SURF LIFE SAVING NORTHERN REGION
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CEO’S REPORT
MATT WILLIAMS Chief Executive Officer
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n behalf of the Surf Life Saving Northern Region Board, it is my pleasure to present the 2018 Annual Report. Reflecting on the 2017-2018 year for Surf Life Saving Northern Region, I’m immensely proud of what we have achieved. The year posed many challenges across our operations, which I felt we responded to positively and strongly, growing our operational capacity and capabilities on the beaches, in the classroom and in the sports arena, and raising the visibility of what we do – and our challenges – boldly, through the media. It was a year which emphasised the need for SLSNR to grow, adapt and take a strategic approach to cementing our future as a vibrant organisation, meeting the changing needs of our clubs and the communities they serve, and set a strategic direction captured in the most comprehensive strategic plan the movement has prepared. I’m proud of how our clubs have responded positively to the operational changes and new standard operating procedures we have brought in, borne from a heightened health and safety culture. It was clear what we may have done in the past to succeed is no longer a blueprint for the future.
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Our movement was faced with a need to work more closely with new stakeholders and community groups, as the need for lifeguard supervision spread beyond our current patrolled locations and we were called on to respond to a diverse range of events. That has led to a tighter, more highly functioning relationship between our lifeguards and other emergency services to respond to critical incidents. The introduction of the Safeswim programme and online public alerts was also a challenge as guards got to grips with water quality dimensions to the beach safety equation. The award-winning Safeswim programme was a key development this year, as was the significant work and upgrade of our digital network to ensure strong communications between clubs and other important stakeholders. Funding remains a core challenge, which will only be exacerbated as clubs address the capital requirements of refurbishing facilities that have weathered many decades of use. Faced with a growing and more diverse beach-going public, we need to be more successful in securing long-term operational and capital revenue sources to guarantee providing the services and facilities required.
I am heartened by the progress we have achieved this year supporting local authorities, as we move closer to a partnership model based on the delivery of appropriate services for appropriate remuneration, and away from a charity model and mentality. The test will be in the year to come as we seek to consolidate the gains of 2017-2018 and map out a viable future with full recognition of the important role played by our service in keeping Kiwis and visitors to our beaches safe and enabling them to fully enjoy the experience. None of this could have been achieved without the vision and leadership of the Northern Region Board of Directors and operating committees; the knowledge and support from our team of staff; and the ongoing drive and desire to do more – to do better from member clubs and volunteers. I thank you all for the contributions you have made.
MATT WILLIAMS Chief Executive Officer
CONTENTS
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SLSNR - WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
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FOCUS ON OUR PEOPLE
SPORTS RESULTS
SURF CLUB UPDATES
JUNIOR SURF REPORT
SPORT & RECREATION
AUDITOR’S REPORT, SUMMARY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Muriel Brown*
1957
Neil Falloon*
2004
A. Pearce*
1961
Dennis Cooksley
2006
Albie Veart*
1962
Robert Ferguson
2008
John Chapman*
1976
Murray Bray
2008
Abbie Day*
1977
Timothy Jago
2010
Eddie Millar*
1978
Bob Mercer
2010
Bob Rogers*
1978
Dick (Richard) Pocock
2010
Bert McCarthny*
1979
Gareth Neilson
2011
Jim Ferguson*
1980
Wayne Franich
2012
Denis Black
1981
Stephen Pye
2012
Malcolm Beattie
1986
Patricia Reid
2012
E. Wright*
1987
Warwick Bell
2013
Roger Curtice
1989
Christopher Parsons
2013
Bob Harvey
1990
Jim Coe
2013
Buddy Lucas*
1991
Johnny Clough
2013
Valerie Walton
1991
Mark McCarthny
2014
Ross Malyon
1992
Stephen Smith
2014
John Thomas
1993
Alan Franich*
2015
Ian Maclaine*
1994
Stephen Butler
2015
Neil Reid
1995
Pat Olsen
2016
Noel Kay
2000
John Chapman
2016
Ian Hill
2003
Grant Morrison
2017
Graeme Danks
2004
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M I N I STE R ’S FO R E WO R D
PEENI HENARE Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector
Titiro ki te moana he ngohi e ranga ana Titiro ki te whenua he tira tangata e hāereere ana Mā wai e raranga kia kōtahi ai? Look to the sea where the fish are swimming as a shoal Look to the land where there is a group of people who are wandering around Who will bind them and keep them together?
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s the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, I am pleased to provide my first message to your annual report. I was recently fortunate to be able to attend the Awards of Excellence in Auckland, and would like to acknowledge the many volunteers that make the operation and successes of Surf Life Saving Northern Region. It is a privilege to see first-hand the incredible work that volunteer groups do in, and for, our communities. The creativity and good ideas of these individuals on the ground – as well as their commitment and community spirit – is what drives the community and voluntary sector. We know that strong communities provide a great foundation for social and economic wellbeing, and that community and voluntary organisations, such as Surf Life Saving Northern Region, play a pivotal role in achieving that. Your motto is “protecting our community in the water”. And it’s hard to think of a more direct impact on our communities than saving lives on our beautiful, but often treacherous, beaches.
Geographically, the Northern Region is the largest Surf Life Saving region in New Zealand, covering Raglan to Cape Reinga – that is a big community. In the last year, more than one and a half-million people have visited patrolled beaches and swum between the flags in the region. Lending a helping hand and contributing to the greater good is what it means to be a Kiwi, so we should be proud to support and acknowledge those who generously give their time and effort to help others. As we move into another busy New Zealand summer I wish you all the best and safe keeping during this time. I thank you all for your service.
Peeni Henare
Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector
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C H A I R M A N ’S R E P O R T
IAN GODFREY Chairman
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et again Surf Life Saving Northern Region’s volunteers and staff have made an incredible contribution to reducing the drowning toll, educating the community and providing safe access to some of New Zealand’s most frequented beaches. Our volunteer team of 1,800 lifeguards provided more than 65,298 patrol hours in the 2017/2018 summer. With paid lifeguards providing an additional 23,242 hours, this brings the regional total to a whopping 88,540 hours! More than 3,730 individual qualifications were gained or refreshed by members. Outside of patrolling hours, clubs continued to find the time to facilitate and run junior surf programmes for more than 2,468 of our youth. Most importantly though, 427 people did not become a drowning statistic because lifeguards were there, present, ready and trained to save a life. We continue to remain a lean organisation with an outstanding level of service driven largely by the great culture our clubs have created. 2017 saw many changes to our patrols, the times we patrol and how we fund and resource our patrols. New funding models aim to ensure our volunteer services remain sustainable and are delivered where needed most. The changes to our patrol hours significantly reduced the number of after-hours call-outs, and rescues during the early evening at popular locations, ensuring lifeguards were on duty and able to intervene far earlier. Strategic responses like these remain
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vital in reducing the drowning toll and improving our drowning prevention strategy. Surf Life Saving Northern Region has been in several additional key initiatives and ongoing programmes. These include:
■ The Safeswim partnership with Auckland Council, Auckland Regional Public Health Service and Watercare launched to provide relevant water quality information to the public at patrol locations ■ The digital migration of our radio network was a significant capital project to ensure the Radio Network, which supports our patrolling operations, was future-proofed ■ The expansion and growth of patrol coverage and lifesaving support services through the addition of Rescue Water Craft locations, increased SurfComm hours, and peer support and duty officers ■ The development of our 2018– 2021 Strategic Plan was crucial to setting the future orientation of our organisation for the next three years, and beyond ■ The growth in reach of community education programmes through additional City Nippers locations ■ Advancing funding discussions with local and central Government.
Regional Councils continue to assist and support efforts and their commitment to our service was clearly shown in the recent long term plan budgets in Auckland, Waikato, and Northland. We look forward to furthering work with our council family.
A highlight of 2017 has been watching the newly minted Lifesavers Foundation flourish. I would like to thank the Foundation trustees and staff for their hard work. Surf Life Saving Northern Region particularly thanks our principal sponsor Toyota Financial Services, key community partner Foundation North and our funding partners Trillian Trust and Akarana Communities Trust, alongside our partners CBRE Genesis, Yamaha Motor Group and Cordis Hotels for their generous support of the Surf Life Saving Northern Region movement. Surf Life Saving Northern Region has always prided itself on its innovation, its strong, competitive spirit and a willingness to lead, to heed the call, to do what it is required. 2017/18 has reflected all of these qualities.
Ian Godfrey Chairman
PR E S I D E NT’S M E S S AG E
MALCOM BEATTIE President SLSNR
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his past year has been an incredibly busy one for all involved in surf lifesaving in the Northern Region, as well as an important one for the future of the movement.
Plan takes a hard look at where we are and what we need to do to be viable in the future. There’s no question we need to do things differently in a very challenging environment.
We have faced challenging beach attendance numbers around our coasts and, once more, our volunteers have done a sterling job keeping communities and visitors safe at the beach. For your tireless efforts over the season, my heartfelt thanks to all involved – volunteers, administrators and parents.
In our region, like no other in New Zealand, we face massive population growth, particularly in areas such as South Auckland where, driven by the Government’s housing programme, urban planners project more than 18,000 new homes being built near two of our west coast beaches. We can expect beach numbers to soar in the years ahead, putting more pressure on an already stretched service over summer.
The past year has been marked by a number of important steps forward for our organisation. The establishment of the Lifesavers Foundation will enhance our fundraising efforts and I look forward to being part of the team of trustees led by the Chair, Tim Jago. We also initiated a significant upgrade to our digital radio system – first established in 1972 and still the only private network in New Zealand – and will soon see greater linkages between our clubs and other emergency services, enhancing our ability to act quickly to respond to serious incidents. We’ve also developed the most farreaching and comprehensive strategic plan Surf Life Saving Northern Region has had. My gratitude and admiration goes to our CEO Matt Williams and the Board of SLSNR for driving that. The
The current funding model requires change. The 17 clubs in our region must speak with a single voice, acknowledging the complexity of the demand on our lifeguards and facilities and be prepared to shift resources to where thinge need is. We must also become a much more active participant in the determination of our funding plans with local authorities. We need to become more involved in the preparation of the 10-year plans – not just be the recipients each year of what they see fit to grant us.
greater attention than our business, as it should, but we share a common purpose – to make these natural destinations welcoming, safe and attractive for the attending public, whether they are visitors or Kiwis. Our provision and supply arrangements must change. We can no longer be content to take whatever handout we can get. Provision of lifesaving services must be about what we need to deliver, and the cost, and a sound funding platform established. The time to make the shift is now.
Malcolm Beattie OBE President SLSNR Life Member SLSNR Life Member SLSNZ
We need to be part of the discussion on such simple things as car-parking provision and the way tourism is showcasing our beaches as attractive destinations. Tourism attracts much
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S U R F LI F E S AV I N G N O R TH E R N R EG I O N WHO WE ARE
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he largest of the Regional Surf Life Saving bodies in New Zealand, Surf Life Saving Northern Region coordinates the delivery of paid and volunteer lifesaving operations covering 22 regional beaches from Raglan, north to Cape Reinga and down the east coast, south to the Auckland beaches. Our single and simple purpose is to protect the region’s communities in the water, on beaches and coastlines.
Under the governance of a six-member board, SLSNR’s management team, led by Chief Executive Matt Williams, administers the delivery of lifesaving services, club development, community
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water-safety education, surf sports participation, junior surf and leadership development for more than 6000 volunteers. With 17 clubs around the region and headquarters at the Marine Rescue Centre in Mechanics Bay, SLSNR receives around $8 million in funding annually. This comes through sponsorship, gaming grants, community trusts and appropriations from the three regional councils covering the SLSNR beaches – Waikato Regional Council, Auckland Council and Northland Regional Council. In the 2017-2018 period, SLSNR lifeguards carried out over 400 rescues
and more than 600 assists, 1,000-plus first-aid treatments, more than 40,000 preventative actions, and almost 150 searches. The region’s volunteers and paid guards clocked up almost 89,000 hours of patrols during the season, watched more than one and a half million people, and helped educate over thousands of youngsters in beach safety.
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THE WO R LD O F LIFEGUARDING
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O PE R ATI O N S R E P O R T
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he 2017-2018 season once again saw our lifeguards come to the fore in all areas of our operations. This continued growth in the depth and breadth of our services is a real achievement at a time when funds are not plentiful, and is a testament to the strength of our volunteering history. The creation of four new full-time supervisor roles – Volunteer Lifeguard Supervisor, Paid Lifeguard Supervisor, Support Services Supervisor and Training Supervisor – has been pivotal. Though we are a volunteer-led movement, this provision of professional support in the SLSNR office and in the field was both necessary and timely. The change by member clubs to align patrol hours to peak beach usage was an effective move, with a noticeable impact at our treacherous west coast locations where after-hours callouts and rescues reduced dramatically as a result. Clubs also began to resource their patrols more efficiently, in terms of number of lifeguards rostered on. Steps like these are vital to ensuring we maintain a sustainable volunteer service. We managed to increase coverage with only
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a small increase in volunteer hours. Our new partnership with Auckland Council meant the launch of Safeswim’s forecasting service now provides access to real-time information on beach safety and water quality, as well as providing
SLSNR a platform to make urgent public safety announcements. Relationships such as these, and ongoing operational meetings with our emergency services partners, continue to strengthen our role as the lead
Supervisor role, with commendable increases in the number of traditional lifeguard qualifications achieved. SLSNR will need to review this model and the training offerings we provide regularly in future. This will ensure future lifeguards can meet the changing demands of patrolling and search and rescue operations – and that we take advantage of any new digital communications.
inshore-and-beach-safety agency. The Paid Lifeguard Service once more delivered a strong service to beachgoers over the peak holiday hours. We do need to ensure this role remains an attractive employment option for volunteer members and that resources are targeted at increasing the standard and numbers of applicants, with off-season training and development a priority.
Community education delivered another strong season in a difficult financial environment. Reductions in funding and support from key stakeholders meant end-user costs increased significantly, which reduced demand for, and uptake of, Beach Education courses. Despite this setback, community education still reached almost 9,000 young people through our day-long, on-beach programmes. City Nippers was the standout success story allowing us to reach more young people at more locations than any other season.
Our support services team continues to show its relevance, but we need to continue growing our volunteer pool to ensure we can deliver to the growing need without the risk of burdening key individuals. My thanks to all those members who have volunteered over-and-above their club duties in regional support services roles – duty officers, Surf Com operators, RWC crew, peer supporters – and acting as district instructors and examiners in lifeguarding and powercraft training. I am also grateful to the advisory group chairs for the immense time and effort they put in, and to SLSNR staff who attend our quarterly meetings and undertake operations committe work.
Operationally, it has been a busy and successful season, and I am heartened the organisation has also been able to take stock of the future needs, aligning them to clear outcomes, while consulting with member clubs and stakeholders to understand their needs and challenges along the way. The result is our new Strategic Plan – the most comprehensive in our history. We look forward to delivering the planned outcomes in the years ahead.
Jonathon Webber
Chairperson Operations Committee
Membership development also had a stellar season, delivering excellent programmes and experiences to our members and completing thorough reviews to ensure clubs have access to best-practice resources and support to become healthy, welcoming hubs for the beachgoing community.
Lifeguard training has had a strong resurgence in the past season, greatly helped by the additional resource provided by SLSNR in the new Training
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LI F EG UA R D S E R V I C E S REPORT
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pivotal part of the drowning prevention strategy is the seasonal provision of lifeguard supervision at key coastal locations and the ability to respond to rescues at coastal locations at any time. This is the most significant and fastest growing area of SLSNR’s operations. The traditional season runs from Labour Weekend through to Easter where beachgoers will find volunteer lifeguards on patrol during the weekend. Each of SLSNR’s 17 clubs provides volunteer patrols to their community and visitors on behalf of SLSNR under a Lifesaving Service Agreement to a set of Patrol Operation Standards, with some clubs providing services to more than one location. The recent recruitment of a Volunteer Lifeguard Supervisor, has significantly increased contact time with clubs and provided support to Club Lifesaving Officers in developing club capability and aligning standards throughout the Northern Region. During the peak summer months of December to February, there is a much greater need for lifeguard supervision as the public access the beach and coastline seven days a week. To address the Monday to Friday need the Northern Region coordinates a region-wide team of more than 100 paid lifeguards, and is topped up from the pool of volunteers who patrol on the weekends. Lifeguards can also be asked to respond to a rescue or incident at any hour of the day at varied locations.
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To ensure a professional response to these critical incidents and that our membership are well coordinated and supported, SLSNR has a dedicated team of volunteers and paid staff on-call to support search and rescue emergency operations. These include: duty officers who manage and coordinate Critical Incident Management Systems liaising directly with other emergency services; SurfComm Operators who manage communications during responses; CallOut squads of local volunteer lifeguards who respond to incidents; Rescue Water Craft operators trained in using our Yamaha rescue craft at unpatrolled locations; and our Peer Supporters who ensure lifeguards and volunteers have support after an event. This team is the mostly unseen infrastructure behind the lifeguard on the beach. This season saw 89 personnel spread across 140 support service roles now overseen by the Support Services Supervisor – a newly created role. Over the past year SLSNR has seen increases across all areas of its Lifeguard Services. Member clubs made the bold move to align their service delivery to match peak beach usage times. Volunteer Call-Out Squads successfully aligned with new Police standards for competency in Search and Rescue Tasking and we delivered one of our most challenging seasons to date without a drowning between the flags. The paid weekday lifeguard service delivered a successful season, both financially and operationally, in which
107 lifeguards were employed as members of the paid lifeguard. There were 22 locations patrolled over this holiday period covering over 21,000 hours of patrolling. Unfortunaetely, the season saw a reduction in coverage in the Auckland area as SLSNR removed coverage at two urban North Shore locations to ensure adequate coverage was provided at higher risk West Coast locations. Support Services has also had coordinated growth over the last season. The completion of the planned expansion of the rescue water craft programme from three to five areas this season meant additional RWC stationed at Omaha Beach and Orewa. Membership welfare awareness is on the rise with more Peer Supporters on-hand to support members and Patrol Audits scores continue to reflect the high level of service Northern Region provides.
Paul Newnham Acting Chair Lifeguard Services Advisory Group
E X TE N S I O N O F PATR O LLI N G H O U R S – A N E V I D E N C E - BAS E D A PPR OAC H
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uring the 2017-18 season, coastal risk scientist Nick Mulcahy has been compiling reports for the Auckland Regional Coastal Safety Survey. Employed by Surf Life Saving New Zealand, his analysis assesses the individual beach risk profile and makes recommendations on which beaches require lifeguards, how many are needed, when they should patrol and start/finish times. The recommendations also describe what equipment clubs should have access to and include beach safety control measures, such as signage and public rescue equipment, with their implementation supported by local and regional councils. A key finding of the research was evidence of ever-increasing evening visitors to the Northern Region beaches. To counter this risk, SLSNR has worked with volunteer clubs to increase hours and deliver extended patrols to cover the hazards on our beaches. As a direct result of the extended hours there has been a decrease in after-hours emergency callouts. This is good news considering recorded head counts increased over the particularly busy last summer. SLSNR believes that without the comprehensive coverage provided by the Regional Lifeguard Service there could have been an increase of accident and injury on our beaches during the 2017-18 season. Such a forwardthinking approach is set to expand to the neighbouring regions of Waikato and Northland in the upcoming year.
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LE I F N E I L S O N – LI F EG UA R D PR O F I LE
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nited North Piha Lifeguard Service member Leif Neilson was always destined to get involved with the lifesaving movement.
“I’ve basically been a member at United since birth,” says Leif, whose father Gareth joined the club as a 16-year-old and is currently the club president. Leif was involved with some lifesaving activity even before he officially joined the nippers’ programme as a seven-yearold in 1997. “Some clubs run programmes for kids who are just about ready for Juniors and I got into that.” Now a Duty Officer and part of the Surf Life Saving Northern Region’s Rescue Water Craft Team, he started as a 14-year-old collecting his bronze medallion Lifeguard Award in 2004. He competed regularly at junior level in a myriad of events including swimming, surfboard and surf ski events and to a lesser extent in the senior ranks. In recent years, Leif found his “inner petrol-head” and raced in United’s IRB crew, although not as often as he would have liked. “I want to get back into it properly this summer.” Growing up at Piha, Leif has spent a lot of time on the beach, although he has now moved to Ranui. Like many other lifeguards he became involved in professional
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patrolling at the height of summer, in his case between 2006 and 2001. Shorter paid patrol stints of a fortnight have been fitted in on occasion since then. Leif took part in the California Lifeguard exchange in 2013, spending several weeks at Huntington Beach just south of Los Angeles, and his Duty Officer qualification followed in 2014. Like any paid lifeguard Leif has spent time at other beaches in the region to gain experience and see how they function, but more recently his activity has been confined to Piha. With the time constraints of a full-time job as a customs officer with the Department of Customs, Leif now contents himself with a volunteer Duty Officer role at United North Piha. His involvement with the Rescue Water Craft Team is managed and run by SLSNR and places jet-skis in strategic positions to cover large areas of the coastline. “We have one at North Piha, which covers the area from Karekare to Muriwai,” says Leif. “There’s another at Ruakaka that operates anywhere between Whangārei Heads and Mangawhai. “We also position them at other places when the demand arises. They’re an alternative to IRBs. Both have their pros and cons.”
