The Marine Society College of the Sea
Requests sent via WhatDoTheyKnow are valid. There is no need to re-send them via a public body's web-form.

We at WhatDoTheyKnow are concerned about requests being refused on the grounds they have been made by email, rather than, for example, via a public body's website. Requests in writing are valid, no matter how they are sent to a public body (see the Information Commissioner's guidance on making valid requests).

We are tracking occurrences of this issue, and encourage you to let us know about further examples. Unfortunately, we don't have a working email address for this authority.

If you would like to help us out, just do a little bit of research to find the correct address, click on the "Ask us to update FOI email" link, and fill out the details.  Remember to put details of the source of the email in the source URL/notes box.

Top tip: try looking for Freedom of Information policies or Publication Schemes, otherwise, just use a generic contact email address.

If you manage to find one, if you prefer, you can also let us know by contacting us.

Please ignore this note if it appears on a page that redirects readers to other bodies (a signpost page). This authority appears to block FOI requests sent via WhatDoTheyKnow.

We have tried numerous contact addresses over the years but every one appears to block any correspondence made via WhatDoTheyKnow.