Mounts Bay Marine Group

Beach Clean with Beach Guardian
2025-04-12 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | Swanpool, Falmouth, TR11 5BG
Join our incredible community of volunteers and help protect the places that we all love.

Monthly Meeting
2025-04-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-03 18:00 - 19:00 | The Lugger Inn, The Promenade, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4DL, United Kingdom
We would love to welcome any new members or those interested in finding out more about our upcoming volunteering opportunities and our new marine adventures.

Shoresearch Training - Bude
2025-03-30 11:00 - 15:00 | Widemouth Beach, EX23 0AW
Want to take part in marine citizen science? Join Cornwall Wildlife Trust for a Shoresearch training day!
Come and join Cornwall Wildlife Trust to learn how to survey the shoreline to find many of the wonderful marine creatures we have along the Cornish coastline!
This hands-on training will allow you to partake in the Shoresearch events and be part of the vital data collection needed to help preserve our coastline.
Shoresearch is a user-friendly and fun method of exploring the shore and recording the species and habitats found there. On the day, you will learn different survey methods as well as species identification techniques.
More information here.

Shoresearch Training - St Ives
2025-03-29 10:00 - 14:00 | Smeaton’s Pier, St. Ives, TR26 1PS
Want to take part in marine citizen science? Join Cornwall Wildlife Trust for a Shoresearch training day!
Learn how to survey the shoreline to find many of the wonderful marine creatures we have along the Cornish coastline!
This hands-on training will allow you to partake in the Shoresearch events and be part of the vital data collection needed to help preserve our coastline.
Shoresearch is a user-friendly and fun method of exploring the shore and recording the species and habitats found there. On the day, you will learn different survey methods as well as species identification techniques.

More information and registraiton here.

Drawing Nature - A Natural History Drawing Workshop!
2025-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Union Hotel, 59 Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AE
Join MBMG’s Lucy Luck and the incredibly talented Sarah Bell, a local water colour artists who created the iconic wildlife flags on Penzance Promanade last summer, for a natural history drawing workshop!
This workshop is your chance to connect with nature through art. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, join us to capture the beauty of the natural world on paper, all while learning about the marine wildlife we have on our coastal doorstep.
Equipment will be provided, but if you have your own sketch book and drawing tools, please feel free to bring them along!
Limited spaces available, so get booking!

Keep Our Sea Chemical Free Screening
2025-03-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Bayspace, 6-7 Fernlea Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2BH, United Kingdom
This 40 minute documentary is about what happened when a Cornish community was confronted with the sudden reality of a chemical experiment happening in St.Ives Bay.
Additional information and booking here.

Wild LIVE: Could nature be our best flood defense?
2025-03-18 18:00 - 19:30 | University of Hull, HU6 7RX
Cornwall Wildlife Trust will be broadcasting their next episode of Wild LIVE to The Wildlife Trusts’ YouTube channel. Their expert panel will explore the critical question: could nature be our best flood defense?
Event is offered in-person and online. For additional information, click here.

The Marine Mammals of Mount’s Bay
2025-03-17 19:15 - 20:30 | The Lugger Inn, The Promenade, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4DL, United Kingdom
Duncan Jones – Skipper, Co-Owner and Researcher onboard Marine Discovery, Penzance – will explain how his Team’s research reveals how Climate Change is already impacting our Seals, Cetaceans and other Ocean Wildlife.
Duncan and his Team run ethical Wildlife Tours, on their sailing catamaran ‘Shearwater II’ out of Penzance Harbour, whilst conducting important research into the wildlife of the Bay and the surrounding waters. In 2013 Marine Discovery won the Responsible Whale and Dolphin Watching Operator of the Year award.
£3 – £5 donations appreciated. Your donations go towards future community engagement activities, our seagrass and kelp monitoring project, occasional equipment, training and insurance costs.

