Local Projects we Fund
Photo: Fabrice Jaine
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.
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.
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.
Beach clean-ups across the Canary Islands with Canary Green 🇮🇨
Since 2024, Ocean Beer has supported dozens of Canary Green's beach clean-ups across the Canary Islands: bringing people together to protect the coast they love and take real action for the ocean.
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.
Reducing Black Carbon emissions in Arctic Shipping 🇦🇶
The Arctic Sea is at constant risk of melting ice caps, destruction of wildlife habitat and reduction in the functioning of its ecosystem. Clean Arctic Alliance has other plans, to reduce black carbon entrance in the Arctic Sea.
Empowering Women in Fuvahmulah Island’s conservation 🇲🇻
Ocean Born Foundation supported Women in Ocean Science, an inspiring organization dedicated to empowering women through ocean literacy and hands-on conservation experience.
Ocean Beer x The Ocean Race: Sailing for Seaweed Restoration 🇮🇹
Ocean Beer joined The Ocean Race in 2023 to raise funds for restoring Portofino’s vital Cystoseira seaweed forests.
Collecting Trash to Create Art and Inspire Change 🇵🇹
Discover the adventures of the Trash Traveller and his quest to clean Portuguese beaches and more!
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.
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!
Building The Platform For Global Ocean Conservation 🇺🇸
Only one is an organization which harnesses the power of storytelling, collective action and crowdfunding to rebuild ocean life. We support Only One’s incredible platforming of stories and campaigns to support the well-being of our ocean!
Raising Awareness About Packaging as Underwater Litter 🇺🇸
Learn about the issues and damage that packaging pollution causes to ocean wildlife and ecosystems. Oceana is a partner whose work and efforts strongly represent Ocean Born foundation’s goals and objectives and supporting them is extremely valuable.
No IFs or BUTTs 🇯🇪
Discover Ocean Beer’s campaign against cigarette butt pollution and how you can contribute to keep the oceans cleaner!
Supporting The Plastic Pollution Research of Dr Patricia Villarubia-Gómez 🇸🇪
We support plastic pollution research conducted from the Stockholm Resilience Center. When plastic enters the environment we know it causes immense damage, understand how this happen is the best step to understand how to resolve this disaster.
Making the World’s First Blue Carbon Documentary 🇬🇧
Make Waves is a media company who has produced projects such as Blue Carbon, a documentary that dives into the promise and potential of the ocean in the face of global warming
Documenting Ocean Health along Iberian Coast - La España Azul 🇪🇸
Follow the incredible story of Nacho Dean, extreme traveller and climate change spokesperson’s new project, España Azul. In this project Nacho Dean conducts research to better understand and denounce microplastics and harm done to the Iberian seas.
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.
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.
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.
Protecting Risso's dolphins and Loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean with Alnitak 🇪🇸
We are proud to fund Alnitak’s research conducted under the MEDTOP program, contributing to one of Europe’s largest datasets for cetacean and marine turtle conservation.