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Equity : Ocean : impact

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Who have I worked with?

GB Surfing

Surfers Against Sewage

Protect Blue

I co-led a project for GB Surfing to plan their priorities in their early stages of EDI in the organisation. This led to the establishment of an EDI Advisory Board in 2025 at our suggestion.

Protect Blue

Surfers Against Sewage

Protect Blue

Co-designed and delivered workshops to assist advocacy and activism rooted organisations and individuals to work more collaboratively together.

Surfers Against Sewage

Surfers Against Sewage

Surfers Against Sewage

My role as Equity Diversity & Inclusion Manager enabled the creation of their first ever EDI Strategy and the introduction of groundbreaking research on participation and guidance on how individual and organisations can embed inclusive working practices.

Wave Wahines CIC

Surfers Against Sewage

I created two sector first reports into surfing and diversity. These led to the introduction of inclusion advisory boards for surfing National Governing Bodies.

Women's Sport Collective

Women's Sport Collective

I am a member of the Women's Sport Collective advisory board, ensuring equity at all levels and allowing a voice for surfing in a mainstream setting.

Out and Wild

Women's Sport Collective

In 2025, I sat on the advisory board for this festival, enabling community collaboration.

Ocean & Coastal Futures

I have been a keynote speaker at this sector leading conference, a contributor to their Ocean Justice Series and now sit on their event steering group to help ensure future events are accessible and placing equity centrally in their planning as part of an amazing team.

North Devon World Surfing Reserve

As a member of the Core Team to brig the World Surfing Reserve to North Devon (the first UK reserve and the 12th globally), I have been lucky enough to help shape the long term goals of the reserve to ensure 'Waves for all, forever'. I now sit on the stewardship council and will be helping shape their EDI work in 2026.

Finisterre

Working alongside (and with) as an ocean equity ambassador through ocean talks and roadshows..

Patagonia

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Sharing work on surf and ocean access equity through trips with their team and online talks and presentations.

Museum of British Surfing

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Your organisation or brand could be next............

The creation of an exhibition on the surfing history of British Women and girls was a work of passion and commitment to history, storytelling and community. This provided a platform locally and across the country to celebrate history but also to secure this as a permanent part of the museum.

Your organisation or brand could be next............

Your organisation or brand could be next............

Your organisation or brand could be next............

Do you want to work with us? An organisation built on lived experience and thriving inspire of the systems designed to exclude. An organisation born from desire to transform rather than tokenise. An organisation rooted in human centric experience and leader grown from listening and living it!

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Working with Yvette provides a safe space for difficult conversations. We can so often be held back by the fear of getting EDI wrong. Having Yvette by your side feels like the best type of allyship - someone who will bring curiosity, lived experience and a deep understanding of the systemic changes


Linzi Hawkin; Co-Founder, Protect Blue


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