Founded in 2012 and incorporated in 2018 as a community interest company, Strandliners is an all-volunteer grassroots organisation based in East Sussex. In 2023, Strandliners’ local volunteers committed over 1300 hours of their own time to the war on plastic.
Strandliners’ dedicated volunteers have included: a geologist, a doctor, a TV presenter, an architect, an engineer, several artists, a yoga teacher, mums, dads, their sons and daughters, and many more. Our common cause is to identify the plastic pollution we pick and trace it to its source: domestic, agricultural, shipping, industrial, medical and commercial.
Collaboration is key. If we work together, we have a better chance of turning back the plastic tide.
Andy Dinsdale
Strandliners’ Executive Director, Andy Dinsdale has been leading riverbank and beach cleans since 2004 and regularly represents the organisation at national and international marine conservation conferences.
He shares governance responsibilities with co-directors Amanda Snowdon, Dominic Manning and Beverley Coombes.
Dominic Manning
Dominic Manning is a local architect. He has been interested in environmental issues ever since reading Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature. He is involved in many community activities, including being the chair of Rother Environmental Group, founder member of Rye Community Garden and Rye Chamber of Commerce sustainability officer.
Beverley Coombes
Beverley Coombes started volunteering for Strandliners while working on her Environmental Science degree. Inspired by what she was finding, she went on to take a Masters in Global Biodiversity Conservation at the University of Sussex. Now retired after more than 20 years in primary education, she has more time to devote to Strandliners.
Our funders
STRANDLINERS CIC has received generous support from The Rivers Trust, Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust, Rother District Council, Rye Town Council, Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm, Sea-Changers, The Rye Fund, Jempson’s, Break Free From Plastic, Sussex Community Foundation and individual donors like you. Thank you for your help.