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17 June 2010
We are now collecting waste oil!
We now collect waste oil to power the buses, and we can also supply fresh cooking oil if you wish.
Click here for further information or call 01273 681681
15 June 2010
The Service:
We will be taking a break from running the 42 service over the summer months, due to University holidays. Our last day will be Friday 25 June. We will be back on Saturday 25 September (yes – Saturday!) with a new improved service, running every day of the week! The idea is to run every 15 minutes during the day, and every 30 minutes at weekends.
Membership:
Membership of The Big Lemon is now available for the year 2010-2011, giving you unlimited travel on the buses until 30 June 2011. We have had to increase the cost of membership partly because it wasn’t set at a very realistic level before (our fault!) and partly because we are increasing the frequency of the service and need some more buses. However, there are lots of ways to get it cheaper! The prices are as follows:
£150 Full Price
£140 if booked by 30 September
£130 if booked by 30 June
£120 for renewal of existing membership,
and we will continue to do our “Recruit a friend, earn a tenner” promotion, so if you recruit enough people you effectively get membership for nothing! Check out http://www.thebiglemon.com/club.html
Members & Friends Pub Crawl – Date Changed to Saturday 19 June
All our members, passengers and friends are invited to our Pub Crawl, on Saturday 19 June. We have a lot of fun planned, so don’t miss it! For further info and to book your place, go to: http://www.thebiglemon.com/pubcrawl.htm. We hope to see you there!
Festivals:
This year we are going to more festivals than ever before! Bestival, Big Chill, Glastonbury, Green Man, Latitude, Reading Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Shambala are all confirmed, as well as some others still being finalized. Some of the festivals are already popular, and last year we had to turn away over 40 people who booked too late, so book early to avoid disappointment! Go to: http://www.thebiglemon.com/festivals.htm
Competitions: Win festival coach tickets and free membership!
What is the most eco-friendly way for us to promote our services? How do we get our message across without using lots of resources and creating lots of waste? Last year we printed lots of flyers and posters, and although we used recycled paper for everything, we know there must be a better way. We need you to help us find it!
1. For the best idea on how to promote our festival coach services, the winner will receive two return coach tickets to the festival of their choice!
2. For the best idea on how to promote our membership, the winner will receive free membership for 2010-2011. That’s a whole year of free travel!
The winning ideas will be those which, as well as being the most sustainable are also the simplest, cheapest and easiest to execute, and have a bit of creativity. Think laterally. Somewhere out there is an idea so blindingly obvious that we’re going to kick ourselves – we need to know it!
Closing date for entries is 30 June 2010. Please email entries to lemonbus@thebiglemon.com
And finally...
Please forward this email to all your friends! As we are trying to cut down on printing this year, we don’t have posters and flyers all over the place like last year, as we are sure there are greener ways of achieving the same result. So we are relying on a little help from our friends... Please help us make the world a greener, better, less wasteful place!
The Big Lemon CIC is a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales no. 06045786
Registered Office and Operating Centre: Protran House, Boundary Road, Black Rock, Brighton BN2 5TJ
Tel. 01273 681 681 : Fax. 01273 681 681: E. lemonbus@thebiglemon.com