Surfers Against Sewage has been protecting the UK’s marine environment, rivers and natural places for 34 years.
One of our greatest strengths is making environmental conservation an exciting activity for young people, families and communities to become involved with – after all, a thriving ocean means thriving people.~
The focus of our programmes is on 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 (sewage pollution) and 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Our Community is our superpower!
Click here for our Mid Year Impact Report 2024
OUR PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS:
🌊 MILLION MILE CLEAN
Up to 100,000 volunteers per year cleaning plastic pollution from our environment
🌊 PLASTIC FREE SCHOOLS
Providing environmental education and reducing single-use plastics in over 3,000 schools across the UK.
🌊 PLASTIC FREE COMMUNITIES
Reducing single-use plastics in businesses, towns, villages and cities across the UK.
🌊 PROTECTING WILD WATERS
Supporting communities to apply for official bathing water designation to improve water quality.
🌊 REGIONAL REPS
Highly trained SAS ambassadors mobilising their local communities on all aspects of our work.
🌊 SAFER SEAS & RIVERS SERVICE APP
A free sewage pollution alert app keeping water users safe from swimming in sewage.
To learn more about how your grant could protect our natural places please reach out via the contact link below:
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS:
We’re supported by Trusts and Foundations of all sizes, and work closely with trustees and grant managers to identify ways of supporting that meet their aims and objectives.
If you’d like to find out more about some of the ways in which we work with grant-making organisations, or you wish to invite us to make an application to a grant round, please contact us.
Please contact Carol O’Hanlon (Senior Trusts & Foundations Officer), via the link below for more information:
Email our Trusts & Foundations team
PHILANTHROPY & WEALTH MANAGEMENT ADVISORS
We work with wealth management advisers to help them identify and deliver their clients’ philanthropic wishes.
Please contact Emily van de Geer (Philanthropy & Partnerships Manager) via the link below for more information:
Email our Philanthropy & Partnerships team
Ready to make an impact?
Want to make a difference? Find out how you can support below:
With your support, we aim to save the ocean by delivering our ambitious, impactful national programmes and empowering communities to be the voice of the ocean. We are still a grassroots charity delivering big impact. We work hard to build a diverse range of funding sources and to secure project-based funding, but unrestricted funding from small trusts and foundations remains critical to Surfers Against Sewage. Without small-to-medium grants we wouldn’t be able to deliver the scale of impact for marine environments and communities across the UK.
Ways to make a grant
We understand that certain projects resonate more with funders, or that grant conditions require funds to be aligned to project delivery. Our team delivers a range of engaging programmes across our core areas of water quality, plastic pollution, ocean recovery and the climate emergency. Our team would be pleased to talk through our programmes and help identify which areas align with your funding goals.
Contact usTo discuss a particular area of our work, or what difference a multi-year pledge can make, please don’t hesitate to contact Emily, our Major Giving Manager, to discuss further.
We are grateful for the significant support from these major funders
