Taylors Mistake SLSC

27/02/2026

| Speaker series | 🟢⚫️⚪️

A reminder of our guest speaker evening tomorrow!
A bevy of brilliant speakers are at the Club from 5:30pm with kick off at 6pm. We’re covering everything from how they got to where they are today, to considerations for looking after themselves.

📆 Sunday 1 March
⌚️ 5:30pm for 6pm start
💵 $20 at the door, cash or eftpos
🥤 Drinks available for purchase, snacks available
📍 Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club
🟥🟨 Encouraging all SLS wāhine to come along! Open to everyone

Army Captain and Black Fern Laura Bayfield

Dr Sophie Eccersall - Women in STEM

Dr Vanessa Weenink - MP and ex NZDF officer

Deb Bush MNZM QSM, world leading endometriosis expert, women’s health advocate and speaker

Grace Brooker NZ rugby union and Australian rules player, Bachelor of Sport Coaching

Te Rauoriwa Gapper, provincial and Super rugby player, teacher and mum

Stephanie Redepenning, pilot and women in aviation advocate.

24/02/2026

| Commitment, courage and community | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Six days after we shared the news about our November bp Southern Rescue of the Month, we are delighted to share that Surf Life Saving New Zealand recognised the incredible team effort from a rock rescue in January with another bp Rescue of the Month.

The rescue of an injured fisherman off the rocks in early January was a community effort. We are incredibly grateful for the assistance of Coastguard Sumner, locals, Canterbury Police, Sumner Volunteer Fire Brigade, Hato Hone St John and especially the brilliant Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust.

The team work and professionalism of volunteers in Sumner and Taylors Mistake is phenomenal - the community is so well looked after. Thank you Lewis M, Joe H, Taylor C, Tig C, Liv J, Brooke G, Dave M, Simon A and everyone else on the patrol. Also to our Clubbies who were responding with Coastguard - Patrice and Niels assisted by Blair Q.

Events in, on and around the water can be life changing. We send our regards to the fisherman and wish you all the best in your recovery journey.

🟥🟨

📸 Photo by Simon A.

22/02/2026

| Wāhine toa 💪🏼 | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Kia ora wāhine toa of Surf Life Saving, to all our women in Canterbury Waitaha! We have an event designed for you - primarily aimed at surf life saving athletes to increase our kaupapa around looking after our physical health and mental wellbeing.

We will begin with an introduction from our special guests, where they talk about who they are and how they got to where they are today. We will then shift to a Q&A style session with some ready made questions to get things rolling before we open to the floor for your questions.

The aim to is focus on menstrual health, functional nutrition and requirements to optimise your body to keep yourself healthy and high performing!

We are so lucky our guests have donated their time to discuss this important marau / topic. It is a short notice period due to commitments from our speakers we didn’t have much wiggle room sorry!

The online ticket is free however we will charge $20 at the door on the night. Eftpos available.

⌚️ 5:30 club open for 6pm start

🗓️ Sunday 1 March

📍 Taylors Mistake SLSC

💵 $20 at the door, cash or eftpos

🪑 Limited space so please book a space via this link in the comments ⬇️

🟥🟨 See you there!

20/02/2026

| Karma Keg | 🟢⚫️⚪️

A reminder of our Karma Keg fundraiser this afternoon at Moon Under Water to help raise funds for the senior sport athletes transport costs to Nationals.

⌚️ 3pm - 5pm

🗓️ TODAY Sat 21 Feb

📍 152 Somerfield Street, Somerfield, Chch

🍻 Have a catch up and support the athletes to Nats!

18/02/2026

| When the norm is extraordinary | 🟢⚫️⚪️

It’s easy to forget how extraordinary our volunteers are, and the extraordinary māhi that they do. There are 4500 volunteer surf lifeguards in Surf Life Saving New Zealand, protecting you when you swim between the flags 🔴🟡

We have high expectations for all our life savers - from the freshest qualified guard, to our SAR team and everyone in the Club, you soon discover there’s no ‘OFF’ switch for any of them! In November last year there were several rescues out of patrol hours, and we are so grateful for our locals who are life guards and maintain a watchful eye over Taylors Mistake.

We are so thrilled that SLSNZ recognised the excellence required by our off-duty lifeguards who identified a swimmer being rapidly drawn into a powerful rip following post-storm conditions. Through swift decision-making, coordinated public assistance and multi-agency communication, the semi-conscious patient was rescued and stabilised with oxygen before ambulance arrival, preventing a likely fatal outcome.

Thank you bp for the voucher, we appreciate your support! Thanks to SLSNZ for recognition of the rescue. A big ka pai te mahi to our guards - we awhi your māhi 🫶🏻

🟥🟨

14/02/2026

💧

Residents and visitors to areas of New Brighton, Burwood, Wainoni, Aranui and Southshore are being advised to boil their water until further notice after a sample within the zone was found to be contaminated.

