How every euro is spent and checked
You should be able to see where a gift goes before you make it. Here is the split, how the Trust is run, and what it is registered as.
Fund allocation
91% to the field.
Picture every 100 EUR given as a hundred squares. Ninety-one of them pay for the work at sea: seagrass replanted by hand, ghost nets cut free and brought ashore, fishing agreements written with coastal communities.
The other nine keep a registered charity running properly — its accounts, its governance and the work of raising the next euro. That is the whole of it.
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91EUR
of every 100 EUR goes to field work.
- 91 EUR — field work: restoration, net removal, fishing agreements
- 9 EUR — running the Trust
Governance
What the Trust is, what it is allowed to spend on, and how it reports back to the people who fund it.
- Legal status
- A registered marine conservation charity.
- Founded
- 2011. The Trust is based in Marseille.
- Remit
- Three programmes across the Mediterranean: seagrass restoration, ghost-net removal and community fishing agreements. 14 projects are active today.
- Spending rule
- 91% of every euro goes to the field. The remaining 9% covers accounts, governance and fundraising.
- Reporting
- Results are published in plain units — hectares replanted, tonnes of nets removed, projects active — on the Impact page and in the annual report summary.
Auditors and registration
What can be checked about the Trust today. Questions about the accounts go straight to the team in Marseille.
- Registered charity Blue Meridian Ocean Trust is a registered marine conservation charity.
- Founded 2011 Based in Marseille, working across the Mediterranean.
- 91% to the field The published share of every euro that reaches field work.
- Ask about the accounts Write to the team
Give with full sight of the books
Now you know where it goes: 91 of every 100 euros to the field. 25 EUR replants 12 square metres of seagrass.
Material still to come from the Trust
This page is designed to name the Trust's auditors, its charity registration number, its board and any certificates it holds, each as a card that can be checked. None of these were in the brief, so the auditor and certificate cards are left out rather than guessed, and governance is described from the published facts only.
Once the Trust supplies the auditor's name, the registration number and authority, the board members who agree to be listed and any certificates, each becomes a card under “Auditors and registration” and a line under “Governance”.