Seaquest Southwest Volunteer Training Day
2025-03-15 09:00 - 16:00
Train to become a Seaquest surveyor and learn all about Cornwall’s marine mega fauna and how to conduct effort based surveys.
Seaquest Southwest is a citizen science marine recording project run by Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas Marine Team. It is one of the team’s fantastic marine projects aimed at conserving and protecting marine wildlife and wild places for future generations.
Join them for a day course on how to conduct effort based surveys and to improve marine wildlife ID skills for different species of dolphin, porpoise and whales.
No experience necessary and all are very welcome!
Zoom session in the morning, the afternoon is sea watching to practice your new skills at multiple locations around the county, choose from:

Pendennis Point, Falmouth
North Widemouth, Bude
Cligga Head, Perranporth
St Ives NCI
Dodman Point, near St Austell
Perranuthnoe, Mounts Bay

You must attend both sessions to complete the course. Please let them know what practical location you would like to attend when booking.
More information here.

Marazion Dunes Clean Up with Mounts Bay Marine Group
2025-03-10 10:30 - 13:00, 2025-02-08 10:30 - 13:00 | Marazion Beach, S W Coast Path, Marazion, Cornwall, TR17 0EQ, United Kingdom
More information to follow when details become available. Weather permitting.

Britain’s Hidden Fishes
2025-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Seiners Arms, Beach Road, Perranporth, TR6 0JL, United Kingdom
A pioneering one-hour documentary shot by professional underwater and wildlife cameraman, Jack Perks.
Britain’s Hidden Fishes is a crowd-funded one hour documentary exploring the underwater world of the UK. From our chalkstreams to open sea will take a look at the lives of some of the most underrated wildlife, fish. Narrated by Jeremy Wade (River Monsters) this film was shot over the course of two years to bring stories, behaviours and footage never seen before of British fish.The film will be followed by a Q&A session with Jack Perks, the film’s director where you can find out about the fascinating process behind the scenes.
Booking is essential. Click here for additional information and the purchase of tickets.

Rave On For The Avon followed by Q&A
2025-02-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Regal Cinema, Redruth, Fore Street, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 2AZ, United Kingdom
Rave On for the Avon is a feature-length documentary which captures one community’s love for the Avon and explores the importance of rivers in modern life – all set to a Bristol soundtrack.

St. Ives Marine Group Special Meeting
2025-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Bayspace, 6-7 Fernlea Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2BH, United Kingdom
Get involved with our fantastic local marine group through community events, marine surveying, opportunities to train with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and so much more.

The evening will be a great chance to meet like minded people an
d hear about how you can take action for nature and be part of the St Ives coastal community.

The cafe will be open and the venue is very near the train station for easy access via public transport.

We look forward to seeing you there and hearing about your interests.

Green Ocean Gold Film with Q&A
2025-02-24 19:15 - 20:30 | The Lugger Inn, The Promenade, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4DL, United Kingdom
The Seaweed Plastic Alternative?
There will be a full screening of this award-winning short documentary film. Within Mount’s Bay Marine Group, we feel that this thought-provoking film is certain to raise so many and such hugely diverse questions from our audience!
So much so, that it merits being seriously discussed through a Q&A session immediately after the screening. The Q&A will be hosted by one of the film’s participants, our own Katie Maggs. Ahead of the screening, Katie will also present the background to some of the film’s main objectives.
£3 – £5 donations appreciated. Your donations go towards future community engagement activities, our seagrass and kelp monitoring project, occasional equipment, training and insurance costs.

Beach Clean with Mounts Bay Marine Group
2025-02-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Longrock Beach, LongRock Beach, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 9BJ, United Kingdom
Join Mounts Bay Marine Group and Plastic Free Penzance as part of Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s annual coastal clean ups, Love Your Beach!
Come along and help us spread the love, not litter, for this Valentine’s Day inspired beach clean!
All equipment provided.

Marine Strandings Network Forum
2025-02-15 09:30 - 15:30 | Tremough Campus, Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9EZ, United Kingdom
As in previous years, the Forum offers a unique opportunity to hear about the work being carried out by the Marine Strandings Network in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, as well as UK-wide by the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and by colleagues working in similar fields.
Topics and speaker list will be released soon, this year’s forum includes updates from each of the network areas, a global perspective on strandings, and the launch of our all new strandings app!
This is a hybrid event – you can join online (£5) or in person on the day (£20). Lunch and refreshments are included with the in-person ticket.
Click here for more information and to register.

The Magic of Cornwall’s Marine Life
2025-02-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Bayspace, 6-7 Fernlea Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2BH, United Kingdom
Join Katie Maggs at Bayspace St. Ives with special guest Guy Channing from St Ives Bay Marine Group.
