Community Involvement

Community Benefit Arrangements resulting in on-going fundraising

Sawtell SLSC is fortunate that there are groups prepared to use the services of the Club in various ways and are prepared to give a donation for the services provided.

MANLY NIPPERS

For almost 20 years, Manly Nippers have held a spring training camp at Sawtell. The club appreciate the warm welcome that Sawtell SLSC extends to our families. Manly LSC thanks Sawtell SLSC and the local community for allowing us to train in this beautiful environment.

THE ARMIDALE SCHOOL (TAS)

TAS is a co-educational independent boarding and day school on the New England tablelands who has for many years offered students the opportunity to attain their Surf Bronze Medallion through a partnership with  Sawtell Surf Life Saving Club.   TAS students spend several days through the year at Sawtell SLSC learning surf swimming and rescue techniques, culminating in an  intensive week of training and assessment in November.   TAS is grateful for the passion Sawtell SLSC instructors share with our students, for the hospitality in having us to stay, and is proud to reciprocate with practical assistance as a way of saying ‘thank you’.

Many thanks to these organisations who consider Sawtell SLSC a reliable provider of services and in return are prepared to make a donation.

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Sawtell SLSC is also fortunate that there are many local businesses prepared to assist our Club in other ways.    This support is greatly appreciated and we encourage our members to actively support them.

McGRATH ESTATE AGENTS

McGrath will donate $500 to the Club for any member who lists their residence for sale through their agency and the residence is sold by McGrath. Please nominate our Club.

NEWCASTLE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY

We’ve proudly supported surf life saving for over 30 years. We support surf life saving from the Central Coast to the Queensland border, assisting surf life saving branches and clubs to purchase essential safety equipment, perform volunteer patrols and provide training and leadership programs to nurture our surf life savers of tomorrow.

With a focus on junior surf life saving, we’re helping sustain the future of surf life saving in our community. It is our hope that junior life savers will realise their full potential not just as athletes, but as confident, motivated and passionate individuals and future leaders within our community.

If you choose to refinance your loan with Newcastle Permanent please nominate our Club.

REBEL SPORTS

Rebel Sports offer an amazingly generous benefit when our members (or anyone in the community) sign up for their kickbacks scheme.  The Club accumulates a tally of credit points that converts to cash that the Club can redeem in kind in the store – which means we can get free equipment, or purchase big ticket items such as go pros, fit bitz etc for raffling.  The Club has already redeemed thousands of dollars of value from this scheme – buying boards, game equipment and items for raffling.  Signing up is beneficial to  members as well. It gives access to our diverse Member Offers, and our range of in-store services including the lifetime mechanical tuning of our bicycles! The 30 seconds of your time taken to sign up benefits everyone.  Link to Rebel Sports Coffs Harbour

Ritchies IGA
When shopping at Ritchies if you buy using a community benefit card/tag linked to Sawtell SLSC then Ritchies will donate money back to the club. These cards/tags can be used at ANY Ritchies store throughout VIC, NSW and Qld by members and their families.
If you don’t already have a CB card/tag please collect one from the club (these are already linked to Sawtell SLSC and ready to use) or alternatively you can collect one at the checkout next time you shop at any Ritchies store, to use every time you shop.  All you do is nominate Sawtell SLSC, it’s that easy!  This is an easy way for us to raise funds for the club with no costs involved.