Want to get exclusive tracks from Jack Johnson, Ben Howard & Gabrielle Aplin? #SIGNFORIT. Want to be in with the chance of winning one of Kelly Slater’s personal surfboards? #SIGNFORIT.

We are today launching an innovative new campaign initiative, #SIGNFORIT, with the support of musicians Jack Johnson, Ben Howard and Gabrielle Aplin, along with 11-times world surfing champion Kelly Slater.

#SIGNFORIT is designed to reward supporters of SAS’s Protect Our Waves (POW) petition. Team SAS has been inspired by the huge numbers of campaigners already signing the petition, joining them in calling for better protection for UK waves, oceans and beaches. So, we wanted to create a new, unique way of thanking campaigners and celebrating this growing movement to protect surf spots and beaches.

As part of SAS’s new #SIGNFORIT initiative, Brit Award winning artist Ben Howard has generously donated his amazing track ‘Oats in the Water’, which you can download today* for the small price of one signature. Throughout September, SAS will be recognising the value of supporters signing the Protect Our Waves petition with four different rewards including exclusive tracks from Jack Johnson, Ben Howard and Gabrielle Aplin and the chance to win a surfboard from Kelly Slater, the world’s greatest ever surfer.

The POW petition has achieved close to 50,000 signatories to date and will be delivered to 10 Downing Street in October 2013. The petition calls for greater protection of UK surf spots, specifically in relation to marine litter, sewage discharges and coastal developments threatening the very fabric of these unique, well-loved and valuable coastal assets. Over the past twenty years, surfing has gone from a fringe sport with little mainstream recognition to a sport with huge numbers of regular participants who rely upon finite numbers of surf spots, which need better protection.

Surfers Against Sewage has been at the forefront of campaigning on behalf of the UK surfing and water sports community for many years and believes that waves and surf spots deserve to be seen as part of UK heritage and should be afforded greater recognition and protection through political debate and legislation. SAS is working hard to raise the public awareness of these natural resources, the environmental, physical and geological factors that create waves, how they are integral to coastal ecosystems and can help support thriving, sustainable and economically successful coastal communities around the UK. The Protect Our Waves petition is helping SAS communicate this to the general public and to politicians representing coastal communities.

*Tracks available to download for 24 hours only.

Previous signatories will be offered the chance to download the Ben Howard track.