Shared vision

Restored mauri for our moana.

Our purpose

Connect people with nature and inspire change.

Our mission

Support communities to prevent litter and restore waterways.

Shared outcomes

Beautiful beaches, healthy waters, inspired people.

Established in April 2009, the Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust is a multi award-winning New Zealand charity that exists to connect people to nature and inspire change. 

Our long-term vision is for restored mauri for our moana and our mission is to support communities around Aotearoa to prevent litter and restore waterways. The key outcomes we strive for are beautiful beaches / oneone kōrekoreko, healthy waters / waiora and inspired people / tāngata whakaohooho. With the scale of this vision and these outcomes, we cannot achieve this work alone.

We deliver and support large-scale clean-up events, educational programmes, public awareness campaigns, catchment-based freshwater restoration and citizen science environmental monitoring activities. We also enable others by supporting ‘Do It Yourself’ efforts nationwide.

Sustainable Coastlines is strictly apolitical and focuses on solutions for people of all ages, backgrounds and sectors. We create open-access programmes, tools, data and resources to equip communities to look after their local environment.

We deliver on our mission and vision through our three core grassroots community programmes below.