The Restoration Club restores coral reefs, plants forests and regenerates soils at protected locations worldwide. For this partnership, the focus is on their reef restoration: placing fragments that grow into full reefs over the coming years.
Agriculture & Soil
The Restoration Club was founded in 2020 in the Netherlands, with the goal of restoring ecosystems efficiently and tangibly. What started as Club Kakatua has been known as The Restoration Club since 2025, focused on three core activities: reef restoration, forestry and soil restoration.
Their mission is straightforward: make sure every donation has the highest possible impact at the place it's needed. They operate without an office, with a small core team and local partners who carry out the work in the field. Their guiding principle: maximum 10 percent on internal organisational costs, with the ambition to reduce that to 1 percent as the organisation grows.
What they do:
Place coral fragments at protected sites in Indonesia and East Africa
Build entirely new reefs using sand-coated structures and coral domes
Work with boots-on-the-ground partners like Living Seas Foundation, Metamorfosa and Reefolution
Measure progress quarterly and publish the results openly
Coral reefs are the nurseries of the ocean. A large share of marine life depends on a reef at some point in its life cycle. They are also extremely fragile.
Reefs are disappearing faster than they can recover Pollution, overfishing, careless tourism and rising water temperatures have caused widespread damage. Many reefs still stand, but the life inside them is gone.
Protection is the condition, not the bonus Building a reef at an unprotected site is wasted time, money and energy. The Restoration Club deliberately chooses locations where both legal protection and local support are in place. No protection, no work.
Restoration is possible, but time is short Coral grows slowly. A fragment placed today becomes part of a functioning reef within a few years. The longer we wait, the less starting material remains.
Helping now means helping the ocean on a timeline that counts.
How it works: when you shop through Terry at a partner store, part of that store's marketing budget automatically goes to the project you've chosen. No extra cost to you, just shopping the way you already do.
What your contribution funds:
Coral fragments at protected sites such as Padang Bai and Sumberkima Bay in Bali
Maintenance and monitoring of existing reefs
Materials for new reef structures like reef stars and coral domes
For reference: every two euros that goes to this project funds roughly one coral fragment. A hundred euros translates into around fifty fragments placed on the seabed.
One purchase feels small. Added up, a reef grows from it.
The Restoration Club has been active since 2020 and has placed thousands of coral fragments to date, mainly at two sites in Bali. In Padang Bai, working with Living Seas Foundation, they are building their own reef of nearly 200 square metres, where over 6,000 fragments will find a home in the coming years. Their ambition is to make this the largest reef restoration project in Southeast Asia.
A second site has opened in Sumberkima Bay, in partnership with local organisation Metamorfosa. The community there has shifted in recent years from fishing to sustainable tourism, which means the reef has both ecological and economic backing. In East Africa, they work with Reefolution.
Their approach is consistent: work where work is wanted, with partners who can sustain it locally.
Become a monthly donor to The Restoration Club, starting at five euros per month
Partner through your company and link your organisation to tangible restoration
Follow them on Instagram and LinkedIn and share their work with your network
Subscribe to their magazine and newsletter for updates from the field
Stichting The Restoration Club is a Dutch foundation, established in 2020. The board consists of Dennis Storm (chair), Wout Scholten (treasurer) and Youri van der Horst (secretary). No office, a small core team, supported by freelancers and local partners.
The foundation operates under a fixed rule: a maximum of 10 percent of donations goes to the organisation itself, with the ambition to reduce that to 1 percent. For the reef restoration project they use a published unit price of around two euros per fragment, including monitoring and the organisational contribution. The annual report is published openly.
RSIN: 861625493
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