Charity

The Marine Conservation Society is the UK’s leading marine charity, working for a cleaner, better-protected, healthier ocean. They tackle the ocean emergency by working with communities, businesses and governments from cleaning beaches, removing and recording the litter on our coastline, to shaping government policies and calling for better environmental regulations. To help create a healthier ocean, they promote sustainable fishing and seafood to minimise harm. They support businesses to catch, produce and source seafood sustainably and incorporate conservation into their work. Their Good Fish Guide highlights the most and least sustainable fish, so people can make better seafood-buying choices. Working towards a better protected ocean, they secure space where species and habitats can recover and are campaigning for a minimum of 30% of UK waters being effectively managed by 2030 in order to protect wildlife and ecosystems. To date, their work has resulted in bans on single-use items, legislation to better manage fisheries, and greater awareness among supermarkets of the need to stock sustainable seafood.

Trees For Cities is the only UK charity working at a national and international scale to improve lives by planting trees in cities. They collaborate with schools and local communities to cultivate lasting change in their neighbourhoods by revitalising forgotten space, creating healthier environments and getting people excited about growing, foraging and eating healthy food. Their award-winning work in schools through their “Trees for Schools” programme, transforms school grounds into greener and healthier places to be, through innovative design, high-quality planting and inclusive engagement of the school community. Urban playgrounds are reimagined and redesigned with the introduction of trees, forest gardens, food-growing, outside classrooms, woodland play areas, mini-forests and wildlife habitats. With 80% of the population living in towns or cities, many people now breathe dirty air, are at risk of flooding and are struggling with rising temperatures worsened by the urban heat island effect. By planting thousands of urban trees from a range of species each year in the UK and around the world, Trees For Cities is building resilience within urban communities against threats facing the natural environment, creating greener, happier and healthier places to live.

Hubbub is an award-winning environmental charity that’s all about inspiring action that’s good for the environment and for everyone. They bring businesses, organisations, local authorities and community groups together to create campaigns that make it easier and more possible for all of us to make more environmentally friendly choices. Every campaign is sparked by a passion to problem-solve and connect with people - like making leftovers tastier, reusing easier, secondhand the default and communities that are greener and more connected to the environment. Everyday solutions that do good, feel good and show how much change is possible when people come together. In this information age, some of the most important issues can go unnoticed, however Hubbub makes them hard to ignore with thought-provoking campaigns that have a playful twist. Always positive and intriguing, they reach the mainstream and create a collective appetite for change. Their projects have inspired over 23 million people to rethink an environmental topic - that’s over a third of the UK.