celebrating 15 years of sas

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celebrating 15 years of sas
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NOT JUST SURFERS * NOT JUST SEWAGE * THE NEWSLETTER OF SAS
* It’s Judgement Day for Green Courts
* 2005 SAS Ball to be Crystal
* SAS Education Projects with
O’Neill and Quiksilver take off
ISSUE 60 * MAY 2005
CELEBRATING
15 YEARS OF SAS
WHO’S WHO AT SAS?
Campaign Director (full time) Richard Hardy ([email protected])
■ Campaign Assistant (full time) Andy Cummins ([email protected])
■ Campaign Researcher (full time) Andrew Knights ([email protected])
■ Office Manager (full time) Wendy Nicolson ([email protected])
■ Finance Manager (part time) Vincent McDermott ([email protected])
■ Events & Sponsorship (part time) Michelle England ([email protected])
■ Merchandise Manager (part time) Kate Wilde ([email protected])
■ Merchandise Assistant (part time) Heidi Peasley ([email protected])
■ Sales/Admin assistant (full time) Claire Bentley ([email protected])
■ Everyone can be contacted on 0845 4583001
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Editor: Richard Hardy ■ Surfers Against Sewage,
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WOW! 15 years of SAS! It seems like it
was only yesterday I first saw the images
of gas masked surfers take their sand-coated
booties off the beach and into the corridors
of power to challenge the law makers, the
water industry and the tourist bodies to get
behind a campaign to stop pumping untreated
shit into the sea! Whilst a lot has changed
in those 15 years, mostly through campaign
success and making the water cleaner, little
has changed in the style of campaigning we
use to secure even more improvements to the
water we use for pleasure. We still use the
same local grassroots based campaigning tactics
(with a splash of humour) but the stage is
bigger, we still use the trademark gas masked
surfer image but with new props and on new
issues of concern to water users, we still build
all our campaigns on the back of sustainable
science based solutions and we still only ask
you to give us your support once a year
through your membership (no gimmicky appeals
that mainstream NGO’s tend to overuse to
The original SAS
office...a little
overgrown but
still lived in and
given an SSSI
(Site of Special
Surfer Interest)
preservation orde
r from us!
provide them with additional income!). Sadly we
still have much to do as we learn more about
harmful chemicals, more about the impacts
of climate change, more about radioactive
discharge, more about hazardous shipping and
more about litter - all of which have the
potential to wreck a perfect session. Anyway
thanks for your own contribution over the 15
years and check out what the ex campaign
director’s have to say in a trip down memory
lane on pages 13 and 16. RICH HARDY
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and he says that during these court cases Southern Water
say quite candidly to the magistrate that they have always
succeeded in getting a reduction on appeal. It is often
unclear as to why the fines have been reduced other than the
perception of judges in being able to fit a true cost to the fine.
This is primarily because they don’t know how much to fine in
relation to the crimes they normally deal with.
A new legal framework to ensure repeat environmental
offenders ‘improve their environmental performance rather
than their fine reductions’ is desperately needed. ‘Green’ or
Environmental Courts would be a great addition to the UK
legal system and are already operating successfully within
the EU.
CAMPAIGN ACTION: There is talk of an ‘Environmental Justice
Bill that may take some of this into account but to help us
secure the ‘Green Judges’ we’d like, please complete and post
the enclosed campaign action postcard to the Environment
Minister Elliot Morley as soon as you receive this edition of
Pipeline. Thanks! RH
Media Coverage: Western Morning News, West Briton, The
Packet, BBC Radio Cornwall, The Surfers Path.
‘GREEN’ JUDGES
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO KICKSTART
ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS
In February we launched a campaign that called for
Environmental Courts to be used across the UK to deal more
effectively with environmental crimes.
A group of ‘green judges’ from SAS wearing green robes,
green face paint and armed with gavels, prepared to put a
true price on the cost of pollution, kick-starting the campaign
outside Camborne Magistrates Court in Cornwall. Local water
company South West Water were due in the Magistrates Court
to face charges relating to a breach of their discharge consent
for Tregaseal (St Just) Sewage Treatment Works. It was their
first prosecution of the year.
SAS would like to see the UK adopt a system similar to one
already in practice in Sweden where Regional Environmental
Courts put legally qualified judges together with environmental
advisors to adjudicate over cases. New Zealand also runs a
similar court network to ensure environmental crimes are
accounted for properly.
The current system at home is failing, with penalties far
too low to act as a deterrent for big business environmental
offenders, particularly those who are branded repeat
offenders such as water companies. Compounded by a lack
of experience by magistrates and judges in quantifying
environmental offences many water companies have now
taken to appealing against their original fines with great
success. Last year, South West Water obtained the largest
reduction, after it was fined £15,000 for polluting the sea
at the North Cliffs. The incident followed a problem with the
Kieve Mills sewage treatment works, which had left a plume
of sewage solids visible from the coast path. After appeal the
fine was reduced to just £3000. Indeed recent appeals by the
water industry have seen an average reduction in the fine
on appeal, of £5800. Successful appeals such as these are
setting precedents, which are likely to limit the size of fines
in future. Also the appeals rarely receive the media coverage
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Celebrity support
from ‘The Hulk’
generated from the original prosecution and so such actions
by water companies go unreported and therefore unnoticed
by the general public.
By the end of 2004 South West Water had been in the dock
13 times (3 offences more than in 2003) for pollution offences.
It’s a statistic that is mirrored across the water industry with
an overall increase of 26%. The average fine was a meagre
£4640 for South West Water.
Thames Water’s Managing Director John Sexton recently
agreed that the £70,000 they were fined in 2003 for pollution
incidents was “not a deterrent” given his company’s £1 billion
turnover. This was obviously true as fines for Thames Water
soared to £132,500 in 2004.
