Clean Coasts

Beach Clean and Talk with Headway Ireland
2017-10-18
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be doing a beach clean and talk with Headway Ireland today at Sandymount.
Headway Ireland provides services and support for people affected by Acquired Brain Injury in Ireland. They aim to maximize potential and quality of life.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Oracle
2017-10-19 | Bull Island
Our 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
2017-10-20 | National
Today 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 of the Year
Individual of the Year
School of the Year
Business of the Year
Idea of the Year
Beach Clean of the Year

For more information see our Ocean Heroes webpage.

Royal College of Surgeons Green Week
2017-10-20 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be at the Royal College of Surgeons today with a stand to provide information on the work we do to protect our beaches, seas and marine life.

Save The Waves Film
2017-10-20 19:00 - 21:00
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be attending the screening of Save The Waves Film at Patagonia Ireland this evening.

Beach Clean - Bull Island
2017-10-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be taking part in the community cleanup at Bull Island today from 11 am to 1 pm.

Marram Grass Planting - Inch Beach, Co. Kerry
2017-10-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Inch Beach, Inch Beach, Inch Beach, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Kerry, Susan, will be carrying out a marram grass planting workshop with local Scouts group at Inch Beach on Sunday, 22nd October at 11 am. The planting efforts of the last few months are really starting to show and the grass is taking well in the area. This will be the last planting exercise until Spring.

TBYF Workshop For Schools
2017-10-25
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be carrying out a Think Before You Flush workshop at Oxmantown National School, Birr, Co. Offaly on Wednesday 25th October. This is part of our Think Before You Flush campaign. See more details here: thinkbeforeyouflush.org.

Corporate Volunteering Day - SAP
2017-10-26 | Bray, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Wicklow, Camilla, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bray, Co. Wicklow with employees of SAP.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.

Green-Schools Marine Environment Forum - Cork
2017-10-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Lifetime Lab, Old Cork Waterworks, Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Cork, Susan, will be giving a talk at the Green-Schools Marine Environment Forum at Lifetime Lab, Cork on Thursday 26th October. The talk will cover marine litter and aspects of the Clean Coasts Programme.

Think Before You Flush at Ideal Homes Show
2017-10-27 - 2017-10-29
Clean Coasts will have a Think Before You Flush information stand at the Ideal Homes Show from Fri 27th – Sunday 29th October. Staff will be on hand to share information about the campaign and there will be demonstrations of how sewage waste can cause havoc in our pipes and marine environment. Find out more about the Ideal Homes Show here https://idealhome.ie/

Corporate Volunteering Day - Irish Water
2017-11-03 | Grattan Beach, Grattan Road, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland
Clean Coasts Group, Galway Atlantaquaria, with Clean Coasts Officer, Richard, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Salthill, Galway with employees of Irish Water.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.

Collaboration with IT Sligo
2017-11-06 | IT Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Sligo, Olivia, will meet with marketing students to discuss our brand.

Wicklow Marine Litter Conference for Secondary Schools
2017-11-07 | Arklow Bay Hotel, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Camilla speaking at a conference about how students can be part of the solution to tackling marine litter through responsible consumption, community engagement and social media campaigns such as ‘2 minute Beach Clean’.
This is a Marine Litter seminar for secondary schools in Arklow which will be held on the 7th of November in the Arklow Bay Hotel in Arklow. We have 140 students booked in from four secondary schools most of whom will be transition year schools. The schools involved are St. Mary’s College, Arklow CBS, Youthreach and Gaelcholaiste na Mara. All will do a beach clean in October before the seminar, two schools on Enereilly beach, one on Arklow South beach and one on Clogga beach. Through the three speakers I hope we will be able to show students the impact of litter and dumping on the marine environment, the work being done through PURE to tackle the problem across the county including the use of CCTV to catch perpetrators and with Clean Coasts how students themselves can engage actively in solving the problem with activities such as a two minute beach clean, the micro bead campaign and the Think before you flush campaign.

