Clean Coasts Events
Nominations for Ocean Hero Awards Now Open
NationalWe are asking the public to nominate volunteers who they believe have made an outstanding contribution to Ireland’s coastal environment. This year we are looking for entries to the following 6 categories: Group of the Year, Individual of the Year, School of the Year, Business of the Year, Idea of the Year and Beach Clean [...]
Big Beach Clean
NationalClean Coasts Big Beach Clean weekend will take place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of September 2017. We are delighted to team up with the International Ocean Conservancy again for the International Coastal Cleanup event. In 2016, nearly 800,000 volunteers in over 90 countries removed 8,193 tonnes of marine litter from the world’s oceans. We hope everyone will join the movement for litter free seas [...]
End of the Bathing Season
National15th September marks the end of the bathing season in Ireland. It is also the end of the Green Coast and Blue Flag Awards season. A great way to give back to these beaches is with a #2minutebeachclean or taking part in the Big Beach Clean!
Corporate Volunteering Day – Oracle
Bull IslandOur Clean Coasts officer for Dublin, Richard, is carrying out a corporate volunteering day with Oracle at Bull Island, Co. Dublin. The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. If you are interested in our Corporate Volunteering initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.
Closing Date For Ocean Hero Nominations
NationalToday is the closing date for nominations for the Ocean Hero Awards is 20th October 2017. If you would like to recognise an individual, Clean Coasts group, school, business or beach clean that made a difference to our coast please fill in the SurveyMonkey form or follow this link: surveymonkey.com/r/Ocean-Heroes-2017. Nominations are for the following categories: Group [...]
Ocean Talks and Ocean Hero Awards
DublinWe are delighted to be holding the Clean Coasts Ocean Talks & Ocean Hero Awards on 21st November at the Royal College of Physicians. Ocean Talks will kick off proceedings with speakers from a diversity of backgrounds including: research, documentary making, business and community leaders and professional surfing, discussing a range of topic relating to marine [...]