Every contribution to the Surf & Ocean Foundation creates real change — for athletes, for communities, and for Thailand’s coasts.

By the numbers

• 25 — athletes supported
• 10 — scholarships awarded
• 8 — beach & ocean cleanups
• 1,200 — kg of waste removed from Thailand’s coastlines

Stories

Restoring Samila Beach, Songkhla

In January 2022, the Surf & Ocean Foundation — together with the Thailand Surfing Federation — led a major beach-restoration day at Samila and Chalatat Beach in Mueang Songkhla. Working in partnership with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (Office 5, Songkhla), the Songkhla Tourism and Sports Office, Songkhla Municipality, Thai-MECC, ISOC Songkhla, PTTEP, the Songkhla Provincial Sports Association, and Haad Thip PCL, and joined by around 200 local volunteers, the day cleared 622 kg of waste from the shoreline.

Sorted using the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) data card, the collected waste was mostly bottle caps, drinking straws, plastic fragments, and fishing nets, along with organic debris — a clear snapshot of the pressures facing Thailand’s coastlines, and of why community-led cleanups matter.