An Environment Agency spokesman has also recently
expressed his concern on the issue in relation to Southern
Water. He has faced 8 appeals from the company since 1990
WATER COMPANY PROSECUTION LEAGUE
COMPANY
OFFENCES OFFENCES
FINES £
FINES £
LEGAL COSTS £ LEGAL COSTS £
2004
2003
2004
2003
2004
2003
1 Southern
2 Scottish
3 South West
4 United Utilities
5 Welsh
6 Thames
7 Yorkshire
8 Anglian
9 Wessex
10 Northumbrian
11 Severn Trent
14
13
13
12
10
9
8
3
3
1
1
10
14
10
9
6
6
0
3
3
6
2
90,500
50,000
60,400
56,200
9,250
132,500
33,900
50,905
14,000
2,000
5,000
73,200
40,000
41,000
48,500
16,250
60,000
0
47,500
15,000
25,500
5,000
19,023
0
13,200
9,029
4,863
42,013
10,243
10,348
3,655
846
2,000
16,248
0
6,113
9,471
5,636
18,004
7,176
0
3,102
3,573
4,236
TOTAL
87
69
504,655
371,950
115,220
73,559
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BRIGHTON
ACTION
TARGETS COUNCIL LEADERS
TO WIN SUPPORT FOR FULL
SEWAGE TREATMENT
Campaigners from SAS
joined local activists in
Brighton during March to
urge Council leaders to get
behind a policy of treating
sewage properly before it’s
discharged to sea
off Brighton
Armed with banners and a bathtub of nasty looking
secondary level treated sewage water, a group of SAS
campaigners arrived outside the offices of Brighton and Hove
City Council before moving on to East Sussex County Council in
Lewes. The bath tub was there to show what Brighton’s bathing
water will be like if Southern Water’s £200 million proposal for
a ‘middle of the road’ sewage treatment plant for Brighton is
granted - not particularly clean and not particularly safe. We
were there to get the local councils’ stance ‘on the record’ as
to whether they were prepared to support full treatment or
not. Our challenge to Council leaders was simple - would you
be prepared to bathe in this?!
East Sussex County Council and Brighton and Hove City
Council are the two planning authorities responsible for
determining the principal elements of the Peacehaven sited
planning application, which was submitted in late March by
Southern Water. SAS believes they should only support a
planning application that includes full sewage treatment from
the start.
The current proposal allows for sewage from Brighton’s
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250,000 residents to be treated to only secondary level that’s effluent containing up to 100,000 faecal coliforms/100ml
and so plenty of opportunity for nasty bugs and viruses to
latch on to the unwary surfer, kitesurfer or swimmer. SAS
has spent many years persuading both local authorities,
Government and water companies to invest in treating
sewage to a tertiary (full) level which can reduce the bacterial
loading to just 35 faecal coliforms/100ml and gives greater
confidence to the recreational water user or day tripper that
the water is clean and safe. By choosing not to invest in full
sewage treatment it will allow traditional seaside resorts
like Newquay, Scarborough, Weymouth, Swanage, Poole
and Weston-super-Mare, who treat sewage properly before
discharge to sea, to be more attractive resorts to visit for
holidaymakers, day-trippers and water users in the future.
Not only is the level of sewage treatment to fall short of
current expectations but also Southern Water’s proposal is
likely to cost the region dearly as it wastes water rather than
reuses it. At a time when the region already suffers water
shortages and with more uncertainty over the availability of
water from climate change predictions, a fully treated sewage
plant would allow for treated effluent to be reused and would
help offset this.
Whilst the issue of ‘treatment level’ is not deemed a material
planning concern it is should be of very great concern for
Brighton’s council leaders, residents, water users, businesses,
hoteliers and tourist officials as Brighton’s reputation as a
hip, alternative, environmentally conscious, right on, tourist
friendly city could soon be eclipsed by less hip resorts that
view clean and safe water as the foundation from which they
are building a healthy, clean and sustainable environment
upon. SAS estimate that the addition of UV to the Brighton
£200 million pound proposal would add just £4 million to
the overall cost of the project - but deliver so much more in
benefits to water users.
Perhaps not unsurprisingly Council leaders failed to take
part in the bathtub plunge. However we were delighted that
Brighton and Hove City Council have ‘gone on the record’ and
openly confirmed their support for our call for full sewage
treatment when local councillor Steve Burgess confirmed
their policy with us at the action outside Brighton Town Hall.
However we are still none the wiser over East Sussex’s policy
as they refused to send anyone out to see us. Pulling the plug
on the day’s action we were forced to pour the secondary level
treated sewage water over the council office’s front steps in
Lewes. Of course if the water had been fully treated we would
have been able to reuse it! RH
Media Coverage: BBC TV South, Meridian TV News, BBC Radio
Southern Counties, Southern FM, The Argus.
Watch out for more SAS actions in and around Brighton in
coming weeks. Check our website for the latest information...
www.sas.org.uk.
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WATER COMPANIES PLANS FOR 2005 - 2010
In Pipeline 59 we were chuffed to be able to tell you
that our campaigning has helped to secure more sewage and
wastewater improvements over the next 5 years. In all,
1000 sewage treatment works and 2000 unsatisfactory storm
sewer overflows will be improved upon. Here’s a brief
summary of some of the improvements you’ll be seeing in
your area...
SOUTH WEST WATER
SAS WELCOME SUPPORT FROM
SURFRIDER EUROPE TO CHANGE
BATHING WATER LAWS
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Parliament in Strasbourg, France. We
are also seeking high-level meetings
with the Directive’s rapporteur and
Environment Committee President.
As we mentioned we have our work
cut out following a disappointing
response from individual Governments
particularly in broadening the scope of
the Directive to include a recognition
of recreational water users.
SAS and Surfrider have in the
past few weeks submitted a series
of amendments that would allow
for a meaningful recognition of
recreational waters to be maintained
in the Parliament’s opinion. We have
received valuable support with this
from Green MEP’s Caroline Lucas (UK)
and Marie Isler Beguin (France). It is
vital these amendments are carried
forward to the full Parliament vote
expected in May. Depending on the
result of this vote we will be in a better
position to see whether a compromise
between Europe’s Parliament and its
Governments will be forthcoming. RH
WESSEX WATER
Swanage STW and Wootton Bassett
STW - investigate removal of endocrine
disruptors - part of a national research
programme.