13/02/2026

| Best wishes! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Roses are 🌹

Violets are blue 🫐

Good luck down at Southerns! 🔵🟡

Do the best you can do! 🥇 🥈 🥉

-

Karawhiua! Go for it! Give it heaps Taylors Mistake SLSC team ⚡️ Safe travels - kia haumaru te haere.

We’ll keep you up to date over the weekend with results in our FB stories.

12/02/2026

| Worth the wait! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Read to the end to find out why…

It’s wonderful to finally share some fantastic photos with you from the Surf Life Saving New Zealand
Advanced Lifeguard Award.

Every year, lifeguards from around the motu are invited to apply for the programme. With the Clubs’ support, we were thrilled to support Kaydens’ application to the school. Kayden was accepted (ka pai tō mahi!) and ventured up to the Mount with 17 other senior surf lifeguards in December.

🔴🟡

“The lifeguards are … returning home better equipped to lead and protect their communities”.
‘This is the pinnacle of lifeguard development. The four-day programme qualifies Senior Surf Lifeguards as Advanced Surf Lifeguards through intensive training that tests them mentally and physically… undertaking long days that began at dawn and often ran past dusk. Learning was delivered through a dynamic mix of theory sessions, physical challenges and hands-on practical scenarios designed to reflect the complexity of real-world rescues.

Training covered advanced first aid care, leadership and decision-making under pressure, search and rescue techniques, precision IRB driving in challenging environments, and complex rock-based extractions and recoveries. On the final day, candidates were required to bring all these skills together in a series of realistic and demanding practical scenarios.’

🔴🟡

In addition, Kayden G from Taylors Mistake SLSC
was named as the Top Candidate for 2025. Whoop CONGRATULATION Kayden - ka mau te wehi! We’re stoked for you and are already benefitting from you sharing your knowledge 🙌🏼

08/02/2026

| Near and far | 🟢⚫️⚪️

You can be a Taylors Clubbie near or far. This past weekend we had a crew at the Piha Invitational competing against some of the best of the best. The Invitational requires you to apply and get an invite for the limited spots available.

Taylors Mistake SLSC had Lucy S, Ruby H and Taylor C representing the ‘03 for a board, ski, swim and iron race. Some great results from the crew and another excellent experience to mix it with the best from around the motu! Check our stories for results

Tau kē! - well done!

🟢⚫️🔴 Thanks Piha

06/02/2026

| TYFYS! | 🟢⚫️⚪️

Thank you for your service regional guard 🫶🏻 We appreciate the Clubbies from Canterbury surf life saving clubs helping protect people at the beach and looking after our clubhouse over Summer.

Regional Paid Life Guard Service from SLSNZ | Southern Region Christchurch City Council is done and dusted for the season! What does this mean?

🌊 Paid life guards patrolling the beach from Monday to Friday are FINISHED.

🟥🟨 VOLUNTEER patrols on Saturday and Sunday are still ACTIVE from 11am - 5pm until mid March

📲 This means during the week, if you see someone in difficulty in the water you need to ring 111 and ask for Police who will activate a water response via Surf Search and Rescue or Coastguard.

🛟 We also have the PRE Public Rescue Equipment about halfway down the beach in the sand dunes (facing you as you walk towards the beach). Please only use this if you feel confident in the water.

❤️‍🩹 The publicly available AED is in a yellow box on the outside of the Taylors Mistake SLSC gear shed, please ring 111 for the code in an emergency.

Have fun in the water, just be extra mindful there are no life guards on during the week now. If you get caught in a rip REMEMBER to
RELAX - try to float on your back 🌊
RAISE - your hand to signal for help 🙋🏽
RIDE - the rip until it weakens 🌀

📸 Photo Olivia C 👑

04/02/2026

🟢⚫️⚪️

Update

Geotech has assessed Clifton Hill after a blocked wastewater pipe caused rocks to fall from the hillside and found there is low risk of additional falls.

One lane of Main Road has been reopened so you’re able to get in and out of Sumner, but please be aware there will be significant delays in both directions.

Traffic is being managed via traffic lights that will be manually controlled during peak times to allow for traffic flow in and out of Christchurch.

This traffic system is likely to be in place for several days while the area dries out.

The Coastal Pathway remains open as usual. Clifton Terrace is also operating on one lane and may need to be closed at times for repair works.

Thanks so much for your patience and take care if you’re travelling through the area.

28/01/2026

| Ready for Summer | 🟢⚫️⚪️

The latest crop of Clubbies to pass their SLSNZ surf life guard exam! Here’s hoping Summer arrives and this fresh batch of life savers can enjoy patrolling between the flags in some decent sunshine ☀️

It’s a mammoth effort coordinating the exams, thank you to Amy from Southern office, the examiners, probationary examiners, instructors, trainee instructors and life guards that help to make the whole process happen! We have one more lot of future life savers to go, studying for the March exam - good luck team. 🤞

Thinking about joining us next season? We teach you everything you need to know and you just need to work on your swim time over Winter at the pool. We start studying well before Summer so you can be ready to go at the start of the season!

💻 https://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/join-us/volunteer

📱 https://www.taylorsmistake.com/lifeguarding/become-a-lifeguard/

🟥🟨