that’s
cause to get BCD involved in, since our something I can work on!
partnership with Paperworks had gone
so well, and I wanted us to be involved Q: Lisa, what were your thoughts
with an environmental project. We when Paul approached you?
also wanted the cause to be small, so
that we could see the impact our help LG: When Paul approached me to talk
was having and get more involved to me about BCD becoming a possible
with them than just providing funding sponsor for Pure Sea, I was overjoyed.
support. We already have this with We needed a lift after a really tough
Paperworks, and it was something we 2020 and this was just the tonic. It
wanted to replicate. came totally out of the blue! “I’d been looking for a second
cause to get BCD involved in,
Q: What made you choose Q: What is Pure Sea about? since our partnership with
Pure Sea? Paperworks had gone so well,
LG: For the past three years we have
PD: Lisa was on my Facebook friends worked hard and passionately with and I wanted us to be involved
list, although we’d never met or the view of trying to keep beaches with an environmental project.”
spoken, and I was also part of the clean, resulting in cleaner oceans for
Pure Sea Group page. I could see that, marine life. We have also set up the Paul Duffield
Managing Director
for Lisa and Pure Sea, 2020 had been Little Ripples project, which we’re of BCD
worse than for most and it all just trying to raise awareness with the next
added up at that point. Help clean generation through hands-on activities
the beaches and the oceans; help in schools to help children understand
fund projects that save marine life the importance of keeping the seas
around the world; and fight against clean and free from plastics.
plastic pollution - all wrapped up in We have been cleaning up the
an organisation where we could really coast of the UK as and when we can,

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