CA S E S TU DY – J O I NT AG E N CY TA S K I N G
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ne late afternoon in 2017, Surf Lifesaving Northern received a request from Police to assist in a search for a missing diver at Sandy Bay, near Cape Reinga in the Far North. The request was made by Surfcom for volunteers to travel to the Far North. Four lifeguards promptly made themselves available. By 11pm, Mark Gordon and Jacob Rennie were on their way from the Marine Rescue Centre in Auckland. They stopped briefly at the Ruakaka Surf Club to pick up Kyran Gilespie and Connor Mackereth. They met with Dave Ross and Thom Anderson at 6am at the Far North Surf Club. Preparing two IRBs and kitting out both rescue vehicles, the team then transported the IRBs all the way up to Cape Reinga. The crew met with the Police search and rescue team and mapped out the area. The plan was to have Dave and Kryan at Cape Reinga with Police in the communications role, with Mark and his IRB team searching the water. With the surf rising two-metres, a 12-nautical-mile search area was established and Mark led the team in a challenging search of an area not well-known to them. Two IRBs were launched from Tapotupotu Bay, once the team were fully kitted with wetsuits, helmets, beacons, fin belts and appropriate gear. Using the CIMS structure, the lifeguards were able to have clear and effective communication with Police by
using their portal radio repeater. LandSAR spotted the diver below the Sandy Bay cliff, and Police were able to direct the lifeguards to safely recover the diver’s body. Because the area was unfamiliar to the IRB team and the diver’s position so close to the rocks in a surf zone, the team decided to tube retrieve the diver, as the surf conditions were too dangerous for an IRB. The diver’s body was retrieved and taken back to Tapotupotu Bay, where the team received a karakia from kaumatua. The body was handed over to Police. This tragic incident highlights how clear communication through the CIMS structure is vital in allowing multiple agencies to work together. If it wasn’t for this and the brave efforts by the lifeguards, the diver’s may not have been recovered and returned to his family.
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his past season SLSNR employed Sam Turbott as the Rock Fishing Safety Advisor. Sam spent 85 days out on Auckland’s West Coast, talking to rock fishers on 458 occasions – often the same people. The project area covered nine different beaches and 21 key rock fishing locations, with 132 fishermen spoken to completing a safety survey. The aim was to have a presence among those who fish off the rocks on Auckland’s West Coast was achieved. Rock fishers are a diverse group, with a wide range of cultural ethnicities, although it remains a male-dominated pastime. Many fishers were interested in the expert advice, aside from the few who simply didn’t want to hear, or were fishing for food so had little time. Many knew much of the advice given – they just didn’t act because of cost or lack of appreciation for how badly things could go wrong. The safest rock fishers were those who had seen or experienced dangerous events or fatalities on the rocks.
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2 017-2 018 S E AS O N AWA R D S
First Aid
Surf Lifeguard Surf Lifeguard Award
336
First Aid Level 1
181
Surf Lifeguard Award Refresher
1687
First Aid Level 1 Refresher
341
Senior Lifeguard Award – Patrol Captain
18
First Aid Level 2
182
Patrol Support
15
First Aid Level 2 Refresher
193
Patrol Support Refresher
11
First Aid Level 3
46
Advanced Lifeguard Award
2
First Aid Level 3 Refresher
69
Surf Lifeguard Instructor
14
Pain Management Module
29
Surf Lifeguard Examiner & Probationary
3
Workplace First Aid
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IRB
2086
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Surf Officials
IRB Crewpersons Module
143
Surf Official Level 1
9
Senior Lifeguard Award – IRB
61
Surf Official Level 2
2
Senior Lifeguard Award – IRB Refresher
275
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IRB Instructor
8
IRB Examiner & Probationary
8
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Coaching
Introduction to Surf Coaching Award
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Developing Surf Coach Award
1
Competitive Surf Coach Award
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Performance Surf Coach Award
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495
Information Systems
Marine VHF Radio Operators Certificate
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he Surf Life Saving Northern Region is constantly on the lookout for new technology and innovation to complement the lifeguards’ resources.
Right now, we’re exploring the use of UAV/Drones. At Surf Life Saving New South Wales, the successful use of a rescue drone in January highlighted what an incredible asset these can be for lifeguards. The Little Ripper project, as it is known, is part of an aerial surveillance programme that uses flying drones to watch the waves for shark activity. The drones are equipped with technology that can spot sharks below the waves. A built-in megaphone alerts swimmers to danger. The Little Ripper Lifesaver drone used in the Lennox Head rescue in northern New South Wales was a modified DJI M600 electric six-rotor type with a maximum take-off weight of 15kg including a payload of 7kg with a top speed of just over 50km/h. The type of Rescue Pod dropped from that UAV/drone can support up to four people and also contains an electromagnetic shark repellent, whistle and sea anchor with a camera giving live real-time feedback to the pilot/ operator. This type of Drone can be controlled from more than four kilometres away. The Australian Government is investing $430,000 into trialling it. Our SLSNR project group is working with a provider of drones and learning thier usage parameters and how and where they could best be deployed. There are many immediate obvious challenges for UAV/ drones, such as the types of sand affecting delicate components, corrosion of equipment, Civil Aviation Authority permits and pilot/operator training. As well, would other Emergency Services be jointly interested in them for Search and Rescue, or Civil Defence emergencies? The benefits of using a drone would reduce the cost of deploying an expensive Rescue helicopter for Search missions, meaning these savings could be reinvested into developing the drone project.
TOO L S O F TH E TR A D E 13% Lifeguards have access to a range of tools and technologies that aide them in responding to patients in need. Here are the most common tools of the trade used by lifeguards and the percentage of responses they were used in.
22%
10% 8% 5%
L I F E G UA R D TOOLS OF THE TR ADE
IRB No equipment Radios
2%
Rescue Board Rescue Tube Rescue Vehicle
39%
RWC
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VOLUNTEER LIFEGUARD SERVICE
Total Hours
Rescues
Assists
Major First Aids
Minor First Aids
Searches
Preventive Actions
Safety Interventions 4605
Bethells Beach
4155
23
18
10
31
5
1325
Far North
413
1
3
1
27
0
104
41
Karekare
3699
17
54
2
21
3
361
2283
Kariaotahi
5468
17
16
7
13
5
2571
7607
Mairangi Bay
5423
3
10
0
43
10
2853
8413
Mangawhai Heads
2218
22
27
1
35
1
635
2596
Muriwai
5641
109
64
20
37
10
4544
11,325
Omaha Beach
2666
6
27
1
27
1
320
2202
Orewa
4186
10
10
11
90
12
785
1944
Piha
5734
48
30
9
45
9
1202
4774
Raglan
4077
15
21
13
78
14
2650
10,244
Red Beach
1766
10
19
5
30
12
363
1249
Ruakaka
2238
4
2
4
15
2
253
978
Sunset Beach
3762
5
50
3
11
7
1320
4482
United North Piha
4182
12
23
4
13
2
966
2753
Waipu Cove
2700
16
25
2
40
1
490
1709
Whangarei Heads
2683
15
10
3
8
0
640
3869
CLUB VOLUNTEER TOTALS
60,984
333
409
96
564
94
21,382
71,074
PAID LIFEGUARD SERVICE
23,242
36
156
39
245
43
20,525
5
Support Services
301
15
29
2
2
2
629
2935
Event Lifeguards
3985.75
43
79
10
51
0
704
2838
TOTAL
88,540
427
673
147
862
139
43,240
128,348
H OW A R E PEO PLE G ET TI N G I NTO TR O U B LE?
Lifeguards are responding to an increasing and more diverse range of activities as beachgoers continue to find new and innovative ways to enjoy our coastline
13% 14% 2%
28%
H OW A R E PEOPLE GETTING INTO TROUBLE
47%
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Activity Surfing Activity Swimming Activity SLS Competition/ Training Activity Sail or Boat Activity Fishing
I NTE R M E D I ATE G UA R D S C H OO L R E V I E W
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ntermediate Guard School was held at Bethells Beach in March. The weekend course involved 27 candidates representing surf lifesaving clubs from Raglan to Whangarei Heads. They worked on technical skills and developing their search and rescue, board rescue, scanning and surveillance and first aid knowledge. Key facilitators from Surf
Life Saving New South Wales also took part, sharing their experience across all areas of training, in particular rescue board work. One of the highlights was the delivery of the new SLSNZ Rock Navigation Module â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the first time this had been delivered nationally. This was followed by valuable time spent on the
rocks in challenging conditions and was well received by our Surf Life Saving New South Wales counterparts. The camp also received a visit from the Police Eagle helicopter, which allowed practise of a helicopter landing zone set-up and an extensive run through of the Eagle capabilities.
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fter reviewing the Leadership Development Pathway currently in place, the Membership Development Review Group came to the conclusion there is a need for a programme to be developed that services membership between Youth Development Camp/Intermediate Guard
School and Advanced Lifeguard School age groups and skill levels. Membership feedback was beach management and patrol captain development was missing. As a result, another working group of the Senior Guard School has begun development.
The first one will be held in November at Bethells Beach. The weekend will be made up of three main rotations of patrol management, incident management and scenario-based learning, as well as a mix of keynote speakers and scenarios.
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CO M M U N IT Y E D U CATI O N Sixty-five Community Education Instructors were employed over the season to deliver our programmes across the region. The majority of these staff were from the Northern Region, along with 11 international lifeguards and three Eastern Regional Lifeguards who study in Auckland. The Community Education Team delivered beach and surf safety at 13 surf clubs and five Auckland beach locations reaching 13,221 children from 118 schools through one of our three programmes – Beach Ed, Surf to School and City Nippers. BE ACH E D
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3,80 6
2 017 T E R M 4 PA R T I C I PA N T S
5,131
SURF TO SCHOOL
CIT Y NIPPERS
14
-
2,451
104
SCHOOLS
2 017 T E R M 4 PA R T I C I PA N T S
2 017 T E R M 4 PA R T I C I PA N T S
EVENTS
614
2 017 T E R M 4 PA R T I C I PA N T S
T O TA L S
118
SCHOOLS
6,975
2 017 T E R M 4 PA R T I C I PA N T S
2 018 T E R M 1 PA R T I C I PA N T S
2 018 T E R M 1 PA R T I C I PA N T S
728
387
2 018 T E R M 1 PA R T I C I PA N T S
2 018 T E R M 1 PA R T I C I PA N T S
2 018 T E R M 1 PA R T I C I PA N T S
8,937
3,179
491
6114
13,221
T O TA L PA R T I C I PA N T S
T O TA L PA R T I C I PA N T S
T O TA L PA R T I C I PA N T S
0
T O TA L PA R T I C I PA N T S
6,246
T O TA L PA R T I C I PA N T S
F E E D BAC K F R O M O U R P R OG R A M M E S : “The instructors were well organised and very professional in their delivery, they made the children, teachers and parents feel welcome. They were always active and visible” – Beach Ed Kariaotahi
A price increase for all Beach Ed participants from $8.70 to $15 was necessary to replace funding shortfalls from traditional funders. Despite this price increase, the Community Education programmes still had a strong uptake in relation to the five-year average, delivering to budget and breaking even. A significantly improved financial position from the previous year.
CO M M U N IT Y O UTR E AC H Another great achievement was the growth of City Nippers on Waiheke Island. This was our second season on the island and the holiday programme proved very popular with all sessions fully booked. Age-specific groups was introduced here and will now be implemented at all venues. In an effort to improve access to Community Education the delivery team was involved in community events such as the AT Travelwise and Auckland Boat Show, Keas and Scout groups, holiday programmes, Auckland Council’s SafeSwim and Outdoor Experience. A pilot Beach Safety Education course for adults was delivered successfully, so work is underway to develop the material for future courses, supported by the Community Education Advisory Group. Aktive funding of $21,000 enabled 1017 students from 18 low-decile Counties Manukau schools to participate in Beach Education at no cost to the school, as well as providing a small contribution towards transport to the beach.
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“Thank you for an amazing programme. Water Safety education is paramount, and more schools should do it” – Beach Ed Muriwai
“It was a truly excellent day that we will definitely use again. Everything ran smoothly, we adults enjoyed our involvement in the water and there was never a moment where we felt like our students were in danger. The adults were constantly checked in with to ensure we were comfortable, and the whole day was excellent. Thank you!” – Beach Ed Kariaotahi
“My son really enjoyed the whole experience and loved the variety and also interacting with the professional staff” – City Nippers Eastern Beach
“Age appropriate learning in fun atmosphere” – City Nippers St Heliers
Pauline Butt Chairperson Community Education Advisory Group
N I C K TO M K I N S – CO M M U N IT Y E D U CATI O N I N STR U CTO R O F TH E Y E A R
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ick Tomkins admits he spends almost every spare moment he has getting involved in the surf lifesaving community.
It’s been his way of life since he joined the Orewa Surf Life Saving Club’s Nipper programme in 1989. Now 39, Nick wonthe Community Education Instructor of the Year award at the Surf Life Saving Northern Region’s 2018 Awards of Excellence. The citation said Nick had a great in-depth knowledge of beach safety and ability to engage with children and adults alike, and was a good communicator, who was always well prepared. He has been involved in the Beach Education programme since 2006. It focuses on providing surf safety education for schools in the first and last terms of the school year. As an independent IT consultant, Nick is able to structure his time to maintain a regular involvement in the programme. Having qualified as a lifeguard in 1995, Nick started as a club instructor at Orewa in the 1990-2000 season and taught surf skills for the next 10 years, before graduating to the region-wide Beach Education programme in 2006. In between he’s fitted in professional lifeguarding since 2001.
The Beach Education scheme uses between two and three dozen lifeguards – usually in their late teens or early 20s – who go out in groups of four or five to provide the teaching. “The scheme is available to all schools, who just have to book a date with the region,” says Nick. “It’s mainly taken up by primary schools, but is available for secondary schools as well. We go all over the greater Auckland area and have been to school camps at Sunset Beach and Raglan.” Training and induction of the lifeguards who run the Beach Education programme starts in October. It suits people who are involved in tertiary education and gives them a summer holiday job. Nick regularly leads one of the teams carrying out the programme. For the past year Nick has also been involved in a pilot scheme to develop a new programme of adult education run in conjunction with Drowning Prevention Auckland. He highlights the importance of providing relevant beach education learning opportunities outside of schools and has enjoyed working on this process.
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CA S E S TU DY – C IT Y N I PPE R S
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his is the second year City Nippers has been run on Waiheke Island. This season SLSNR ran a five-session course on Sundays in November and December, and again over three days in the summer holidays. They were fully booked.
Q& A W ITH A C IT Y N I P P E R PA R E NT Name: Nathan Musson Age: 40
Occupation: Commercial Manager
What did you like about the programme? We’re an island- based community so it has been great to see a programme that teaches our kids how to be safe in the water and also to respect the ocean. Without a decent swimming pool on the island, teaching kids water safety is difficult, so this programme has been most beneficial. The January block course is also a good school holiday activity. Has City Nippers grown on the island? My three children have attended both years it’s been operating and my impression is that last year saw growth on the previous year. The feedback from other parents was very positive. How did word get around? We are very communityfocused on the island so word of mouth counts for a lot. Local Facebook pages and also flyers at the ferry are other means.
Has having City Nippers on the island made any difference in the community? That is a hard one to measure and I think you will only see this through growth of the programme. Why is there no surf club on the Island? Our beaches are assumed to be quite safe and none are patrolled. However, last summer some freak weather changed the shape and nature of the beaches and we saw rips in places we hadn’t had before. There are also more tourists flocking to the island and not everyone can be expected to have water safety knowledge, so there’s a risk there. There are plenty of eager parents and young kids. Perhaps we need to get the age bracket in between and inspire some teenagers to get involved in something. Whether or not connecting with the local high school is an option and incorporating something into their water sports programmes to train school kids to a level? In terms of a club, I think we’ve long missed the opportunity to buy some cheap seaside land for a clubhouse!
LOW- D EC I LE A N D AT- R I S K S C H OO L S
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key challenge for the delivery of community education programmes to at-risk demographics is securing the funding in order to reduce or remove attendance costs and increase access to these vital programmes. Grant and philanthropic funding is becoming increasingly difficult in this space making it more difficult for these groups to attend.
AT T E N DA N C E BY S C H O O L D E C I LE
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MEMBERSHIP D E V E LO PM E NT R E P O R T
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he membership development review has been completed. So too has the development of the club health checks and club development toolkit. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, the health and safety and safeguarding and member protection rollout is continuing. It has been fantastic for the Club Development Manager to sit down with each of the clubs and get an understanding of where individual clubs are excelling and where, as a region, we can be of more assistance in helping clubs grow, strengthen and thrive. We also successfully ran our usual programmes including the Youth Development Camp, the Buddy Lucas Leadership Programme, the California Lifeguard Exchange, hosting Jennifer Schulman of Huntington Beach City and Taylor Mellinger of San Clemente in the 49th year of the exchange. Another highlight was travelling to Sydney to attend the Surf Life Saving New South Wales State Conference in July. This was an exciting opportunity to understand the initiatives
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being established in New South Wales, as well as hearing the clubs and branches speak of their current struggles and the strategies they are using to work on overcoming these at club, branch and state levels. Lastly, it was fantastic to have five members of Northern Region selected for BP Leaders for Life. Ella Boyens (Raglan), Michael Buck (Mairangi Bay), Mark Gordon (United North Piha), Sam Teteina (Bethells Beach) and Brad Kehoe (Mangawhai Heads) attended five dynamic leadership development workshops, as well as completing a research project on behalf of the national body.
Tara Coe Chairperson Membership Development Advisory Group
M E M B E R S H I P D E V E LO PM E NT REVIEW
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he current membership development courses and opportunities provided by Surf Life Saving Northern Region have been reviewed by the Club Development Advisory Group. During the 2017-2018 season, the working group has identified limitations in the current courses and opportunities offered to members. It has made recommendations regarding development opportunities to the membership. The review group consisted of Tara Coe, Mason DrayHogg, Dan Short, Catie Mulrennan, Mark Gordon, and was supported by the Club Development Manager. A survey was sent to the membership in order to gauge what members
thought the organisation did well, could improve on and what was missing. The results recognised that the membership is pleased with the annual Youth Development Camp run for members aged 15-17. However, the organisation lacks development opportunities for senior members and senior roles. The first programmes to be developed from the newly recommended pathway includes a Senior Lifeguard School and a Senior Leadership Experience. These programmes will be run in the 2018-19 season.
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B U D DY LU CAS LE A D E R S H I P PR OG R A M M E
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he Buddy Lucas Leadership Programme is generously funded by Denis Black, patron of SLSNR and Life member of both SLSNZ and SLSNR. It provides prospective leaders with the opportunity to expand their knowledge of surf lifesaving and develop their own personal skills. The Buddy Lucas Leadership Programme, named after legendary Piha member Frederick “Buddy” Lucas, consists of three areas. The first of these is the Surf Life Saving Australia National Leadership College, the second is the California Lifeguard Exchange and the third is still being confirmed. An opportunity to attend Lifesaving Victoria’s Advanced Lifesaving Camp was presented this year and taken up, while the third pillar is under development.
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Last season’s representatives for the Buddy Lucas Leadership Programme: California Lifeguard Exchange: Ella Boyens, Raglan
Sam Walters, Mairangi Bay Surf Life Saving Australia National Leadership College: Zane Rademaker, United North Piha
Lifesaving Victoria Advanced Lifesaving Camp: Mark Gordon, United North Piha
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YO UTH D E V E LO PM E NT CA M P
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he 2018 Youth Development Camp was run between the 19-22 April on Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf. The camp of 51 teens aged 15-17 from across the region and six from the rest of the country, came together to develop their leadership skills and their understanding of the opportunities available to them through Surf Life Saving. The primary aims of the Youth Development Camp are to positively recognise members and encourage retention; to foster and develop qualities including self-esteem and selfconfidence to support personal development; to develop leadership skills by means of practise in a supportive and encouraging environment; to promote teamwork and communication; and to encourage and facilitate goal-
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setting for both within and outside of Surf Life Saving. This group quickly transforms from a bunch of quiet and nervous individuals to a tight-knit family. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motto was: Empower, Embrace, Chase â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Empower each other, Embrace challenges, Chase your goals. These themes were incorporated into the activities the group were tasked with. Thank you to Tara Coe, Dan Short, Emma Wilson, Paul Hardy, Catie Mulrennan, Sam Teteina, Maysha Ahrens and Ben Parker for giving up four days to mentor and develop the group and impart your enthusiasm and passion about the movement and of the future of our organisation.
