ShoreThing
Bring your team to the water. Leave the shoreline better than you found it.
A day by the coast that connects your people to each other and to the place, and puts that connection to work caring for it. Real hands on impact, run and reported properly.
A day out that your team feels, and that your reporting can show.
People protect what they feel connected to. A ShoreThing day is built to do both jobs at once, so the same morning gives your people a genuine experience and gives you something real to point to afterwards.
01Team connection and wellbeing
Time outdoors, moving, off screens and shoulder to shoulder on a shared task. The kind of day people still talk about months later.
02Real environmental impact
Hands on care for the coast and its waterways. Not a token gesture, a measured contribution to a genuine local problem.
03Reporting you can use
Weight collected, items counted, mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A tidy summary for your impact reporting.
04Local and community rooted
Run by an Australian not for profit built around the people who already love the water. Your day supports that community directly.
What a ShoreThing day looks like
Split into teams, your group rotates through three games across the day, with morning tea and lunch in between. Timings flex to your group and the site.
Welcome and safety brief
Arrival, acknowledgement of Country, the plan for the day and a proper safety and water awareness briefing from your ShoreThing crew.
Game one, The Rewild
Teams plant native seedlings along the bank and help bring a tired stretch back to life, tallying every tree they get in the ground.
Morning tea
A proper break to refuel and swap stories of the strangest thing found so far.
Game two, The Scavenger Hunt
Teams rotate to a points based hunt for specific and unusual finds along the shore. Sharp eyes and teamwork win it.
Lunch
A shared lunch by the water, the natural midpoint of the day.
Game three, The Beach Comb
Teams work a stretch of shoreline, collecting what does not belong there and counting their own haul as they go. Every item tallied climbs the leaderboard.
Debrief, numbers and photo
We add up every team's tally, crown the leaders, hand out a few cheesy awards and get the group photo.
Finish
Everyone leaves having made a visible difference, with the impact summary to follow within the week.
We count it, so you can report it.
During the day each team tallies what it plants and what it clears, and everything collected is weighed and logged into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative, the national citizen science database. Within a week you receive a one page impact summary: trees planted, litter removed, what it all means, and how it maps to the Sustainable Development Goals your organisation reports against.
ShoreThing supports the Sustainable Development Goals. The content of this pack has not been approved by the United Nations and does not reflect the views of the United Nations or its officials or Member States. Learn more at un.org/sustainabledevelopment.
What is included, and what to bring
We bring
- Experienced ShoreThing crew leaders
- Safety briefing, risk plan and water awareness
- Gloves, bags, buckets and collection gear
- Three games and all activity materials
- Morning tea and lunch for the group
- Weighing, counting and data logging
- Your impact summary and event photos
Your team brings
- Enclosed, sturdy shoes that can get wet
- Sun protection, hat and sunscreen
- A refillable water bottle
- Layers suited to the weather
- A sense of fun and a bit of competition
Days run for groups from 10 to 50. Wet weather is assessed on the day, with a backup date offered where a session cannot safely run. Talk to us about accessibility and we will match the site and role to your team.
One contribution, by team size
Pick the bracket that fits your group. Each price covers the full day for that many people, including all three games, morning tea and lunch. It is a contribution to ShoreThing, a registered charity, so the day does good twice over.
ShoreThing is a registered charity with the ACNC. Deductible gift recipient (DGR) status is in progress, and once confirmed your contribution will be tax deductible. Bracket pricing to be confirmed against catering and crew costs.
A community platform for waterfolk.
ShoreThing is a not for profit built around the people who already love the water: the surfers, swimmers, divers and paddlers of Victoria. We believe connection and conservation are the same loop. So we bring people to the water and to each other, and put that connection to work caring for the coast and its waterways. Corporate days are one of the ways your organisation can be part of that loop.
Bring your team to the water.
Tell us your rough team size and the month you have in mind, and we will shape a day around it.