Sea-Changers Invites Applications for Innovation Fund

Funding for creative and innovative marine conservation projects across the UK

Sea-Changers is offering grants of up to £10,000 for UK-based organisations to deliver new and innovative approaches and solutions to the UK’s marine conservation challenges.

The Innovation Fund will support charities, companies (including community interest companies), universities, schools, and community groups to develop new ideas and experimental, innovative marine conservation solutions that may:

• Address the root causes of marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK.
• Prevent or reduce negative impacts on UK coastal and marine environments and/or species.
• Add to the body of knowledge about marine conservation threats and challenges in the UK and ways to overcome them.

Eligible projects include:

• Research – for example, innovative citizen-science projects, and new ways to measure and monitor marine environmental issues.
• Direct action – for example, innovative approaches to coastal clean-up, and new solutions to reduce pollution.
• Species protection – for example, projects that support, replenish, or protect threatened marine species in new ways.
• Education and community engagement – for example, projects that educate and involve people, businesses, or communities in marine conservation in ways that are previously untested.

Projects can be in the very early stages, be a developed idea that needs piloting to gather evidence of its efficacy, or be an idea that, while tested in other parts of the world, is a new solution for the UK marine environment and needs to be tested here.