AWA R D S O F E XC E LLE N C E
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J O H N C H A PM A N – VO LU NTE E R O F TH E Y E A R
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ohn Chapman has been a member of the Orewa Surf Life Saving Club longer than he can remember.
His parents signed him up as a threemonth-old baby, so John can claim he has been in the movement “for life”. His father was a Life Member of Surf Life Saving New Zealand. Winner of the Volunteer of the Year award at the 2018 Surf Life Saving Northern Region Awards of Excellence, John first attended surf events with his parents, even though there was no Nippers category back then. He formally joined the Orewa club as a junior lifeguard in the early 70s when he was 12 and gained his Lifeguard Award in the 1976-1977 season, he has been heavily involved ever since. John jokes that the only position he hasn’t held at the club is Ladies Club Captain. Over the years he has been the Chief Instructor, Club Captain, Secretary, Treasurer, Chairman and he has just finished his third year as President. “With such a big club it’s quite an active position, helping the Chairman who
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succeeded me in that position.” Well known as “Botch” in the surf community, John was originally known as “Botch Junior” as he had some physical resemblance to an older surfing identity who was also called “Botch”. The name originated from a 70s television cartoon series. In more than 40 years involvement in lifesaving John believes the biggest change has been the raised level of professionalism. “Skill levels are massively higher now. Back then you only needed to swim and not many people had first aid qualifications,” says John. “Clubs were also a lot smaller and the ordinary members gave a lot more of their time, so the main club officebearers didn’t have to do everything.” John feels society has changed in the 21st century and that people aren’t prepared to give as much time now for the never-ending workload required. “There’s also a lot more emphasis on health and safety rules now,” says John. “Back in the day it was common sense and personal accountability.”
He still gets “a real buzz” when people who have been rescued return and say thank you. “I enjoy seeing young kids achieving things in the surf, putting the training you’ve been involved in to good use.” John appreciates the surf community “building better people, using the skills in life and giving back to the club with service and time. I have lots of great memories, really too many to mention. The beaches are different and keep changing all the time, so the experiences are different.” John won the 2018 Volunteer of the Year award for his work on the Orewa club’s building redevelopment and major events. He is also a member of the Surf Life Saving Northern Region’s Board of Directors, an arena referee at regional and national surf sport events, and was an official at the International Surf Rescue Challenge in December 2017.
AWA R D S O F E XC E LLE N C E
U14 Sportswoman of the Year Zoe Crawford, Mairangi Bay
IRB Championships Sunset Beach
Community Educator of the Year Nick Tomkins, Orewa
U14 Sportsman of the Year Kailen Brackebush, Orewa
Northern Region Championships Red Beach
Rescue of the Year Far North Surf Rescue
Outstanding Contribution to Junior Surf Mike Brown
Junior Competition Club of the Year Red Beach,Orewa
Best Patrolled Beach Sunset Beach
U16 Sportswoman of the Year Andie Quirke, Piha
Masters Competition Club of the Year Red Beach, Orewa
Innovation of the Year Auckland Council Safeswim Project
U16 Sportsman of the Year Patrick Makgill, Red Beach
Senior Competition Club of the Year Red Beach, Mairangi Bay, Piha
Developing Surf Official of the Year Brenda Larsen, Orewa
Instructor of the Year Wade Downey, Red Beach
Surf Official of the Year Michelle Newton, Red Beach
Examiner of the Year Faron Turner, Orewa
U19 Sportswoman of the Year Lucy Makaea, Piha
Outstanding Contribution to Power Craft Shane Edwards, Sunset Beach
U19 Sportsman of the Year Oscar Williams, Piha
Outstanding Contribution to Support Services Johnny Clough, United North Piha
Surf Coach of the Year Mark McCarthny, Orewa Competition Team of the Year U16 Men’s Pool Rescue Relay, Red Beach Open Sportswoman of the Year Danielle McKenzie, Mairangi Bay Open Sportsman of the Year Michael Lee, Mairangi Bay Cath & Eddie Millar Cup Orewa Junior Surf Championships Red Beach Pool Championships Piha
Rookie Lifeguard of the Year Emily Stolwerk, Waipu Cove U19 Surf Lifeguard of the Year Maia Burbuzza, Raglan Paid Lifeguard of the Year Luke Stockman, Muriwai Surf Lifeguard of the Year Jess Reilly, Raglan Volunteer of the Year John Chapman, Orewa Club Administrator of the Year Elle Scheepens, Bethells Beach
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D I S TI N G U I S H E D S E R V I C E AWA R D W I N N E R S
Craig Dillon
Mark Readman
Dave Ross
Mason Dray-Hogg
Red Beach
Far North Surf Rescue
Jason Pocock Mairangi Bay
Joanne Hobson Sunset Beach
Mark ‘Doc’ Johnston Orewa
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Red Beach
Bethells Beach
Rick Stolwerk Waipu Cove
Travis Mitchell Mairangi Bay
Vaughan Skiffington Red Beach
SERVICE AWA R D W I N N E R S
Angela Stolwerk
Jim West
Damian Molloy
Karen Campbell
Waipu Cove
Muriwai
Debra Cairns Red Beach
Dirk Van der Woerd Muriwai
Mairangi Bay
Mairangi Bay
Nick Devcich
Bethells Beach
Susan Pirett Sunset Beach
Steve Franich
Orewa
Dylan Turner Red Beach
Nicole Fearon Mairangi Bay
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FA R N O R T H S U R F R E S C U E
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t is with great sadness that I begin this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Far North Surf Rescue report noting the passing of one of our long-time stalwarts and supporters, Tina Punschon. September 2017 commenced with a report of a missing diver off Cape Reinga. The region provided support with minimal personnel available locally at the time. The assistance came from United North Piha, Mairangi Bay and Ruakaka clubs, resulting in a collective search and rescue effort alongside Police and LandSAR off the northern tip of New Zealand, which sadly ended in a body recovery. As we do every year, FNSR hosts the Ninety Mile Classic IRB Challenge and, in 2017, the 24th running of the race was held, supported by an amazing sponsor in PlaceMakers, the surf club, golf club and community.
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November saw the final sign-off by council of our new accommodation facilities, kitchen and ablutions block. Thanks to Tony, Rodger, Ross and all their helpers for the massive painting marathon and wheeling and dealing to get the project completed. The patrol season commenced with five new guards, a new instructor and eight new crewpersons bolstering our ranks. The Junior Surf Programme was the biggest in recent years led by Vicky and assisted by Angela, Lisa and June. Idiocy on the beach saw many motor vehicle accidents this last season, the worst occurring 13km north of Ahipara on Ninety Mile Beach, with a 4WD vehicle rolling and resulting in two fatalities. Thom, Ants and Callum assisted with the emergency response to this incident, in a trying and difficult situation.
March saw the running of the Ninety Mile Snapper Bonanza. The six lifeguards patrolling in two teams were kept busy during the four days ensuring competitors were kept safe, and executed two rescues. Event guarding has become a theme within FNSR, our lifeguards having assisted in the Russell-to-Paihia Ocean Swim and the Kids Weetbix Triathlon. I wish to thank our secretary-treasurer Liz, our vice president Tony, Vicky for her behind the scenes hours, Pepi for the instructor role and the entire FNSR team for an amazing season. Dave Ross
President/Chairman
WHANGAREI HEADS VO LU NTE E R S U R F LI F E S AV I N G PAT R O L
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arly in the season, after a long battle with cancer, we lost one of our key members, Sue Bidois, without whose passion and drive our Junior Surf movement would never have grown to its current size. Her loss is still keenly felt, and our hearts go out to her family. Sue’s passing coincided with the completion of our new clubhouse, which has been in planning stages for the last 15 years. The rebuild was completed on budget, at a cost of $455,000, and the work has given us a facility which should easily see us through the next 30 years. We wouldn’t have managed to complete this project without the hard work of
Chris Palmer, Teresa Hill and Jim Bidois who put in a large number of hours. The patrolling season was similar to last year in that we still have a lack of experienced members and IRB drivers. Thanks to a push from SLSNR we managed to qualify three new drivers over the winter months, which doubles our pool of available drivers. Our patrolling season would not have run so well without the key input of one of our senior lifeguards, Josh Maxwell, who did not miss a single day’s patrol over the entire summer. He also mentored a group of young teenage boys who joined him on most patrols.
We awarded our second ever Life Membership to Jim Bidois, in recognition of his years of work training, mentoring and guiding our younger members, along with all the time he’s put in helping us maintain our building. The end of season AGM saw a large changing of the guard, with a new President, Treasurer, Club Captain, Chief Instructor and Health & Safety Officer elected. The new blood and ideas should help to grow the club. Lindsay Hill President
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R UA K A K A S U R F LI F E S AV I N G PAT R O L
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he 2017-2018 season was a wonderful period of sunny days, warm water and family fun at the Ruakaka club. It was great to see the younger members of our club take on leadership roles in Junior Surf, surf sport, lifeguard training and patrolling with skill and confidence. George Goffin, Reed Neville-Smith and Connor Mackereth were standouts in these roles. Working with Whangarei Heads SLSC and Waipu Cove SLSC, the Police and their Bream Bay Beach Ambassadors (whom we host), we kept our beachusers safe. Happily, there were no deaths from drowning at the beaches in the Bream Bay area. Collaboration with local emergency service providers through Youth in Emergency Services (YES) and the City Safe programme strengthened our club by reinforcing our purpose to prevent drowning.
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As a volunteer organisation, we have worked hard to ensure that volunteering is appealing. We strive to provide a safe and socially comfortable environment for our young guards and entrust them with roles which carry real responsibility and accountability. I’d like to recognise and acknowledge John and Paula Kearney as stalwarts of Ruakaka Surf Lifesaving for more than 30 years. They have held at some stage virtually all the lifeguarding, training, examining and committee roles there are in the club. Much of the success of our young guards is due to John’s insightful mentoring. They’re a true surf family with Paula’s mother, Gladys Gulbransen serving as club patron. Kyran Gillespie and Connor Mackereth were recognised as part of the Northland squad for Rescue of the Year. Efforts by our Junior Surf coaching team has renewed interest in Junior
Surf competition and we showed off our beach with successful hosting of Junior, IRB and NRC competitions. Operations purchased a tractor to deploy and retrieve the RWC. This greatly reduced wear and tear on the patrol vehicles. We were gifted a solar system from Newnergy Enterprise Group Ltd, reducing our operating costs and keeping our showers hot. Our current building has served us well, but is nearing the end of its life. We intend to finalise a new design, secure building consent and begin fundraising to renew our clubhouse in the coming year. Andrew Forsyth President
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aipu Cove SLSC celebrated a successful 2017-2018 season and is looking forward to more celebrations this coming summer, which will mark the club’s 90th anniversary. Planning is well under way. The club’s U19 IRB team had a great introduction to the discipline in its first year of competition, finishing fourth overall at the North Island IRB Championships, winning two gold medals, two silvers and a bronze. At the other end of competition activity, the Masters canoe team won bronze at the Gisborne-based national championships in the short-course event. The club qualified nine new lifeguards, five new patrol support roles, four new
IRB drivers and 10 crewmen, while 10 rookies also completed their training programme. At the Surf Life Saving Northern Region Awards of Excellence, Emily Stolwerk won Rookie of the Year, while her parents, Rick and Angela, were awarded a Distinguished Service Award and Service Award respectively. The club has carried out extensive renovations and extension of its clubhouse facilities over the past 12 months. The first aid room has been extended and the downstairs boardrooms have been refurbished. An inter-patrol competition with an incentive programme has reinvigorated the patrols and made them fun again.
Retention of patrol members in the 18-to-25-year age group has been a challenge, but emphasis has been placed on developing leadership roles for U19 patrol members. We pride ourselves on being a family friendly and inclusive club where everyone is welcome. Over last summer’s season the club provided 2699 volunteer patrol hours with 409 preventative actions, involving 1709 people. Patrol members were also involved in 16 rescues, 84 incidents of first aid assistance and one search. Julia Baker Secretary
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ast season a number of new records were set, with 15 new lifeguards qualified, along with four IRB drivers, 14 crewmen and numerous other first aid and marine VHF radio awards. There were a number of major rescues during the season including a mass rescue on Mangawhai Beach on Good Friday with a number of junior guards involved. The Flavell Trophy was awarded to the best patrol of the season captained by Stella Waldron and Brad Kehoe. Senior Lifeguard of the Year was awarded to Daniel Hassall for his leadership and skills as a lifeguard. The Arnie Leader Senior Award went to the club’s Junior Surf coordinator, Inez McDonald, who has worked tirelessly developing and enhancing
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the Nipper programme. The resurgent programme had a 66 per cent increase in participation and, with major parent support and involvement, a record number of achievement awards were gained. The club also recognised Shay Waldron for her 10-year-contribution to Junior Surf. Club President Jon Drucker was awarded Patrol Member of the year for patrolling over 150 hours and working tirelessly behind the scenes managing the club’s day-to-day operations, including funding and property, which saw renovations of the kitchen completed, helping revenue generation. Rookie of the Year Isaac Johnson patrolled for more than 85 hours during the season and was also involved in a number of major after-hours rescues.
Senior lifeguard and chief club instructor Jess Costello was awarded a Life Membership for her 20 years of service, with thousands of hours of volunteer time spent in training, lifeguarding and managing most aspects of the club’s operations. She is also a qualified paramedic and teaches first aid in the region. The club would like to acknowledge all of its members and supporters for all the hard work and volunteer time they have given this season. Thanks to all of the local businesses for their continued support of our volunteer service. Jon Drucker President
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he last surf season was another busy time for our guards, who turned up week in and week out to patrol the beach. The statistics show many good outcomes resulted from this dedication, including six rescues, 28 people assisted to safety, 36 first aid treatments (including three major), one search, 551 preventative actions, and 3,508 lifeguard patrolled hours. We did find ourselves stretched on some patrols. We are committed to getting the best out of all of our members and are constantly seeking ways to encourage and reward their contribution. One answer to building our lifeguard numbers is the focus we have placed on our Junior Surf Programme, which continues to grow. The size and quality
of our teams at carnivals continues to improve, to the point Omaha is now a force to be reckoned with on the Junior scene, with national titles and records to prove it. Our rookies are enthusiastic and we look forward to them becoming lifeguards. It’s no coincidence that this success reflects the widespread participation from across their group – the awesome lifeguards who turn up every Sunday to coach are well supported by the parents, additional coaches, team managers, water safety and an effective and supportive Junior Surf committee. We also see more of these parents go on to become lifeguards as well.
again coached brilliantly by Teneale Hatton. Teneale’s Sunday morning sessions continue to appeal to a wide cross-section of club members, both competitive and non-competitive. The supportive and positive environment fostered is a key factor in the ongoing success of our sports programme, and its benefits carry across the entire club. We are working on developing a cohesive strategic plan to enable the club to plan a strong progressive position that includes the voice of all members of our club. Linda Crisford President
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he highlight of the year for Orewa SLSC was hosting Oceans 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the U14 New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships. I am proud of the way the whole club came together and made it happen under trying weather and surf conditions. Thank you to all those who helped. At a regional level, club members and officials won a number of awards at the 2018 SLSNR Awards of Excellence: Kailen Brackebush (Under 14 Sportsman of the Year); Mark McCarthny (Coach of the Year); Brenda Larsen (Developing Surf Official of the Year); Faron Turner (Examiner of the Year); Nick Tomkins (Beach Educator of the Year); and John Chapman (Volunteer of the Year). The club also won the Cath and Eddy Miller Cup for Junior competition and tied with Red Beach for both the Junior and Masters competition club of the year.
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Steve Franich and Mark Johnson collected Northern Region Service and Distinguished Service Awards respectively. Demand for our services still increases and we are fortunate to have a dedicated bunch of people pulling on the red and yellow uniform week after week. We have some new faces around the Board table this year with a good balance of old and new and we also appointed an independent director for the first time. The real driving force making the club function are our operational committees, which have a great balance of people doing a great job. Thanks, folks. A big thanks to all our sponsors, especially Hopper Construction, Orewa New World, YOU Travel Orewa and
Barfoot & Thompson Orewa. We look forward to continuing to work with you in coming years. This also includes the continued support of our local Council, and Patron and local Member of Parliament Mark Mitchell. Our building redevelopment project continues quietly in the background and we hope by the end of 2018 that we will have formally kicked off our fundraising campaign. In closing, I want to acknowledge life member Alan Franich who passed away recently and our Chairperson, Faron Turner, who does a fantastic job leading the club. John Chapman President
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ed Beach SLSC is well into the final stage of our clubroom renovations, with completion scheduled for mid-October. This is our second biggest asset, with our members being our most important and largest asset. The two go hand-in-hand; fit-forpurpose clubrooms lift the spirits of our members and give pride in our club. It also helps increase our revenue, which enables us to operate. A special thanks to the Auckland Council and Foundation North Trust for their considerable funding support, the SLSNR as the facilitator of the funding and CEO Matt Williams for the 10:20 initiative adopted. We trust Red Beachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completion of the project paves the way for other Northern Region clubs in need of new
or renovated clubrooms and gives the Council confidence to continue providing support. The club spirit and culture is stronger than ever, despite limited success at the Gisborne nationals. Led by club coach Jack Gavin we did well at regional level with the Juniors winning the Northern Region Championships and finishing fourth overall at Oceans 18. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Mangawhai Junior Camp saw more than 200 kids participate. Our Sunday morning junior activities continue to be very strong, often attracting more than 400 kids, parents, coaches and supporters. The 2017-18 season was our ninth stint patrolling Pakiri Beach from December to February, in addition to normal patrols at Red Beach. Our lifeguards completed 1,723 voluntary
patrolling hours. The efforts by members, whether on the beach, upskilling to gain additional awards, or instructing, are greatly appreciated. In our community, training children and young adults is giving parents the assurance that they are in the club for great reasons. Our Masters programme gives all ages the opportunity for wellbeing, good health and a sense of belonging. I would like to thank all our sponsors, our active and associate members, friends, volunteers and other helpers and the wider community. Mark Scheib President
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ver the past season there is one simple word that resonates when I think about the successes within our club â&#x20AC;&#x201C; leadership. Michael Buck has assumed the responsibility of Chairman and has led from the front. Supporting Bucky were our management committee members, who have taken huge strides forward in directing their various areas of the club. Our pool lifesaving programme focused on pool lifesaving techniques, fitness and teamwork. With coaching led by Life Member and Black Finz coach Jason Pocock, the programme was a great success and our National Champs results included a number of golds and national records. The Nippers were oversubscribed and while all the east coast Surf Life Saving patrol requirements reduced this season,
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we kept lifeguards on the beach from Labour weekend until well past Easter. Over the busier summer months, we placed lifeguards on Long Bay and Takapuna with a Patrol Support Officer. We continue to provide the most lifeguards for the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid service with many holding senior roles on the west coast. The club had its best ever points haul at National Champs and multiple athletes, coaches and management achieved selection to NZ teams. Our instructors trained 56 lifeguards over the season and we now have more than 200 current or refreshed lifeguards which, along with our Nippers programme makes Mairangi the largest club in New Zealand. We also continue to be the premier event lifeguard club in the country
providing safety services for more than 30 events. A year ago, we struggled to crew IRBs on patrols. We now have 19 qualified drivers and 23 crew with a waiting list to match. Challenges in the future include health and safety, membership protection, storage, clubhouse redevelopment and regional and national funding constraints. We continue to rely on too few of our large membership to work through these issues. On a sad note, the season saw the loss of two members, Beverley Campbell, wife of distinguished Life Member Jim Campbell, and club stalwart Brian Campbell. Steve Vaughan President
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he 2017-2018 patrolling season was long. Visitor numbers surged with the exceptional weather making for long days. Our priority was to ensure that we have well-equipped and sufficiently resourced patrols, which can adapt to the variety of incidents that arise on Auckland’s busiest beach. It is sobering that we are being asked to protect more people for longer hours within existing budgets. Muriwai again dominated the Northern Region statistics, being first in five of the eight categories and second in another, demonstrating the workload expected of our volunteers. In 2017-18 we continued to excel in the boating arena. Standout performances are becoming the norm, with the Open Women’s team, the
Muriwai Meerkats, again being selected to represent New Zealand. The Junior Surf programme goes from strength to strength. Numbers enrolled have increased, with the club becoming the place to be on Sunday mornings. The Junior Surf leadership team must be congratulated for their incredible vision, drive and delivery. This year we celebrated 70 years of patrolling Muriwai Beach. A reunion lunch was held to celebrate our past, present and future. Many familiar faces and countless characters made it to the club, testament that when you enter surf you really are in it for life. The funding environment will continue to be challenging, so we are focused on finding ways to ensure the club will be successful into the future. This will be achieved by supplementing income from our national and regional bodies in new
and creative ways. In turn we must hope that centralised funding is prudently and effectively managed to ensure payments to clubs are maximised. There are many people who make Muriwai Volunteer Lifeguard Service the exceptional place it is. Everyone deserves thanks and recognition for their outstanding service to the club and the community. We are especially grateful for the financial support we have received and would like to extend special thanks to Trillian Trust, Pak’N’Save Lincoln Road, Kumeu Rotary, Harcourts, Waimauku Lions and Cottle Motors. Brendan Barry Walsh President
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t Bethells Beach, Te Henga, the number of new and returning visitors keeps growing season to season and the challenges facing the club and its members get bigger and more demanding as a result. With more than 4000 volunteer hours, 1302 preventative actions involving over 4500 members of the public, 22 rescues, 84 first aids and five searches, we were kept on our toes the entire time. Our club numbers keep growing also, with young ones coming from Junior Surf, parents catching the bug and becoming qualified and Junior Surf itself, every year threatening to swamp our instructors under the weight of participation. We gladly accept the growth as it relates to the health and vitality of our
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membership base and increases our potential to place more qualified guards on the beach every season. Bethells performed well in both the regional awards and the competition arena this past season. Our hardworking club administrator, Elle Scheepens won Administrator of the Year for Northern Region and two of our well known and respected members, Mason Dray-Hogg and Nick Devcich won Distinguished Service Awards and Service Awards, respectively. In the competition arena we achieved podium finishes in the IRB, surf boat, canoe, board, beach sprints, and beach flags events. Bethells is in alignment with the 10:20 programme and has started developing ideas for an expansion while keeping the
bones of the clubhouse intact. It’s a special place with a special vibe and nobody wishes to change that. With retention and naturally increasing numbers, we are moving forward with designs that maintain the heritage and feel of the clubrooms while incorporating more amenities and space to allow for growth and functionality. We look forward to the coming season and welcome all clubs to share the beauty and ruggedness that is the West Coast and to spend some time on the black sand. Benjamin Challis President
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very one of our members should be proud of their contribution to the life guarding and first aid services provided by the club and I would like to thank you all for your voluntary efforts. Two of our members have been selected for training opportunities overseas: Zane Rademaker at the Surf Lifesaving Australia National Leadership Camp and Mark Gordon, who will attend Lifesaving Victoria’s Advanced Lifesaving Camp. Club members Mark Gordon, Johnny Clough and Leif Neilson were all finalists at the Northern Region’s annual Awards of Excellence. We patrolled longer and rostered patrols stayed later in the day this past season, which resulted in significantly reducing the after-hours call-outs. Increasing our patrolling membership
needs to be a priority this summer. We also need to review our management structure as many of the directors – a special thanks to them – are already overloaded with their operational duties, which leaves them short of time for governance issues. With such a small club, everybody needs to be involved as widely as possible in our various committees. It has been good to see the camaraderie and support from all members who regularly helped at the various functions and working bees held over last season. The tower project is inching forward. We received a $20,000 grant from the TSB at the beginning of the season. Thanks to the support of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board who have approved a 30-year community lease which will allow our building consent to be submitted.
