What Is The Coral Cay Conservation Trust?

The Coral Cay Conservation Trust (UK registered charity no. 1025534) was established in 1992 to support the charitable work of  coral reef and rainforest conservation expeditions.

The CCC Trust's principal aim is to alleviate poverty and protect the livelihoods of people who depend on coral reefs and tropical forests by providing resources, educational and training opportunities.

The Trust's main areas of work include:

The Trust administers funds obtained from a variety of sources including private individuals, companies, government bodies and other trusts.

How We Help

The CCC Trust can help in a number of ways; from education and conservation scholarships through to raising awareness and supporting livelihood schemes

Join the Trust and become a Coral Cay Conservation Society Member.

When you sign up to a CCC Expedition you get 12 months membership to the CCC Trust.  As well as helping protect the world’s coral reefs and tropical rainforests, membership includes a range of benefits for you:

• Eligibility to join CCC expeditions
• 10% off future CCC Expeditions as a returning volunteer until further notice
• 10% discount on all Tony Backhurst Scuba liveaboard diving holidays www.scuba.co.uk
• Exclusive 10% discounts on a huge variety of dive gear with Andark.  Andark is one of the country’s biggest leisure diving centres offering training facilities and a fully stocked dive shop. 
• A 10% discount on outdoor hiking equipment courtesy of Cotswold Outdoor Ltd (www.cotswoldoutdoor.com).
• Discounted entry to Horsea Dive Centre (www.horseadivecentre.com)
• Invitations to CCC events throughout the year
• Monthly e-newsletter subscription to keep you up to date on project news and happenings
• Bi-annual magazine ‘Reef and Leaf’ exclusive to CCC society members
• E-mail alerts when special events and new projects appear on the CCC website

So Join the Trust and ACT NOW to protect reefs, rainforests and local communities!

Your support helps directly toward CCC's coral reef and tropical rainforest conservation projects and training programmes. Through supporting the Trust you help conservation and development our work with local partners, communities and governments helping devise sustainable management plans to ensure the survival of this fragile ecosystems. Contrubtions also help raise awareness around the world about the importance of reefs and rainforests, and fund alternative livelihood training and ranger training on certain projects. As well as promoting their plight ecologically and sociologically and gaining international support for adopting a sustainable approach to managing these resources and implementing effective protected areas both on land and sea.

President: Sir Bruce MacPhail

Chairman: Prof. Charles Sheppard

Trustees: Gerry Ledesma & Annie Leslie