■ Weaston Black Rock SPS Investigate impact of discharge on
bathing water (Weston-Super-Mare)
- Bathing water directive.
■ Improvements to at least 23
unsatisfactory intermittent discharges
■
Top: SAS and Surfrider meet to plan campaign actions.
Above: SAS outside the European Parliament in
October 2003.
PHOTO: ESTPIX.COM
SAS are pleased to report that our
Bathing Water Directive campaign
has received a welcome boost from
our campaigning friends at Surfrider
Foundation Europe. Surfrider have
been working hard over the last year
on collecting signatures for a European
Parliament petition to help radically
modernise the 29-year-old legislation.
They are well on their way to collecting
10,000 signatures!
We recently met with the Surfrider
crew and are currently working on a
plan of action to ensure we maintain
the same level of support from the
European Parliament that we achieved in
October 2003, when they meet to vote a
second time on the outdated Directive.
Our plans include a lobby of the
Parliament’s Environment Committee
in Brussels and a demo before the full
40 sewage treatment works will
be updated to protect receiving
waters and investigations will be
carried out on 41 sewage works and
at 31 other locations to check the
impact of treated wastewater on the
environment.
■ 49 sewer overflows to be improved
to minimise operation in wet weather.
Improvements will ensure recreational
water areas in and around St Agnes,
Porthtowan, Croyde, Par/St Austell,
Seaton, Tintagel, St Ives, Falmouth,
Fowey, Liskeard, Padstow, Bude,
Dartmouth and Woolacombe will
become cleaner and safer to use.
■
(increasing sewer capacity/storage
and/or screening).
Improvements to 200 wastewater
works including Garnswllt in Swansea.
■ Improvements to 446 unsatisfactory
intermittent discharges.
of possible solutions for the removal
of endocrine disruptor chemicals from
sewage effluents.
■ Carry out additional monitoring
at 2 sites to determine the extent of
the removal of endocrine disruptor
chemicals during wastewater
treatment.
SOUTHERN WATER
ANGLIAN WATER
WELSH WATER
■
Improvements to 56 unsatisfactory
intermittent discharges.
■ Several bathing water investigations
(unspecified).
■ Complete schemes that have been
delayed (e.g Brighton and Hove).
■
THAMES WATER
Improve the overflows from 4
wastewater treatment works and 25
CSOs. This includes improvements to
the major works that discharge storm
overflows into the Thames Tideway.
Investigate long-term solutions for
dealing with storm discharges into the
Thames Tideway and install additional
short-term improvement measures.
Install additional treatment at 1 site
to investigate the cost effectiveness
■
Improvements to 33 unsatisfactory
intermittent discharges.
■
UNITED UTILITIES
Improvements to 143 unsatisfactory
intermittent discharges.
■
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER
Improvements to nearly 500
unsatisfactory intermittent discharges,
including a major scheme for Redcar.
■
YORKSHIRE WATER
Improvements to 620 unsatisfactory
intermittent discharges.
■ Investigate treatment methods
for reducing endocrine disrupting
substances in sewage.
AK/RH
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GUERNSEY - WISH YOU WERE CLEAR!
New Campaign Launched!
Visit Guernsey (the official tourist body that promotes the island) has recently launched a massive advertising campaign
showcasing the island as ‘The Island Of Choice’. SAS would agree that it is an ‘Island of Choice’ for scenic countryside, beautiful
marinas and great food but would you really choose it for recreational water sport right now? It wouldn’t be our choice when
Guernsey is still pumping and dumping more than 65,000 people’s raw sewage into the sea each day!
We can’t help thinking this promotion comes on the back of our high profile campaigning on the island in recent months and
to put this in perspective we are asking you, our fantastic supporters, for more help.
Our ‘Wish You Were Clear’ campaign starts with a campaign postcard enclosed with this issue of Pipeline. It asks you to
boycott visiting the island until a full sewage treatment policy is in place. We would like you to send this to Visit Guernsey.
In taking part in this tourist boycott we ask that you choose to holiday elsewhere until they treat their sewage safely and
responsibly. May we recommend Jersey - with it’s full sewage treatment programme providing clean and safe water it is a
haven for tourists and watersports enthusiasts!
The States of Guernsey’s report on the island’s sewerage infrastructure was promised for the beginning of the year. It now
looks like the report, which is still to be finished, will not be published until the beginning of summer, well into the 2005
bathing season. This campaign should keep up the pressure on Government officials to do the right thing!
We will not be satisfied unless the States of Guernsey recommend full treatment for the island’s sewage. AC/RH
CHEMICALS REPORT
TO DOMINATE 2005
BATHING SEASON
The Clean Water Initiative (SAS’s Educational Trust) will
officially launch the recently completed ‘Barriers To Green
Buying: Household Chemicals’ report at the start of the UK
2005 Bathing Season as a reminder to the public that many
chemicals in everyday household cleaning products are
accumulating in rivers, lakes and seas via our toilets and
sinks and creating carnage with their fragile ecosystems as
well as potentially threatening human health.
The report was funded following SAS’s popularity with
Co-operative Bank customers looking to challenge the
widespread use of chemicals, many harmful, in everyday
household products.
SAS will throughout the summer challenge consumers
over their purchase of such products, inform them of the
environmental and human impacts of using such products
and challenge them to use cleaner, greener, safer products
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REACTOR FUEL
PARTICLE FOUND
ON SCOTTISH
SURF BEACH:
THE CATALYST TO EMBRACE
CLEANER, SAFER, ENERGY?
that don’t end up bio-accumulating in the water causing
gender-bending as they cannot at present be treated properly
at sewage treatment works. RH
ACTION: Support our campaign by getting hold of our 2005
‘Intoxicated’ Campaign T-shirt or Seventenths/SAS chemical
based collaboration T-shirt (both shown on Page 22)
We are becoming increasingly
worried over the safety of using
beaches for recreational watersport in
the surrounding area of the Dounreay
nuclear reprocessing plant following
the find of a radioactive particle on
Dunnet beach in March.
Initial findings suggest the particle
is a fragment of reactor fuel and is
comparable to some of the low level
finds at Sandside Bay, which sits
across the bay from Dounreay.