Auckland Council has included a further $3.7 million in its 2018-2021 budget for the Surf 10:20 project, with $1.17million earmarked for our clubhouse rebuild. I would also like to acknowledge the following people and organisations for their support for our club: Brendan Walker and Total Access, NZ Racing Board, Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Board, The Trusts Community Foundation, TSB Bank, Lotteries Grants Board, Foundation North, Blue Waters Community Trust, Mt Wellington Foundation, Sir John Logan Campbell Residuary Trust, Trillian Trust, Dragon Community Trust, Four Winds Foundation, Waitakere Ranges Local Board and Surf Lifesaving Northern Region. Gareth Neilson President
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The Piha club has worked hard over the 2017-2018 season to improve all sections of our club. Last year we identified a need to increase the number of trained IRB operators and crew members, and have now achieved this. We also put significant investment into training and upskilling our lifeguards and we will go into the new season in an improved position. We employed a new General Manager, to put in better structures and to deliver a more robust funding sustainability model. Piha had two significant weather events early in 2018 with the club working with the Piha community and rescue organisations helping trapped people out of flooded valleys using our IRBs to go up a flooded road and our four wheel drive vehicle to get people safely back to our club.
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Our patrols are going really well, and continue to grow with an extra patrol being put on. Our competition teams are achieving at the highest level with a highlight being a number of members being selected for national competition teams. Our junior section is also in great hands. Our ongoing exchange with Huntington Beach is continuing its strong tradition. We look forward to sending a 30-strong team to the United States in July 2019 as part of our Huntington Exchange programme. We will be hosting the Huntington Team Christmas / New Year 2019 / 20120. This is a great opportunity to share our different life guarding practices and maintain our strong ongoing relationship. Thanks to all our leaders and members. A lot of work has gone into
increasing our capacity at Piha. Thanks to all our coaches, patrolling members and the Piha Board for the hard work all have put in to make Piha a great place to be. We are a big club patrolling a dangerous beach which takes its toll on our rescue gear and funding is becoming harder to secure. On our current model the club will have to be prudent and exercise care if we cannot increase grants or our cash flow. I would personally like to thank our sponsors: Nissan, Burger Fuel, the Trillian Trust, The Trusts, Cover Staff, and our other funders and supporters who help to keep the public on our beach safe. Peter Brown President
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hank you to all our volunteer lifeguards, associate members and supporters in and outside the club for their efforts this past season. A special thanks also to our major supporting funders, particularly The Trusts, Auckland Council, The Lazarus Trust, Lotteries and Foundation North. The 2017-2018 season has been a significant one. We received confirmation of more than $2.2 million in large funding grants, ensuring the success of the new facility development. The efforts of the fundraising team has been tireless and, without their tenacity, this building project would not be a reality. Our membership is expanding and it is fantastic seeing our U19 members stepping into leadership roles in the club. The Executive Management Committee has been dealing with a number of
challenges this season including a tight budget because of reduced funding. The club has continued to raise issues of concern with SLSNR, both as a club and collectively, with Piha and United. Progress is being made regarding these concerns which have either been addressed, or pathways established with SLSNR to move forward constructively. I would like to thank David Munro for his chairmanship of the club at the beginning of the season, and to the life saving team for their tireless work. They have had to deal with increased patrolling hours and a barrage of new rules and regulations.
The future is bright. We have a growing U19 membership, the new facility development project is racing forward and members are ready to step up and be involved at management and leadership level. There is an experienced and dedicated team of patrol captains and lifeguards who are obsessively passionate about Karekare and keeping visitors safe while at our beach. John McLarin
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Thanks also to the finance team and junior surf team for their work keeping our Nippers engaged and excited about surf life saving.
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am pleased to reflect on a busy year and be proud of how the Kariaotahi club has delivered services to our local community for another season. Continuing reduction in funding posed its expected challenges; however, we are confident this did not diminish the quality service we were able to deliver. More heartening is the development of our Junior Surf programme. This year saw continuing success and interest in the club-based programme with increasing engagement from parents at all levels. While competition participation from the Juniors is small, this is an area we look forward to growing, introducing the young clubbies to the wider organisation and friendship it brings. Our building development project continues with the building committee
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finalising working drawings with the focus for next year to secure capital funding. A home for our club services and programmes is vital to our continued presence in the community. Our lifeguards were kept busy last summer season completing an increased number of volunteer hours, preventative actions and rescue services. This is no longer undertaken only in daylight hours between the flags – increasingly lifeguard capabilities are being utilised after-hours to service wider community needs. We do not see ourselves as just a summer organisation, with continued operations and training throughout the winter, making us a year-round service. This commitment by our operational lifeguards, both on patrol and in our Call Out Squad cannot be understated. I’d personally like to thank each and every
one of our dedicated lifeguards for their contribution. To the club members who take on additional roles and responsibilities, thank you for your dedication. So much goes unseen and it’s often not glamorous work, but it is essential to the organisation’s welfare. My personal thanks to our Board. You have shown a passion and drive for our club that only makes us stronger. We thank the support of our many community partners, sponsors, charitable trusts, donors and local businesses over the past year and look forward to your ongoing support. Mike Lawrence President
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he 2017-2018 summer started on a high and we continued to build on what would turn out to be the very best year in our proud, 60-year history of volunteer lifesaving at Sunset Beach, Port Waikato. In the competition arena, our IRB teams picked up all the gold that was on offer as the top club in New Zealand, the Northern Region and North Island. The surf boat crews excelled in harsh surf conditions and represented Northern Region in the Regional Championships for both U19 and U23. They also returned home with Gold in the U23 Men’s Surf Boat Series. At the Northern Region Surf Lifesaving Awards of Excellence the club took out both top awards – Best Patrolled Beach and Club of the Year.
With the growth in the northern Waikato region, our beach attendances soared as did the number of rescue incidents. This growth will continue as the new townships in the region grow and the residents discover Sunset and adopt it as their beach. The concept of the Port Waikato Community Hub has become a project that we have been immersed in and finally the vision is to become reality. A $2 million project undertaken with passion, integrity and community support has been a game-changer. I am immensely proud of the club and its committed members. The value we place on team and family throughout all aspects of club life is second-to-none and is built on the values of honesty and respect for each other.
Not a day goes by when I don’t reflect on what we achieved last summer. Club members have all played their part in this outstanding year and have helped us to achieve the near-impossible. As we begin the process of building the Community Hub and the rebuild of the existing club facilities we will meet the challenges that will test our fortitude. But with the support we have, the outcome will be amazing. Malcolm J Beattie OBE President
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he past year has seen a very positive shift in the direction of the club. The Board is a strong group of like-minded people who value and prioritise the core reason for the club’s existence: to provide the services we do with the greatest effectiveness. My goal was to bring the Board’s focus back to this purpose, and to encourage our lifeguards to utilise our club and its equipment. Thanks to the many hours of service and positive energy the Board has contributed to the club. I would also like to thank the active lifeguards for the service they have provided to the community. Ngarunui Beach is one of the most challenging beaches in New Zealand. It has been inspiring to see our more seasoned guards step up and embrace new leadership positions.
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I would like to express a special thanks to Trust Waikato, WEL Energy Trust, Gallagher Charitable Trust, Meridian Te Uku Community Fund, Trillian Trust, Raglan Lions, Fonterra Grass Roots Fund, NZ Lottery Grants Board, Surf Life Saving NZ, Surf Life Saving Northern Region and the Waikato Lyceum Club for their support. Funding is a very important part of the Board’s responsibility. This year has seen some discussion from SLSNZ and SLSNR about a central funding model. As one of New Zealand’s busiest beaches,with many visitors and only a small local community to support our operations, and limited funding opportunities – Raglan would truly benefit from this model. The 2018-19 season will see a change of club name. Trust Waikato will continue its essential support under a
new multi-year donation structure. We will be known as Raglan Surf Life Saving Club, and have a new logo. We want to continue the work that has been done to provide an effective lifesaving service and continue with the development and upskilling of our members. I am looking forward to continuing the work and progress that has been made by this year’s Board. To all members, thank you for your involvement and participation this past year. Mark Shrimpton Chairperson
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n any given day across the Northern Region, early in the morning or late at night once a day’s work or study has been completed you will see them – on the water, in the pool or on the sand, summer or winter, cold or hot. They are lifeguards, training to become better swimmers, paddlers or runners, not just to hone their skills in order to save lives, but to test themselves against the conditions and ready themselves to compete against their fellow lifeguards. The sport of surf lifesaving continues to be a great way for our clubbies to develop their lifeguarding skills as well as demonstrate their athleticism with and against their peers, as well as providing an opportunity to represent their club, region and, for a select few, New Zealand. The Northern Region Sport Operations Committee works hard to ensure it provides a variety of events and opportunities that showcase life saving and that dedicated coaches, managers, athletes and officials can develop and enjoy competing in. The pool interclubs provided an early season opportunity for clubs to get back into competition mode as well as a chance to introduce new athletes moving from juniors to senior events, as well as a chance for new and returning officials to prepare for the season ahead. The Northern Region Pool Championships showcased the region’s talent competing for the Cosgrove Trophy, which was taken out by Piha. Northern Region clubs dominated the National Championships taking home more than 200 medals, Orewa cwon the championships and Mairangi, Piha and Red Beach all finished in the top five. As the temperature swarmed up, almost 1000 senior athletes took part in our two beach-based interclub events and the Whangamata Classic. These events show there continues to be a healthy appetite for participation and competition within our clubs.
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The pinnacle of the Northern Region beach event season was the Northern Region Championships, hosted by Ruakaka in February. Red Beach dominated the senior and masters divisions to take out the top club award. The high quality of competition at our Northern Region events was reflected in some outstanding individual and club achievements at the National Championships in March this year. Northern Region clubs amassed 25 Gold, 27 Silver and 33 bronze medals and Mairangi Bay finished second in the nationals. In another outstanding individual performance, Mairangi Bay’s Danielle McKenzie won three individual golds, one individual silver and contributed to six team golds. Sunset Beach continued its domination of IRBs by taking out both the Northern Regions and Nationals as well. Congratulations must also go to those athletes and coaches who achieved selection to national squads. These events would not be possible without the dedication of each clubs’ surf sports coordinators, team coaches and management as well as the Northern Region event lifeguard team and surf officials. I also need to acknowledge the hard work and contribution of the Sport Operations Committee and Northern Region Sport Manager, Simone Spencer, who moved on from her position in January. Thank you for making the 2017-18 season a successful and enjoyable one.
Dave Shanks
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here aren’t many people who can say they’ve broken a national record, but SLSNR Sportswoman of the Year Danielle McKenzie is someone who can.
After making history as the first Kiwi athlete to win an open individual title at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships, Danielle is the current New Zealand, Australian and World Surf Ski Champion. This is no small feat for a young Kiwi woman from Mairangi Bay Surf Life Saving Club, and while it’s great to see her giving the Aussies a hard time, this is just one of a lengthy list of her sporting accomplishments.
seventh overall placing and topped the NZ paddleboard National Championships and won Australian titles in the Open Women Ski Race, Open Women Double Ski, and was the bronze recipient of the Open Women Board Race and Open Women Ski Relay. She also picked up a few awards at the Ocean 6 Ski Series, placing eighth in the board race and was second overall in the ski competition.
A strong female athlete who dominates national and international surf sport, Danielle was named the best overall female athlete at the Surf Life Saving New Zealand National competition last season. At the carnival she placed in every category she entered, scooping up nine individual gold medals, one silver and one bronze with her surf team.
Even after a record year of performances, Danielle doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. She’s made a life for herself on the Gold Coast and has a dual membership with Northcliffe Surf Life Saving Club. Here, she continues her passion for training and competing, relishing the opportunity to work with and compete against other talented Ironwoman competitors. She also continues to develop and hone her surf sport skills through coaching sessions with Olympic kayaker Naomi Flood.
In the last season alone, she claimed bronze at the Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Ironwoman, was the first Kiwi to win a bronze at Coolangata Gold and snagged a bronze award at the Molokai 2 Oahu Unlimited Prone Paddleboard. She also excelled at the Nutri-Grain Ironwoman series with a
Despite all her achievements and international success, Danielle still considers New Zealand home. Every lifesaving season she returns to her roots on the North Shore, making time to compete in national and regional competitions and protect our coastlines.
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ports injuries forced Michelle Newton into officiating at surf events 20 years ago. The Red Beach Surf Life Saving Club member has immersed herself into the organisational side of the sport ever since. At the recent Surf Life Saving Northern Region Awards of Excellence Michelle was named Surf Official of the Year. The award citation said Michelle won it for her work at both regional and national levels, organising draws and correlating and publishing results at pool, surf boat, IRB and canoe events around the North Island. Michelle and her sister joined the Red Beach club in 1989, more for its squash competition – Red Beach being a squash club as well. Originally from Bayswater, where she had been involved in swimming, skiff rowing and squash, the family shifted to Stanmore Bay to pursue her interest in squash. When summer rolled around, she decided to get involved in the surf side of the club to meet new people. Michelle gained her lifeguard award, competed mainly in surf boats (given her rowing background) and got heavily involved in the club as an instructor and committee member. When a netball injury forced her to give up the active side of the sport 20 years ago, she started officiating, initially in surf boat events, but soon got involved in IRB, pool events and just about everything else competitive.
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Surf Life Saving Northern Region
Over the past year she has officiated at a long list of events. Among them were the Northern Region and National Championship pool events, the New Zealand Surf Boat Trial at Mt Maunganui, and the surf boat series which included events at Whangamata, Fitzroy and Waihi. Michelle was the boat arena referee at the Northern Regional Championships, the Administration Manager for draws and results at the North Island Surf Boat series, the Administration Manager for results at the North Island IRB Championships, and was responsible for the draws and results for boats and canoes at the Eastern Region Championships at Mt Maunganui. At the Gisborne-based National Championships, Michelle managed the IRB administration and was responsible for the draws and results for the boat and canoe events. She is a member of the Northern Region’s Sport Operations Committee. And it doesn’t finish when the patrol flags come down at the end of the season. Using the experience gained in surf competition, Michelle keeps busy over the winter as the Games Committee Convenor for North Harbour Netball, coordinating Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday competitions and a string of tournaments.
E V E NT LI F EG UA R D I N G
D I D YO U K N O W ?
Event lifeguards are a key component of surf sports events much like officials, parents and athletes are. They can be seen volunteering anywhere, between one and eighteen events for a full day. Not only is the contribution beneficial for sporting events, but skills learned in event lifeguarding may help to develop better IRB drivers, Patrol Captains and leaders within surf lifesaving.
W H AT DO E V E NT LI F EG UA R D S DO ?
Members of the team working on the water are responsible for setting and adjusting courses, and providing safety to surf sports competitors. Members of the team are required to develop a good base of strength and exceptional IRB driving skills, as often there are times they will be setting and adjusting courses in extremely challenging environments. The on-water safety for competitors in the water allows for rapid evacuation in the event of an in-water emergency. The team also has landbased in-water coordinators who work with arena referees and coordinate course-setting and judging â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a skill that takes a number of years to develop. Event lifeguards also provide a high standard of first aid at events.
A DAY I N T H E LI F E O F A T Y P I CA L E V E NT LI F EG UA R D
The team arrive on-site either the night before or the morning of an event and will mobilise as early as 6am to set up equipment for the day. This includes setting up five full IRBs, FA equipment and in-water equipment such as cans and sinkers and lines. The majority of the team will be on the water at 7am to set up courses for the day with briefings at 8am, followed by event kick-off. The bulk of the day consists of course adjustments, safety cover and judging with little time to break. Most events finish between 3pm-4pm but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still find the team working hard bringing all the equipment in, packing and washing up well past 5pm.
