Save the Harbor Offers Free Beach Programs at DCR's Carson Beach for Youth and Community Groups

This summer Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s Boston Harbor Explorers program at DCR’s Carson Beach will offers five days of free programs each week during July and August for youth and community groups on one of the cleanest urban beaches in America.

This pilot program features partnerships with America SCORES, which offers soccer clinics Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, Boating in Boston, which offers free kayak instruction on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and the Greater Boston YMCA, which offers free swim safety and aquatics at the site during high tide. Parental permission is required for swimming lessons and kayak lessons. Funds to support these free programs come from Save the Harbor’s Better Beaches Program. TheBoston Harbor Explorers Program at DCR’s Carson Beach runs from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday-Friday in July and August.

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s Youth Environmental Education Program staff will be on site five days a week, coordinating the site and offering healthy outdoor activities including fishing, clamming, environmental exploration, storytelling and art on the shore. To find out more about how your group can take part in these programs, visit Save the Harbor’s blog, Sea, Sand & Sky at www.blog.savetheharbor.org. Save the Harbor’s free youth environmental education and family programs are made possible with Leadership Grants from Bay State Cruise Company, The Boston Foundation, Distrigas/GDF SUEZ, and The Coca-Cola Foundation.

Save the Harbor is grateful for Partnership Grants from Forrest Berkley & Marcie Tyre Berkley, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, The Chiofaro Company, The Clowes Fund, Marion L. Decrow Memorial Foundation, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, The Fallon Company, Hampshire House Corporation – Cheers for Children, John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., Mass Humanities, Massachusetts Bay Lines, Massachusetts Port Authority, National Grid Foundation, P&G Gillette, William E & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, and Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation.

Save the Harbor also appreciates funding support from 3A Marine Service, Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Andus Baker & Rowan Murphy Family Fund, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, BOMA, Boston Bruins Foundation, Boston Global Investors, Boston Properties – Atlantic Wharf, Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Andrew J. Calamare, Carnival Foundation, Circle Furniture, The Daily Catch Seaport, Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, Ms. Wallace M. Leonard Foundation, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Thomas & Lucinda Foley, Matthew J. & Gilda F. Strazzula Foundation, HYM Investment Group Inc., Lovett-Woodsum Family Fund, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, National Park Service, P&G Gillette,Reebok Foundation, Skanska, South Boston Community Development Foundation, Spectra Energy, Lawrence J. & Anne Rubenstein Foundation, Senior Housing Property Trust, South Boston Community Development Foundation, TD Bank Charitable Foundation, Kyle & Sara Warwick, and the YMCA of Greater Boston.

Save the Harbor would also like to thank our partners at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission and the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and the hundreds of individual donors who help make these programs possible and for their support.

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a non-profit public-interest Boston Harbor environmental advocacy organization whose mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, the Boston Harbor Islands, the Boston Harbor region’s public beaches, Boston’s waterfront and the marine environment for everyone to enjoy.

For more information about Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, visit their website at www.savetheharbor.org, their blog Sea, Sand & Sky at www.blog.savetheharbor.org or follow savetheharbor on Facebook and Twitter.