As part of my mission to have a positive impact on the ocean through my business, I'm recording the steps I take to give back here. Read on for my actions from April 2026 to March 2027:
Last updated 31 May
Deleting emails
I try to keep my digital carbon footprint down by permanently deleting emails & clearing out my Google Drive on a regular basis
✉️ April: n/a
✉️ May: 2,150 emails deleted
✉️ June:
✉️ July:
✉️ August:
✉️ September:
✉️ October:
✉️ November:
✉️ December:
✉️ January:
✉️ February:
✉️ March:
Donating to Project Seagrass
My current chosen charity is Project Seagrass. I make regular donations via Work for Good to support their seagrass planting efforts
🌿 April: n/a
🌿 May: Donations funded 497 seeds
Other donations
Sometimes I make ad hoc donations to other charities. This year that included:
💸£tbc
Planting trees through Treeapp
Each month, I plant some trees (for free) through Treeapp
🌴 April: 32 trees
🌴 May: 25 trees
Citizen Science
Walrus from Space
To help scientific research from my laptop, I try to spend time WWF identify walrus from space as a citizen scientist (don't forget, you can help too! Just have a go online)
🛰️ TBC - I'm waiting for the next 'game' to become available!
The Great Eggcase Hunt
When I find mermaid's purses on the beach, I submit them to The Shark Trust's Great Eggcase Hunt
👛 tbc
Landwatch
Some more citizen science. I have now completed my land watch training course with Sussex Dolphin Project. I'm going to try to get down to the seafront to do some 'land watching' as a volunteer citizen science soon
🐬tbc
Sharing my expertise
As a way of giving back, I offer 1-2-1 sessions to give advice to early career writers and people wanting to switch to conservation copywriting. These are capped at one per month (as I was starting to get inundated with more requests than I could manage).
If you book one of these slots with me, please check out the tips I've shared on my blog and the audio posts I've recorded first as these may answer your questions (and please actually show up to the call!).
📞 April: Hosted a mentoring session for one of my Women in Ocean Science mentees
📞 May: Hosted a mentoring session for one of my Women in Ocean Science mentees
WeWard
I use WeWard (referral code: MELL-J7s3F) to convert my steps into points and donate these to charities
👟 tbc
Blood donation
Every few months, I try to take time out of work to try to donate blood
💉 tbc
