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A crucial element of Royal Life Saving Northern Territory’s activities is working with all Territorians to raise awareness and share water safety skills and knowledge, specifically to prevent drowning. As a public benevolent institution (PBI), public education and advocacy are at the core of our purpose.

In the past financial year Royal Life Saving Northern Territory has had an active involvement in 94 community events at schools, shopping centres, parenting groups, remote communities and major Northern Territory events including Water Safety Week, Children’s Week and the Defence Expo.

In addition to these events, two new events were attended, National Families Week and the YMCA’ s Youth Week Pool Party. These events were enjoyed greatly by the volunteers who attended them and gave great exposure to the activities of the organisation. Over 25,860 members of the community directly interacted with Royal Life Saving Northern Territory at these events. This is a substantial decrease in Territorian’s engagement with water safety messages compared to last year and is directly related to the global pandemic, which saw the cancellation of the NT Show Circuit, Lifestyle expos and the Darwin Festival events.

RLSSANT implemented a revised community engagement plan which saw an increase in the delivery of RLSSANT hosted community activities. The revised circuit started off in Alice Springs with an Active Family Fun Day at Ellery Creek Big Hole. The circuit continued to Tennant Creek for the River Safety Picnic at Lake Mary Ann which has been named the ‘Tennant Creek Regatta’ by local people. Katherine played host to two community events at Edith Falls and the Katherine Hot Springs. The last community pop up event was in Darwin at the Waterfront Lagoon. All events introduced a new signature activity of Stand-Up Paddle boards, which was very popular with all participants. In total, 20 community events were coordinated and hosted by RLSSANT in the revised community engagement plan. This demonstrates the commitment and dedication of the staff members and volunteers of Royal Life Saving Northern Territory to drowning prevention in our community.

These innovative events allowed RLSSANT to directly connect with the community. Thank you to all the volunteers who were involved with the revised circuit and helped to make each event a great success.