News and blogs

Surfers Against Sewage is delighted to be one of the charity partners for the Ocean Film Festival UK. The vision of the festival is to inspire you to explore, respect, enjoy, and protect our oceans. In Autumn 2014 the Ocean Film...

On Saturday, 26th July at 1.30pm the local beach community and Surfers Against Sewage will be taking part in an action against South West Water's repeated sewage discharges.  Together we will call on South West Water to STOP discharging untreated human...

Surfers Against Sewage, as part of the Break the Bag Habit coalition, is calling on the new Secretary of State Liz Truss to drop the exemptions proposed for the carrier bag charge in England. New figures from WRAP show that plastic...

We're running our biggest-ever raffle this year, aiming to raise £25,000 to help protect our oceans and beaches from pollution, marine litter and over-development. The top prize is a massive £2,000 to spend online with leading global surf forecasters Magicseaweed!...

The last weekend in June 2014 saw SAS’s Sewage Alert Service kick into action again at Godrevy, Cornwall. Surfers Against Sewage’s pioneering water quality alert service was ‘first on the scene’ after a significant raw sewage spill originating from the sewer...

The winner of the annual 10 Board Challenge surf competition Allanah Brown talks to Surfers Against Sewage about her disappointment and disgust that the competition was postponed due to a significant raw sewage discharge at Godrevey on Saturday the 28th...

Surfers Against Sewage recently celebrated the single-use bag charge being included in the Queen's Speech.  However, the Government has shown its contempt for cross-party expertise and specialists across the retail, recycling, manufacturing and third sectors by categorically rejecting the Environmental...

Kurt Jackson, a leading British contemporary artist, has painted a stunning picture of Porthmeor Cove near Zennor in Cornwall, which has been turned into a limited edition print raising funds for Surfers Against Sewage’s environmental campaigns. A limited run of...

Surfers Against Sewage has teamed up with the European Centre for the Environment & Human Health (Exeter University Medical School) to produce a study to help identify the health risks associated with exposure to marine pollution. And we need your...