Solent Wildlife Series: Part 1, Habitats

By Hannah Cooper, Final Straw Foundation Intern We love wildlife – our goal is to protect it from the human impacts of littering and pollution.  But what sort of wildlife are we protecting through our beach cleans and campaigning? The South Coast and the Solent are home to so many amazing species that we are…

First Beach Clean of 2019!

On Sunday 6th January we held our first beach clean of 2019. It was a bit of an impromptu event, as we had been informed earlier in the week by one of our regular volunteers that unfortunately someone had let off plastic confetti cannons by the beach down by the Ferryboat Pub on Hayling Island….

Easter Weekend Beach Clean Success!

On Easter Saturday, the 30th March 2018, we hosted our second official beach clean up on The Hayling Billy Trail! We encouraged support through our social media channels and by word of mouth throughout the local area. People came from local villages and towns, with a few people travelling over from Southampton to help. We…

We need your support!

Our Final Straw initiative is growing fast. Every day we are joined by more businesses, we are trying to get out there and see as many of them as possible and give them information and their Final Straw certificates and window stickers. We are working hard on social media to spread the word about stopping…