A BRIDGWATER company has become the latest partner and sponsor of Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival, after donating 54,000 industrial hand-cleaning wipes to the town’s carnival clubs.

CRC Industries UK (Ambersil), an international company based in Wylds Road, donated the 'post shelf life' wipes, after contacting carnival organisers to see if they would be useful.

The tough wipes are excess stock from the pandemic and can be used for removing oil, grease and grime residues from hands and surfaces.

While the wipes could not be sold by the company as they have passed their shelf life date, the tubs containing the wipes are securely foil-sealed meaning they are still "perfectly good to use".

The company is a world-leading manufacturer of "technical and maintenance aerosols and other associated products".

Kieran Neale, Ambersil’s Marketing Manager, said: "We identified we had an excess stock of high absorbency cleaning wipes following the Covid Pandemic which we could no longer use, and were taking up some much-needed space in our warehouse.

"As the community is very important to us, and as Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival is the largest event in the town, we came up with the idea of offering them to the town’s carnival clubs free of charge.

"I am delighted to see the clubs accepted our offer and are able to make good use of them."

Dave Stokes, Publicity Director for Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival, said: “We really value our relationships with the local business sector, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank Ambersil for their generous and very much appreciated donation.

“Every year it gets more expensive for the clubs to build the spectacular entries we have become accustomed to, and also to stage the carnival. Donations such as this from Ambersil, saves the carnival thousands of pounds, and also facilitates a way of reusing products which were otherwise redundant”.

Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival is the oldest carnival in the UK, and is regarded as the largest illuminated parade in Europe.

It is held annually on the first Saturday in November, and this year’s carnival returns to the streets of Bridgwater on Saturday, November 2, with a 6pm start.