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Making simple changes to keep our beaches and seas clean.

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EXPLORE THE DEPTH

Join our ‘DEEP SEA DIVERS’ in discovering what lies beneath 

SECONDARY

Join our ‘ORCA POD’  and find our secondary level educational resources  

PRIMARY

Join our ‘DOLPHIN SCHOOL’ and find our primary level educational resources 

EARLY YEARS

Join our ‘SEAL RAFT’ to find our early years educational resources

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS

Our aim is to show the scale and facts of the problems we are facing in 3 key areas,

– Single Use Plastic 

– Beach Use

– Plumbing

But we Don’t want to just talk about the problems, we also want to focus on the solutions. The actions being taken around the world to tackle these issues, you can find these stories in our blog section. 

WHY WERE BACK

Since the initial Clean Seas Please Champaign was successful, why are we back? 

Since the changed regulations came into force in 2015, and we found out we had passed the new tests with flying colours, people have  become a little bit complacent. So slow but surly our water quality has been drifting back down, Reaching the point where we were once again under risk of having Red Flags Flying on our beaches, and bathing, swimming, paddling to be banned on our beaches. 

You can see our Water Quality page for up to date information around current bathing water quality, please note that testing only occurs in the spring and summer months, so no data is published by the Environment Agency out of season.

WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW

This isn’t an issue than can be solved by a few people, it needs the involvement of the whole community.  So what are we doing? We are going out to schools, local events, and businesses talking about the issues. Answering questions such as, why doe it matter to me? and what we could all do help? Can we really make a difference?

We also run regular beach cleans as well as promoting other local groups who have complementary goals. You can keep up to date by following us on social media, or by visiting our events page to see where we will be next.