The Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust.

We’re super stoked to have Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust as our chosen charity for issue four.

20% of our profits from the sale of our physical magazine gets donated to this amazing charity.

Established in 2009, it is a multi-award-winning New Zealand charity that connects people to nature and inspires change.

Sustainable Coastlines has a long-term vision for restored mauri for our moana, and a mission to support communities around Aotearoa to prevent litter and restore waterways. Sustainable Coastlines strives for some pretty cool key outcomes, including beautiful beaches/oneone kōrekoreko, healthy waters/waiora, and inspired people/tāngata whakaohooho. The team delivers and supports large-scale clean-up events, educational programmes, public awareness campaigns, catchment-based freshwater restoration, and citizen science environmental monitoring activities. They also enable others by supporting ‘Do It Yourself’ efforts nationwide. Sustainable Coastlines is strictly apolitical and focuses on solutions for people of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors. They create open-access programmes, tools, data and resources to equip communities to look after their local environment. They deliver on their mission and vision through our three core grassroots community programmes:

Love Your Coast, which revolves around clean-ups, education and outreach to reduce waste, prevent litter and avoid single-use plastics.

Love Your Water, which consists of community-based restoration activities (including riparian planting, weeding, and maintenance) and education to improve the health of our freshwater ecosystems.

Litter Intelligence, which involves training and offering support for schools and community groups to become ‘citizen scientists’ for their national litter monitoring programme, providing rigorous data to inform actions to solve the litter problem.

You can support Sustainable Coastlines by volunteering at any of the public events, signing your workplace up for a team-building day with the Sustainable Coastlines crew, donating towards their work, or recycling your redundant mobile phone through the Re:Mobile recycling scheme.

Find out more about what the awesome folks are doing by visiting their website.