Beach Awards and previous Blue Flag and Seaside Awards

What is it:

Keep Scotland Beautiful (KSB) runs the Scottish Beach Awards scheme, see link under ‘Additional Information’ tab below, which has been in place since 2016. Awards are made at the start of the bathing season. Prior to 2016 there were other schemes in existence: the Blue Flag programme was discontinued at the end of 2016; the Seaside Award ran for 1993-2015.

MS Maps NMPi contains two layers:

Blue Flag and Seaside Awards (2012-2015)
Beach Awards since 2016

Links to Scotland's Marine Atlas:

Chapter 5: Leisure and Recreation

Data originators:

Keep Scotland Beautiful

This information page is part of the theme:

Microbiological Contamination

Leisure and Recreation

More Information:

The Scottish Seaside Awards scheme exists to reward good beach management, which increases the pleasure local people derive from their beach and also benefits the local economy through an expansion in tourism.

The Blue Flag beach award is an international programme administered by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and operational in almost 50 countries worldwide. Blue Flag status is dependent on meeting criteria in the four broad areas of environmental education and information, water quality, environmental management and safety and services.

This page was last modified on :

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 09:04

Map Type	Click title for metadata and licence information	Date of data	View Map
Map Layers (NMPi)	Bathing Waters (current) (SEPA WMS)		Access this map on NMPi
Map Layers (NMPi)	Beach Awards 2023 - Keep Scotland Beautiful	2022-12-15	Access this map on NMPi

Type	Link Title	External Link
Web link	Interactive Bathing Water results (maps and graphs) - Scotland's Environment - visualisation tool	www.environment.gov.scot

Type	Title	External link
Web link	Keep Scotland Beautiful	www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org
Datasets	SEPA - Bathing Waters	www.sepa.org.uk