Our team

Giles Bristow, CEO, RNLI crew, and luckiest person alive

I joined this outstanding team in 2023 and could not be more impressed by their passion and ability to campaign and work for a thriving ocean and thriving people.

I made my way to SAS via a career as an environmental lawyer and then working at a senior level in environmental NGOs in climate & energy, food, and marine systems.  I am in love with the ocean and share my passion for swimming, sailing, wing-foiling, and surfing with the crew at SAS, friends, and my wife and daughters. I feel incredibly fortunate that I work for the ocean.

Being RNLI crew in Lyme Regis, I may need to run if my pager sounds.

I’m a wild swimmer, stand-up paddleboarder, and rockpool gazer, with a deep love of nature and our blue spaces, both inland and coastal.

I am so excited to be joining Surfers Against Sewage at this pivotal moment when we need to keep up the pressure on polluters and governments, and press for the changes we need.

I joined SAS in November 2022 and as the Financial Director I am responsible for ensuring the finances of the charity run smoothly.

My love of the ocean started at a young age when I used to go dinghy sailing. In my 20s I sailed across the Atlantic and the beauty and vitality of the ocean has stuck with me ever since! These experiences motivate me to help protect it for the future.

I’ve been with SAS since 2010, leading the team responsible for raising income at SAS. We connect our amazing supporters who want to change the world with the team at SAS who are delivering our work to protect the marine environment.

I live in St. Agnes, Cornwall with my wife and 2 children.

Pete Warman he/him

I joined SAS in 2022 and enjoy working with the team to continue evolving the charity as a progressive workplace, as well as overseeing our operational areas including our carbon neutral ambitions. I love sea swimming and it’s great to work somewhere that does its bit to allow oceans to thrive.

Pronouns: he/him

I’ve been a trustee at SAS since 2017 and became chair of the trustees in September 2022. It was time spent in the ocean as a scuba diver and surfer that inspired my own career shift from the law to focus on sustainability, the circular economy, tackling plastic pollution and climate change. It’s an absolute privilege for me to be able to help support the brilliant Surfers Against Sewage team, our reps, volunteers and members protect our oceans, coastlines and waterways.

Dan Crockett is Ocean and Climate Director of Blue Marine Foundation. Based in London, Blue Marine supports marine protected areas, fights unsustainable fishing and restores marine habitats. Dan leads a specialist unit focused on building the value of the ocean as a solution to climate change. In this capacity he supports various ocean climate science, technology and political initiatives globally. He is a trustee of Surfers Against Sewage, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Hometree. He is a widely published writer, surfer and freediver.

Lauren Davies is a Northumberland-based author, screenwriter, producer and surf consultant on feature films. She is a Cambridge Law graduate and Director of Lola Cove Films. Lauren’s work includes the feature documentary, WAVERIDERS, Kelly Slater’s CLOUD 9, THE TONY HAWK SHOW and six books; most recently the environmental children’s book, LITTLE TURTLE TURNS THE TIDE, inspired by Lauren’s young son and mini activist, Bo Reef.

Lauren is a surfer, passionate environmentalist and supporter of SAS since the 90s.

Gabe Davies is a legendary UK surfer and as well as SAS trustee works as Ocean Marketing Manager for Patagonia.

Chris Hides is a keen surfer and the Managing Director at the PR consultancy The Academy. Before joining TA he set up and ran M&C Saatchi PR, taking the agency from UK startup to international network.

Lesley has had a varied career, including screen printer, knitwear designer, ghostwriter and seaside landlady.

In Australia in 1982, her 10 month-old daughter was hospitalized with gastro-enteritis from airborne spray from raw sewage discharged at a nearby outfall and took many months to fully recover.

Returning to Cornwall, Lesley nursed family through repeated ear infections and stomach bugs caused by raw sewage in the waters around St Agnes.

In the early days of SAS, Lesley was Honorary Treasurer, becoming a non-executive director then a trustee when the charity was formed.

I joined SAS as a trustee in 2017 and love being involved in a small charity that’s making such a big difference! I live in Marazion in Cornwall (a Plastic Free Community with a Plastic Free School!) and am lucky to be able to spend lots of time in, on and under the ocean with my family. I am a marine scientist and conservationist working for the Zoological Society of London and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter (Cornwall campus). I focus on how marine science can enable solutions.

Lucy Siegle is a journalist and broadcaster who specialises in climate and nature. She has contributed internationally to climate and nature protection including through the UN Oceans Dialogue and the COP26 summit.

Lucy is the author of books including Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again and To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World.

Lucy is a familiar face on UK television where she has brought many environmental stories to mainstream audiences including the problem of single use plastic for the One Show, BBC1.