Clean Coasts

Nominations for Ocean Hero Awards Now Open
2017-09-01 | National
We 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 of the Year.
What are the Ocean Hero Awards?
The Clean Coasts’ Ocean Hero Awards are about honouring the invaluable contribution Ireland’s coastal communities have made towards conserving our spectacular coastline. The awards, originally called the ‘Clean Coasts’ Merit Awards’, were conceived in 2006, consisting then of only one category, ‘The Clean Coasts’ Group of the Year’. Since then the Clean Coasts’ programme has grown to engage over 550 Clean Coasts groups, becoming embedded in many coastal communities nationwide. In an effort to recognise this growth the number of Ocean Hero categories have expanded to include six categories.
Ocean Hero Award Nominations
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 here: surveymonkey.com/r/Ocean-Heroes-2017.
For the ‘Idea of Year Award’ we are looking for volunteers who have raised the profile of coastal protection in their community through awareness raising events and interesting initiatives.
The nomination process only takes a few minutes and we would love to hear your voice. Nominations must be received by Friday October 20th for inclusion in the selection process.
Nominations are invited in the following categories:

Group of the Year
Individual of the Year
School of the Year
Business of the Year
Idea of the Year
Beach Clean of the Year

Corporate Volunteering Day - Deloitte
2017-09-08 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer, Aidan, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bull Island, Co. Dublin with employees of Deloitte.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.

Big Beach Clean
2017-09-15 - 2017-09-17 | National
Clean 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 and be part of the world’s largest coastal cleanup event and marine litter survey. The event takes place every year on the 3rd weekend in September.
Register and find a cleanup near you here: http://cleancoasts.org/our-initiatives/big-beach-clean/

Corporate Volunteering Day - Coca-Cola
2017-09-15 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer, Aidan, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bull Island, Co. Dublin with employees of Coca-Cola.The day will include a clean-up as well as other biodiversity and team building activities. This will be done as part of our Corporate Volunteering initiative where we work with organisations who want to give back to the community.
If you are interested in this initiative please check out our page or contact us for more details.
