Mini Meadows for individuals
Support hands-on seagrass conservation and help us restore the UK’s marine environment!
With seagrass meadows in urgent need of protection and restoration, the Mini Meadows Ocean Fund enables you to directly support hands-on seagrass conservation.
By supporting Mini Meadows, you are contributing to long-term conservation efforts that promote biodiversity, capture carbon, improve water quality, and protect vital coastal ecosystems.
Each Mini Meadow needs a £10 donation to support our seagrass conservation work for one year.
You can choose the number of Mini Meadows you want to support, there is no limit! A contribution of £10 could fund 1 Mini Meadow, £30 could fund 3 Mini Meadows, and £50 could fund 5 Mini Meadows.
Contributions at any scale will have a lasting and measurable impact on urgent Ocean health!
When you support our Mini Meadows Ocean Fund, you will receive a personalised digital certificate, in your name or the name of the person you are gifting to. We will also keep you up to date with our seagrass conservation successes, via our regular Blue Meadows bulletins.
Be part of the solution, and help us to restore the UK’s marine environment!
Help us make a difference and support seagrass meadows. Fill in this form today!
Frequently asked questions
Blue Meadows works across the southwest of the UK, covering over 200 miles of coastline, from Falmouth to Poole!
We are currently operating across 5 sites in Falmouth, Plymouth, Torbay, Studland and Poole. Using Sensitive Habitat Marker Buoys, we have protected 215 hectares of seagrass meadows across these sites (using 86 marker buoys) and have restored 12 hectares of this vital habitat. 8 of these restored hectares were part of the ReMEDIES project, with plans to continue our restoration work in Falmouth in 2025.
A ‘Mini Meadow’ is symbolic area of seagrass and is a scalable way to support our Blue Meadows programme (UK) as an entity rather than just funding a particular area. Mini Meadows acts a stepping stone towards a model where we can track and measure more precisely at the level of detail needed to report on a physical Mini Meadow.
The approximate ecosystem benefits provided for Mini Meadows will be based on best available evidence for current understanding of Zostera marina seagrass beds within the UK, from peer-review literature and our own research. The figures are derived from a modelled period of 30 years of restored seagrass to reach maturity and calculated for a timeframe of 5 years support based on costings for our contemporary methods. This includes all aspects of our programme costs, such as restoration, protection, monitoring, community engagement and learning and critical research into the ecological values of seagrass. These figures are under review as part of our ongoing research efforts which your contribution is supporting and are subject to change.
Healthy seagrass meadows sustain community wellbeing and cultural heritage, inspiring a lasting connection to the Ocean, helping people to feel happy, calm and healthy. According to our recent perception survey with 1476 total responses, 92% of respondents feel seagrass meadows are important to their wellbeing and 97% of people feel positive emotions after interacting with seagrass.
As reported by the UN Environment Programme, seagrass is found in 159 countries on six continents, with more than 1 billion people living within 100 km of a seagrass meadow, thus potentially benefiting from their provisioning, regulating and cultural services. This can include (and not limited to): food security from fish production, improved quality of water filtered by seagrasses, protection of coasts from erosion, storms and floods or carbon sequestration and storage.
Seagrass meadows allow biodiversity to flourish. A single hectare can support 80,000 fish and 100 million small invertebrates. The underwater meadows are also a home for rare and endangered species, like seahorses and stalked jellyfish, allowing them to shelter and thrive.