TBYF Workshop For Schools
2017-11-08
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be carrying out a Think Before You Flush workshop at Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa, Bettystown on Wednesday 8th November. This is part of our Think Before You Flush campaign. See more details here: thinkbeforeyouflush.org

Patricia Oliver Talk - Trinity College
2017-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Emmet Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Patricia Oliver will be making her Doctorial presentation at Trinity College on WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER at 6 pm in the Emmet Theatre in the Arts Block.
TITLE OF TALK: FLAGGING THE FUTURE CONTENT:
“Looking back so as to move forward” is how Patricia Oliver approaches the story of the setting up of the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce, its national and international programmes and, in particular, the genesis of “Green Schools”. With an offer of funding of £ 1000 from a local authority nearly twenty years ago, she traces the Green Schools programme from its first introduction to Irish teachers and the set-backs and triumphs which led to the astonishing success story it is today. She salutes the people who helped along the way and records its growth from primary to secondary schools and then the huge leap to “Green Campus” and the exciting initiatives being pioneered by Irish third level institutions today. She asks what new challenges lie ahead and what tools today’s students have in their armoury to help overcome them. Patricia Oliver Former journalist and publisher
Patricia Oliver is the Founder and from 2000 was the full-time Director of An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit, now the largest and most successful environmental education organisation in the country and one of the most successful internationally. Her links with Trinity go back to the 1990s when as Chairwoman of An Taisce she took over the FEE Blue Flag programme initiated in Ireland by Karen Dubsky of Coastwatch and became the Irish representative of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) later serving as its Treasurer. She co-ordinated FEE schemes for Ireland and grew them professionally to become models for Europe, while maintaining the links with Trinity and serving on many other environmental and educational organisations. Through the Green Schools Programme, she has had a transforming effect on hundreds of thousands of Irish children. Her presentation of the Irish Green-Schools Programme at the 12th Commission on Sustainable Development at the United Nations in 2004 was acknowledged as the “Best of Best Practice”.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Oracle
2017-11-09 | Bull Island
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin, Richard, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bull Island, Co. Dublin with employees of Oracle.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.

Corporate Volunteering Day - Salesforce
2017-11-10 | Bray, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Wicklow, Camilla, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bray, Co. Wicklow with employees of Salesforce.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.

Think Before You Flush at Transition Kerry Climate Event
2017-11-11 09:30 - 16:00 | Manor West Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland
Clean Coasts will be attending the Transition Kerry Climate event today to talk about all things Think Before You Flush. You can view the press release here.

Corporate Volunteering Day - DocuSign
2017-11-15 | Bray, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Clean Coasts Officer for Wicklow, Camilla, will be hosting a Corporate Volunteering Day at Bray, Co. Wicklow with employees of DocuSign.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.

Ocean Talks and Ocean Hero Awards
2017-11-21 | Dublin
We 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 litter and our Irish coastline.
This will be followed by the Ocean Hero Awards which recognise the invaluable contribution made by Clean Coasts volunteers.
Please RSVP by email cleancoasts@eeu.antaisce.org or by phone on 01-4002210.
If you have any queries regarding these awards please do not hesitate to contact the Clean Coasts team.

Marine Environment Workshop
2017-11-28
Clean Coasts Officer for Meath, Aidan, will be carrying out a marine environment workshop at Gilson National School on Tuesday 28th November. The workshop will including a variety of topics covering biodiversity, marine litter, people and the coast, etc.

Green-Schools Water Forum
2017-11-29 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer, Richard will be taking part in Green-Schools Water Forum today in Dublin by giving a presentation on protecting Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life.

Our Coasts Our Voices at Other Voices, Co. Kerry
2017-12-02 | Ventry Community Centre, Ventry, Co. Kerry, Ireland
As part of Other Voices event, Clean Coasts programme shall host a family day at Ventry Community Centre, which is 10 minutes drive from Dingle where Other Voices is located.
The day will be a marine environment education day with a mixture of stands and workshops throughout the day.
Clean Coasts programme engages with community groups, business and schools encouraging and facilitating beach clean and marine education. Currently, we have over 600 Clean Coasts groups establish nationwide and run 3 national campaigns; #2minutebeachclean, Beat the Microbead and Think Before You Flush.
Clean Coasts has invited several partners and community members to join in the delivering of the event, these partners include BIM, Recreate, Explorers, Marei and Dingle Aquarium.

