2017-2018 ANNUAL REPORT Surf Life Saving Sydney Northern Beaches Keeping Our Beaches Safe WHAT DOES YOUR BRANCH DO? Delivering a coordinated program of well run S SURF SPORTS Carnivals and Events EDUCATION Providing education in all areas and improving E & TRAINING skills of Club Trainers Coodinating volunteers and infrastructure to provide 24/7 R RESCUE SUPPORT Rescue Services and support operations on SNB VOICE FOR One voice representing 21 Clubs to relevant stakeholders V LIFESAVING IN SNB within Surf Life Saving and externally INFORMATION The Executive and Staff provide a comprehensive range I & SUPPORT of information, advice and administrative support for SNB Clubs COMMUNITY Developing sponsorship and grant opportunities in addition INVOLVEMENT to Club efforts as well as promoting the value of Surf Life Saving C to the community EFFICIENT Disseminating and developing processes that deliver E PROCESSES common standards and minimal duplicated effort Educating our community as well as providing valuable SURF SCHOOL income, employment and development opportunities for S Club members 2 EQUIPPED AND PREPARED Our mission Contents To provide a safe beach and aquatic environment throughout Sydney’s Northern Beaches. President’s Report 4 Our Vision CEO’s Report 6 Fulfil our responsibilities as part of SLSA and provide a Patrons, Officers, Committees 8 valued Surf Life Saving service to the community. Honour Roll 10 Branch Honours 12 Our Branch Charter Branch Awards of Excellence 14 The Branch exists for the benefit of the volunteer Directors’ Choice Awards 16 Surf Life Saving clubs and their members on Sydney’s Lifesaving 18 Northern Beaches. Support Services 20 The Branch is run as a co-operative of clubs, it recognises Patrol Assessment/Patrol Hours/Audits 21 the strength of the organisation is built on the club Rescue Statistics 22 system and will act within the best interests of all clubs, Education 24 while maintaining the interests of SLSA in the area. Award Statistics 26 Assessors, Facilitators & Chief Training Officers 32 The Branch is committed to maintaining the volunteer Member Services 34 ethos of Surf Life Saving and the valuable, trusted and respected role Surf Life Saving plays in the community. Membership Statistics 38 The Surf Life Saving School 40 Our Centre of Gravity Surf Sports 42 The strength of the Branch is our membership Surf Sports Membership 44 working together. Interbranch 46 Branch Point Score 48 Junior Branch Championship Results 49 Open Branch Championship Results 55 Surf Life Saving Masters Branch Championship Results 59 Our Special Branch Championships 66 Australia Financial Report for Surf Life Saving 67 Sydney Northern Beaches Inc. Club Reports 94 Vision Executive History 136 To save lives, create great Australians and build better communities. Branch History 138 Fundraising Events 139 Mission Vale 140 To provide safe beaches and aquatic environments throughout Australia. Cover Shot Warriewood SLSC members Simon Lilly and Lisa Schumacher on patrol. TO KEEP YOU SAFE AT THE BEACH 3 PRESIDENT’S REPORT It continues to be an absolute honour and Congratulations to the recipient of the privilege to serve as President, representing President’s Award – Dee Why SLSC’s Matt our membership that is made up of Molinia, an ‘all-rounder’ lifesaver whose exceptionally committed, skilled, dedicated passion, time, skills and energy has been and professional volunteer men, women given so freely and generously given across and young people who provide a wide so many functions of our service. range of lifesaving activities all centred on keeping our community safe. I would like to thank all of our Trainers, Assessors, Facilitators, Surf Sports Our 21 Surf Life Saving clubs through the Officials, our Support Services Team, actions of our volunteer members, have including our Duty Officers, Jet Ski continued to selflessly serve the community Operators, Surfcom Operators and with distinction, having maintained a members of our TIPS Team, as without your watchful eye over and kept safe some tireless support we could not do the job 3,080,226 beachgoers and undertaken we do. some 152,002.07 patrol hours whilst doing so. I would like to acknowledge the significant work of our Lifesaving, Education, Member These hours do not include the countless Services and Surf Sports portfolios whose hours spent running the Club, keeping achievements are listed by our Directors fit, maintaining their skills, training and elsewhere in the report. Doug Menzies - President educating new and existing members, engaging with the community as well as I would like to also thank our fantastic importantly running our nippers programs, staff at the Branch headquarters. Steve thus developing our young people and McInnes, Jen Huston, Marcial Nunura, preparing our future generations Belinda Dobson and John Taylor, thank you of lifesavers. so much for all you do. Our 5,610 volunteer surf lifesavers Additionally, I would like to acknowledge performed 827 rescues, conducted 33,590 the