Show the Love 2025
Has your local waterway helped you feel closer to your community, nature, or even yourself? Our blue spaces connect, inspire and heal us. We need to show them the love that they deserve.
This year, as part of the Climate Coalition’s Show The Love campaign, we’re celebrating some incredible SAS volunteers, reps, and citizen scientists who are leading the charge to protect our wild waters. Meet these SAS legends below, and find out how you can join them in turning your love for our blue spaces into action.
Fran and George, Plastic Free Seaford and Plastic Free Newhaven leads
“We are Fran and George who are Plastic Free Community leads for Plastic Free Seaford and Plastic Free Newhaven and have been running beach cleans in Seaford for the past three years. We love seeing the random things our wonderful volunteers find and seeing litter and marine debris off the beach and safely recycled.”
You can join or organise your own beach, river or street clean through the Million Mile Clean.
Hannah Brown, Jolly Brown Studio – Plastic Free Champion
“My name is Hannah, I run a business called the Jolly Brown Studio in Hitchen. Here we are lucky to be near so many unique, beautiful and rare chalk streams. Here, I can feel refreshed, heal my body in one of the most special places. I am reminded that they have been here for thousands of years, and how important it is to protect them. My business is Plastic Free Champion and part of Plastic Free Hitchen, and I fundraise for SAS through Dip and Day and attended the March for Clean Water last year.”
If you’d like to get your business involved, check out the links below.
Become a Plastic Free Champion or join the Ocean Network.
Karine Morrison – Plastic Free Eastbourne & Business Owner – Ecohaven (Plastic Free Champion)
“My name is Karine, I run an online company called Ecohaven, which provides alternatives for single use plastic. I started my journey with a love of sea swimming and then realising the huge issue of plastic pollution. I organise regular beach cleans, and join Dip a Day for SAS as part of my business and Plastic Free Eastbourne. I love being part of the local swimming community here in Eastbourne, it is so important for mental and physical health. “
Lindsey Newbury – Community Lead for Plastic Free Bembridge
“Hi, my name is Lindsey and I am community lead for Plastic Free Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. I love walking on my local beaches and swimming in the sea. It gives me a huge sense of calm and a feeling of connectedness to the natural world. Here, we have seagrass, seahorses, cuttlefish and the occasional seal along with a myriad of other amazing life and this is why I want to protect it and them.”
Plastic Free Communities is a nationwide people-powered movement dedicated to breaking free from single-use plastic and stopping its production for good. Find your community or start your own!
Robin Coleman, SAS Regional Rep for Scotland
“I joined SAS as I have always had a love of water through kayaking, paddle boarding, surfing, and swimming. Being part of SAS has allowed me to meet others who share my love of the world around us, which has been great, but it has also given me an active role in protecting it.”
Marcus Kern, SAS Regional Rep for Cornwall
“The health of our rivers and seas is in a dire state. As an avid sailor, swimmer and surfer I’m shocked that our water companies, regulators and government are still failing to protect our health and all wildlife in and around our waters. I became a Rep to change that.”
The SAS Regional Representatives are a united, engaged and empowered community of volunteers based across the UK. With their passion and support, we take collective and impactful action to restore the ocean, creating waves of change! You can get in touch with your regional reps by clicking the link below.