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Our Only World

Our mission is to help restore ocean health with proven and scalable solutions.

Our main focus is to install as many water refill stations as possible around Cornwall, and beyond, to replace the need for single-use plastic bottles which cause huge damage to sea life. A water refill station has the potential to save over 20,000 bottles from the environment each year! However, we are probably never going to be able to remove all the plastic from the ocean, we realised that we have to find other ways to restore and protect them. Look at our seAlive project, inspired by Living Sea Walls Australia to discover one simple way we can promote marine biodiversity.

 

To inspire the next generation, in 2023 we released our first charity single. Our Only World was written & produced by professional composer David Smart.  The song is sung by local children. We have also released a children’s book written by children for children; Yikesy meets Gaia.

We’re based in Cornwall, home to some of the most beautiful coastlines in the UK. Every day the sea inspires us, and as more plastic washes ashore, we are motivated to continue our mission.

What We Do

Our Only World is bringing change to Cornwall, and beyond, with key projects that reduce plastic pollution in our oceans. 

Supported By...

Our charity relys on the support of local businesses, councils and individuals to help fund our mission of reducing marine plastic, and raising awareness to the negative effect on our only world.

Neptune Rum

Our Only World is proudly supported by multi-award winning Neptune Rum.

This Girl Rows

In 2022, Lara Vafiadis is rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.

Heartfelt Feedback

Student feedback is fantastic, and we’d love some more stations if possible. We installed the water unit to encourage students to refill their water bottles, rather than bring in single use plastics. We installed it near to the tennis courts and field so that both students and people who hire out our facilities could use it. The unit is extremely popular and is used daily. We would love to install more units around the school site!

Penzance Humphry Davy Comprehensive School

Newquay Town Council is extremely proud of the work that Our Only World has done across the County. Working together both the Council and Our Only World successfully introduced a water refill station at The Killacourt in Newquay. The facility provides visitors and resident with free water at any time and is a fantastic asset to the Town.

Newquay Town Council

What a fantastic organisation! We are delight with the refill station installed at Willow Car and Coach Park in Mevagissey. We have had no issues with any part of the process and would strongly recommend anyone getting one to help do your bit against single use plastic bottles. Locals and visitors a like use it and we pleased we can be the part of the solution to this issue.

Willow Car and Coach Park, Mevagissey

Our members are regulars at our water refill station. The surfers come out of the sea and can immediately have access to free drinking water.

Participants use it when the club holds Lifesaving events on the beach, greatly reduced the number of plastic bottles used. We love the ocean and pleased that we are helping to reduce the plastic litter on our beach. It also saves a lot of money compared to buying bottled water. A big thank you to Our Only World.

Portreath Surf Life Saving Club

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