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R E S U LT S
2 018 N O R T H E R N R EG I O N CHAMPIONSHIPS 24-25 FEBRUARY RUAKAKA CLUB
SENIORS
MASTERS
TOTAL
Red Beach
252
127
379
Mairangi Bay
199
113
312
Piha
225
14
239
Orewa
127
38
165
Bethells Beach
7
35
42
Omaha Beach
0
40
40
Muriwai
24
0
42
Karekare
10
10
24
Sunset Beach
10
0
20
Waipu Cove
1
0
1
United North Piha
0
1
1
Beach Sprint U16 Women 1 Tayla Dalton, Mairangi Bay 2 Renee Benney, Orewa 3 Chelsey Whiu, Bethells Beach U16 Men 1 Benjamin Gregory, Piha 2 Harry Wenman, Orewa 3 Angus Henare, Red Beach U19 Men 1 Aidan Smith, Papamoa 2 Stefan Powney, Piha 3 Jaedan Brown, Mairangi Bay
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Open Women 1 Jamie Gedye, Waikanae 2 Tayla Dalton, Mairangi Bay 3 Alicia Wilson, Mt Maunganui Women 30-34 1 Kataraina Simpkins, Red Beach
Men 45-49 1 Peter Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Rod Moratti, Red Beach 3 Mark Readman, Red Beach Women 45-49 1 Caroline Anderson, Red Beach 2 Karla Granville, Bethells Beach 3 J ennifer McDermott, Red Beach
Men 35-49 1 Kylan Dray-Winter, Bethells Beach 2 Mason Dray-Hogg, Bethells Beach Men 50-54 1 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay Women 35-39 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Natasha Thompson, Red Beach 3 Teresa Russell, Red Beach
U19 Women 1 Tayla Dalton, Mairangi Bay 2 Sophie Sandford, Omanu Beach 3 Chelsea Grant, Red Beach
Men 40-44 1 Rohan Whittaker, Omaha Beach 2 Matthew Craig, Omaha Beach
Open Men 1 Daniel Dyet, Mairangi Bay 2 Jake Hurley, Mairangi Bay 3 Javon McCallum, Fitzroy
Women 40-44 1 Bea Schuster-Lewis, Red Beach 2 Rachael Duff, Red Beach 3 Megan McKenzie, Red Beach
Surf Life Saving Northern Region
Women 50-54 1 Sharon Campbell, Orewa 2 Deborah Camplin, Piha 3 Sue Brewster, Bethells Beach Men 55-59 1 David Josephson, Mairangi Bay 2 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay Women 55-59 1 Jane Francois, Bethells Beach 2 Robin Donnell, Piha
Men 60-64 1 Ian Glover, Omanu Beach
Beach Relay Masters Men 1 Red Beach 1 2 Bethells Beach A 3 Red Beach 2 Open Men 1P iha (Adam Parker/Daniel Rippon/Ryan Delaney/Levi Ata) 2P iha (Paul Hardy/Alex Rippon/ Oscar Dove/Stefan Powney) 3R ed Beach (Daniel Cairns/Sam Readman/Kees Kramer/Rowan Gjaltema) Open Women 1M airangi Bay (Janelle Beamish/ Samantha Rowe/Tayla Dalton/ Grace Platt) 2R ed Beach (Lauren Johnson/ Chelsea Grant/Freya Dooley/ Sophie Hildesley) 3P iha (Lucy Makaia/Sophia Clark/ Kirsty Wannan/Hannah Williams
U19 Men 1 Piha (Stefan Powney/Levi Ata/ Ryan Delaney/Oscar Dove) 2 Orewa (Brandon Pearson/Leon Pearson/Kees Ursem/Liam McCathie) 3 Mairangi Bay (George Brown/ Lachlan Booth/Joe Holloway/ Joseph Wilson)
Open Men U16 Men 1 Morgan Foster, South Brighton 1 Harrison Chapman, Muriwai 2 Thomas Scott, Omanu Beach 2 James Banhidi, South Brighton 3 Tanner Baxter, Omanu Beach 3 Aidan Smith, Papamoa Open Women 1 Sophie Sandford, Omanu Beach 2 Jamie Gedye, Waikanae 3 Chelsea Grant, Red Beach
U19 Women 1 Piha (Lucy Makaia/Sophia U19 Men Clark/Molly Brittenden/Niamh 1 Stefan Powney, Piha Brittenden) 2 Aidan Smith, Papamoa 2 Red Beach (Freya Dooley/Sophie Hildesley/Chelsea Grant/Brie 3 Rowan Gjaltema, Red Beach Downey) U19 Women 3 Mairangi Bay (Janelle Beamish/ 1 Alicia Wilson, Mt Maunganui Grace Platt/Tayla Dalton/Cleo Wheeler) 2 Chelsea Grant, Red Beach 3 Freya Dooley, Red Beach U16 Men 1 Red Beach (Angus Henare/Jamie U16 Men Ward/Kalani Gilbertson/Patrick 1 Tanner Baxter, Omanu Beach Makgill) 2 Angus Henare, Red Beach 2 Piha (Benjamin Gregory/Finn 3 Jamie Ward, Red Beach Ward/Joseph Vujcich/Reid Clancy) U16 Women 3 Red Beach (Flynn Southcombe/ 1 Tayla Dalton, Mairangi Bay Reuben Creighton/Blake 2 Astaria Teaukura, Mairangi Bay Readman/Jon Fortes) 3 Renee Benney, Orewa U16 Women 1 Orewa (Renee Benney/Kate 2km Beach Run Wignell/Sakura Gardiner/Jemma Langman) Women 35-39 2 Piha (Sophia Clark/Molly 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay Brittenden/Natalya MacKenzie/ Niamh Brittenden) Men 40-44 3 Mairangi Bay (Belle Kingi/Lucy 1 Matthieu Souprayen, Mairangi Holloway/Olivia Smith/Tayla Bay Dalton) Women 40-44 1 Rachael Duff, Red Beach
Beach Flags
Men 30-34 1 Steve Brennan, Orewa Women 30-34 1 Kataraina Simpkins, Red Beach Women 35-39 1 Elena Nikitina, Bethells Beach 2 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay 3 Natasha Thompson, Red Beach Men 40-44 1 Matthew Craig, Omaha Beach 2 Rohan Whittaker, Omaha Beach Women 40-44 1 Megan McKenzie, Red Beach Men 45-49 1 Peter Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Rod Moratti, Red Beach 3 Ross Syminton, Omaha Beach Women 45-49 1 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay 2 Mike McDermott, Red Beach Women 50-54 1 Deborah Camplin, Piha 2 Sharon Campbell, Orewa Men 55-59 1 David Josephson, Mairangi Bay 2 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay
Men 45-49 1 Peter Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Rod Moratti, Red Beach Women 45-49 1 Jennifer McDermott, Red Beach Men 50-54 1 Frank Maher, Omaha Beach 2 Mike McDermott, Red Beach
U16 Women 1 Sophia Clark, Piha 2 Renee Benney, Orewa 3 Kate Wignell, Orewa
Surf Race Men 30-34 1 Steve Brennan, Orewa Women 35-39 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay Men 40-44 1M ichael Fitzgerald, Omaha Beach 2M atthieu Souprayen, Mairangi Bay 3 Matthew Craig Omaha Beach Women 40-44 1 Jess Moratti, Red Beach 2B ea Schuster-Lewis, Red Beach Men 45-49 1 Rod Moratti, Red Beach 2 Richard Beamish, Mairangi Bay 3 Ross Syminton, Omaha Beach Women 45-49 1 J ennifer McDermott, Red Beach Men 50-54 1 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay 2 Bruce Hamilton, Mairangi Bay Women 50-54 1 Trish Mau, Omanu Beach 2 Claire Stowell, Omanu Beach 3 Raewyn Byrom, Omanu Beach Men 55-59 1 Paul Francois, Bethells Beach 2 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay Women 55-59 1 Robin Donnell, Piha
Women 50-54 1 Sue Brewster, Bethells Beach
Women 60-64 1 Marie Stutz, Red Beach
Men 55-59 1 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay
Open Men 1P aul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 2 Cole Drinian, Piha 3 Steven Ferguson, Piha
Open Men 1 Oscar Dove, Piha 2 Jonathan Reshef, Mairangi Bay Open Women 3 Adam Parker, Piha 1 Lucy Makaia, Piha Open Women 2 Kirsty Wannan, Piha 1 Chantelle Maher, Omaha 3 Victoria Clark, Mairangi Bay Beach U19 Men 2 Teneale Hatton, Piha 1M ichael Slessor-White, 3 Kirsty Wannan, Piha Mairangi Bay U19 Men 2 Joseph Wilson, Mairangi Bay 1 Sam Bodnar, Omanu Beach 3 Kees Kramer, Red Beach 2 Seamus Kelly, Red Beach U19 Women 3 Jack Birch, Muriwai 1 Grace Platt, Mairangi Bay U19 Women 2 Lucy Makaia, Piha 1 Emma Walker, Piha 3 Kara Drinnan, Piha
U16 Men 1 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay 2 Taylor Chamberlain, Sumner 3 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach U16 Women 1 Astaria Teaukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Kate Wignell, Orewa 3 Nadine Lees, Mairangi Bay
Surf Teams Open Men 1R ed Beach (Jack Gavin/Daniel Cairns/Flynn Southcombe/ Harry Mellor) 2P iha (Sean Newcombe/Jamie Peterson/Steven Ferguson/ Cole Drinian) 3M airangi Bay (Paul Van Achterbergh /Connor Beamish/ Jonathan Reshef/Joel Wain) Open Women 1P iha (Hannah Williams/Kirsty Wannan/Lucy Makaia/Ella Drinnan) 2R ed Beach (Camille Small/ Emily Lyndon/Alexsia Bingley/ Josie Cornish) U19 Men 1M airangi Bay (Joseph Wilson/ Lachlan Booth/Joe Holloway/ Michael Slessor-White) 2R ed Beach (Kees Kramer/ Hamish Gledhill/Patrick Makgill/ Justin Parkes) 3P iha (Oscar Williams/Jack Dufaur/Conor Bradding/Levi Ata) U19 Women 1P iha (Lucy Makaia/Kara Drinnan/Ella Drinnan/Emma Walker) 2R ed Beach (Camille Small/ Emily Lyndon/Jade Hughes/Ella Moratti) U16 Men 1R ed Beach (Flynn Southcombe/Patrick Makgill/ Reuben Creighton/Henry Williams) 2O rewa (Harry Wenman/Angus Kirkman/Joel McMullen/Dylan Vujcich) 3M airangi Bay (Samuel Poching/ Joshua Bilyard/Benjamin Reshef/Joshua Green) U16 Women 1O rewa (Kate Wignell/Cayleen Bester/Emma Sutherland/ Kendra Stinson) 2M airangi Bay (Nadine Lees/ Astaria Teaukura/Lucy Holloway/Cassidy Coldicott) 3R ed Beach (Alexsia Bingley/ Josie Cornish/Aria Thompson/ Mary Kramer)
Board Race Men 30-34
1 Steve Brennan, Orewa
Women 35-39 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Teresa Russell, Red Beach
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Men 40-44 1 Matthew Craig, Omaha Beach 2 Matthieu Souprayen, Mairangi Bay 3 Michael Fitzgerald, Omaha Beach Women 40-44 1 Bea Schuster-Lewis, Red Beach 2 Jess Moratti, Red Beach 3 Megan McKenzie, Red Beach Men 45-49 1 Peter Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Ross Syminton, Omaha Beach Women 45-49 1 Jennifer McDermott, Red Beach Men 50-54 1 Frank Maher, Omaha Beach 2 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay 3 Bruce Hamilton, Mairangi Bay Women 50-54 1 Claire Stowell, Omanu Beach 2 Sharon Campbell, Orewa 3 Trish Mau, Omanu Beach Men 55-59 1 David Josephson, Mairangi Bay 2 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay 3 Paul Francois, Bethells Beach Men 60-64 1 Ian Glover, Omanu Beach Womens 60-64. 1 Marie Stutz, Red Beach Open Men 1 Paul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 2 Daniel Cairns, Red Beach 3 Jamie Peterson, Piha Open Women 1 Teneale Hatton, Piha 2 Louise Aitken, Red Beach 3 Samantha Rowe, Mairangi Bay U19 Men 1 Kees Kramer, Red Beach 2 Hamish Gledhill, Red Beach 3 Levi Ata, Piha U19 Women 1 Lucy Makaia, Piha 2 Cleo Wheeler, Mairangi Bay 3 Macey Franich, Orewa U16 Men 1 Thomas Scott, Omanu Beach 2 Kiahi Horan, Omanu Beach 3 Blake Readman, Red Beach
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U16 Women 1 Astaria Teaukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Sakura Gardiner, Orewa 3 Cayleen Bester, Orewa
Board Relay Open Men 1 Red Beach (Daniel Cairns/ Jack Gavin/Hamish Gledhill) 2 Mairangi Bay (Paul Van Achterbergh /Connor Beamish/Jonathan Reshef) 3 Piha (Adam Parker/Jamie Peterson/Oscar Williams) Open Women 1 Piha (Kirsty Wannan/Teneale Hatton/Hannah Williams) 2 Red Beach (Louise Aitken/ Brie Downey/Sophie Hildesley) 3 Mairangi Bay (Samantha Rowe/Penelope Strickland/ Victoria Clark) U19 Men 1 Piha (Oscar Williams/Joshua Gallagher/Levi Ata) 2 Red Beach (Hamish Gledhill/ Kees Kramer/Kade Scheib) 3 Orewa (Hamish Lockie/ Samuel Reinen/Liam McCathie) U19 Women 1 Piha (Lucy Makaia/Kara Drinnan/Ella Drinnan) 2 Red Beach (Sophie Hildesley/Ella Moratti/Jade Hughes) 3 Mairangi Bay (Grace Platt/ Cleo Wheeler/Kathryne Gilbert) U16 Men 1 Omanu Beach (Tanner Baxter/Kiahi Horan/Thomas Scott) 2 Red Beach (Blake Readman/ Kalani Gilbertson/Reuben Creighton) 3 Orewa (Harry Wenman/ Angus Kirkman/Dylan Vujcich) U16 Women 1 Orewa (Cayleen Bester/Kate Wignell/Sakura Gardiner) 2 Mairangi Bay (Astaria Teaukura/Nadine Lees/Belle Kingi) 3 Red Beach (Alexsia Bingley/Mary Kramer/Aria Thompson)
Board Rescue Open Men 1 Mairangi Bay (Paul Van Achterbergh /Danny Morrison) 2 Red Beach (Jack Gavin/ Daniel Cairns) 3 Piha (Sean Newcombe/ Adam Parker)
Surf Life Saving Northern Region
Open Women 1P iha (Kirsty Wannan/Hannah Williams) 2M airangi Bay (Victoria Clark/ Penelope Strickland) 3O rewa (Stefanie Crncevic/ Macey Franich) U19 Men 1R ed Beach (Kees Kramer/ Hamish Gledhill) 2O rewa (Samuel Reinen/ Hamish Lockie) 3P iha (Oscar Williams/Joshua Gallagher) U19 Women 1P iha (Lucy Makaia/Kara Drinnan) 2R ed Beach (Ella Moratti/Jade Hughes) 3M airangi Bay (Grace Platt/ Cleo Wheeler) U16 Men 1R ed Beach (Patrick Makgill/ Blake Readman) 2O manu (Kiahi Horan/Tanner Baxter) 3R ed Beach (Flynn Southcombe/Kalani Gilbertson) U16 Women 1M airangi Bay (Cassidy Coldicott/Astaria Teaukura) 2M airangi Bay (Nadine Lees/ Belle Kingi) 3R ed Beach (Alexsia Bingley/ Aria Thompson)
Ski Race Women 35-39 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Teresa Russell, Red Beach Men 40-44 1 Matthew Craig, Omaha Beach 2M ichael Fitzgerald, Omaha Beach Women 40-44 1 Jess Moratti, Red Beach Men 45-49 1 Peter Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Mark Readman, Red Beach Men 50-54 1 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay 2 Bruce Hamilton, Mairangi Bay 3 Mike McDermott, Red Beach Women 50-54 1 Sharon Campbell, Orewa 2 Claire Stowell, Omanu Beach 3 Raewyn Byrom, Omanu Beach Men 55-59 1 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay 2 David Josephson, Mairangi Bay
Men 60-64 1 Ian Glover, Omanu Beach Women 60-64 1 Marie Stutz, Red Beach Open Men 1 Jack Wilson, Orewa 2 Steven Ferguson, Piha 3 Danny Morrison, Mairangi Bay Open Women 1 Teneale Hatton, Piha 2 Emma Walker, Piha 3 Stefanie Crncevic, Orewa U19 Men 1 Kees Ursem, Orewa 2 Kade Scheib, Red Beach 3 Sam Readman, Red Beach U19 Women 1 Emma Walker, Piha 2 Lucy Makaia, Piha 3 Brie Downey, Red Beach U16 Men 1 Kiahi Horan, Omanu Beach 2 Blake Readman, Red Beach 3 Reuben Creighton, Red Beach U16 Women 1 Sophia Clark, Piha 2 Nadine Lees, Mairangi Bay 3 Molly Brittenden, Piha
Ski Relay Open Men 1M airangi Bay (Jonathan Reshef/Miles Broderick/Paul Van Achterbergh) 2O rewa (Zachary Franich/ James Scott/Jack Wilson) 3M airangi Bay (Jake Hurley/ Danny Morrison/Cody Richards) Open Women 1P iha (Teneale Hatton/Kirsty Wannan/Hannah Williams) 2R ed Beach (Brie Downey/ Emma Hildesley/Louise Aitken) 3O rewa (Macey Franich/ Stefanie Crncevic/Cayleen Bester) U19 Men 1R ed Beach (Sam Readman/ Kade Scheib/Hamish Gledhill) 2O rewa (Samuel Reinen/Kees Ursem/Hamish Lockie) 3 Red Beach (Jonah Cleminson/ Brodie Campbell/Kees Kramer) U19 Women 1P iha (Lucy Makaia/Emma Walker/Sophia Clark) 2R ed Beach (Jade Hughes/Ella Moratti/Emma Hildesley) 3O rewa (Macey Franich/ Cayleen Bester/Sakura Gardiner)
Double Ski Masters Women 1 Red Beach Open Men 1 Orewa (Zachary Franich/Jack Wilson) 2 Piha (Steven Ferguson/Adam Parker) 3 Mairangi Bay (Cody Richards/Jonathan Reshef) Open Women 1 Piha (Kirsty Wannan/Teneale Hatton) 2 Orewa (Macey Franich/ Stefanie Crncevic) 3 Mairangi Bay (Samantha Rowe/Penelope Strickland) U19 Men 1 Red Beach (Sam Readman/ Kade Scheib) 2 Piha (Levi Ata/Ryan Delaney) 3 Piha (Grant Clancy/Oscar Williams) U19 Women 1 Piha (Lucy Makaia/Emma Walker) 2 Red Beach (Jade Hughes/ Ella Moratti) 3 Piha (Sophia Clark/Niamh Brittenden) Open Mixed 1 Piha (Steven Ferguson/ Teneale Hatton) 2 Orewa (Jack Wilson/Stefanie Crncevic) 3 Orewa (James Scott/Macey Franich) U19 Mixed 1 Mairangi Bay (Joseph Wilson/Nadine Lees) 2 Orewa (Hamish Lockie/ Cayleen Bester) 3 Orewa (Kees Ursem/Macey Franich) U19 Mixed 1 Mairangi Bay (Joseph Wilson/Nadine Lees) 2 Orewa (Hamish Lockie/ Cayleen Bester) 3 Orewa (Kees Ursem/Macey Franich)
Ironman/Ironwoman Women 35-39 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay Men 40-44 1 Matthieu Souprayen, Mairangi Bay Women 40-44 1 Jess Moratti, Red Beach Men 50-54 1 Ross Fearon, Mairangi Bay 2 Frank Maher, Omaha Beach 3 Bruce Hamilton, Mairangi Bay
Women 50-54 1 Claire Stowell, Omanu Beach 2 Raewyn Byrom, Omanu Beach 3 Sharon Campbell, Orewa Men 55-59 1 Jan Battaerd, Mairangi Bay 2 David Josephson, Mairangi Bay Men 60-64 1 Ian Glover, Omanu Beach 1 Open Men 1 Paul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 1 2 Steven Ferguson, Piha 3 Connor Beamish, Mairangi Bay Open Women 1 Lucy Makaia, Piha 2 Kirsty Wannan, Piha 3 Samantha Rowe, Mairangi Bay U19 Men 1 Kees Kramer, Red Beach 2 Levi Ata, Piha 3 Joseph Wilson, Mairangi Bay U19 Women 1 Lucy Makaia, Piha 2 Emma Walker, Piha 3 Camille Small, Red Beach U16 Men 1 Thomas Scott, Omanu Beach 2 Kiahi Horan, Omanu Beach 3 Taylor Chamberlain, Sumner
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U19 Women 1P iha (Ella Drinnan/Lucy Makaia/Sophia Clark/Tyla Rose) 2R ed Beach (Camille Small/ Emily Lyndon/Sophie Hildesley/Brie Downey) 3R ed Beach (Jade Hughes/ Emma Hildesley/Ella Moratti/ Chelsea Grant) U16 Men 1R ed Beach (Patrick Makgill/ Flynn Southcombe/Angus Henare/Jamie Ward) 2O rewa (Harry Wenman/ Angus Kirkman/Ethan Tall/ Dylan Vujcich) 3P iha (Justin Hemara/Reid Clancy/Finn Ward/Benjamin Gregory) U16 Women 1O rewa (Kate Wignell/Cayleen Bester/Sakura Gardiner/ Renee Benney) 2M airangi Bay (Astaria Teaukura/Nadine Lees/Tayla Dalton/Olivia Smith) 3P iha (Emily Cameron/Andie Quirke/Sophia Clark/Tyler Lovett)
Run Swim Run Open Men 1P aul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 2 Steven Ferguson, Piha 3C onnor Beamish, Mairangi Bay Open Women 1 Kirsty Wannan, Piha 2S amantha Rowe, Mairangi Bay 2C hantelle Maher, Omaha Beach
