It's time to put your best swimming foot (flippers) forward! On Sunday 8 September, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust are facilitating another 5K Across The Bay event; this year, they've also joined forces with Cornwall Wildlife Trust, helping us to ensure that marine life and habitats can continue to thrive around our coasts for generations to come!

By participating in this challenging endurance event with a difference, you will have the unique opportunity to swim from Rosemullion Head to Pendennis Point, all of which is in the sights and fabulous marine delights of the Fal and Helford Special Area of Conservation, a designation afforded to the area due to the incredible marine habitats lurking beneath the waves. Therefore, by tackling the waves around this stunning part of our coast, you will quite literally be assisting with the conservation of these delicate habitats and the marine life that depends upon them.

By fundraising for the Ocean Emergency Fund, you could help in the following ways:

*£10 could purchase 10 hessian bags to securely plant seagrass seedlings to restore seagrass meadows.

*£20 could allow us to sample and test 10 water quality samples, helping to inform the secure of the future of these habitats.

*£50 could pay for a specialist talk to boat owners, empowering them to make alternatives to anchoring on seagrass beds.

*£100 could pay for one snorkel survey to assess impacts and monitor our seagrass beds.