The Dunnet beach finding is the
first to have occurred outside those
at Sandside Bay. Not unlike Sandside
Bay, Dunnet Beach is a popular
surfing beach and there are others
between the two that are well used for
recreational water sport, such as the
Thurso breaks.
Whilst SAS support the notion that
there is at present only a small risk
that a member of the public may
come into contact with such a
fragment, the find does suggest more
particles could be present on a range
of local beaches.
SAS is waiting with interest to see the
results of a SEPA commissioned study
into the health effects of contamination
from particles due to be completed later
this year. We are also keen to see more
evidence that quantifies the degree of
particle contamination on the seabed,
which may be of greater benefit
and provide better information to
recreational water users that regularly
use the water for sport.
The finding at Dunnet Beach is
another reason why SAS believe our
energy needs should in future be
met by clean and safe alternatives.
Scotland is blessed with a natural
wave resource that if harnessed could
generate both renewable energy and
job opportunities. At a time when
the Government is beginning to
limit revenue support for this clean,
fledgling industry, SAS believes it
should be given greater opportunities
to develop in order to reduce the
health threats posed by the nuclear
power industry.
RH
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SAS AND O’NEILL NAME
WINNING
SCHOOLS
AFTER WE RECEIVE FANTASTIC PROJECTS!
The SAS and O’Neill ‘Marine Environment Project’ packs were
sent out to over 1600 primary schools at the end of last year.
Since then schools registering to take part have been working
away on some of the most creative water awareness raising
projects SAS have ever seen! From the projects we received
there is no doubt that the Year 6 kids (9 years old) taking
part have had a fun, stimulating, interactive and interesting
experience. All schools entering had to produce a project
that showed SAS and O’Neill that they have understood,
worked through and found solutions to deal with some of the
problems that face our water environment today.
The winning schools will now join us for a fabulous day out
with SAS and O’Neill in our 18th - 22nd July activities week.
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The Orca
Seafari’s RIB
we’ll be using
in July
Each school class will cruise the Cornish coast in a 35ft boat
searching for dolphins and whales. They will also explore the
National Maritime Museum in Falmouth and take part in fun
SAS interactive workshops.
It was deliberate that we left the criteria quite loose as we
wanted to see how the kids would perceive the problems. We
were not disappointed with the results. Projects flew in that
were just fantastic and the scope of the kid’s imaginations
never ceased to amaze us. Huge posters, murals, marine litter
monsters and creatures from the deep were all great. Raps,
sea songs and plays were all recorded and sent in. Loads
of beach cleans were undertaken with a very impressive
level of litter analysis completed. All the projects had one
thing in common, the kids had really understood some of the
problems facing our marine environment.
It was incredibly hard to pick a winner. We had to lock
ourselves away for a couple of days and scrutinise every
last project. Eventually the following schools were chosen
as winners:
● Cubert School, Cornwall
● Devoran School, Cornwall
● Laira Green School, Devon
● Trevithick School, Cornwall
● Penzance Junior School, Cornwall
AC
ANIVERSARY SPECIAL
To celebrate
15 years of campaigning
we’ve asked SAS’s previous campaign
directors to have their say on the SAS
story to date! We’re eternally grateful for
what they’ve helped SAS achieve and are
stoked to have their ongoing support,
help and advice as we move into
our 16th year!
THE FIRST 10 YEARS
1990 - 2000
BY CHRIS HINES
May 1990 - a handful of local surfers
from Porthtowan and St.Agnes took a
decision to do something. One more
day of surfing in polluted seas, one
more panty liner in the face had got
us fired up. We’d phoned the council,
the National Rivers Authority (now
the Environment Agency) and the
newly privatised water company.
What were they going to do? Their
answer: “Nothing, the beaches meet
the standards required...” Stuff
that, something needed to be done;
we needed to take the beaches to
Brussels, the reality to the decision
makers. But how? We were just a bunch
of surfers with no political experience,
no campaigning pedigree, we weren’t
career environmentalists acting from
an intellectual position, we were
just surfers with a powerful sense of
righteous outrage.
We knew no bounds, we had no fear.
We were committed from take off!
Once we stood up, thousands of others
joined, this wasn’t just a local problem
it was nationwide. Every day that SAS
existed (and continues to) was a day
that most people said we wouldn’t. We
had nothing to lose! These were in many
ways our strengths - we wouldn’t take
no for an answer. We knew the problems
first hand and we searched hard for the
solutions, found them and duck-dived
the Jersey UV treated outfall to prove
the point. With a reputation of being
media whores we would go anywhere
anytime to crank up the profile of the
issue. From Panorama to BBC World
Service, we did them all! When Dwr
Cymru/Welsh Water and Wessex Water
changed to full treatment policies we
supported them opening works. It was
SAS’ name on the brass plaques.
It was focused, fun, with an incredible
energy. Against all odds we went from
400 million gallons of crude sewage
a day to a House of Commons Select
Committee report that concluded that:
“All sewage should be treated to tertiary
level at all times and in all places...”,
to an agreement by Government that all
discharges receive at least secondary
treatment and tertiary for 14 million.
It kicked! And to everyone who ever
supported SAS or continues to do so,
remember what we have all achieved
and be proud. This wave’s for you!
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with a thoroughly dedicated team, have really made a huge
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Keep on keeping on... and many congratulations on
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NOW WE ARE 15!
BY VICKY ROGERS (NEE GARNER)
When SAS was only just out of nappies
(re-useable ones) the organisation had
already taken on the mighty giants of
the water industry, it had put sewage
pollution on the political agenda and
it had found solutions to problems
that key decision makers didn’t even
know about (until the organisation
was born!)
By the time the organisation
was 5, it was experienced in
lobbying, demo-ing, campaigning, legal
actions, researching, solution finding,
fundraising and debating. And the
original problem that had caused
it to start was well underway to
being solved.
Key campaign moment and possibly
the highlight of SAS’s life so far, aged
8 SAS’s targeted pressure reaped
dividends - full treatment for dozens of
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sewage discharges across the whole of
the UK, an environmental improvement
programme of phenomenal proportions
(Chris’s whoops to be heard by everyone
within a 3 mile radius of the office).
