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Scotland’s First Voluntary Marine Reserve, formerly the St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve. A charity established in 1984.

Based on the East coast of Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.

28/10/2026

A fabulous morning in the sun 🌞

This morning 8 volunteers joined us down at Killiedraught Bay for a Coastal Clean Up 🚮

Usually one of the more troublesome beaches for marine litter, we were pleasantly surprised by how clean it was! Although a friendly reminder to not dump your waste over the cliff edge!

A nice slow clean up meant there was plenty of opportunity for chatter and basking in the sunshine as well as listening out for oystercatchers on the rocky shore ☺️

A total of 10.11kg was removed ✅️

A huge thank you to the volunteers who joined us this morning 💙

Event like these are made possible thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland

27/10/2026

What does funding allow us to achieve? 😁

Since April we have been busy...

📖 providing identification workshops to BMR volunteers on intertidal, marine mammal, and non-native species

🐚 completing 10 rockpool ramble sessions for visitors and the local community to showcase the wonderful life found right beneath our feet

🚮 carrying out 14 beach cleans whilst gathering data for the Marine Conservation Society project

🔍 hunting for nurdles 3 times for The Great Nurdle Hunt

🐬 providing 10 opportunities to watch for whales, dolphins, porpoise and other marine mammals to gather data for Whale and Dolphin Conservation and the Sea Watch Foundation

🌱 removing the non-native invasive species, Himalayan Balsam, 4 times at Coldingham Bay

✅️ purchasing new rockpooling equipment and binoculars for activities

All 44 of these events combined (between April and September) allowed us to engage with over 500 people! Events like these provide opportunities to have a better understanding of local blue spaces whilst gathering important data to measure its health and the threats it faces 🌊

All of these events were carried out with funding from The Protected Areas Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland 💙

27/10/2026

Last week we took part in DYW Maritime Careers event at Eyemouth High School. This welcomed pupils from Eyemouth, Kelso and Berwickshire High Schools, showcasing and introducing career options in the maritime sector.

We found ourselves alongside, Renewable Energy companies, The Royal Navy and Boat Builders, highlighting the work of BMR and the importance of conservation.

Thanks for having us and hope that we inspired a few pupils to enter marine conservation!

DYW Scotland
Developing the Young Workforce - Borders
Maritime Cluster
NnG Offshore Wind

26/10/2026

🦭 Our Arran Adventure 🦭

Last week, we had the wonderful opportunity to visit Arran COAST, thanks to the Sea-Changers Learning Fund!

Similar to the BMR, COAST is a marine conservation charity with community at the heart of everything they do! It was incredibly inspiring learning about their successful visitor centre, activity programmes and the many other ways they connect their community with their marine environment 🤿

This trip has helped inspire and shape the future of the BMR as we continue to grow as an organisation 🌊

We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone at Arran Coast for your warm hospitality! It was lovely to finally meet you all, learn more about your work and hear how your organisation operates behind the scenes.

Finally, this trip wouldn’t be possible without Sea-Changers - thank you for facilitating this experience.

24/10/2026

Due to staff illness we are closed today. Apologies if you were planning to visit. We will be back open next week as normal.

17/10/2026

🌊 Successful Saturday Seaweed Pressing Workshop 🌊

Today we had our first ‘crafternoon’ event at the Marine Education Centre! After collecting a variety of red, green & brown washed-up seaweeds from Eyemouth Beach, we prepared a seaweed pressing station ⭐️

Thank you so much to everyone who came along today, showing support & enthusiasm for the event. We look forward to seeing the finished products! 🪸

Thank you The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland for funding this creative event!

13/10/2026

🎨Our first activity of the October Half Term🎨

This morning Scapa Joe ran a wonderful workshop, creating Christmas decorations out of beach litter that the BMR team & volunteers have collected 🗑️

This is the first of many events the Marine Education Centre will have on over the next few weeks through the Scottish & English October Half-Term!

Check out our Facebook Events to see what else we have on this October! ⭐️

🔗 www.facebook.com/berwickshiremarinereserve/events

Thank you The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland for funding opportunities like this!

09/10/2026

Looking for something to do over the October Half-Term? 🎃

We have a variety of exciting free events coming up this month! From a wonderful workshop with Scapa Joe, to our new Crafternoon events 🎨

If you have any questions, let us know. For more details, visit our Eventbrite page or explore the events listed on our page.

07/10/2026

Introducing our new Research Officer: Emma House 🥳

Originally a Summer Marine Ranger with us, Emma is continuing to work here for the next 7 months, thanks to the Nature Restoration Fund.

Her project will involve developing a feasibility report and methodology to monitor the abundance and distribution of edible sea urchins and Atlantic wolffish in and around the BMR. She has been busy sifting through historic research papers and will be reaching out to a variety of stakeholders who may have information on these climate change indicator species 🌊

The aim is to carry out a practical assessment of these populations over the summer, if funding allows.

If you have any questions, ideas or information you would like to share, reach out to Emma or visit her in the Marine Education Centre⭐️

05/10/2026

🤩 September volunteering update 🤩

Although the Summer has come to an end we are still out and about each week with BMR volunteers ✅️ Over September we completed:

🚮 3 Coastal Clean Ups - including one with Coldingham Brave Bayers for the Marine Conservation Society Great British Beach Clean - 0.83kg of litter removed!

🪸 1 Nurdle Hunt for The Great Nurdle Hunt - 381 nurdles counted and removed!

🐬 1 Whale and Dolphin Conservation Shorewatch Session

🔍2 Intertidal Marine Monitoring Sessions

Total marine litter removed so far in 2026: 780.76kg 😲

A huge thank you to everyone that has joined us 💙

This project is made possible thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland

Address

Blue Adventures, 26a High Street
Eyemouth
TD145EU

Telephone

+441890752509

Website

http://www.berwickshiremarinereserve.org.uk/

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