Sea-Changers

Sea-Changers is a volunteer-led marine conservation charity dedicated to protecting and enhancing UK seas and coasts through grassroots, community-driven initiatives that foster clean, biodiverse, and accessible marine environments. Core values emphasize inclusivity, community empowerment, evidence-led interventions, innovation, and transparent stewardship, with a philosophy of mobilizing sea-users, volunteers, and local groups into practical environmental action. They drive funding by prioritizing partnerships, capacity-building, and catalytic support for time-limited projects delivering measurable ecological outcomes, believing grassroots engagement, public inspiration, and innovative solutions create sustained marine health and behavioral change toward stewardship.

They fund marine conservation activities including beach clean-ups removing plastics and debris, citizen science monitoring marine biodiversity and pollution levels, educational outreach inspiring coastal communities and schools in ocean literacy, species protection for seabirds, seals, and marine mammals, habitat restoration such as seagrass meadows and rocky reefs, research projects translating data into on-the-ground impact, pollution reduction tackling sewage, microplastics, and chemical runoff, climate resilience building for coastal ecosystems against erosion and warming, and sustainable fishing advocacy curbing overexploitation. Supported interventions encompass volunteer-led clean-ups, community monitoring networks, youth engagement programs, innovative tech for pollution tracking, and collaborative campaigns amplifying sea-user voices, targeting threats like plastic pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, and ocean acidification while promoting accessible coasts for recreation and wildlife.

They exclude recurring core salaries, general running costs, or subsistence unless essential, avoiding duplication of established services or projects lacking clear, credible marine outcomes. Distinctive priorities favor UK coastal and marine ecosystems, grassroots organizations with strong volunteer involvement, evidence-based innovation blending traditional methods and novel approaches, and initiatives sparking widespread behavioral shifts among sea-users, schools, and communities along British Isles shorelines, setting them apart through rapid, sector-responsive grantmaking and unwavering focus on thriving, resilient seas.