Aged 11 and when most are just
starting to contemplate their move
up to big school, SAS was influencing
the development of crucial European
legislation, had begun to use its
respected position as one of the
country’s leading pressure groups
to tackle some of its other original
objectives (as well as a couple more
to boot) and continued to maintain
its solution based focus, even as it’s
remit grew.
13 years old and SAS’s education
programme had grown, schools tours,
university lectures, educational
materials, environmental awareness
campaigns all successfully and
continuously delivered. Its research
capacity had expanded. Its part in the
wider water debate was continuing
to grow, with campaigns as diverse
as chemicals, renewable energy and
shipping all underway.
And now SAS is 15: with the first
ever 3 strong campaigns team. A
merchandising department which is
well on its way to being 100% organic.
A reputation that means SAS can
move into new debates and be taken
seriously. An annual fundraiser that
plays a big part in raising campaigning
funds and still tops any other event in
the South West and beyond. A hoard
of supporters. And sadly for the
environment, a wealth of issues to
campaign on.
Not bad going for a teenager!
For the 6th Year, the SAS crew will be joined on the road by
the Quiksilver Pro riders in delivering environmental beach
education to the masses. The team will be travelling executive
style in the new Quiksilver bus in delivering Eco Grom Tour
education to 6 new beaches and a load of new groms!! So if you
didn’t get to go last year, make sure you get along this year!
Once again the tour will bring the classroom onto the
beach, teaching groms (aged 10 - 14) about the environmental
dangers that face them and their waves everyday. The SAS and
Quiksilver team will be showing the groms what the problems
are that threaten their beaches and waves, why these issues are
problems and whom they affect. But most importantly the team
will be showing groms what to do when faced with pollution
incidents at their beach.
The idea behind the Eco Tour is to show groms that they can
help to keep their waves clean and green. By taking part the
groms will be made beach guardians and awarded SAS Beach
Guardian certificates. Quiksilver will also be donating ‘goodie’
bags for the beach guardians, as their way of saying thanks.
As well as all this, the groms will get the chance to surf with
the Quiksilver team. A fun tag team surf event will be held with
Quiksilver team riders each captaining a team of groms. Riders
confirmed for this tour include Gary Elkerton, Gabe Davies,
Nathan Philips, Sarah Bentley and Tom Butler. Each team will
surf against each other and the team captains will be on hand to
talk tactics and try and scupper the other teams. It will be great
fun and if it goes flat then the Quiksilver team will be showing
the groms how they keep surf fit with some team challenges.
The tour will stop off at:
29th May: St Ives (Porthmeor)
30th May: Croyde
31st May: Brighton - SAS CAMPAIGN ACTION ONLY
1st June: Guernsey (Vazon Beach)
2nd June: Llangennith
4th June: Bundoran (Official Quiksilver Grommet Contest)
There will only be 30 places at each venue so make sure
you apply to SAS as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.
Deadline for registration is May 23rd. You can register direct
with SAS by calling us on Tel: 0845 4583001 or you can pick up
a registration form in local surf shops for the above towns and
return it to us.
The SAS Quiksilver Eco Groms Tour will finish at Bundoran
where Quiksilver will then hold one of their Grommet Series
contests at Bundoran. AC
SAS HELP OUT AT THE ROXY JAM
The Roxy Jam will be held from the 21st of May until the 27th. There will be the best women surfers on
the planet surfing at Perranporth beach on the World Circuit Tour (WCT). As well as the surfing there will
be loads to do on the beach. SAS will be there on the 26th to help out the Quiksilver Initiative with the
environment day. See you on the beach!
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SAS spent a day with over 150 kids plus
their accompanying adults to deliver a
fun education workshop to coincide with
the arrival of an exciting new surfing
exhibition touring the South West.
Arriving early to set up at the Royal
Albert Memorial Museum we were soon
deluged by youngsters wanting to get
involved with our family activity day.
The day was spent with youngsters
drawing, cutting out and sticking a
range of marine wildlife onto our wall
based art friezes that represented
scenes from ‘under the sea’ or ‘over
the sea’ to highlight everything good
about our environment. Alternatively
they could choose to draw around the
items of beach litter we collected (in
advance) and then stick their work
onto the inflatable toxic drum to show
everything bad about the environment
in their eyes. The day was exhausting
but hugely valuable for SAS as we place
a great deal of importance on education
with our work.
THE FUTURE
OF SEWAGE TREATMENT
We also had a chance to check out
the ‘Surf’s Up’ touring exhibition, which
documents surfing history, as we know
it in the UK. It’s a great exhibition and
there’s a section on SAS too, so look
out for that as well. Surf’s Up runs
throughout the summer moving on to
venues in Falmouth, Bristol, North Devon
and Bournemouth. For more information
check out www.surfsupexhibition.co.uk
Thanks to Sovay Berriman for her help!
RH
LITTER BY LITTER
YOUNGSTERS CLEAN UP THEIR BEACH
Together with SAS campaigners the
kids collected bags and bags of waste.
In addition to removing the waste the
kids listed attentively to us explain what
the issues were and how they became
so dirty. We sowed a few campaigning
seeds with them that day and feel sure
the kids will go away and tell others
about the problems pollution causes
to the environment. Fifteen members
of the Trelya Youth Project rocked up
on a windy February morning to take
on the thousands of washed up litter
items that were laying waste the beach.
Together with SAS campaigners bags of
waste were removed in the clean - but
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the youngsters were keen to learn more
about campaigning to stop the problem
in the first place as they got to grips
with the size of the problem and a few
‘campaign seeds’ were sown that day.
SAS can provide speakers for schools,
colleges and youth groups in the local
area, but hope to be able to provide
more speakers across other parts of
the UK in 2006. If you’re interested
in having an education day with SAS
then contact [email protected] for more
details. Please give us plenty of notice!
RH
Back in the early 90s, less energy was
being used in the treatment of our sewage,
most being simply pumped raw or partially
treated out to sea. Fifteen years on, higher
levels of treatment are much more common
throughout the UK.
