Surfers Against Sewage

The Big Spring Beach Clean mobilises over 30,000 community volunteers at locations.

Thousands of volunteers cleaned 487 beaches, river banks and lakes this autumn.

Surfers Against Sewage calls on Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to use tax system to tackle single-use plastic in his forthcoming Autumn Budget.

Surfers against Sewage is calling on volunteers to take part in what they say will be one of the biggest ever beach cleans covering over 500 communities - in the wake of a recent government report which projected that ocean plastic is set to treble by 2025. CATHERINE HARTE reports

Forget the chemical depths of your local swimming pool: wild swimming is the more refreshing, natural way to cool off this summer

Water - we pollute it, waste it, privatise it and dam it. Around the world millions of people lack access to it. But there are organisations out there trying to protect the planet's water for the benefit of all