Scottish Seabird Centre

Winter Advent Challenge

Complete our daily litter-themed challenges to be in with the chance of winning a prize!

We challenge you to brave the cold weather and get outside this December. Whether it’s for five minutes or an hour, along your local beach or the path to work, look out for litter along the way and make a small difference every day. Find the litter we’ve highlighted for the first 24 days in December and put it in the bin, improving your local space for nature and people alike, one small scrap at a time. Take a photo each day to show us what you found!

Volunteer with the Scottish Seabird Centre

We are incredibly grateful to our amazing team of volunteers who play a key role in offering a warm and informed welcome to our visitor experience and support the delivery of our education, conservation, and community based activities. Our core volunteer group also actively fundraise for our Charity. We try to make sure our volunteering opportunities are as inclusive as possible and we warmly welcome new volunteers from all backgrounds with an interest in connecting people to nature and practical conservation.

The SOS Puffin Project

SOS Puffin is the Scottish Seabird Centre's award-winning project to save the puffins on the islands near North Berwick. Run and supported entirely by a team of more than 1,300 volunteers, over 330 work parties have made regular trips to Craigleith, Fidra and the Lamb over the last 14 years.

The Great Nurdle Hunt

Nurdles are small plastic pellets about the size of a lentil. Countless billions are used each year to make nearly all our plastic products but many end up washing up on our shores, polluting the marine environment and negatively impacting wildlife and habitats.

You can help! The Great Nurdle Hunt, run by local charity Fidra, provides a fun and easy opportunity to help end plastic pellet pollution. The Scottish Seabird Centre is a proud supporter of this very important campaign.