While this has resulted in huge benefits
for water users and the marine environment,
it has come at the cost of increasing the
amount of energy needed to process a
given volume of wastewater.
The majority of this extra energy is used
at the secondary treatment stage. UV
disinfection also has an energy demand but
this only results in around a 5% increase
on top of what is required for primary and
secondary treatment alone.
With the threat of climate change looming
over us, energy efficiency is urgently
needed in all aspects of how we live to
reduce the amount of CO2 that is pumped
into the atmosphere.
So what does this mean for the energy
intensive sewage treatment industry?
Essentially what is required over the next
few decades is to decrease the energy
required to treat sewage whilst maintaining
the high quality effluent needed to protect
water users.
With more energy-efficient technology
and management techniques becoming
available, actions like replacing old
inefficient pumps will reduce the overall
energy requirement of an existing sewage
system.
As pumping water from location to
location requires lots of energy, the
industry needs to move away from huge
mass transfer systems, instead moving
towards smaller, local treatment works,
where possible.
Advancements in compact technologies
using membrane filtration means that it
is possible to treat sewage to a very high
level (equivalent to UV or better) from a
small population without pumping it to a
larger sewage works. Yet despite industry
popularity very few membrane filtration
plants are in operation at a time when
smaller communities are crying out for
such technology! A puzzle SAS is still
trying to unravel.
As well as reducing the energy it takes
to treat a volume of water, energy can be
saved by reducing the amount of water
that goes for treatment.
At present, most water that ends up
down the drain goes to the treatment
works. This means a large amount of rainwater gets treated in a similar manner to
what goes down your toilet.
By introducing sustainable drainage
that reduces the volume of water that
enters the drains, or by building separate
drainage and sewage systems for new
developments, less water will end up at
the sewage works meaning less that has
to be treated.
This could allow smaller, more efficient
treatment works to be built which wouldn’t
have to cope with the capacity of large
storm events. This would also have the
additional benefit of reducing the chances
of sewage works overflowing when it rains,
a problem that has becoming increasingly
evident over the last few years.
With climate change looming as a
significant threat to the water industry SAS
will be challenging the regulators, industry
and government to truly face up to these
threats to protect recreational waters and
to ensure more sustainable methods of
sewage treatment are employed. AK
STILL TIME TO GET
YOUR HANDS ON A KURT
JACKSON PAINTING
There’s still time to get your hands on a Kurt Jackson painting currently on show at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
The two 12” x 12” mixed media pieces are being donated for SAS through a sealed bid ongoing auction.
The work is titled: North easterlies, hail, rain, sleet, snow, sun, high tide. Cape Feb 2004 and Bright morning sunshine and
a huge sea, sitting at the low water mark, the rocks I am on will be an island in an hour. May 2002
For more information please contact SAS or the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen Street, Exeter Tel: 01392 665858.
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EVENTS
EVENTS
SPRINGLOADED II
SAS 15TH ANNIVERSARY
SUMMER BALL
The headliners at this year’s
Springloaded music event at the
Hall for Cornwall in Truro have been
announced. Echo & The Bunnymen, The
Music and Fightstar/Hell is for Heroes
are headlining the three successive
nights on this year’s programme (2628th May) which again is set to raise
valuable funds for SAS.
Last year’s Springloaded was an all
time classic and brought some great
bands to Cornwall as well as showing
support from both the music and wider
FRIDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2005
KEEP IT GREEN
To reduce the environmental impact of the Ball, we’re
expanding the free bus service, with pickups from St Ives,
Falmouth, Truro and St Agnes village centre, so why not take
advantage of this green alternative? A Green Tax for car
parking of £2 per car will be charged to help fund the bus
service, but if you share your car with 3 others, it will only
cost 50p each.
We’re aiming for a 100% recycling rate this
year, so have expanded the recycling
facilities and are planning to use
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biodegradable cups and plates, which can be composted
at the end of the night! So please do your bit and use the
bins provided.
A couple of inconsiderate people left bulky items and
broken glass on the site last year, which we had to clear
up and dispose of. This meant we had to hire extra skips,
which drained time and money from the campaign. Please
make sure you use the bins provided or take your rubbish
home with you.
Tickets are £20 for Echo & The
Bunnymen/Billy Bragg (Thursday 26th),
£16 for The Music (Support TBC) (Friday
27th) and £14 for the Fightstar/Hell is
for Heroes/Armor for Sleep/Instruction/
Easy Kill.
All tickets include a £1 donation
to Surfers Against Sewage and are
available from the Hall for Cornwall
box office (01872) 262466 www.
hallforcornwall.co.uk, and www.
gigsandtours.com (subject to a booking
fee). For further information on the
lineups please check the SW1 website
www.sw1productions.co.uk
EVENTS CALENDAR
KEEP IT SAFE
★ 29 May - 5 June: SAS Quiksilver Eco Groms Tour ★ 18 - 22 June: SAS and O’Neill Marine Education Project ★ 11 June:
SAS ‘Paddle Around the Pier’ Brighton ★ July - SAS/RNLI Paddle Around the Pier Bournemouth: TBC ★ 12 - 14 August: SAS
Cornish & Open, Porthtowan, Cornwall ★ 2 September: The SAS Crystal Ball
Security will be tighter than ever this year and the campsite
will be patrolled. However we strongly recommend that
you minimise what you bring with you as we cannot
guarantee the security of items left unattended. There will
also be extra security at the gate to prevent parking on
adjoining roads and any cars causing an obstruction will be
towed away. There will be a police presence as cars leave the
site, so don’t even think about drinking and driving.
Final warning for any blaggers - no ticket or wristband,
absolutely no entry!
Further details about ordering Ball tickets can be found on
the enclosed Booking Form. WN
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The traditional 15th anniversary gift is Crystal, which leads
us nicely to the theme of this year’s Ball! This year’s CRYSTAL
BALL will glisten and enlighten - we predict you will have the
night of your life in our crystalline kingdom.
