A Saturday clean-up that never stopped
Nine neighbours cleared Porthcarrow beach and found the same nets back a week later. They came back every Saturday for a year.
4,218hectares
of salt marsh, seagrass and dune restored and still growing, measured by independent survey each autumn.
Our story
Nine neighbours cleared Porthcarrow beach and found the same nets back a week later. They came back every Saturday for a year.
We planted our first seagrass plot with Merrow University. Two thirds of it survived the winter, which was enough to keep going.
Volunteer divers now survey every site twice a year, so funders see the same numbers we do, good years and bad.
Sixty-eight communities run their own restoration sites. Our job is shifting to training, funding and staying out of the way.
Councils, fisheries, universities and funders shape every site with us, from the first survey to the handover.
Impact Report 2025
Every site, every budget line and every survey result from last year, including the plots that did not make it.
Crews meet twice a month on 22 sites. No experience needed, boots and gloves provided.
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