Open Men 1 Mairangi Bay (Connor Beamish/Paul Van Achterbergh /Daniel Dyet/ Jake Hurley) 2 Piha (Sean Newcombe/Cole Drinian/Adam Parker/Paul Hardy) 3 Mairangi Bay (Jonathan Reshef/Miles Broderick/Joel Wain/Daniel Peacocke)
U19 Men 1M ichael Slessor-White, Mairangi Bay 2 Kees Kramer, Red Beach 3 Joseph Wilson, Mairangi Bay
Open Women 1 Piha (Kirsty Wannan/Hannah Williams/Teneale Hatton/ Sophia Clark) 2 Mairangi Bay (Victoria Clark/ Penelope Strickland/Cleo Wheeler/Kathryne Gilbert) 3 Piha (Emily Cameron/Andie Quirke/Molly Brittenden/ Niamh Brittenden)
U16 Men 1 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach 2 Samuel Poching, Mairangi 3 Thomas Scott, Omanu Beach
U19 Men 1 Mairangi Bay (Michael Slessor-White/Joseph Wilson/George Brown/ Nathan Salt) 2 Piha (Jack Dufaur/Oscar Williams/Joshua Gallagher/ Oscar Dove) 3 Omanu Beach (Connor Swanberg/Thomas Scott/ Sam Bodnar/Alex Groot)
U19 Women 1 Lucy Makaia, Piha 2 Camille Small, Red Beach 3 Grace Platt, Mairangi Bay
Open Men 1M uriwai (Jason Stroud/Brad Ross/Liam McMaster/Isaac Holden/Danny Tenheuvel) 2R ed Beach (Jed Wright/ Shamus O’Halloran/Chris Carew/Hayden Smith/Shane O’Halloran) 3P iha (Rhye Jacka/Nicholas (Nick) Sigley/Jacob Sodo/ Chris Lines/Tom Jacka) Open Women 1R ed Beach (Andrea Gerrard/ Billie-Lee Haresnape/Emma Wilson/Alysha Nesbit/ Shamus O’Halloran) 2M uriwai (Nicole Owen/ Kathryn Wright/Jaime Gunderson/Alison Craigie/ Ricky Butt) 3O rewa (Nikki Jones/ Samantha Rogers/Amie Thomason/Rebecca (Becky) Thomason/Stuart Handford) U23 Men 1S unset Beach (Flynn Avery/ Xavier Lusby/Sean Oliver/ Ryan Brash/Michael Waldegrave) 2B ethells Beach (Joshua Benjamin/Alex Kwak/ Joshua Whittington/Elijah Fuluifaga Chan Foung/Henry Backhouse-Smith) U23 Women 1O rewa (Sylvie Mitchell/Kayla Fuemana/Alexandra Murden/ Tyler McDowall/Stuart Handford) 2P iha (Leilani Ioelu/Seagh Von Keisenberg/Laura Evans/ Ashley Clarke/Jean-Paul Smit) 3R ed Beach (Nicole McCormick/Kayla Rickaby/ Olivia Soesbergen/Kathleen Oneroa/Chase Cahalane) U19 Men 1W hangamata (Sergio Schuler/Zane Sweetman/ Joshua Nicholas/Taine Wilson/Steve Pipe) 2O rewa (Xander Cuff/Callum Stinson/Finn Woodcock/ James Hickman/Mark McCarthny) U19 Women 1O rewa (Olivia Mount/Lyric Su’a/Ashleigh Paotama/Alice Friend/Mark McCarthny)
Surf Boat - Short Course
U16 Women 1A staria Teaukura, Mairangi Bay 2A lexsia Bingley, Red Beach 3E mily Cameron, Piha
Masters Men 1 Orewa A
Surf Boat – Long Course
Open Men 1M uriwai (Jason Stroud/Isaac Holden/Brad Ross/Liam McMaster/Danny Tenheuvel) 2R ed Beach (Jed Wright/ Shamus O’Halloran/Hayden Smith/Chris Carew/Shane O’Halloran) 3O rewa (Jake Griffiths/Ryan Carrigan/Jasper Ballantyne/
Masters Men 1 Orewa A 2 Orewa B Masters Women 1 Mairangi Bay Wok N Rollers
Masters Women 1 Mairangi Bay Wok N Rollers
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Andrew Springgay/Mark McCarthny) Open Women 1 Muriwai (Sonia Connon/Tyla Alexander/Brynn Armstrong/ Lisa McCallum/Danny Tenheuvel) 2 Red Beach (Andrea Gerrard/ Alysha Nesbit/Emma Wilson/ Billie-Lee Haresnape/ Shamus O’Halloran) 3 Red Beach (Rebecca Ash/ Jasmin Cornish/Danielle Ford/Grace Joseph/Jed Wright) U23 Mens 1 Sunset Beach (Flynn Avery/ Xavier Lusby/Sean Oliver/ Ryan Brash/Michael Waldegrave) 2 Bethells Beach (Alex Kwak/ Joshua Whittington/Elijah Fuluifaga Chan Foung/ Joshua Benjamin/Henry Backhouse-Smith) U23 Women 1 Orewa (Sylvie Mitchell/Kayla Fuemana/Tyler McDowall/ Alexandra Murden/Stuart Handford) 2 Red Beach (Kathleen Oneroa/Olivia Soesbergen/ Nicole McCormick/Kayla Rickaby/Chase Cahalane) 3 Piha (Leilani Ioelu/Seagh Von Keisenberg/Laura Evans/ Ashley Clarke/Jean-Paul Smit) U19 Men 1 Whangamata (Sergio Schuler/Zane Sweetman/ Joshua Nicholas/Taine Wilson/Steve Pipe) 2 Orewa (Xander Cuff/Callum Stinson/Finn Woodcock/ James Hickman/Mark McCarthny) U19 Women 1 Orewa (Olivia Mount/Alice Friend/Ashleigh Paotama/ Lyric Su’a/Mark McCarthny)
Surf Canoe - Long Course Masters Men 1 Karekare A 2 Red Beach Lion Red 3 United North Piha Masters Women 1 Red Beach Flying Reddaz 2 Piha A 3 Red Beach Rocking Reds Open Men 1 Karekare Surf (John McLarin/ Simon McLarin/Clyde Strickett/Daniel Whiting) 2 Red Beach (Richard Rogers/ Daniel O’Reilly/David Young/ Craig Butler) 3 Waipu Cove (Richard (Rick) Stolwerk/Ivan McCabe/Dan Welch/Gordon French/Martin Geddes)
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Open Women 1 Red Beach (Caroline Anderson/Kathleen Simpkins/Rachael Duff/ Teresa Russell/Robyn Presland-Tack) 2 Red Beach (Megan McKenzie/Natasha Thompson/Sharon Turner/ Kelly O’Dea) U19 Men 1 Mairangi Bay (Harrison Walker Bell/Benjamin Miles/ Wynton Brick/Josh Linton/ Jaedan Brown) U19 Women 1 Red Beach (Olivia Falloon/ Naomi Dyer/Georgia Parker/ Tessa Weston) 2 Mairangi Bay (Fenella Sands/Imogen Moore/Zoe MacReady/Jessica Jones)
Surf Canoe – Short Course Masters Men 1 Karekare A 2 Red Beach Lion 3 Red Beach Red Nicks Masters Women 1 Red Beach Flying Reddaz 2 Red Beach Rocking Reds 3 Piha A Open Men 1 Karekare Surf (John McLarin/ Simon McLarin/Clyde Strickett/Daniel Whiting) 2 Red Beach (Richard Rogers/ David Young/Daniel O’Reilly/ Craig Butler) 3 Red Beach (David Goodare/ Kevin Cornish/Colin Wilcock/ Mark Simpkins) Open Women 1 Red Beach (Robyn PreslandTack/Caroline Anderson/ Kathleen Simpkins/Teresa Russell/Rachael Duff) 2 Red Beach (Sharon Turner/ Megan McKenzie/Natasha Thompson/Kelly O’Dea) U19 Men 1 Mairangi Bay (Harrison Walker Bell/Josh Linton/ Wynton Brick/Jaedan Brown/Benjamin Miles) U19 Women 1 Red Beach (Georgia Parker/ Tessa Weston/Olivia Falloon/ Naomi Dyer) 2 Mairangi Bay (Fenella Sands/Imogen Moore/Zoe MacReady/Jessica Jones)
Taplin Relay Open Men 1 Piha (Sean Newcombe/Cole Drinian/Steven Ferguson/ Adam Parker/Jamie Peterson/Oscar Williams)
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2M airangi Bay (Connor Beamish/Paul Van Achterbergh /Miles Broderick/Jake Hurley/Cody Richards/Jonathan Reshef) 3R ed Beach (Flynn Southcombe/Kees Kramer/ Joshua CholmondeleySmith/Sam Readman/ Hamish Gledhill/Daniel Cairns) Open Women 1P iha (Kirsty Wannan/Teneale Hatton/Hannah Williams) 2M airangi Bay (Victoria Clark/Penelope Strickland/ Samantha Rowe) 2R ed Beach (Emily Lyndon/ Emma Hildesley/Louise Aitken) U19 Men 1R ed Beach (Kees Kramer/ Sam Readman/Hamish Gledhill) 2R ed Beach (Patrick Makgill/ Kade Scheib/Max Boocock) 3O rewa (Samuel Reinen/Kees Ursem/Hamish Lockie) U19 Women 1 Piha (Ella Drinnan/Emma Walker/Lucy Makaia) 2M airangi Bay (Grace Platt/ Kathryne Gilbert/Cleo Wheeler) 3R ed Beach (Emily Lyndon/ Brie Downey/Ella Moratti) U16 Men 1R ed Beach (Patrick Makgill/ Reuben Creighton/Blake Readman) 2O manu Beach(Thomas Scott/Kiahi Horan/Tanner Baxter) 3R ed Beach (Flynn Southcombe/Jon Fortes/ Kalani Gilbertson) U16 Women 1M airangi Bay (Cassidy Coldicott/Nadine Lees/ Astaria Teaukura) 2 Mairangi Bay (Lucy Holloway/ Belle Kingi/Tayla Dalton) 1P iha (Andie Quirke/Niamh Brittenden/Molly Brittenden)
Lifesaver Relay
1R ed Beach (Patrick Makgill/Daniel Cairns/Sam Readman/Chelsea Grant/ Chris Carew/Jed Wright/ Shamus O’Halloran/Hayden Smith/Shane O’Halloran) 2O rewa (Steve Brennan/ Hamish Lockie/Jack Wilson/ Sakura Gardiner/Jake Griffiths/Ryan Carrigan/ Jasper Ballantyne/Andrew Springgay/Mark McCarthny) 3M uriwai (Fergus Eadie/Jakob Doughty/Jack Birch/Charlie Ward/Jason Stroud/Brad Ross/Liam McMaster/Isaac Holden/Danny Tenheuvel)
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N O R T H E R N R EG I O N P OO L C H A M P I O N S H I P S 2-3 SEPTEMBER, 2017 NATIONAL AQUATIC CENTRE, AUT MILLENNIUM 50m Swim with Fins Under 11 Men 1 Nicholas Cowen, Omaha 2 Isaac Gear, Piha 3 Jacob Smith, Muriwai U11 Women 1 Amelia Bray, Orewa 2 Georgia Brackebush, Orewa 3 Lily-anne Humphreys, Orewa Under 12 Men 1 Jasper Cornish, Red Beach 2 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 3 Xavier Gordon, Mairangi Bay Under 12 Women 1 Millie Middleton, Red Beach 2 Mairangi Bay, Piha 3 Red Beach, Papamoa Under 13 Men 1 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 2 Freddie Eadie, Muriwai 3 Hugo Wrathall, Waimairi Under 13 Women 1 Anna Lepua, Orewa 2 Esther Mihaljevich, Muriwai 3 Lily Jaymee Lus Redford, Mairangi Bay Under 14 Men 1 Noah Makaea, Orewa 2 Robbie Davies, Red Beach 3 James Donovan, Orewa
Under 19 Men 1 Levi Ata, Piha 2 Callum Stinson, Orewa 3 Oscar Williams, Piha
45-49 Masters Women 1 Megan Dalton, Orewa 2 Karla Granville, Bethells 3 Deborah Collings, Omaha Beach
Under 19 Women 1 Tessa Bradley, Mt Maunganui 2 Lucy Makaea, Piha 3 Ella Mary Drinnan, Piha
50-54 Masters Men 1 Rod Salt, Mairangi Bay 2 Michael Gibson, Omaha Beach 3 Graham Shaw, Orewa
Open Men 1 Max White, Piha 2 Paul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 3 Hayden Church, Piha
55-59 Masters Men 1 Ian Kennedy, Mairangi Bay 2 Robert Slaughter, Piha 3 Ian Forsman, Mairangi Bay
Open Women 1 Madison Kidd, Papamoa 2 Kristy Wannan, Piha 3 Rachel Hare, Red Beach
55-59 Masters Women 1 Robin Donnell, Piha 2 Jane Francois, Bethells Beach
30-34 Masters Men 1 Steve Brennan, Orewa 2 Thomas Burgess, Orewa 3 Samuel Comport, Bethells 30-34 Masters Women 1 Samantha Gunther, Orewa 2 Alice Edwards, Orewa 3 Victorai Clark, Mairangi Bay 35-39 Masters Men 1 Steven Ferguson, Piha 2 Curtis King, Orewa 3 Jeremy Fielding, Bethells 35-39 Masters Women 1 Anita Fitzgerald, Orewa 2 Jade Muliaumasealii, Omaha
60-64 Masters Men 1 Digby Morton, Red Beach 2 Paul Donovan, Bethells Beach 65-69 Masters Women 1 Sandra Burrow, Orewa 70+ Masters Men 1 Ian Burrow, Orewa
50m Rescue Medley Under 11 Men 1 Mason King, Orewa 2 Isaac Gear, Piha 3 Mathew Mihaljevich, Muriwai
40-44 Masters Men 1 Michael Fitzgerald, Omaha 2 Nikolai Gordon, Bethells
Under 11 Women 1 Amelia Bray, Orewa 2 Georgia Brackebush, Orewa 3 Poppy Jones, Mairangi Bay
Under 16 Men 1 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach 2 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay 3 Henry Williams, Red Beach
40-44 Masters Women 1 Lauren Harrod, Red Beach 2 Racheal Gear, Piha 3 Lisa Wheldale, Piha
Under 12 Men 1 Jasper Cornish, Red Beach 2 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 3L arn Hamblyn-Ough, Mairangi Bay
Under 16 Women 1 Astaria Te Aukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Emily Cameron, Piha 3 Kendra Stinson, Orewa
45-49 Masters Men 1 Greg Akroyd, Mt Maunganui 2 Tegid Lloyd, Piha 3 Andrew Cave, Orewa
Under 12 Women 1 Suzannah Kennelly, Murawai 2 Millie Middleton, Red Beach 3 Olivia Tukia, Piha
Under 14 Women 1 Sian Bester, Orewa 2 Chloe Seaman, Muriwai 3 Natalie Burke, Orewa
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Under 13 Men 1 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 2 Alexander Wilson, Orewa 3 Alex Dunkley, Orewa
Under 13 Women 1 Anna Lepua, Orewa 2 Lily Jaymee Lus Redford, Mairangi Bay 3 Melissa Cowen, Omaha
45-49 Masters Women 1 Megan Dalton, Orewa 2 Jen McDermott, Red Beach 3 Julie Hathaway, Piha
Under 13 Women 1 Anna Lepua, Orewa 2 Lily Jaymee Lus Redford, Mairangi Bay 3 Esther Mihaljevich, Muriwai
Under 14 Men 1 Noah Makaea, Orewa 2 Cameron McKolskey, Muiwai 3 James Donovan, Orewa Under 14 Women 1 Chloe Seaman, Muriwai 2 Sian Bester, Orewa 3 Edie Ancell, Whangamata
50-54 Masters Men 1 Rod Salt, Mairangi Bay 2 Michael Gibson, Omaha Beach 3 Kevin Cornish, Red Beach
Under 14 Men 1 Noah Makaea, Orewa 2 Isaac Reay, Waihi 3 George Wenman, Orewa Under 14 Women 1 Chloe Seaman, Muriwai 2 Natalie Burke, Orewa 3 Mehane Van Rooyen, Muriwai
100m Rescue Medley Under 16 Men 1 Jonathan Selman, Red Beach 2 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay 3 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach Under 16 Women 1 Astaria Te Aukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Andie Quirke, Piha 3 Kate Wignel, Orewa Under 19 Men 1 Oscar Williams, Piha 2 John Clark, Papamoa 3 Callum Stinson, Orewa
Under 16 Men 1 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay 2 Lewis Farr, Papamoa 3 Flyn Southcombe, Red Beach Under 16 Women 1 Andie Quirke, Piha 2 Kendra Stinson, Orewa 3 Lyric Logotaeao Su’a, Orewa Under 19 Men 1 Oscar Williams, Piha 2 John Clark, Papamoa 3 Callum Stinson, Orewa Under 19 Women 1 Lucy Makaea, Piha 2 Ella Mary Drinnan, Piha 3 Emily Lyndon, Red Beach
Under 19 Women 1 Ella Mary Drinnan, Piha 2 Lucy Makaea, Piha 3 Tessa Bradley, Mt Maunganui
Open Men 1 Andrew Trembath, St Clair 2 Cole Drinnan, Piha 3 Paul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay
Open Men 1 Max White, Piha 2 Cole Drinnan, Piha 3 Sean Newcombe, Piha
Open Women 1 Madison Kidd, Papamoa 2 Kristy Wannan, Piha 3 Samantha Rowe, Mairangi Bay
Open Women 1 Nicole Rosewarne, Piha
50m Brick Carry Under 11 Men 1 Mason King, Orewa 2 Nicholas Cowen, Omaha Beach 3 Ethan McKolskey, Muriwai Under 11 Women 1 Georgia Brackebush, Orewa 2 Amelia Bray, Orewa 3 Poppy Jones, Mairangi Bay
30-34 Masters Men 1 Steve Brennan, Orewa 2 Andy Kent, Mairangi Bay
55-59 Masters Women 1 Robin Donnell, Piha 2 Jane Francois, Bethells Beach 3 Charles Dryden, Bethells Beach 60-64 Masters Men 1 Digby Morton, Red Beach 65-69 Masters Women 1 Sandra Burrow, Orewa
50m Manikin Carry U16 Men 1 Jonathan Selman, Red Beach 2 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach 3 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay Under 16 Women 1 Astaria Te Aukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Lyric Logotaeao Su’a, Orewa 3 Andie Quirke, Piha Under 16 Women 1 Astaria Te Aukura, Mairangi Bay 2 Lyric Logotaeao Su’a, Orewa 3 Andie Quirke, Piha Under 19 Men 1 Oscar Williams, Piha 2 John Clark, Papamoa 3 Fergus Eadie, Muriwai
35-39 Masters Men 1 Steven Ferguson, Piha 2 Curtis King, Orewa 3 Danny Morrison, Mairangi Bay
Under 19 Women 1 Lucy Makaea, Piha 2 Tessa Bradley, Mt Maunganui 3 Tania Denvir, Red Beach
Under 12 Women 1 Talitha McEwan, Papamoa 2 Millie Middleton, Red Beach 3 Olivia Tukia, Piha Under 13 Men 1 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 2 Jett Curteis, Red Beach 3 Alexander Wilson, Orewa
45-49 Masters Men 1 Greg Akroyd, Mt Maunganui 2 Tegid Lloyd, Piha 3 Shane Devery, Piha
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55-59 Masters Men 1 Ian Kennedy, Mairangi Bay 2 Robert Slaughter, Piha 3 Charles Dryden, Piha
30-34 Masters Women 1 Samantha Gunther, Orewa 2 Alice Edwards, Orewa
35-39 Masters Women 1 Leigh Storey, Mairangi Bay 2 Anita Fitzgerald, Orewa 40-44 Masters Men 1 Michael Fitzgerald, Omaha 2 Blair Hendren, Orewa 3 Nikolai Gordon, Bethells 40-44 Masters Women 1 Lisa Wheldale, Piha 2 Lauren Harrod, Red Beach 3 Kelly O’Dea, Red Beach
Under 12 Men 1 Jasper Cornish, Red Beach 2 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 3 Larn Hamblyn-Ough, Mairangi Bay
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50-54 Masters Women 1 Elizabeth De Kort, Orewa 2 Annette Rosewarne, Orewa 3 Pat Slaughter, Piha
Open Men 1 Max White, Piha 2P aul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay 3 Andrew Trembath, St Clair Open Women 1 Samantha Rowe, Mairangi Bay 2 Rachel Hare, Red Beach 3 Nicole Rosewarne, Piha
100m Manikin Carry Under 16 Men 1 Patrick Makgill, Red Beach 2 Lewis Farr, Papamoa 3 Samuel Poching, Mairangi Bay
Under 16 Women 1 Kendra Stinson, Orewa 2 Emily Cameron, Piha 3 Andie Quirke, Piha
Masters Mixed 1 Orewa 2 Orewa 3 Mairangi Bay
Under12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Red Beach 3 Mairangi Bay
Open Women 1 Piha 2 Papamoa 3 Red Beach
Under 19 Men 1 Oscar Williams, Piha 2 Levi Ata, Piha 3 Samuel Reinen, Orewa
4 x 50m Obstacle Relay
Under 14 Men 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Orewa 3 Red Beach
Masters Men 1 Orewa 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Mairangi Bay
Under 14 Women 1 Orewa 2 Red Beach 3 Mairangi Bay
Masters Women 1 Orewa 2 Piha 3 Bethells Beach
Under 19 Women 1 Ella Mary Drinnan, Piha 2 Tessa Bradley, Mt Maunganui 3 Eve Thomas, Piha Open Men 1 Andrew Trembath, St Clair 2 Cole Drinnan, Piha 3 Paul Van Achterbergh, Mairangi Bay Open Women 1 Madison Kidd, Papamoa 2 Kirsty Wannan, Piha 3 Rachel Hare, Red Beach
4 x 50m Medley Relay Under 12 Men 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Orewa 3 Omaha Under 12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Orewa 3 Piha Under 14 Men 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Orewa 3 Red Beach Under 14 Women 1 Red Beach 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Muriwai Under 16 Men 1 Red Beach 2 Piha 3 Bethells Beach Under 16 Women 1 Piha 2 Orewa 3 Mairangi Bay Under 19 Men 1 Piha 2 Orewa 3 Piha Under 19 Women 1 Piha Open Men 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Piha Open Women 1 Red Beach 2 Piha 3 Mairangi Bay
