Donations & Fundraising
Help protect Lombok’s ocean from wherever you are. Every survey, coral nursery, mangrove and scientist we train needs resources.
Why give
Help the work go further
Every survey, every coral planted and every lesson in a local school adds to what we know about this coast and how to look after it. Your support lets us do more of it, and do it better.
There are two ways to help, and both go straight into the work.
What supporters can expect
The work, and what it achieved
We show you the work your support keeps running, and report what it achieved.
Real figures, published
The full breakdown of where the money goes is set out in our annual reports.
Running costs covered
Our expeditions cover administration and governance, so your support goes into research, conservation and education.
Donate
Small donations. Big ocean.
You do not need to fund a whole conservation project to make a difference. Marine conservation is made of thousands of small things: coral tags and cable ties, mangrove pots, survey tapes, camera housings, boat fuel, laboratory supplies, dive equipment, teaching materials, and the people who put all of it to work.
Every contribution becomes part of that.
- Give once, or become a monthly supporter, whichever suits you best
- Your donation goes straight into our research, conservation and education work
- We publish what we do with it in our annual reports
Make a donation
Choose how often, then how much.
Secure payment by Stripe. We never see your card details.
Monthly giving
Help us plan beyond the next project
A one-off donation makes an immediate difference. A regular one gives us something just as valuable: certainty. It means we can commit to the work before it starts, rather than waiting to see what arrives.
The next season of surveys
Nursery work
Long-term monitoring
Even a small monthly amount compounds into something that changes what we can plan.
Where does my donation go?
Your gift reaches every part of the work
A general donation supports all of it: the research, the reefs, the mangroves, the teaching, and the boats and kit that make it possible. If you give to something specific, we tell you exactly what it pays for.
Research
Long-term monitoring across the MPA, and the analysis behind it.
- Reef surveys at our 46 stations
- BRUV deployments and footage
- Data analysis and reporting
Coral reefs
Growing corals, giving them a home, and checking it worked.
- Coral nurseries and their upkeep
- Building artificial reef structures
- Monitoring restoration success
Mangroves
Bringing back the forests that protect the coast and reef.
- Collecting and growing propagules
- Our mangrove nursery at Siung, beside our field centre
- Replanting with local communities
Education
Training the next generation of Indonesian scientists.
- Training for local students
- Outreach in local communities
- Hosting university students
Field operations
Everything it takes to get our scientists safely in the water.
- Boats and their maintenance
- Dive equipment and scientific kit
- The team who keep field work safe
Kept separate
Guest costs, administration and governance are covered by our expedition fees, so what you give goes to the mission rather than the running of the organisation.
Reported every year
Our annual reports set out what we did each year and what it took to do it.
See Our Annual ReportsThe wish list
Fund something specific
Some supporters would rather put money towards something specific. These are things our projects need.
Each item goes straight to the work it is listed for.
Can’t see the item you’d like to fund? Get in touch and tell us how you would like to support our work.
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£850
Full dive kit
Everything a diver needs to get in the water, from tank and regulators to BCD, weights, fins and mask.
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£450
Underwater camera
A camera and housing for surveys, species ID and monitoring. They take a beating in the field.
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£500
Research laptop
A laptop that runs our research software and can survive the heat, humidity and salt air of island life.
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£150
Underwater survey kit
A new BRUV, a transect tape, two quadrats, four slates and four tank banger measuring sticks.
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£30
Metal reef frame
The materials to build one artificial reef frame, which holds around 50 coral fragments as they grow.
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£20
Concrete MARS block
A concrete artificial reef structure for coral planting, which holds around 30 coral fragments.
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£100
Plant 100 mangroves
£1 plants one mangrove, covering nursery equipment, its polybag, transport to the site and upkeep.
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£150
Outreach session
For a local school or community: transport, printed resources, food, water and activity materials.
Fund this
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£1,500
Boat repairs
Our boats take the team to every site we survey and restore. This keeps them on the water.
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£4,000
New project truck
A new truck for the project, so we can keep moving kit, materials and people for the work.
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£5,200
Recycling machines
A glass crusher (£1,700) and plastic recycling machines (£3,500), so what we collect is reused, not left to pile up.
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£8,000
New boat engines
A new engine for each of our two boats, which carry the team to every site we survey and restore.
Fund this
Fund something specific
Full dive kit
What it pays for
Everything a diver needs to get in the water, from tank and regulators to BCD, weights, fins and mask.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £850Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Underwater camera
What it pays for
A camera and housing for surveys, species ID and monitoring. They take a beating in the field.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £450Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Research laptop
What it pays for
A laptop that runs our research software and can survive the heat, humidity and salt air of island life.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £500Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Underwater survey kit
What it pays for
A new BRUV, a transect tape, two quadrats, four slates and four tank banger measuring sticks.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £150Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Metal reef frame
What it pays for
The materials to build one artificial reef frame, which holds around 50 coral fragments as they grow.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £30Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Concrete MARS block
What it pays for
A concrete artificial reef structure for coral planting, which holds around 30 coral fragments.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £20Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Plant 100 mangroves
What it pays for
£1 plants one mangrove, covering nursery equipment, its polybag, transport to the site and upkeep.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £100Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Outreach session
What it pays for
For a local school or community: transport, printed resources, food, water and activity materials.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £150Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Boat repairs
What it pays for
Our boats take the team to every site we survey and restore. This keeps them on the water.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £1,500Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
New project truck
What it pays for
A new truck for the project, so we can keep moving kit, materials and people for the work.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £4,000Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
Recycling machines
What it pays for
A glass crusher (£1,700) and plastic recycling machines (£3,500), so what we collect is reused, not left to pile up.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £5,200Secure payment by Stripe
Fund something specific
New boat engines
What it pays for
A new engine for each of our two boats, which carry the team to every site we survey and restore.
