Ocean Inno­va­tion Fund

Sea-Chang­ers

Many of the UK’s most urgent marine chal­lenges, such as bio­di­ver­si­ty loss, pol­lu­tion, and cli­mate impacts, require new, local­ly root­ed solu­tions. Yet ear­ly-stage, com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven inno­va­tion is often under­fund­ed, espe­cial­ly com­pared to large-scale or high-tech efforts. 

Sea-Chang­ers aims to fill this gap through its Inno­va­tion Fund, which sup­ports pio­neer­ing marine con­ser­va­tion ideas with the poten­tial to be repli­cat­ed nation­al­ly or glob­al­ly. The fund enables local groups, researchers, and non­prof­its to pilot untest­ed solu­tions, whether devel­op­ing pro­to­types, tri­alling new approach­es, or adapt­ing glob­al ideas to the UK con­text. Grants will be award­ed across diverse themes — research, edu­ca­tion, habi­tat restora­tion, and species pro­tec­tion, with the goal of scal­able, com­mu­ni­ty-led solu­tions for health­i­er seas.

For more information visit: https://www.sea-changers.org.uk/