Ocean Conservation Trust Grants

The Ocean Conservation Trust is proud to provide grants to innovative, grassroots Ocean conservation projects that share our ethos that people are at the centre of solutions.

We have worked in over 13 countries to help small scale projects that might not normally receive funding to get off the ground. We have supported a wide range of projects, including everything from art installations to snorkel trails. Each year, we select relevant conservation themes for the grants, but since day one, projects have always been required to connect participants with the Ocean.

Where we have worked

Current OCT Grants

Internationally, we are currently focusing our support on three innovative, technology-based projects – with larger grants than ever before – that are aligned with our mission to connect and engage people with the Ocean.

Seafront Environmental
Marine Megafauna Foundation
Galapagos Bullhead Shark Project

Closer to home, for 2019 our UK based projects are:

Community Monitoring and Filming of South Arran MPAs Seagrass Beds
Tidal Surge Dance Workshops

Previous Grants

Organisation	Project name	Location
MCS	MCS Litter Survey	UK
Wildlife Trusts	Basking Shark Project	UK
MCS	MCS Guidelines for sustainable trade in marine curios	UK
National Lobster Hatchery	Synergistic effects of ocean acidification and global warming on the survival, growth, oxygen uptake and exoskeleton development of the European lobster	UK
uktriggerfish.org	Do Triggerfish Come back?	UK
NMA	Potential of Sub Aquatic Environments	UK
Fish2Fork	Fish2Fork	UK
PCC	Youth Exploration Divers in Deep	UK
Effervescent Social Alchemy	The Fish Hearted Bride	UK
DWT	Teaching the teachers	UK
Akazul: Community, Conservation & Ecology	Community based sea turtle conservation activities on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, Central America.	Guatemala
Mozambique Megafauna Association	Sustainable Tourism as a Whale Shark Conservation Tool	Mozambique
Haiti Ocean Project	Haiti Ocean Project Young Sea Explorers Program	Haiti
DWT	Marine Wildlife Champions (pilot)	UK
SAS	Surfers Against Sewage Regional Representative Training Weekend	UK
DWT	Marine Wildlife Champions (year 1)	UK
Ecoteer	Engaging the local villagers and tourists of the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia, in a novel Sea Turtle Identification and Movement project.	Malaysia
Rame Peninsula Beach Care	Waste to Waves	UK
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust	Jellytastic	UK
ZSL	Assessing the Structure and Habitat Use of a Novel Aggregation of Hammerhead Sharks off Japan.	Japan
DWT	Marine Wildlife Champions (year 2)	UK
The Reef-World Foundation	Strengthen the Conservation, Sustainability and Wise Management of Coral Reefs and Associated Coastal Ecosystems in SE Asia (online Toolkit)	SE Asia
A ROCHA GHANA	Students For Our Coasts: Today & Forever Ghana	Ghana
Tucked In	Leaper: A Fish Tale	UK
Seafront Environmental	Community Conservation of Sea Turtles in Cape Coast	Ghana
DWT	Marine Wildlife Champions (year 3)	UK
Icelandic Seal Center	Towards Evidence-Based Conservation Management of Pinnipeds Breeding in Iceland	Iceland
Marine Megafauna	Sustainable Seas Mozambique	Mozambique
Galapagos Conservation Trust	Galapagos Bullhead Sharks – Rediscovering a Forgotten Species (phase 1)	Galapagos
Buglife	National Seashell Survey	UK
MarAlliance	Educating the Next Generation of Belize’s Decision-Makers to Steward the Seas and Its Sharks.	Belize
Galapagos Conservation Trust	Galapagos Bullhead Sharks – Rediscovering a Forgotten Species (phase 2)	Galapagos
Plymouth University	Sea Life Live	UK
North Harris Trust	North Harris Snorkel Trail	UK
DWT	Marine Wildlife Champions (year 4)	UK
Brighton & Lewes Downs Biosphere Partnership	The Living Coast Undersea Experience	UK