Title – Our Coasts, Our Voices
This title is suggested to link Clean Coasts and Other Voices – the idea of the event is to provide coastal education, community and individual engagement and celebration of our coast on the backdrop of the Other Voices event which would be clear from the title.The script from Clean Coasts Logo would be used for ‘Our Coasts’ and the script from ‘Other Voices’ would be used for ‘Our Voices’
Stand and Workshops
Stands:

Clean Coasts stand – which will inform on the Clean Coasts programme and provide information on marine litter. This stand will have an identification game.
Think Before You Flush campaign – which will give information on the Think Before You Flush campaign and run interactive experiments to engage people with the message of the campaign.
SEAI schools workshop stand – which will provide information on Climate Change and run interactive experiments relating to energy, energy consumption and climate change
Love Your Coast Photography Winner Display – a display of winning images from South West Ireland
Clean Coasts Beach Display – #2minutebeachclean – Beach will be set up in order, which will be used for photographs, filming and some games can be played in this area as well.
Dingle Aquarium – Stand including displays of marine life
Explorers – Stand is too be confirmed
BIM – stand about fishing for litter project based in Dingle. BIM will also have some interactive displays and aims to have local fishermen help out at the stand.
Marei – stand providing information on microplastics and solutions to single-use plastic.

Attendees will be encouraged to wander around stalls as they will be given quiz/treasure hunt as they enter the hall and all those who complete treasure hunt will be entered into a draw for small prizes.
Workshops:

11.30 – 12.00: Art workshop with ReCreate
11.30 – 12.00: Squid dissection with Dingle Oceanworld/MaraBeo
12.15 – 12.45: Drumming workshop (with a difference!)
13.00 – 13.30: Art workshop with ReCreate
13.00 – 13.30: Squid dissection with Dingle Dingle Oceanworld/MaraBeo
14.00 – 15.00: Underwater soundscape with Vincent Hyland
15.00 – 16.00: Cnuasach Trá with Billy Mag Fhloinn (exploring the coastal environment through story, song, art and drama)

Green-Schools Marine Forum
2017-12-05 - 2017-12-06
Clean Coasts Will be taking part in Green-Schools marine forum on Tuesday and Wednesday, 5th and 6th December. For more information on Green-Schools, please visit their website: greenschoolsireland.org.

Environmental Education Unit's Winter Meeting
2017-12-12 - 2017-12-13
An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit will meet today and tomorrow in Athlone for our winter meeting. This will include updates on programmes such as Clean Coasts, Green-Schools, LEAF, Green Home, Green-Campus, etc. as well as workshops on current environmental issues.

Christmas
2017-12-25
We wish everyone a very happy Christmas!

New Year's Day
2018-01-01
We want to wish everyone a very happy New Year and we hope that you can make protecting Ireland’s beaches, seas and marine life part of your New Year resolutions!

School Clean Up
2018-01-17 | Dublin
Clean Coasts Officer for Dublin will be doing a beach clean with students from Newpark Comprehensive School. It is a great opportunity for students to give back to their local community as well as learn more about the coastal environment.

Northwest Coastal Cleanups at Pocket Film Festival - Bundoran, Co. Donegal
2018-01-21 | Eclipse Cinemas, Station Road, Bundoran, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Our Ocean Hero Clean Coasts Group Northwest Coastal Cleanups will have a stand at the Pocket Film Festival, Eclipse Cinemas Bundoran on Sunday 21st January. They will have information on their work as well as that of the Clean Coasts programme.
Seamus McGoldrick of our group, iSurf Ireland, and Murfs Surf School are organising a beach clean with a local refugee group. This will take place before the festival and they will carry out an art project that will be displayed at the cinema to highlight the issue of marine litter.