Cross our palms with 35 silver coins and we forsee you’ll
meet 3000 dark strangers: ice queens and crystal-beings,
fortune tellers and 25th Century dwellers!
The Summer Ball is our biggest fundraiser of the year, an all
night extravaganza of music in a marquee, on the cliff tops
of St Agnes. Bands, DJs and performance artists entertain
SAS members clad in the most outrageous fancy dress. The
Darkness, Razorlight and Faithless have all played at past
Balls and this year’s line up is... as always, a closely guarded
secret until the night!
Tickets are ON SALE NOW BY POST ONLY, using the booking
form that came with this Pipeline. PHONE ORDERS WILL ONLY
BE TAKEN FROM 8TH JUNE.
community for SAS’s campaign for
clean and safe water. We’re delighted
that once again we have been chosen to
benefit from this brilliant event, and in
order to spread the benefit a bit wider,
SAS are planning to make a donation
from the profits to the Tsunami Relief
Fund. To all gig goers we urge them to
turn up, tune in and feel good about
themselves for giving a little bit back
from the ticket price to us guardians of
the water environment.
Supporting bands at the 3-day event
are Billy Bragg, The Subways and
Armour for Sleep!
This year promoters are again
Metropolis Music and SW1 Productions
and we are grateful for their ongoing
support to our campaigns.
Remember to drop by at Porthtowan
beach on 12th, 13th and 14th August for
the SAS Cornish and Open. The event is
the longest running surf contest in the
UK and this year we are hoping to make
it the ‘greenest’ as well, to fit in better
with our campaigns. Lots going on in
the water and on the beach so make
sure you get along!
We’ll be back in Brighton on the 11th
June for this year’s Paddle Round The
Pier SAS fundraiser. Held at the Palace
Pier, south coast and London surfers
turn out in force for this fun SAS event.
Make sure you get down there, as we
need your support more than ever right
now (see pages 6 and 7).
Also, to be confirmed, SAS in
conjunction with the RNLI are looking
to carry out a Paddle Round The Pier in
Bournemouth fundraiser during early
July. Check our website for the latest
information or contact michelle@sas.
org.uk if you’d like to get involved.
GOLD COAST OCEAN
FESTIVAL
SAS will again be at the Gold Coast
Ocean Festival held at Croyde. Come
along and see what we’re up to. The
Festival runs from 17th - 19th July.
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LOADS OF
NEW CLOTHES
AND DESIGNS!
Wow! We’ve been working hard on the
SAS clothing for you this year! When
you look at your catalogue you’ll see
that well over half of what we are now
offering is made from organic cotton or
hemp, and we are doing this with very
little difference in price. We are also a
lot happier about the dying and printing
of the garments, working towards zero
environmental impact there!
I know that most of you know why
it is so important that we produce
our clothes carefully in this way, but
there is a little rant about it at the
beginning of the catalogue if you want
some more details!
At the same time as making important
changes to fabrics and methods, we have
also been making some radical changes
to the clothes themselves, and I hope
you like them! We are trying to give you
a wider range of clothes that you will
want to wear on all occasions, rather
than just the heavily logo’d hoods and
tees for which we are infamous! Now
that the clothes are so well produced,
the more you can buy the better it is for
us, for you and for the environment.
ARE YOU INTOXICATED? NEW
CAMPAIGN T-SHIRT
To fit in with the toxic chemicals
investigation we have this striking
2005 campaign tee designed by
Kieran Holden (shown above right).
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AND ALSO ALONG THE SAME
LINES, FROM SEVENTENTHS:
Local dive wear gurus Seventenths
have come up with this retro ‘Pollution
Solution’ T shirt design, watch out
for it in the catalogue, and in their
online shop www.seventenths.co.uk.
Many thanks to Seventenths for
continuing their sponsorship in this
way (shown above).
SAS BOARDBAGS!
Now available thanks to a sponsorship
deal with KTActive. We will be selling
three sizes through the catalogue, but
they do 7 sizes in all and are looking for
suppliers throughout the UK. They are
supporting us, so please support them!
Perhaps your local shop sells them,
and if not maybe you will be wanting
to know why not! Check page 12 in the
catalogue. New rashies there too!
We have some stunning women’s
clothes this summer, featuring designs
derived from beach litter (pictured on
this page) and also a beautiful new
Indian cotton fabric printed with our
own unique SAS design in coral colours.
I’m not telling you any more! You will
have to look at the catalogue. I hope it
inspires you!
COME AND FIND US!
If you are in the area drop in!
(There’s a map inside the front
page). You can try things on,
and browse old stuff and new,
in our newly decorated
warehouse shop. It will be
good to see you. KW
We’ve had lots of birthday presents from celebrity supporters, which we will be auctioning to raise funds for SAS. Donations
include a signed Hawaiian ukelele from Jack Johnson, a signed Paul McCartney book, signed hotpants from Pink, signed
limited edition picture disc from The Darkness, jewellery collected by Body Shop founder Anita Roddick on her travels, signed
album samplers from Donovan Frankenreiter, a signed REM photograph, a signed Jake Boex surfboard, a Commonwealth
Games sweatshirt signed by Steve Redgrave, signed Joni Mitchell poster and a surfboard awarded to Oasis. Other
contributors include Ash, Mis-teeq, Jonathan Porritt, Tina Turner, The Tragically Hip, Feeder, UB40, Jo Brand, Divine Comedy,
Cher, Less Than Jake, Peter Gabriel, Janet Jackson and Ewan McGregor.
We’ll open our presents on our 15th birthday on 10th May and will start putting them on our website for you to view and
they’ll be auctioned via eBay starting on 1st July. We will have links from the items on our website to eBay. WN
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to the British Wave Ski Association who raised £288.00 at their
first competition of the season at Woolacombe on 2/3 April.
Although the waves were poor everyone still had a great time.
Money was donated through entry fees and a raffle was held
in the Red Barn on the Saturday night. Thank you to the Red
Barn and those who donated some fantastic prizes: Gul, Tiki,
Saltrock, Hunter, Surfed Out, and North Devon Kayak Centre.
