Blue Ventures
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| Founded | 2003 |
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| Founder | Dr. Alasdair Harris, Tom Savage, Dr. Robert Conway, Matthew Linnecar |
| Focus | Marine Conservation, Sustainable fisheries, Community health, Education, Aquaculture, Alternative livelihoods, Blue carbon, Family planning, Eco-tourism, Invasive species |
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Madagascar, Belize, Timor Leste |
| Method | Research, education, community capacity building, advocacy |
| Slogan | Beyond Conservation |
| Website | www.blueventures.org |
Blue Ventures is a science-led social enterprise that develops transformative approaches for nurturing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. The organisation works in partnership with coastal communities in places where the ocean is vital to the culture and economy, and promotes transformative and integrated approaches to marine conservation and coastal poverty alleviation. Blue Ventures has operated field programmes in Belize, Fiji, Malaysia, Madagascar and Ghana. Blue Ventures is currently operating in Madagascar, Belize and Timor-Leste with a small number of staff based in Comoros and Mozambique supporting partners' projects.
The promotion of community-based tropical marine conservation forms the cornerstone of Blue Ventures’ work, which focuses on developing innovative models for sustaining and scaling locally led marine conservation.
Blue Ventures is structured as a social enterprise; comprising limited company Blue Ventures (Expeditions) Ltd (BVE) and registered charity Blue Ventures Conservation (BVC). The ecotourism expeditions operate through Blue Ventures Expeditions Ltd to raise money and awareness for their conservation work through international paying volunteers who travel to project sites to assist with research and community projects.
Profits raised by BVE are donated to BVC at the end of each fiscal year. In addition, BVC, registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1098893), conducts its own fundraising. This hybrid structure is designed to maximise Blue Ventures’ independently-derived income, and minimise the financial risk incurred to conservation programming through over-reliance on unpredictable and irregular donor income and charitable donations. Blue Ventures’ marine ecotourism operations also provide an effective platform on which the organisation can develop and test new models for conservation.
Blue Ventures is managed by a 14-person international team based in London, Bristol and Exeter, responsible for the overall leadership of the organisation and supporting much larger field teams based within overseas country programmes. In 2015 Blue Ventures employs approximately 100 staff globally. The UK-based international team is supported by a team of trustees and advisors who support staff in furthering the organisation’s mission.
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