Charity Work

Support to the Community

We are very fortunate here at Triton Scuba. We get to have fun, do what we like (within reason), travel, socialise, enjoy the marine environment and generally enjoy life. However, it is important to remember that not everyone is so lucky and that having an environment we can enjoy comes with responsibility. We actively support a number of worthwhile charities and have some great fun raising money and awareness for good causes and the environment.  Over the years we have raised thousands and thousands of pounds doing everything immaginable.  Here are just a few highlights over the years:

Running a mile in Scuba Gear

  • Christmas 2010 – The Christmas Ball Raffle raised £500 for Water Aid
  • 12 of us do the Sport Relief Mile in Scuba gear, raising around £800 for Sport Relief
  • £100 given to Shark and Marine Conservation
  • Monty Hall Presentation evening – we invited Monty to come and give a presentation to club members and divers around the country – it raised £500 for the Scuba Trust
  • Free Try Dives for Bay House School and “Positive Future”
  • Fire Service Open Day – we put up our try dive pool and raise £150
  • 12 club members run The Great South run, raising over £1000

    Handing a cheque to Monty Halls

  • £1000 donated to Rainbow Centre for Christmas presents for the children
  • We launch charity website “Water Watch Week” to raise awareness in young people
  • Club night raises £200 for the Mt Mayon volcano appeal in the Philippines
  • We clean the beaches on World Beach Clean Day.  25 people turn out to pick up litter
  • Talks to schools about the problems of aquatic pollution
  • We raise £600 doing the London Marathon for Project AWARE
  • Our trydive pool is put up in the Blue Reef Aquarium to raise support for marine conservation

    Another Clean Beach!

  • Some members wear dive gear around the clubs of Portsmouth and collect £500 – without getting hypothermia!
  • Sponsored raft race – we should have won!  £200 for the Kids Centre though
  • Underwater marathon – a chairty swim that raised £4000 in one afternoon