Blue Recovery Milestones

Recruit two new staff members

Dr Ben Holt is Citizen Science & Falmouth Hub Leader and Alan Smith is Community Engagement & Plymouth Hub Leader, both have been in post for 12 months.

Training Blue Recovery Rangers

The project has supported the development of 7 Rangers in Falmouth and 8 Rangers in Plymouth. Weekly sessions allow these volunteers to develop project management and marine biology knowledge, to become leaders of future beach survey events.

See Our Shore Open Days

During the first year Blue Recovery has enabled 8 events to be held, with 4 in Falmouth and 4 in Plymouth. They are open days, where participants engage with visitors to the area to share their new and developing knowledge and confidence.

Blue Recovery Beach Days

The project has delivered 24 expert-led community events (12 in each hub) for participants to discover and learn about local marine heritage in the field. A total of 231 people were from target communities. Free transport was provided where required.

Kick Start Trainees

We recruited two KickStart-funded trainees; a Citizen Science Coordinator and a Community Engagement Coordinator who both worked 25 hours a week for 6 months.

Online Project Hub

We launched our innovative online project hub for participants to record their wildlife finds and receive project updates. We now have over 100 users with around 500 hours usage to date.

Educational Workshops

A wide range of educational workshops have taken place, from ‘flagship’ community talks with guest speakers such as ‘Loving Limpets’ held in person to an audience of over 60 people in Plymouth - and broadcast on Zoom & YouTube, to online training for Rangers & volunteers on how to upload & record citizen science surveys themselves. Weaved amongst these have been shorter, more focused workshops held before rock pooling during a beach day, for example on seaweed identification in both hubs in November.