PEREGIAN BEACH SURF LIFESAVING CLUB - FUNDING REQUEST AND UPDATE ON OPERATIONS · Attachment 1 - PBSLSC 2023-2024 Annual Report

NIPPERS

Summary of Season 2023 - 2024
We have continued to grow and build from our successful 2022-2023 relaunch season as our own Club. Our aim this
season was to consolidate from last season and start to put in place the building blocks to be a long-term Nipper
program. Our key Nippers program motos to guide as are:

    1. Have Fun while learning about surf water safety to stay safe in the water.
    2. Work as a team to keep your mates safe.
    3. If you want to, go for competition!

Key achievements:

    •    Lots of smiles on the Nippers faces.
    •    Really positive attitude by our Nippers on the beach.
    •    Seeing the improvement in our Nippers water safety skills.
             o Our final day on the beach saw a number of Nippers out the back on boards for their first time!
                  Very happy Nippers and huge growth in their skill sets.
    •    Youth has taken off and will only continue to grow, thanks Emma Nixon!
             o This was a key growth area for Junior Activities to keep our youth involved in the Club. A huge step
                  forward!
    •    We have new faces in the older age groups as well, with a strong culture of working together!
             o Call out to our U13 and U14 Nipper cohort who have supported each other and the younger Nipper
                  groups.

Volunteers
Nippers can’t happen without our volunteers! A huge thank-you to everyone involved in helping out. Volunteer’s
roles included:

    •    BBQ Helpers (water safety love the free sausage!)
             o Karen Luckman / Lisa Britten thank’s for all you do
    •    Age Managers
    •    Parent Liaison
    •    JAAO (the ones who can sign off on pool proficiency's etc)
    •    Water Safety:
             o Nipper Adult Assistant (U6 - U8)
             o Bronze/SRC holders (needed to go out beyond waist deep)
    •    Junior Activities Committe Role’s

Nippers does need more volunteer’s than other sports to run. An example to show this is: We have 10 U9’s Nippers
on the beach for the day. Conditions are:

    •    Calm day:
             o Need 1* Age Manager, 1* Parent Liaison, 2 * water safety [Bronze/SRC]
             o 4 volunteers for 10 nippers.
    •    Intermediate weather / waves
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