WWF – Official charity partner  

WWF-UK is delighted to be the official charity partner of The Blue Mile, and hopes this event will encourage people of all ages to engage with and take steps to look after our seas.

WWF is one of the world’s leading conservation organisations, creating solutions to the most serious conservation challenges facing our planet, helping people and nature thrive.

WWF works with the fishing industry and other businesses, as well as government and local communities – in the UK, EU and globally – to safeguard marine wildlife, the natural environment and the livelihoods of people who depend on the oceans for their wellbeing.

How you can help WWF
Blue Mile participants can go the extra mile in supporting our seas by raising money for WWF-UK, and will be helping fund important conservation projects in the UK and around the world.

Our seas are there to be enjoyed. Help safeguard their future by taking part in The Blue Mile and supporting WWF-UK by

• Joining the WWF team with a free guaranteed place by registering here.
• Creating your own personal fundraising page with www.JustGiving.com/wwf-uk (choose The Blue Mile) and simply set yourself a sponsorship target
• Making a single donation today to WWF-UK’s work. Please click here

Here’s how funds could support WWF’s work to protect our marine environment:

£10 could go towards a Bottlenose Dolphin Officer to give an educational talk to school children, to raise awareness on the marine environment and provide key messages for what each individual can do to conserve our marine environment.

£25 could go towards campaign materials to highlight the issues facing our oceans and encourage the Government to effectively manage our marine environment.

£50 could go towards providing the much needed opportunity to bring together key marine users to discuss and agree on actions on how to better manage the marine environment.

£150 could go towards our advocacy work to help secure a network of marine protected areas around the UK which will help to protect our most important marine species such as the pink sea fan and harbour porpoise.

£250 could go towards survey work on Hebridean Whale and Dolphins to be carried out and support their protection.

£500 could go towards supporting a fisheries improvement project to introduce more sustainable fishing gear, and help reduce accidental capture of other marine species

To find out more about WWF please visit www.wwf.org.uk