North Beach Surf Life Saving Club
North Beach SLSC is one of 12 surf life saving clubs in the Canterbury Region. We are a non-profit, volunteer based organisation committed to the prevention of drowning and injury in the North Beach and wider area.
What We Do
Each day our during summer, beach patrols set out the red and yellow flags to show the safest place to swim. We train new Surf Lifeguard’s how to identify potential victims and potential dangers. We work with the public to prevent people getting in trouble.
Surf Lifesaving New Zealand
Every year more than 2.3 million people go to the beach at least once during the summer. Unfortunately on average 127 people drown each year in New Zealand.
Surf Life Saving is an organisation of people, ordinary people who do extraordinary things. And while they may be ordinary people with ordinary jobs, last summer over 1,400 New Zealanders owed their lives to them.
History
North Beach was originally started by some of the New Brighton club members who lived at the north end of the beach. Rather than swim at their own surf club (a mile down the beach) they set up the North New Brighton branch of the New Brighton Surf Club. This was later formally established as North Beach Surf life Saving Club in 1916.
Nearly a century on, North Beach is still going strong with a proud club history and many goals for the future to ensure that our club remains one of the best in Canterbury.