

Paddle-Out Protest Gallery – Waves of Change
Our biggest-ever day of Paddle-Out Protests brought Ocean Activists together, across the UK. Here's how it looked...
On May 18th, thousands of Ocean Activists joined forces on beaches, rivers, lakes and streets across the UK for our Paddle-Out Protests.
Over 30 events took place, from Cornwall, all the way up to Edinburgh, with communities showing water companies, the regulators and the Government that we will not stop until there is an end to sewage pollution in our bathing waters by 2030.
With an upcoming general election falling in the same year that water companies and regulators are setting out their investment plans for the next 5-year period, this is a unique opportunity to ramp up the pressure, use our voices and take a stand for our beloved blue spaces.
And we did just that.
From bright pink swim hats at Shepperton Lake, to beach toilets in Scarborough, inflatable turds in Plymouth and canoeing down the River Ouse in Bedford, our message was heard loud and clear.
We turned up in huge numbers and showed the profiting polluters we’re sick of their sh*t. It’s time for them to turn the tide and end sewage pollution.
Check out the photo gallery below (we have so many photos to get through that we don’t even have half of the protests covered here – we’ll share more soon!) and make sure you visit our new election hub, for all the information on the next steps of the #EndSewagePollution campaign.
Falmouth – Gyllyngvase Beach
- Credit: PA Media
- Credit: PA Media
- Credit: Jasper Abel @abel_photographic
- Credit: Elliott Glynn
Brighton – West Pier
- Credit: Grant Winter
- Credit: Lia Toby
Bedford – Castle Mound
- Credit: Chiara Maccall
- Credit: Chiara Maccall
Scarborough – South Bay
Plymouth – Plymouth Hoe East
- Credit: Anthony Butler
- Credit: Anthony Butler
- Credit: Anthony Butler
- Credit: Anthony Butler
Saltburn – Saltburn Pier
- Credit: Rory Sutherland
River Waveney
- Credit: Steve Warburton
- Credit: Steve Warburton
Shepperton Lake
- Credit: Megan and Greg Sedgwick
- Credit: Megan and Greg Sedgwick
- Credit: Megan and Greg Sedgwick
- Credit: Megan and Greg Sedgwick
Edinburgh – Portobello Beach
- Credit: J B Seal
- Credit: J B Seal
- Credit: SAS
Caswell – Caswell Bay
- Credit: Carys Griffiths
- Credit: Carys Griffiths
- Credit: Carys Griffiths
- Credit: Carys Griffiths
Portrush – West Strand Beach
- Credit: Helen Armstrong
- Credit: Gavin Wallace
- Credit: Gavin Wallace
- Credit: Helen Armstrong
Hastings – Hasting Pier
- Credit: Stuart Griffiths
- Credit: Stuart Griffiths
Southend Against Sewage ‘Action Walk’ – Southend
- Credit: Jamie Watt
- Credit: Jamie Watt
Newton, Porthcawl
- Credit: Lucy Jones
- Credit: Lucy Jones
Weston-super-Marew
- Credit: Plastic Free Weston-super-Mare
- Credit: Plastic Free Weston-super-Mare
Broad Havern Beach – Pembrokeshire
- Credit: Peter Bounds
- Credit: Peter Bounds
EPIC. A huge thank you to everyone that joined, and those that made it happen. ✊
Haven’t had a chance to share your photos? Send them to media@sas.org.uk.
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