Under 12 Men 1 Omaha 2 Orewa 3 Mairangi Bay Under 12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay 2 Orewa 3 Red Beach Under 14 Men 1 Orewa 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Red Beach Under 14 Women 1 Orewa 2 Muriwai 3 Red Beach Under 16 Men 1 Red Beach 2 Orewa 3 Piha Open Men 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Piha Open Women 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay Masters Mixed 1 Orewa 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Orewa
2 x 50m Patient Tow Relay Under 12 Men 1 Red Beach 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Omaha
Under 12 Women 1 Piha 2 Orewa 3 Mairangi Bay Under 14 Men 1 Orewa 2 Red Beach 3 Mairangi Bay Under 14 Women 1 Orewa 2 Orewa 3 Red Beach
4 x 25m Brick Relay Under 12 Men 1 Omaha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Red Beach
4 x 25m Manikin Relay Under 16 Men 1 Red Beach 2 Orewa 3 Piha
6 x 50m Mega Relay Open Mixed 1 Piha 2 Piha 3 Piha
Under 16 Women 1 Orewa 2 Piha 3 Mairangi Bay Under 19 Men 1 Piha 2 Orewa 3 Piha Under 19 Women 1 Piha 2 Red Beach Open Men 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Piha Open Women 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Orewa
Linethrow Relay Under 16 Men 1 Red Beach 2 Red Beach 3 Orewa Under 16 Women 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Orewa Under 19 Men 1 Piha 2 Piha 3 Piha Under 19 Women 1 Piha Open Men 1 Piha 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Piha
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Sunset Beach
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Mairangi Bay
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St Clair
12
Orewa
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Bethells
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Waipu
1
IRB Tube Rescue
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Women 1 St Clair 2 Sunset Beach TJ 3 Sunset Beach RH
Women 1 Sunset Beach TJ 2 Sunset Beach RH 3 St Clair
Under 22 1 Mairangi Bay B 2 Mairangi Bay A 3 Sunset Beach RE
Under 22 1 Sunset Beach JJ 2 Orewa Blue 3 Mairangi Bay A
Open 1 Sunset Beach SM 2 Sunset Beach LH 3 Mairangi Bay
Open 1 Sunset Beach SM 2 Sunset Beach LH 3 Mairangi Bay
IRB Mass Rescue
IRB Assembly Rescue
Women 1 Sunset Beach TJ 2 St Clair 2 3 Sunset Beach LS
Women (3 Race Series) 1 Sunset Beach TJ h 2 St Clair 3 Sunset Beach RH
Under 22 1 Sunset Beach JJ 2 Mairangi Bay B 3 Mairangi Bay A
Under 22 1 Sunset Beach JJ 2 Mairangi Bay B 3 Bethells Beach B
Open 1 Sunset Beach SM 2 Sunset Beach LH 3 Mairangi Bay
Open (3 Race Series) 1 Sunset Beach SM 2 Mairangi Bay 3 Bethells Beach
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1 Sunset Beach SMLH 2 Sunset Beach JJJH 3 Waipu Cove 3 Nadine Lees, Mairangi Bay
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2 018 N ATI O N A L AC H I E V E M E NT S N E W Z E A L A N D P OO L C H A M P I O N S H I P S Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre 13-15 October, 2017 Northern Region Club Overall Placings 1 Orewa 2 Mairangi Bay 4 Piha 5 Red Beach 9 Omaha Beach 21 Muriwai
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Northern Region Club Overall Placings 4 Red Beach 5 Mairangi Bay 9 Orewa 17 Bethells Beach 22 Muriwai
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Northern Region Club Overall Placings: 1 Sunset Beach 5 Mairangi Bay 15 Waipu Cove
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Open Men 2 Muriwai 3 Piha
U23 Men 1 Sunset Beach 3 Piha
U19 Men 2 Sunset Beach 3 Orewa
Open Women 1 Muriwai 2 Red Beach 3 Red Beach
U23 Women 1 Orewa 2 Piha
Masters Women 2 Mairangi Bay
NEW ZEALAND H I G H P E R FO R M A N C E S Q UA D S E LECTI O N S The following Northern Region athletes were named in the New Zealand High Performance Squads for the 2017-18 Season
New Zealand Open squad Danielle McKenzie (Mairangi Bay) Rachel Clarke (Mairangi Bay)
New Zealand Development squad Bayden Botha (Mairangi Bay) Corneille Coetzee (Orewa) Daniel Rippon (Piha) Ella Drinnan (Piha) Samalulu Clifton (Mairangi Bay) Wilrich Coetzee (Red Beach)
New Zealand Youth squad: Andie Quirke (Piha) Astaria Teaukura (Mairangi Bay) Jonathan Selman (Red Beach) Levi Ata (Piha) Lucy Makaea (Piha) Oscar Williams (Piha) Patrick Makgill (Red Beach) Samuel Poching (Mairangi Bay) Tayla Dalton (Mairangi Bay)
Management Positions Danny Morrison (Mairangi Bay) Jack Gavin (Red Beach) Jason Pocock (Mairangi Bay) Steve Vaughan (Mairangi Bay) Kevin Morrison (Mairangi Bay) Daniel Grant (Mairangi Bay)
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N E W Z E A L A N D M A S TE R S C H A M P I O N S H I P S Midway Beach 15 March, 2018
Northern Region Club Overall Placings 7 Red Beach 8 Orewa 12 Piha 14 Mairangi Bay 21 Omaha 31 Waipu Cove
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Northern Region Club Overall Placings 2 Mairangi Bay 5 Orewa 9 Piha 16 Red Beach 22 Muriwai 29 Bethells Beach 31 Sunset Beach
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unior Surf is the future of surf lifesaving in the Northern Region and New Zealand. Aside from visiting one of our patrolled beaches or being unfortunate (or fortunate) enough to be rescued by a lifeguard, Junior Surf is often the first active interaction children and their parents get to have with surf lifesaving. As the Northern Region’s population grows and becomes more diverse, Junior Surf will become an ever-increasing integral part of educating our community’s awareness and understanding of how to safely engage with our beaches and coastlines as well as developing the next generation of surf lifeguards. SLSNZ Junior Surf Programme
Junior Surf programmes are designed to develop tomorrow’s lifeguards in a fun and safe environment and our clubs continue to deliver high quality experiences to more than 2,500 junior members each week during the season. The pinnacle of Junior Surf is the Rookie Life Guard Programme and it was great to see an increase in the number of club and juniors becoming Rookies, a key mechanism in retaining and developing members as they transition from Juniors to becoming qualified lifeguards. This would not be possible without the outstanding contribution of the volunteer committee members, coaches, managers and administrators who ensure Junior members learn essential water safety skills, rescue techniques, first aid and surf sport skills, together with the importance of leadership and teamwork.
These carnivals are a fantastic opportunity to showcase lifesaving and, for junior members and their families, to visit other clubs and beaches throughout the Northern Region and share in the collective and competitive spirit of surf life saving. Surf Sport also serves as another mechanism to retain and develop our members. We must continue to ensure that competitors, coaches, officials and parents enjoy their experiences. As such, it was great to see so many clubs aligning with the Good Sports philosophies throughout the season. With more than 1000 juniors taking part in our two Interclub events and 350 competing in the Northern Region Championships, these carnivals show there is a healthy appetite for participation and competition within our clubs. This was reflected in some outstanding individual and club results at the National Junior Championships hosted by Orewa in March this year. These events would not be possible without the dedication of each club’s Junior Surf coordinators, team coaches and management as well as our Event Lifeguard Team and Surf Officials, in particular our Junior Event Referee Dylan Turner, Deputy Mike Brown and Event Safety Officers Tom Burgess and Nick Williams. Thank you to all involved in making the 2017-18 Junior season a great one, especially the Junior Surf Committee for their hard work and support through the year.
Junior Surf Sport Carnivals
Junior Surf Sport Carnivals are an opportunity for Junior clubbies to participate, compete and put into practice many of the skills they learn each week at their club in a multitude of individual and team-based surf lifesaving pool, land and water-based disciplines.
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Junior Surf Operational Committee Chairperson
CAS E S T U DY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; R OO K I E LI F EG UA R D P R OG R A M M E In the final years of junior surf, many clubs run a Rookie Lifeguard Programme. This programme is designed to retain and develop members as they transition from the junior levels to fully-fledged surf lifeguards. The Rookie Surf Lifeguard Programme is aimed at developing young surf lifeguards in the areas of lifesaving education, beach management, patrol experience, and through participation and social development. The 2017-18 season had an increase of more than 20 per cent, with 178 rookies taking part in the programme. The season also saw more Northern Region clubs take part than ever before, with 12 involved, as well as Far North for the first time. A tradition of the programme is the annual end-ofseason Rookie Challenge, in which clubs select a team to take on other clubs in a series of theoretical and practical lifeguarding scenarios, as well as rescue events. The 2018 Rookie Challenge was hosted by Mangawhai in March with 16 teams taking part.
ROOKIE CHALLENGE RESULTS: 1. Red Beach 2 2. Red Beach 1 3. Orewa 2 4. Muriwai 1 5. Orewa 1 6. Mairangi Bay 1 7. Mangawhai 8. Piha 1 9. Muriwai 2 10. Piha 2 11. Waipu 2 12. Mairangi Bay 2 13. Bethells Beach1 14. Waipu 1 15. Omaha 16. Bethells 2
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S wave.
urf Life Saving Northern Region’s Rookie of the Year Emily Stolwerk proves age is nothing but a number, as she begins her surf lifesaving journey on a great
An active and involved member of the Waipu Cove Surf Life Saving Club, Emily is known within the surf community for her maturity, kindness, diligence and commitment to people and the cause. This past season saw Emily perform her first successful rescue “assist”, helping a young girl to shore who was caught in strong currents and got out of her depth. Emily’s quick thinking and reaction brought the child back to shore safely. Her confidence and enthusiasm in all aspects of surf saw her named female Rookie of the Year for her club as well – a unanimous decision. Over the 2017-2018 season, Emily provided an enormous amount of support, which was well received by her peers and senior guards. A proud rookie who is always keen to offer a helping hand, Emily assisted with patrol operations over the season at Waipu and at other clubs. Her contribution to her club and community was appreciated by many who received it.
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During the summer, she acted as a patient for IRB teams during training, joined the support crew for the Regional World Championships training, volunteered at the North Island IRB Champs and Northern Region Senior Carnival, supported the Waipu team at the Waihi and Gisborne National Champs and acted as a water support person during Waipu Cove club day and with senior lifeguard swimmers over the season. Emily also played an enthusiastic role in BP promotion filming for her club. A junior leader for her club, Emily is also a positive influence to many of the youth at Waipu Cove. As the assistant coach for the Tadpole Junior Surf Group and Junior Surf Coach Assistant, she is seen as someone to look up to, inspiring other young members to follow her lead as a passionate patroller and volunteer. Emily’s passion for surf lifesaving means she continues to seek out the tricks of the trade, dedicating a lot of her time to upskilling and developing her lifeguarding skills. With her rookie training programme finally done and dusted, it is predicted that Emily will be a very promising lifeguard.
CAS E S T U DY – GOO D S P O R T S
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ood Sports is a culture change programme to promote positive experiences for young people in sport to help them develop a lifelong love for sport.
This is done by educating and supporting the key adult influencers in youth sport: parents, coaches, teachers and sport administrators. It began as a response to increasing recognition of poor sideline behaviour reported in the media in 2015 to recognise the impact coaches have on children’s sporting experiences. The brief has since been widened to target all key adult influencers. Good Sports courses and workshops encourage a safe, supportive atmosphere at junior sport. The programme operates on a “train the trainer” model by giving these adults tools to be agents for change and train others in the community. It aims to have at least one critical agent at each organisation/club. Surf Life Saving Northern Region has embraced the Good Sports programme embedding it into workshops, courses and briefings, with a number of clubs aligning themselves with the admirable philosphy. Research here and overseas shows there has been a gradual decline in children participating in organised sport opportunities over the past decade – the result of changing societal patterns. Adults in their various roles are critical for enabling sport experiences which meet the needs of a child. However, despite the best of intent at times, adults can inhibit children from having great sport experiences[1]. Examples of how pivotal adults are to children’s exprience of organised sport include:
•A n uncomfortable pattern of kids standing and watching at practice as adults control activities and take the play out of the game • The poaching of players and construction of super teams •E vidence of relative age ffect, where there is a tendency in to make selections favouring older children •R igid movement patterns and limited opportunities for children to develop a range of functional skills • Adults berating officials and kids from the sidelines and, in some instances, leading to violence
Life Saving Head Coach and other club members, attended a Good Sports workshop. The Good Sports team carried out interviews pre and post-season following the workshop. Pre-season: • The head coach identified his previous coaching style “really concentrated on winning” with lots of “repetition, repetition, repetition” •T he coach felt it encouraged thinking and reflection to understand “how much it’s not about winning for kids” and believed “it’s the parents that put the pressure on” •T he coach reflected about being “incredibly embarrassed about how I have coached in the past”. Post-season:
•T he head coach described the 2017-2018 as “my favourite year coaching, ever”. “Participation has been amazing and parent’s buy-in has been amazing. Toward the end of the season we had around 30-plus kids” •T he coach admited he would “get grumpy sometimes”, but was able to catch himself post-workshop •P articipants felt “really involved in stuff” and believd the coach “always involved everyone. He always came up with group activities that involved everyone, and no one was being left out. Sometimes if it looked like a few people were doing more of the work and leaving other people out he’d go swap round, so everyone got a turn.”
•C hildren losing confidence in sport, not returning for a second season, and/or leaving sports altogether
•P articipants identified differences between weekday and weekend coaching in the club. During the weekends “they put us into age groups and we are all different abilities, so some people could hardly swim and then others were storming ahead”.
•C lubs and organisations holding traditional but outdated models of competition.
Conclusion:
•F amilies starting year-round training earlier in hopes of reaching elite status
We know that this isn’t the case for everyone. However, too many adults seem to miss the big picture, mistaking the value of healthy competition for the need to win-at-all costs. Background Information: At the beginning of the 2017-2018 season, the Junior Surf
The workshop ignited the passions of coaches, parents, and participants. There has been an increase in attendance, with participants and coaches enjoying the season, and all report that they will be back for more next time.
[1] Walters, S. R. (2011). Whose Game are we playing? A study of the effects of adult involvement on children participating in organised team sports (Doctoral dissertation, Auckland University of Technology).