outstanding Branch Executive who Surf Life Saving preventative actions, provided 2,619 first aid have provided extraordinary contributions services and, at the same time, undertook to the successful operations of our Branch, Sydney Northern and completed some 9,093 awards so to our Deputy President – Shannon and qualifications. Job, Director of Lifesaving – Glenn Tolan, Beaches had a Director of Education – Adrienne Lowe, On behalf of the wider community, I want Director of Member Services – Tracey very busy 2017/18 to acknowledge and thank our 18,733 Hare-Boyd, Director of Surf Sports – Darren members for doing what you do so well. Warrener and Director of Finance – Lance season where Barnes, thank you so much. During the season, we saw the new we continued amalgamated Northern Beaches Council I would like to pay tribute to Darren established from the former Manly, Warrener who is standing down after to maintain our Warringah and Pittwater Councils and we serving as Director of Surf Sports for four look forward to developing a close working years. We welcome Louis Tassone on high standards relationship to continue to provide volunteer board as our new Director of Surf Sports. surf lifesaving services second to none. and watch over a Congratulations to our latest Life Members, I would like to congratulate all those who Distinguished Service and Outstanding record number of won awards at our 2017/18 SNB Branch Service recipients. Their details appear Awards of Excellence, in particular, I elsewhere in the report, but thank you for beachgoers. congratulate Freshwater SLSC as Most your amazing contribution over so Outstanding Club of the Year, Queenscliff many years. SLSC Patrol Assessment Competition, David Price (Freshwater SLSC) as Life To all our sponsors and supporters, without Saver of the Year, Young Life Saver of the you we could not possibly undertake the Year Trae Hare-Boyd (North Steyne SLSC) work that we do to keep the community and David Cowell (North Steyne SLSC) as safe. A big thank you to Streets, Westfield Volunteer of the Year. All our award winners Warringah Mall, Dee Why RSL Club, are detailed elsewhere in the annual report. Northern Beaches Council, SLSNSW, 4 EQUIPPED AND PREPARED Speedo, Cancer Institute NSW, Local Manly I again thank all our members for your Daily, St George Foundation, Entertainment efforts and I look forward to seeing you on Book, Bill Buckle, Surf Life Saving Australia, the beach in our 2018/19 season. URM, RFi Group, Thredbo, Bennett Surfboards, DHL, Westpac and Telstra. TO KEEP YOU SAFE AT THE BEACH 5 CEO’S REPORT Without taking anything away from our some great deals and incentives for our worthy winners, those on stage receiving clubs on Speedo clubwear. their awards, are figuratively just the tip of the iceberg. Below the surface are Much appreciated is the new support of the thousands of surf lifesavers contributing St George Foundation who provided us with what they can to their club, the Branch and a grant to fund our Stewart House program the community to keep the beaches safe. for twelve months. We also received a grant from the NSW Government’s Community And what a superb job you have all done – Building Partnerships program to partially congratulations to every one of our 18,733 fund the replacement of our failing air members on a job well done. conditioning unit and a grant from the NSW Government’s Local Sport Grant program to Whilst everything went well on the replace our Surf Sports shipping container beaches, from a business perspective, the and the Cancer Institute NSW to provide 2017/18 season provided some significant our Sun Safety and Surf Safety classroom challenges for the Branch. Our long-term presentations. partnership with Unilever was reviewed due Thank you to Rob Stokes MP for supporting to global corporate events. This resulted in our grant applications. our Streets Ice Cream sponsorship being reduced considerably under a new three- Thank you to all of our sponsors as without year agreement, and our Lipton Ice Tea you we could not do the job we do. sponsorship concluded. As our Director of Lifesaving has reported, This unexpected change placed some it was another busy and positive year on Steve McInnes - CEO pressure on our bottom line performance the beaches for our volunteer lifesavers. and cash flow. A review of all expenditure Collectively, we rescued 827 people, was undertaken and cuts made where we provided first-aid treatments to 2,619 could. Our staffing level was reduced by people, reacquainted 148 lost children with one full-time position. their parents, and proactively undertook Once we had trimmed the outgoings, our 33,590 preventative actions that may have What a memorable primary focus became securing a new otherwise resulted in a rescue and or major sponsor and seeking other revenue injury. More than three million beachgoers night is was for our opportunities through our Surf Life Saving benefitted from our services during the 2018 Awards of School and through various grants.