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Nominations for the Plastic Free Awards are now closed. Check back for more news on the shortlist and our overall winners soon!
The Plastic Free Awards is the coolest environmental awards out there. The ceremony brings together leaders from the anti-plastics movement and recognises champions from all walks of life including young campaigners, community leaders, small businesses, charities, designers, entrepreneurs, sports clubs and schools, with a shared mission of stopping plastic pollution. Founded by Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation in 2019, the Plastic Free Awards is an environmental awards ceremony, celebrating innovation and activism tackling a range of environmental issues.
Nominations Close
31.03.23
Judging
01.06.23
Event
16.06.23
Nominations for the Plastic Free Awards are now closed. Check back for more news on the shortlist and our overall winners soon!
Ocean Activist of the Year
Who is leading the charge in addressing in environmental issues; be it climate change, water quality, plastic pollution or rewilding? Are you the activist we’re looking for?
Best Campaign
What single campaign or project inspires you the most? Do you know of a campaign or project that you think brings about real change? What campaign are you, your organisation or community group most proud of?
Youth Activist
Do you know someone under 21 who is taking radical action on key environmental issues? Which young voice is winning hearts and minds, and taking the nation by storm?
Innovation and Design
What is the best plastic free innovation you’ve seen? Nominate inventors, businesses, entrepreneurs, designers and big thinkers.
Media Award
What print, internet, film and broadcast media is highlighting key issues and success stories to the wider public? Who I continuing relevant conversation at a mainstream level?
Sporting for Change
Is your local sports club leading the charge on environmental issues? From community football club to Olympic Champion, who is changing attitudes towards environmental protection.
Business Leader
Have you got a high street full of plastic free options? Refill stores, greengrocers, butchers, bakers – we want to know who’s doing a brilliant job of freeing your community from single-use plastics.
Change Maker
Researchers, scientists, academics, institutions, are stepping up to provide solutions to everyday environmental issues. Nominate the best ones you’ve seen here.
Plastic Free Creative
Who has raised awareness of environmental issues through their creative medium? Do you know someone who has composed a song, written a story or produced artwork to inspire people to take action on plastic? Nominate musicians, sculptors, painters, authors and other creatives?
Events and Festivals
More and more events and festivals are reducing their footprint. From local deposit return schemes on cups to straw-free festivals, we’ve seen it all and we’d love to know your favourite!
Community Award
Communities in villages, towns and cities are coming together to protect the environment. What is the strongest environmental community movement you know?
Schools Champion
Which school is getting straight A’s for their fight against environmental issues?
We are a national marine conservation and campaigning charity.
We have been at the forefront of plastic pollution campaigning for over a decade, empowering hundreds of thousands of beach clean volunteers, founding the Plastic Free Communities movement, delivering award-winning campaigns and helping create positive change including the plastic bag charge and the commitment to deposit return schemes.
Our Mission
To create ocean activists everywhere.
Our vision
Thriving ocean, thriving people.
Our Values
The ever-growing SAS community believes in staying connected with the ocean. To strengthen this bond, we live by four core values, that matter deep down, to us all.
Open
Together, we're passionate, down to earth campaigners, born out of the community, with a deep unrelenting love of the ocean. We believe in building diverse, inclusive and active communities.
Dynamic
We are dynamic, active, energetic doers. From the beaches to the front benches, we bring people together, empowering them to get stuck in and make real change happen.
Authentic
We are human, doing our best. When we don't get things right, we learn from it. We believe in authenticity. You can't fake trust.
Creative
We are creative and entrepreneurial. We move fast, think far and believe the future is bright. From our humble home, we make waves (of all shapes and sizes) to improve our greatest gift. A healthy ocean = a healthy society.
For more information and to join the movement visit:
www.sas.org.ukWe're a community dedicated to the protection of oceans, waves, beaches and wildlife. We fight long and hard to protect what we love and we won't stop until it's completely clean, safe and protected for everyone, forever. From humble beginnings in Porthtowan Village Hall in 1990, we've stayed close to our roots and continue to be based just up the road at our St Agnes HQ where we can keep an eye on the sea.
IFCF has donated over £30m to good causes in the UK in the last 20 years. Through our
'Dementia: let's beat it' campaign we have focused on fundraising for dementia research,
donating
£10m to help fund construction of the new UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, £5m to
Alzheimer's
Research UK and £1.5m to Alzheimer's Society. Our 'Backyard Nature Campaign' has inspired
750,000
hours for children in nature. Our work with Sepsis Trust has seen the development of two life
saving
campaigns 'Schools Against Sepsis' and 'Sepsis Savvy'. We are delighted to continue our
partnership
with Surfers Against Sewage via these awards and as lead partner of the Million Mile Clean.
www.ifcf.org.uk
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