Big Spring Beach Clean Gallery
Something special happened on 181 of our beaches over the 27th, 28th & 29th of March. A truly inspiring 6000 people braved wild, wet and windy conditions to join us for our biggest ever Big Spring Beach Clean and removed a whopping 25 TONNES of marine litter from the UK coastline. Making a real and noticeable difference to the health of our oceans, beaches, waves and wildlife.
The images and stories below represent just a tiny handful of those that have been flooding in to us from across the UK since the Big Spring Beach Clean but we hope they help tell the story of a most incredible weekend!?
- Bristol’s Avon Gorge has a dedicated crew of protectors
- Just a fraction of the ghost gear removed from Perranporth
- Westport Beach near Glasgow. Looking wild!
- The RNLI landed to lend a hand at Blyth
- Combe Martin School always get involved!
- These guys spent 2 hours cleaning in a cave under a waterfall
- Southsea’s steadily growing beach clean crew
- Marine Litter invades on the Thames!
- From Northern Ireland to Blackpool
- Not so sunny Boscombe
- Cromer haul – Sadly this much ghost gear was a recurring sight
- Tynemouth Crew
- Giving whole new meanng to beach toliets
- Many hands…….
- A record number of beach clean cakes were made this year 🙂
- Hands up if you love Perranporth beach?
- Beauty and the beast at Porthcawl
- SAS Rep Ross McGregor with a mighty haul at Westport
- The Seascale Scouts. Cumbria represented for the first time
- A record 285 people joined us at Perranporth beach!
If you’ve been inspired by the Big Spring Beach Clean and would like to organise your own community beach clean then please just follow our really simple ‘step by step guide’ here. You can also drop us an email at beachcleans@sas.org.uk or call 01872 553001 for more details.