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Overall Club Results POINTS
CLUB
UNDER 12
UNDER 14
TOTAL
Red Beach
142
Orewa
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30
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2nd
Orewa
129
Red Beach
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15
36
3rd
Mairangi Bay
107
Mairangi Bay
22
11
33
4th
Bethells Beach
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5th
Muriwai
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6th
Piha
12
7th
Omaha Beacj
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8th
Ruakaka
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PLACE
CLUB
1st
Beach Flags U11 Women 1 Ngaawai Simpkins, Red Beach 2 Billie Harwood, Red Beach 3 Holly Beaumont, Red Beach U11 Men 1 Ashton Savage, Red Beach 2 Cooper Grant, Mairangi Bay 3 Corbyn Ape-Esera, Bethells Beach U12 Women 1 Rita Price, Mairangi Bay 2 Milly Clegg, Whangamata 3 Grace Williams, Mairangi Bay
U14 Women 1 Marissa Porteous, Red Beach 2 Maraea Whiu, Bethells Beach 3 Aimee Hendren, Orewa
U13 Women 1 Katrina Hall, Red Beach 2 Myara Flint, Mairangi Bay 3 Maya Grover, Red Beach
U14 Men 1 Oliver Howarth, Red Beach 2 Ethan Anderson, Red Beach 3 Quinn Phillips, Red Beach
U13 Men 1 Caleb Calkin, Bethells Beach 2 Akira Gardiner, Red Beach 3 Jakob Currin, Red Beach
Beach Sprint U11 Women 1 Mahana Demeulemeester, Red Beach 2 Ngaawai Simpkins, Red Beach 3 Eryn Westlake, Mairangi Bay
U14 Women 1 Marissa Porteous, Red Beach 2 Maraea Whiu, Bethells Beach 3 Ciara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Orewa U14 Men 1 Ethan Anderson, Red Beach 2 Oliver Howarth, Red Beach 3 Julian Cheung Tau, Bethells Beach
U12 Men 1 Jack Sykes, Red Beach 2 Kaiha Gilbertson, Red Beach 3 Alec Meban, Red Beach
U11 Men 1 Cooper Grant, Mairangi Bay 2 Mathew Mihaljevich, Muriwai 3 Ashton Savage, Red Beach
U13 Women 1 Myara Flint, Mairangi Bay 2 Katrina Hall, Red Beach 3 Makenna Jones, Red Beach
U12 Women 1 Sunniva Hunt, Ruakaka 2 Milly Clegg, Whangamata 3 Isabella Mitchell, Mairangi Bay
U11 Women 1 Georgia Brackebush, Orewa 2 Poppy Jones, Mairangi Bay 3 Lily-Anne Humphreys, Orewa
U13 Men 1 Jakob Currin, Red Beach 2 Akira Gardiner, Red Beach 3 Hohaia Pouri Hone Whiu, Bethells Beach
U12 Men 1 Finlay Walker, Omaha Beach 2 Jack Sykes, Red Beach 3 Xavier Gordon, Mairangi Bay
U11 Men 1 Mason King, Orewa 2 Mathew Mihaljevich, Muriwai 3 Ethan McKolskey, Muriwai
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U12 Women 1 Caitlin Cooke, Mairangi Bay 2 Caitlin Longden, Mairangi Bay 3 Lena Hamblyn-Ough, Mairangi Bay U12 Men 1 Jasper Cornish, Red Beach 2 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 3 Larn Hamblyn-Ough, Mairangi Bay U13 Women 1 Zoe Crawford, Mairangi Bay 2 Anna Lepua, Orewa 3 Amy Swanson, Ruakaka U13 Men 1 Nathaniel Allen, Whangamata 2 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 3 Tyrone Herring, Whakatane U14 Women 1 Chloe Seaman, Muriwai 2 Hannah Turner, Red Beach 3 Sian Bester, Orewa U14 Men Surf Race 1 James Donovan, Orewa 2 Cambell Julian, Whakatane 3 Noah Makaea, Orewa
Diamond Race U11 Women 1 Mason King, Orewa 2 Ethan McKolskey, Muriwai 3 Mathew Mihaljevich, Muriwai U12 Women 1 Lena Hamblyn-Ough, Mairangi Bay 2 Emily Glackin, Mairangi Bay 3 Milly Clegg, Whangamata U12 Men 1 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 2 Jasper Cornish, Red Beach 3 Xavier Gordon, Mairangi Bay U13 Women 1 Zoe Crawford, Mairangi Bay 2 Rose Meban, Red Beach 3 Isla Westlake, Mairangi Bay U13 Men 1 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 2 Tyrone Herring, Whakatane 3 Nathaniel Allen, Whangamata U14 Women 1 Sian Bester, Orewa 2 Kate Rogers, Red Beach 3 Hannah Turner, Red Beach U14 Men 1 Noah Makaea, Orewa 2 Cambell Julian, Whakatane 3 George Wenman, Orewa
Board Race U11 Women 1 Eryn Westlake, Mairangi Bay 2 Georgia Savage, Orewa 3 Anika Cowley, Whangamata U11 Men 1 Jono Allen, Whangamata 2 Nathan Jennings, Red Beach 3 Jacob Smith, Muriwai
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U12 Women 1 Emily Glackin, Mairangi Bay 2 Vita Yarrell-Stevenson, Mairangi Bay 3 Aimee McConnell, Orewa U12 Men 1 Kailen Brackebush, Orewa 2 Kaiha Gilbertson, Red Beach 3 Laine Creighton, Red Beach U13 Women 1 Zoe Crawford, Mairangi Bay 2 Pepper Hall, Bethells Beach 3 Katrina Hall, Red Beach U13 Men 1 Cameron Gilmore, Mairangi Bay 2 Ashton Wheeler, Mairangi Bay 3 Tyrone Herring, Whakatane U14 Women 1 Hannah Turner, Red Beach 2 Hannah Lees-Baker, Mairangi Bay 3 Sian Bester, Orewa U14 Men 1 George Wenman, Orewa 2 Cambell Julian, Whakatane 3 Noah Makaea, Orewa
Board Relay U12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay (Vita YarrellStevenson/Emily Glackin/Lena Hamblyn-Ough) 2 Orewa (Georgia Brackebush/Aimee McConnell/Isla Petherbridge) 3 Mairangi Bay (Caitlin Cooke/Caitlin Longden/Michaela Pocock) U12 Men 1 Red Beach (Kaiha Gilbertson/ Jasper Cornish/Laine Creighton) 2 Orewa (Mason King/Kailen Brackebush/Zachary Beckett) 3 Mairangi Bay (Xavier Gordon/Larn Hamblyn-Ough/Liam McCabe) U14 Women 1 Red Beach (Hannah Turner/Kate Rogers/Rose Meban) 2 Orewa (Maddison Savage/Natalie Burke/Caitlyn Beckett) 3 Muriwai (Mihi Kake-White/Arabella Thompson/Chloe Seaman) U14 Men’s Board Relay 1 Orewa (Jack Benney/James Donovan/Josef Andrews) 2 Orewa (Noah Makaea/Callum Lockie/George Wenman) 3 Mairangi Bay (Cooper Heath/ Ashton Wheeler/Cameron Gilmore)
Beach Relay U12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay (Grace Williams/ Michaela Pocock/Rita Price/Vita Yarrell-Stevenson) 2 Red Beach (Mahana Demeulemeester/Jonelle Little/ Ngaawai Simpkins/Billie Harwood) 3 Orewa (Aimee McConnell/Isla Petherbridge/Georgia Brackebush/ Jade Middleton)
U12 Men 1R ed Beach (Jack Sykes/Kaiha Gilbertson/Blake Van Der Net/Jasper Cornish) 2R ed Beach (Ashton Savage/Nathan Jennings/Alec Meban/Laine Creighton) 3O rewa (Mason King/Zachary Beckett/ Kailen Brackebush/Finn Aitken) U14 Women 1O rewa (Ciara O’Neill/Aimee Hendren/ Danielle Wheeler/Natalie Burke) 2R ed Beach (Ella Butler/Marissa Porteous/Makenna Jones/Katrina Hall) 3M airangi Bay (Lucy MacReady/Tara Vaughan/Isla Westlake/Myara Flint) U14 Men 1B ethells Beach (Julian Cheung Tau/ Caleb Calkin/Hohaia Pouri Hone Whiu/ Fin Reddington) 2O rewa (Josef Andrews/Noah Makaea/ Jack Benney/Thomas Arthur) 3R ed Beach (Akira Gardiner/Sam Paranihi/Keanu Savage/Flynn McIntyre
Cameron Relay U12 Women 1 Mairangi Bay (Emily Glackin/Vita YarrellStevenson/Michaela Pocock/Rita Price) 2M airangi Bay (Caitlin Longden/Lena Hamblyn-Ough/Caitlin Cooke/Venetia Sands) 3M airangi Bay (Eloise Raper/Rea Kearns/Amy Lees-Baker/Kyel Anderson) U12 Men 1R ed Beach (Jasper Cornish/Kaiha Gilbertson/Jack Sykes/Blake Van Der Net) 2O rewa (Dean Hall/Kailen Brackebush/ Mason King/Zachary Beckett) 3M airangi Bay (Larn Hamblyn-Ough/ Xavier Gordon/Liam McCabe/Kincaid Baxter) U14 Women 1O rewa (Natalie Burke/Sian Bester/ Ciara O’Neill/Aimee Hendren) 2M uriwai (Chloe Seaman/Arabella Thompson/Mihi Kake-White/Phoebe Ward) 3M airangi Bay (Zoe Crawford/Hannah Lees-Baker/Lucy MacReady/Tara Vaughan) U14 Men 1P iha (Tom Gordon/Dominic Woodhouse/Taylor Kerr/Hamish Fernie) 2R ed Beach (Matthew Hughes/ Nathaniel Fitt/Ethan Anderson/Jakob Currin) 3O rewa (James Donovan/Noah Makaea/Thomas Arthur/Jack Benney)
Board Rescue U14 Women 1M airangi Bay (Zoe Crawford/Hannah Lees-Baker) 2R ed Beach (Kate Rogers/Hannah Turner) 3M uriwai (Chloe Seaman/Arabella Thompson) U14 Men 1W hakatane (Cambell Julian/Tyrone Herring) 2O rewa (George Wenman/James Donovan) 3M airangi Bay (Charlie Dalton/Ashton Wheeler)
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I N D E P E N D E NT AU D ITO R ’ S REPORT
The summary financial statements, which comprise the summary consolidated Statement of Financial Position as at 30 June 2018, the summary consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expenses, summary consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity and summary consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the year then ended, and related notes, are derived from the audited consolidated financial statements of Surf Life Saving Northern Region Incorporated (“SLSNR”) and its controlled entities for the year ended 30 June 2018. In our opinion, the summary consolidated financial statements of SLSNR for the year ended 30 June 2018 are consistent, in all material respects, with the audited consolidated financial statements, in accordance with PBE FRS-43: ‘Summary Financial Statements’ issued by the New Zealand Accounting Standards Board. Summary Financial Statements
The summary financial statements do not contain all the disclosures required for full financial statements under not-for-profit PBE accounting standards as issued by the Accounting Standards Review Board in New Zealand. Reading the summary financial statements, therefore, is not a substitute for reading the audited consolidated financial statements of SLSNR and the Auditor’s Report thereon. The Audited Financial Statements and Our Report Thereon
In our opinion, except for the effects of the matter described in the Basis for Qualified Opinion section of our report, the audited consolidated financial
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statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Group as at 30 June 2018, and its consolidated financial performance and its consolidated cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Public Benefit Entity Standards Reduced Disclosure Regime (“PBE Standards RDR”) issued by the New Zealand Accounting Standards Board.
on Auditing (New Zealand) (ISA (NZ)) 810 (Revised), Engagements to Report on Summary Financial Statements. In addition to providing assurance services to SLSNR, we provide audit services to one of the controlled entities. We have no other relationship with, or interests in, SLSNR or any of its controlled entities.
Basis for Qualified Opinion on Financial Performance
Control over certain donations and miscellaneous cash income streams amounting to $480,596 prior to being recorded is limited, and there are no practical audit procedures to determine the effect of this limited control. Accordingly, the completeness of revenue and related cash flows are unable to be determined. Boards’ Responsibility for the Summary Financial Statements
The Board is responsible on behalf of the entity for the preparation of the summary financial statements in accordance with PBE FRS-43: ‘Summary Financial Statements’ issued by the New Zealand Accounting Standards Board. Auditor’s Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on whether the summary financial statements are consistent, in all material respects, with the audited financial statements based on our procedures, which were conducted in accordance with International Standard
BDO Auckland Auckland
24th September 2018
A N N UA L R E P O R T F I N A N C I A L S U M M A RY
S
urf Life Saving Northern Region has had a strong financial result for the year ended 30 June 2018 recognising a net surplus of $808,665 (2017: $508,994) across the Consolidated Group being SLSNR and its 21 controlled Clubs and Trusts. Of particular note this year is the completion of the new surf club for the Whangarei Heads Volunteer Surf Life Saving Club. The new clubhouse was funded through grants and donations including $150,000 from NZ Lottery and $150,000 from Foundation North. In addition to this Surf Life Saving Northern Region undertook and completed stage two of the Radio Network upgrade to a digital network at a cost of $200,000. This was generously funded by grants from key funders including Foundation North $94,000, Akarana Community Trust $50,000 and Sir John Logan Campbell estate $30,000.
cashflows. Looking forward, more capital builds are under way with Red Beach Surf Life Saving Club due for completion in October 2018 and Karekare Surf Life Saving Club, United North Piha Lifeguard Service Incorporated and Surf Life Saving Kariaotahi Incorporated all looking at new builds in the next 12-24 months. Total Revenue has increased by $680,000 compared to the prior year with the most significant increase being grant income due to our capital build projects. Income from club hire and membership user-pays has also increased, while there has been a fall in sponsorship income. Funding is used to deliver our key services including Volunteer Lifeguard Services, Paid Regional Lifeguards, Sports, and Community Education.
Funding for these two significant capital projects has contributed to the net surplus for the 2018 year, with payments relating to these projects reflecting in the statement of
COST OF PRODUCT SALES
GAMING COSTS
COMMUNITY EDUCATION LIFESAVING SPORTS
REGIONAL LIFEGUARD SERVICES
Our cash position remains strong with $2.5 million held in cash and $3.1 million held in investments. Fixed Assets have increased with the Radio Network and Capital Building projects and a significant cost continues to be our annual depreciation expense of $1,043,000.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES For the Year Ended 30 June, 2018
2018 $
2017 Restated $
REVENUE FROM EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS Club Hire, rental income, bar income User Pays Income
791,499
618,273
1,008,630
870,926
Gaming Machine Income
132,035
117,500
Sponsorship
358,682
457,737
SLSNZ
227,796
160,592
86,182
50,000
150,397
165,178
Rock Fishing Lifeguard
39,073
15,623
Other Revenue from Exchange Transactions
18,234
-
2,812,528
2,455,829
1,266,000
1,266,000
Non Auckland Local Councils
253,891
224,663
Grant Funding for Operations
1,229,177
1,128,526
Grant Funding for Capital Projects
790,107
232,818
Foundation North Grants
310,067
37,332
SLSNZ - Fundraising and Grant Funding
301,641
319,991
Fundraising, Donations and Legacies
712,616
1,330,245
Total Revenue from Non Exchange Transactions
4,863,499
4,539,575
Total Revenue
7,676,027
6,995,404
915,295
537,706
72,896
117,540
Cost of Product Sales
126,949
104,891
Regional Lifeguard Services
757,925
940,565
Sports
423,288
961,200
Community Education
169,539
377,830
NLS Trust Disbursement Net Product Sales
Total Revenue from Exchange Transacitons REVENUE FROM NON EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS Auckland Regional Amenities Funding
COST OF DELIVERY Lifesaving Gaming Costs
2,465,892 3,039,732
Gross Surplus
5,210,135
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3,955,672
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES For the Year Ended 30 June, 2018
2018 $
(CONTINUED)
2017 Restated $
OPERATING EXPENSES
Club Activities and Transactions
266,487
576,326
4,353,252
3,141,738
590,395
237,608
Gain on sale of fixed assets
18,981
31,327
Other Income
68,311
79,610
Other Income
87,292
110,937
Administrative Expenses Operating Surplus
OTHER INCOME
FINANCE INCOME Finance Income
106,531
121,377
8,885
5.793
97,646
115,584
Gain on revaluation of available-for-sale financial assets
33,332
44,865
Total Other Comprehensive Revenue and Expenses for the year
33,332
44,865
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR
808,665
508,994
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR ATTRIBUTABLE TO EQUITY
808,665
508,994
Finance Costs Net Finance Income OTHER COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY For the Year Ended 30 June, 2018
Available-for-sale asset fair value reserve
Retained earnings
$
Balance at 30 June, 2016 (as previously reported) Prior Period Restatement
$
Total equity $
86,939
13,422,502
13,529,441
-
(320,000)
(320,000)
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR Surplus Other Comprehensive Revenue and Expenses for the year Balance at 30 June, 2017 (restated)
- 44,865 131,804
464,129 -
464,129 44,865
13,586,631 13,718,435
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE REVENUE AND EXPENSES Surplus Other Comprehensive Revenue and Expenses for the year Balance at 30 June, 2018
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-
775,333
775,333
33,332
-
33,332
165,136
14,361,964
14,527,100
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION As at 30 June, 2018
2018
2017 Restated
$
$
ASSETS Cash and Cash Equivalents
2,581,261
2,679,063
Financial Assets
2,389,737
1,648,788
Inventory
154,134
140,327
Trade and Other Exchange Receivables
269,815
239,667
Current Assets
5,394,947
4,707,845
Financial Assets
723,678
773,938
-
-
9,024,572
8,603,784
835,813
529,509
Non-Current Assets
10,584,063
9,907,231
Total Assets
15,979,010
14,615,076
564,598
325,982
3,613
3,613
13,325
120,822
709,822
281,504
1,291,358
731,921
552
4,720
Loans and Borrowings
160,000
160,000
Total Non-Current Liabilities
160,552
164,720
1,451,910
896,641
14,361,964
13,586,631
165,136
131,804
Total Equity
14,527,100
13,718,425
Total Equity and Liabilities
15,979,010
14,615,076
Loan, Lifesavers Foundation Property, Plant and Equipment Capital Work in Progress
LIABILITIES Trade and Other Payables Finance Leases Loans and Borrowings Deferred Income Current Liabilities Finance Leases
Total Liabilities EQUITY Retained Earnings Available for sale assests fair value reserve
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS For the Year Ended 30 June, 2018
2018 $
2017 $
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Cash receipts from grants, sponsorships, donations, fees
8,128,699
7,035,094
(5,582,280)
(5,595,891)
106,531
121,377
(8,885)
(5,793)
2,644,065
1,554,787
18,982
31,327
(1,535,523)
(1,065,440)
Acquistion of capital work in progress
(306,304)
(168,663)
Proceeds from / (investment in) term deposit
(657,357)
(987,589)
Lifesaver’s Foundation loan
(150,000)
-
(2,630,202)
(2,181,365)
Proceeds from borrowings
-
13,325
Repayment of borrowings
(107,497)
(21,268)
Aquisition of finance lease
-
8,333
Payments to suppliers and grant recipients Interest received Interest paid Net Cash from Operating Activities CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment Acquisition of property plant and equipment
Net Cash used in Investing Activities CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Repayment of finance lease
(4,168)
-
(111,665)
390
(97,802)
(626,188)
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 July
2,679,063
3,305,251
Cash and Cash Equivalents at 30 June
2,581,261
2,679,063
Cash Flows from Financing Activities Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Surf Life Saving Northern Region is a public benefit entity for the purposes of financial reporting in accordance with the Financial Reporting Act (2013). The entity is a society incorporated and domiciled in New Zealand established under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 and registered under the Charities Act 2005. The registered office is at 3 Solent Street, Mechanics Bay, Auckland. These consolidated financial statements comprise the entity and its controlled entities (together referred to as the ‘Group’). SLSNR and its controlled entities were established to provide life guarding activities, community education and sporting programmes within the northern region. The Group consist of 17 Surf Life Saving Clubs and 4 Trusts which are controlled by Surf Life Saving Northern Region as defined in the Public Benefit Entity standards - IPSAS 6 Consolidation and Separate Financial Statements. The summary financial statements are for the year ended 30 June 2018 and have been prepared in accordance with Public Benefit Entity FRS 43 Summary Financial Statements. The summary consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a historial cost basis and are presented in New Zealand dollars (NZD) which is the Group’s functional currency. The Group qualifies as a Tier 2 reporting entity as for the current and prior periods it has had between $2million and $30million operating expenditure. Relationship to full Consolidated Financial Statements: The summary consolidated financial statements were authorised by the Board on 21st September 2018 and these have been prepared in order to provide interested persons with a succinct overview of the past performance of the entity. The specific disclosures have been extracted from the audited consolidated financial statements dated 21st September 2018. The full consolidated financial statements were audited by BDO Auckland. The Group is a public benefit entity. Users of the summary consoldated financial statements should note that the information contained therein cannot be expected to provide as complete an understanding as provided by the full consolidated financial statements of the Group. Users can request the full consolidated financial statements of the Group from the CEO, Matthew Williams, at 3 Solent Street, Mechanics Bay, Auckland Central. Prior period Restatement: As per PBE IPSAS 3 Paragraph 47 the Group has restated the comparative amounts for the prior year. This is due to the previous recognition of an asset at current valuation, not cost less accumulated depreciation as stated in the Group accounting policies. The restatement has removed the asset revaluation reserve for the revaluation of the building which has resulted in a decrease to retained earnings by $320,000 and a decrease to property, plant and equipment by $320,000 in the prior year comparatives.
Approved for and on behalf of the Board this 24th day of September, 2018
Board Member
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OUR P EO P LE SLSNR Board of Directors
PATRON
Denis Black
HONOURS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT
John Thomas
Malcolm Beattie OBE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ian Godfrey – Chairperson Anthony Drake David Comp Denise Bovaird John Chapman Rob Ferguson
Pauline Butt
Joanna Hobson Mark McCarthny (Resigned February 2018)
Neil Reid (Resigned February 2018)
AUCKLAND MARINE RESCUE CENTRE TRUSTEES Kevin O’Sullivan – Chair
Gain Zohrab – Trust Secretary Mike Taylor
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Laurie Bell
Johnny Clough – Lifesaving Advisory Group
Graham Reiher
Jonathon Webber – Chair
Mike Lee
(Resigned April 2018)
Brooke Archbold
Pauline Butt – Community Education Advisory Group Tara Coe – Club Development Advisory Group SPORT OPERATIONAL COMMITTEE Wayne Franich – Acting Chair (Sep 17- Mar 18)
Dave Shanks – Chair Bradley Walters Glen Phipps Michelle Newton Mark McCarthny JUNIOR SURF OPERATIONAL COMMITTEE Richard Rogers – Chair
NORTHERN LIFEGUARD SERVICES TRUST Trustees
David Chambers – Chair Andy Pitcher
Chris Tennent-Brown Michael Buck Scott MacBeth Susanna Stuart Secretary
Julia James PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES Auditor
BDO Auckland
Andrew Fernie
Grant Davis-Calvert Joanne Hobson
STAFF Chief Executive Officer Matt Williams
Chief Financial Officer Jean Doherty
Sport Manager
Simone Spencer (Resigned January 2018)
Lewis McClintock (Appointed January 2018)
Operations Manager Adam Wooler
Lifesaving Manager Chase Cahalane
(Resigned December 2017)
Duncan Buchanan (Appointed December 2017)
Calvin Hicks
(Acting April 2018–April 2019)
Club Development Manager Talia Comp
Community Education Manager Clare Cotter
Volunteer Lifeguard Supervisor Dan Lee
Paid Lifeguard Supervisor Stephen Butt
Support Services Supervisor Zane Rademaker
Insurance Broker JLT Insurance
Training Supervisor
Banking Services
Grants Officer
Mike Brown Tim Rogers
SLSNR Staff
ASB Bank
Legal Advisors Bell Gully
Paul Hardy
Barbara Leyland Office Manager Vorng Nhem5)
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N O R T H E R N R EG I O N COA S TA L D R O W N I N G 2 017-2 018 S N A P S H OT Drowning data is sourced from Water Safety New Zealand’s DrownBase™ and the figures provided are provisional as at 20/09/18
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78%
44%
22%
11%
$394,800
COASTAL DROWNING DEATHS
MALE
ROCK FISHING
SWIMMING/ WADING
SOCIAL COST TO NEW ZEALAND OF ONE WATER- RELATED SERIOUS INJURY RESULTING IN HOSPITILASATION
TRYING TO RESCUE OTHERS
$3.5 million SOCIAL COST OF ONE WATER DROWNING FATALITY
NZ EUROPEAN MAORI
ETHNICITY
ASIAN PACIFIC UNKNOWN
65+ 45>54
AGE
35>44 15>24
189:1
FOR EVERY $1 INVESTED, $189 IS RETURNED BASED ON 427 ANNUAL RESCUES, AND INVESTMENT IN SURF LIFE SAVING NORTHERN REGION OF $8 MILLION PER ANNUM.
Preventable fatalities include recreational and non-recreational drowning deaths. They do not include those fatalities classified as ‘other’ (arising as a result of road or air vehicle accidents, homicide, suicide or of unknown origin) as these are not considered applicable to the prevention and rescue effor ts of the water safety sector.