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I have always been an environmentally
thinking person and I do respect our beautiful planet and all
life on Earth, I remember displaying a poster in my barbershop
which I bought in the 80’s many of my clients commented how true
these words were even in 1980 they were from an old American
Indian Chief who prophesised:
“Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten”
These words are so true of events that are happening just now
and I felt the urge to help and contribute to a healthier planet
and realised that after a few years in business, some of my high
profile business clients were interested in what I had to say
about our environment, so realising that I had a “captive
audience” to preach my idea of creating an organisation called
Worldcare a non-profit and charitable organisation dedicated to
the improvement of our environment to which I would give my
spare time , and so through their generosity and involvement in
sponsoring Glass Banks back in 1989, Worldcare was created and
started recycling glass to raise funds for the local St
Vincent’s Hospice, and over a period of between 2-3yrs, since
Worldcare’s inception in 1998, it successfully raised public
awareness on the importance of recycling and how to look after
our environment, we covered a lot of environmental ground
with our
local clean-up campaigns
 and recycling various
materials such as
glass/cans
and cardboard, we even had our very own
marathon runner
and we were also given the
opportunity to collect redundant computers and printers which
was very lucrative and with help from our sponsors we raised
enough revenue to purchased the
Worldcare van
and
through one of our other sponsors, they converted the engine to
run on natural gas which then made our vehicle completely
environment friendly and actually influenced one of my clients
who owned a local transport company to buy one of the new breed
of
environmentally friendly trucks
of that time, we
received great local and not so local publicity for our
endeavours and in 1992, Worldcare received a prestigious
environmental award from
The Shell Best of Better Britain Campaign
 for our recycling efforts in which my most
memorable memory of this event was to travel to London with my
wife and family to receive this award from
Sir David Attenborough
whom we all know as a very learned man actively raising great awareness in the preservation of our planet and
ecosystem.
This was indeed a great occasion and achievement for the
Worldcare Organisation and it’s few volunteers which was to be
further enhanced a few weeks later by the Scottish version of
the same award but on this occasion to be presented at Stirling
Castle by Magnus Magnusson K.B.E the Scottish equivalent to Sir
David, so as you can imagine we were all very proud and excited
at the success of Worldcare.
Unfortunately, I was becoming more and more involved in the
running of the organisation as volunteers thinned out and it was
beginning to affect the time or rather lack of time I gave to
with my wife Connie and bringing up our two young sons, and
secondly, the smooth running of the Barbershop, as there wasn’t
a day gone by without phone calls in between haircutting
concerning Worldcare activity, it was becoming too much for me
to control and with the lack of volunteers to delegate the
organisation and work, something had to give and sadly it had to
be Worldcare, but it always remains dear to me and perhaps one
of these days I might have the opportunity to give it a rebirth.
Worldcare in the news...
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