Local Projects we Fund

A growing map of impact

Since our creation, we've donated over €500,000 to 35 initiatives around the world, each contributing in its own way to restoring ocean health. In our early years, the focus was global: projects were selected worldwide, wherever the ocean needed it most.

As of 2025, we decided that half of our profits would be dedicated to funding conservation and restoration projects in each country where Ocean Beer is brewed and sold. From cleaning up a stretch of coastline to protecting a nesting site or restoring a seagrass meadow, these initiatives aim to bring visible change to the shores closest to our community.

For this local half, we've also introduced a community vote. At the end of each year, the Ocean Beer community will decide which projects get funded, so the people making our impact possible also get to shape it.

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Cleaning the Canary Islands' seabed with Ocean Angel 🇮🇨

Meet Ocean Angel, our 2026 Canary Islands beneficiary. This local NGO dives to hand-remove marine litter and ghost gear from Tenerife's seabed — cleaning up a marine environment exposed to both local pressures and debris drifting in from across the Atlantic.

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Banning bottom-trawling in Spanish MPAs 🇪🇸

To push for a ban on bottom trawling, we supported Oceana's efforts around this in Spain and funded the production of a fact sheet with data analysis on fisheries inside MPAs, accompanied by case studies.

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Zoé Guislain Zoé Guislain

Advancing Ocean Governance for the UNOC-3 🇫🇷

What if ocean protection was the rule, not the exception? This global movement, supported by Ocean Born Foundation, championed the Protection Principle at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, uniting voices worldwide to demand stronger commitments for our blue planet.

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Exploring The Ocean To Inspire Action 🇬🇸

Ocean Born proudly supports a leading game changer in ocean well-being advocacy, SeaLegacy. Explore SeaLegacy’s commitment and journey to restore and re wild the Chilean Patagonia kelp forests.

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3D-Mapping the Mediterranean Seabed 🇫🇷

Discover our support for Pure Ocean, a foundation which aside from raising public awareness through conferences, events and sporting challenges, is actively conducting an amazing project of mapping out the Mediterranean Seabed!

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No IFs or BUTTs 🇯🇪

Discover Ocean Beer’s campaign against cigarette butt pollution and how you can contribute to keep the oceans cleaner!

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Banning Heavy Fuel Oils from EU Ports 🇪🇺

Ocean Born Foundation grants support to Clean Arctic Alliance’s project Sea’s at Risk, a project whose objective is to ban black carbon from entering EU ports which could have the strongest change on black carbon emissions globally.

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Matthew Chapman Matthew Chapman

Amplifying Ocean Storyteller Voices 🇯🇪 

Our partner, Ocean Culture Life brings Ocean Storytellers and Ocean Guardians together to give a voice to the ocean. Their annual Storyteller Grant empowers young creatives to tell stories and fund projects that highlight the beauty of our ocean, its people, and the organisations that are working tirelessly to protect it.

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Preventing Unlawful Icelandic Whaling in International Waters 🇮🇸

Whaling in Iceland is still a consistent practice. the damage this causes to marine life results with biodiversity loss, not to mention the extreme brutality and inhumane treatment of majestic animals like whales. Explore Operation Paiakaan and how it will attempt to stop Icelandic whaling.

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