Choose your gift
Your gift is recorded against this item, so it goes to exactly what you chose.
Donate £8,000Secure payment by Stripe
Fundraise for SORCE
Your challenge
Our ocean
You do not have to come to Lombok to be part of this. Turn something you already love, or something you have always meant to attempt, into support for marine conservation.
Run a marathon Bake cakes Swim a distance Hold a quiz Hike a mountain Shave your head Complete a hundred dives Host a dinner Cycle across a country Organise a beach clean Give up your birthday Run a gaming marathon
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Take on a challenge
Run a marathon. Swim a distance. Cycle across a country. Hike a mountain. Complete a hundred dives. Set yourself something hard and ask people to back you.
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Celebrate something
Birthday, wedding, anniversary, graduation. Ask the people who were going to buy you something to give it to the ocean instead.
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Do your own thing
Bake cakes. Hold a quiz. Organise a beach clean. Run a gaming marathon. Host a dinner. Shave your head. If somebody will sponsor it, it counts.
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Fundraise together
University society, dive club, school, sports team, workplace, or a group of friends. Set a collective target and find out what you can do.
Fundraising at work? Choose SORCE for an office challenge or a staff giving scheme, and if your business wants something longer term, explore corporate partnerships.
Your fundraiser
Four steps, and we help with three of them
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Choose your challenge
However big, small, serious or silly.
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Set a target
A visible goal gives people something to push you towards, and fundraisers with one consistently do better.
3
Tell people why
What you are doing, why SORCE, and what the ocean means to you. This part matters more than the challenge itself.
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Share it, then share it again
Post your progress, mark the milestones, and keep reminding people what you are working towards.
We will help you do it
The fundraising pack
Nobody should be told to go and fundraise and then left to work out how. Tell us you are doing something and we will send you everything you need to make it look like you know what you are doing, because you will.
- SORCE logos and approved graphics
- Social media graphics, ready to post
- A printable poster
- Photographs you can use
- Suggested captions and message templates
- A QR code that points at your fundraiser
- A plain guide to where the money goes
- Fundraising tips that actually work
A little thank you
Targets worth aiming at
People fundraise because they care about the ocean, not because they want a t-shirt. But extraordinary support deserves to be marked, so what you earn is recognition, and a look at the work you helped pay for.
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£100
Reef Starter
A personalised SORCE fundraiser certificate
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£250
Ocean Protector
A personal thank-you from the SORCE team
- A personalised fundraiser certificate
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£500
Conservation Champion
A featured thank-you on our channels, with your permission
- A personalised fundraiser certificate
- A personal thank-you from the team
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£1,000
Reef Guardian
A video message from the field team, showing the work you helped fund
- A personalised fundraiser certificate
- A personal thank-you from the team
- A featured thank-you on our channels
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£2,500
Ocean Ambassador
Recognition in the SORCE Annual Report
- A personalised fundraiser certificate
- A personal thank-you from the team
- A featured thank-you on our channels
- A video message from the field team
Leave a legacy
The longest-term support there is
A gift in your will supports work that is measured in decades rather than funding cycles: the monitoring that only means something because it continues, the mangroves that take years to establish, and the Indonesian scientists who will carry this work on.
Please look after the people you love first. After that, a gift of any size, even a small share of what remains, becomes part of how this coast is protected for the next generation.
- 2019 The field site opens and the first surveys begin
- Today 46 monitoring stations, surveyed the same way every year
- The years ahead The part a legacy pays for: the same careful work, decades on
Three ways to leave a gift
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A share of your estate
A percentage of what remains once your family and friends are provided for. Because it is a share, it keeps its value over time.
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A fixed sum
A specific amount of money, set when you write your will.
Known as a pecuniary gift -
A particular item
Property, shares or a possession of value, left to SORCE by name.
Known as a specific gift
How to include SORCE in your will
Talk to a solicitor or will writer
They will make sure your will is valid and your wishes are clear. If you already have a will, a short addition called a codicil can be enough.
Give them our details
Everything they need is in the details panel, and can be copied in one go.
Tell us, if you would like to
You never have to. If you do, we would like to thank you properly, and we will keep what you tell us in confidence. You can change your mind at any time.
Every contribution becomes part of something bigger
Every donation adds to the reef’s recovery. Every fundraiser takes on a piece of marine pollution. Long-term conservation is built from many actions like these.
It is built from thousands of surveys, thousands of coral fragments, thousands of mangroves, years of monitoring, trained scientists and engaged communities, and the people willing to make all of that possible.
Thank you for being one of our funders.
Interested in corporate sponsorship, funding a project, donating equipment or another kind of partnership? We would like to hear from you.