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SAS ON-LINE ART
COMPETITION
We’ve always known our members are a talented
bunch and in particular there are a lot of artists
out there. We’d like to showcase your talents and
provide you with a creative outlet whilst promoting
our campaign message through art, so we’re
running an on-line art competition, focusing on
the SAS campaign. There are two categories, kids
(under 16) and adults (16 and over). We’ll display
the best entries on our website and the winners’
artwork will be used by SAS in some way, whether
it be a poster, advert, t-shirt design or in any other
way we think will help raise awareness of SAS!
Artwork can take any form but must be CAMPAIGN
RELATED (we reserve the right not to display any
irrelevant or inappropriate work) and submitted
to our curator Jonah Maddox via email to
[email protected] by 30th June, or
you can send images on CD or hard copies in the
post to 68a Sidwell Street, Exeter, Devon, EX4 6PH,
but postal entries must be submitted by 10th June.
Unfortunately we are unable to return any artwork.
The winners will be announced on 15th July.
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ATTACK OF THE NORTHERN
MONKEY 2005!
The Student Windsurfing Association made a somewhat new
pilgrimage up North this February for the ritual early event
of the New Year; however the rewards for their long drive
soon became apparent as the sight of wellies, Carling and
the beautiful Liverpudlian women greeted their arrival in the
European Capital of Culture!
Following up from the success of 2003’s ‘Attack of the
Northern Monkey’, 2005’s was most definitely bigger and
better. Each University entrant unwittingly donated £3
to Surfers Against Sewage, resulting in a massive £360
being raised for the organisation!! However all thanks
must go to SAS: for in apprehension of the dosh, those
lovely watery people sent us two days of awesome wind!!
Accordingly the Crosby ‘Champion of Speed’ contest and an
awesome freestyle competition provided the most extreme
entertainment of the weekend, establishing Bigbobjoylove
(Southampton Uni) and Darren Mitchell (Liverpool)
respectively as alpha male and honoury shit-hot shot!!!
Thanks must go out to all our sponsors: Surf-Tech Xtreme
Sports, Carling, Xtremity, Starboard and Tushingham, Da Kine,
Kangaroo Poo, Spartan, Typhoon; everyone who took part
and helped out and of course Surfers Against Sewage!
Thanks to Matt Greenwood for his donation of £250
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OUTSIDE EVENTS
GOT SOME TIME TO SPARE?
We’ve had a really great team of volunteers helping out
throughout 2004. If you have some time to spare or
have a special skill or qualification that you think may
be of help to us please complete the form below and
we’ll put you on our database.
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HORIZONS OF BLUE AND GOLD
Check out the exhibition of Surf and Lifestyle Photgraphy
by Mel Enright. Called ‘Horizons of Blue and Gold’ the
exhibition runs from 4th July to 4th August at Exposure
Gallery, London (22-23 Little Portland Street W1W 8BU)
and features a collection of images from a surfing
travelogue. Printed on canvas the images are a vibrant
homage to the life threatening waves and lifestyles based
around them. SAS will receive a percentage of the sale of
all colour & black and white prints/canvasses. For more
information please contact 0207 907 7132.
What days of the week are you available?
Mon ■ Tue ■ Wed ■ Thu ■ Fri ■ Sat ■ Sun ■
How long are you available for?
Type of work preferred:
Admin ■ Campaigns ■ Events ■ Any ■
Areas of expertise/useful experience:
Do you have any professional qualifications that may be useful to us?
LUSTY SURF COMP
Surf Science students at Cornwall College Camborne are
holding the 3C Surf Comp on Saturday 7th May at Lusty
Glaze, Newquay, and donating all proceeds to SAS. The
comp is open to students and lecturers from all Cornwall
College sites, with Open, Longboard, Bodyboard and Womens
categories. There are lots of prizes up for grabs and an after
party at Belushi’s Bar Newquay on the night! For more info
or to enter visit www.3csurfcomp.co.uk
THANK YOU! We’ll keep your details on file and will be in touch when
we need extra help.
ANOTHER EVENT
THANKS TO ALL THE
VOLUNTEERS WHO’VE HELPED
OUT SINCE THE LAST PIPELINE:
The event will begin at Porthtowan at 10am on Saturday
7th May 2005, with the King Lushies’ Foamy Funboard
Frenzy, a surf competition on foam boards, open to
all, with a charge for entry (donation to SAS). This will
be followed by a Barnaby Ray Quartet, DJs Fadadoo,
Bloodman and SMJ of Mish Mash playing a funky blend
of hip hop, jazz and drum and bass until 1am. Contact
[email protected] for more info.
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Graham Forster, Ame Hurst, Laura Snapes, Julia Bellingham,
Louise Treseder, Lorraine Campbell, Jon Evison, Miranda
Flannigan, Su & Shun Zi White, Nigel Barrett, Millenium
Volunteers Jade Aldridge & Unity Perkins and Sarah Francis
of Young Volunteer Challenge. Thanks also to Emily Reed
and Simon Minchin (Judge Dread!) who helped out during
their work experience weeks.
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(2005 Donation)
Blue Bar
(2005 Cornish & Open Sponsorship)
The Hemp Shop
(2005 Merchandise)
Kaos Designs
(2005 Ball Sponsorship)
MotherOcean Surfboards
(2005 Raffle)
Patagonia/Tides
(Campaign Grant)
TYF Adventures
(2005 Merchandise Sponsorship)
Red Stripe
(2005 Ball Sponsorship)
Wavegames
(Merchandise)
Royal Yachting Association (2005 Water Alliance Campaign)
SW1 Productions/Metropolis (Donation)
Media Sponsors
UKnetweb
(2005 Website & IT Support)
Boards Magazine
Three Star £1250+
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Surfers Path
Barefeet Promotions
(2005 Beach Ball donations)
SurfEurope
Billabong
(Core Funding)
Wavelength
Boardshop.co.uk
(2005 Core Funding)
CCPR
(Core Funding)
Elements
Eurosima
(Core Funding)
Extremepie.com
(Merchandise)
Ignite
(Merchandise)
Kangaroo Poo
(Merchandise)
KT Active
(Merchandise)
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