Westshore Surf Life Saving Club

02/11/2025

A fantastic Open Day for Junior Surf.
A massive thank you to all the parents, kids and coaches.
Also to all those that helped on day.
We hope you all had fun and we'll see you next Sunday at 10.30am.

31/10/2025

Westshore Junior Trainings start next week

4.30- 5.45 pm Monday – Friday

Coach - Bailey

Come and join us for some extra surf training during the week! This program is designed for keen 10–14 year olds who want to build their board paddling and ocean swimming skills. Parents are welcome to stay, support, and enjoy the community atmosphere.

Sessions are free of charge! 🌊🏄‍♂️

WESTSHORE Junior Surf Squad.
Westshore Surf Life Saving Club

23/10/2025

A rāhui is in effect from Te Karaka (Perfume Point), extending out to sea Pania Reef including Town Reef down to 3nautical miles west of The Panui Statute on Marine Parade. and Town Reef. The rāhui applies to all recreational and commercial activities, including but not limited to:

• Fishing and the taking of kaimoana
• Diving or snorkelling
• Boating, paddling, surfing, and other water-based recreation
• Any form of commercial marine activity within the defined area

The rāhui has already been cast by our kaumatua and chairs and takes effect immediately (now until 6:00am Friday 24th October) and will remain in place until it is lifted following a whakanoa (cleansing and closure) ceremony.

15/10/2025

2025/26 Season Registrations are Open
As a current member, you will need to log into your Friendly Manager account to register. You can do that by going to our website westshoreslsc.org and using the login area in the top right corner.

11/10/2025

Westshore Ice Breaker – Volunteers Needed! ❄️

We’re hosting the Ice Breaker event next weekend on Saturday morning and need a few legends to help out! 💪

👷 Works Crew: 4 volunteers needed to assist with setup and pack down.

🚤 IRB Team: Looking for a driver and crewman to event guard from 9:00am–10:30am.

If you can lend a hand, please comment below or message us — your help makes a huge difference 🙌

Let’s make this year’s Ice Breaker another great one for Westshore! 💛❤️

11/10/2025

Westshore Ice Breaker – Volunteers Needed! ❄️

We’re hosting the Ice Breaker event next weekend on Saturday morning and need a few legends to help out! 💪

👷 Works Crew: 4 volunteers needed to assist with setup and pack down.
🚤 IRB Team: Looking for a driver and crewman to event guard from 9:00am–10:30am.

If you can lend a hand, please comment below or message us — your help makes a huge difference 🙌

Let’s make this year’s Ice Breaker another great one for Westshore! 💛❤️

06/10/2025

05/08/2025

The Paid Lifeguard Supervisor/Guard and Beach Education Instructors are now open. It is an extremely quick turnaround with applications closing on the 24th August. Please find the facebook post below.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16wGSbCFrY/

Sarnia Brewer
Club Support Lead ‑ Hawkes Bay
https://www.surflifesaving.org.nz
A: PO Box 39129 Wellington Mail Centre Lower Hutt 5045
M: 027 677 2300
www.surflifesaving.org.nz

The Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) Youth Pathway Team wrapped up an outstanding campaign at the 2025 Queensland Pool Rescue Championships over the weekend.

17/07/2025

Board nominations are open for the AGM 3rd August 2025.
All positions are open for nominations however at this stage we have no nominations for Director of Finance and Secretary.
If you nominate someone please ensure they have agreed and all nominations must be made by two members or the current board of directors.
The Finance role is essential to the running of the club and we need someone asap so we can ensure a comprehensive handover.

We also have a paid Administration position available, details below:

Part Time Administrator Role

10-15 hours per week averaged throughout year (Up to 20 hours per week season start and likely a maximum of 10 hours per week during off-season).

Tasks and Responsibilities:
 Maintaining membership databases i.e CRM and Friendly. Loading all subscription applications at the start of the season, invoicing, then maintaining the database.
Providing regular subscription reports and following through with unpaid subs.
 Loading and paying bills in Xero, ensuring income and expenditure is coded correctly with documentation for accurate reporting purposes. Regularly reconciling Xero.
 Loading coaching hours into Xero payroll and processing payroll for payment fortnightly. Sending a payroll report through to the director of Finance on a Monday to arrange payment in TSB on a Tuesday, fortnightly.
 Sending an accounts payable summary through to the director of Finance to arrange payments in TSB normally monthly for 20th payment or as and when a Board member requests a payment to be made.
 Completing GST 6 monthly and PAYE monthly
 Keeping accurate records of coaching hours for SLSNZ funding and reporting. (Creating a detailed spreadsheet with accurate recording of the type of coaching and hours completed each week, relating directly to the funding provided).
 Keep accurate records of all income and expenditure for funding
application processes
 Supporting with processing/ record keeping for funding applications
 Checking Westshore post mail
 Managing club bookings and calendar as requested by the Westshore Secretary
 Supporting Board Members administration as and when required

Please send expression of interest for the paid Admin Role and all Nominations to secretarywestshore@gmail.com

10/07/2025

Further information below for the Special General Meeting

WESTSHORE SURF LIFESAVING CLUB INC.
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
3.00pm Sunday, 3rd August, 2025
Remits to be presented

Remit 1: That the Westshore Surf Lifesaving Club Inc. adopt the 2025 Constitution as presented.
Explanation: As part of the requirements for re-registering with Incorporated Societies, under the new 2022 Act, the Club has to have, in place, a compliant Constitution. SLSNZ have developed a compliant, model constitution for use / adaptation by clubs. In consultation with SLSNZ we have inserted our existing governance model to the SLSNZ model constitution. A number of other small changes were also necessary. The changes to Board of Directors Officer names were discussed, and approved by the Board and reflect current practice/needs.
Remit 2: That the Westshore Surf Lifesaving Club Inc. not seek an audit of the Club’s 2024-2025 Annual Financial Statements (Performance Report).
Explanation: Under our current 2016 Constitution clause 16.4
Auditor: The Board of Directors shall appoint an independent auditor to examine and audit the books and accounts of the Club and report on these at the Annual General Meeting and as otherwise required by the Board of Directors.
Currently, neither the Charities Commission (limit $500,00) nor Incorporated Societies (limit $3,000,000) require Audited Financial Statements (Performance Report). In recent years, even with Government funding, out turnover has not exceeded $250-300,000. In recent years, due to changes to the Accounting Act, audits have become prohibitively expensive and hugely more time-consuming to comply with. To that end, the Board has proposed rewording the Audit clause in the new constitution from requiring annual auditing to allowing audit or review as requested. We have also sought advice from our Accountants as to our ability to pass a retrospective remit to not audit our 2024-2025 Annual Financial Statements (Performance Report). The Accountant’s advice was the Club could pass a remit not to audit the 2024-2025 Annual Financial Statements (Performance Report). In line with this advice, we are seeking to pass this remit which, once the 2023-2024 audit is complete and the Audited Financial Statements (Performance Report) are ratified, the Club will be able to put a line under what has been a difficult few years in our financial reporting.