Calling all coast lovers – we want your best sandy snaps for a special competition to help mark the grand finale of Sefton’s Year of the Coast 2017.



To celebrate the culmination of a bumper year of activities, we are looking for selfies of people enjoying our beautiful Sefton coastline.

The photographs will be collected together and the very best ones will form a huge collage to commemorate the end of Sefton’s Year of the Coast campaign. Montages will then be displayed across some of Sefton Council’s iconic buildings.

Councillor Paul Cummins, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and coast champion, said: “Each year thousands of people come to our beautiful borough to enjoy the coast.

“By making 2017 Sefton’s Year of the Coast, we have been working alongside our many partners to showcase everything associated with the coast – highlighting all the events that take place on this amazing stretch of land.

“To mark the end of such a great campaign we want as many people as possible to send in their sandy selfies, picnic portraits, sunset snaps and more to form a wonderful collage to commemorate the Year of the Coast.

“We hope the collage will be the pinnacle of a lasting legacy to future generations to encourage them to continually use and love our coast.”

Stretching more than 22 miles from Bootle to Southport, the Sefton coast is filled with unique sand dunes, wonderful wildlife, woodlands and amazing art.

To get involved in the competition, submit your snaps to our official Sefton Council Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages, using the hashtag #SeftonSelfie. You can also submit photographs to communications@sefton.gov.uk.

seems ollie has moved to pastures new ,wondered why the Champion had gone downhill

we used to have 22 miles of golden sand now it just stretches 22 miles thanks to Sefton Council beach management

Take a picture of the mud. I know Sefton council is a joke and not very bright. I would not give sefton council any publicity. I was born in Lancashire and we use to have a Beach, that was before sefton council turned into a mud flat.

Plenty sand out there.
I wonder if the Victorians constantly moaned about the retreating sea or if they just saw it as an opportunity for the development of spaces for leisure that we still enjoy today.