4 Burning Palms Surf Life Saving Club Inc. – 86th Annual Report – 2024-2025 Season In competition the RNP District Carnival was not held due to massive seas and bad weather. A back up date was not available due to the end of season Branch, State and Australian Championships. It was decided to cancel the carnival completely. Our March Past Team was out and about with the only placing being 3rd at the Sydney Branch Championships – unfortunately they missed a major place at the State and Aussies. I would like to thank the members who voluntary assisted with support for the Sydney Surf Life Saving Championships at Wanda. IRB support Wayne and Riley Vaughan, First Aid Todd Mison and Terry Farley. A job well done in supporting our competitors. Peter Pearce OAM and Adam Dansie attended a morning tea with the Member for Heathcote, Maryanne Stuart MP who presented us with a framed copy of her Community Recognition Statement at the First Session of the fifty-eighth Parliament about Burning Palms and what its achievements have been for a small isolated Club during the past 85 years – we appreciate her commitment and support. We continued during the season to look for grants and have submitted the following: NSW Surf Clubs Facility Grant for solar batteries and fire mesh – completed. BSEF Grant – replacement of IRB motor and rescue board – completed. CLEGS Grant – Rescue Equipment – completed. For all the above grants we appreciate the support from the Federal and NSW Governments. We have no direct sponsorship, we are relying on Grants from Surf Life Saving NSW and the Grants Unit SLS Foundation. We continue to seek assistance but it is difficult for a small Club with no businesses in the area. If any member has any contacts, let us know and we will follow up. The Surf Life Saving Lottery and the Return and Earn recycling program has returned little. Members, we need to focus on this more next year to achieve more funds from both. During the first three months we conducted a number of Skills Maintenance Assessments for all Awards and we show our appreciation to Gary Daly ESM, Dr Paul Cooper and Terry Farley for conducting these. We also extend our thanks to Lifesaving Officials, Gary Daly and Dr Paul Cooper for their time in training and assessing throughout the RNP area. We also extend our appreciation to our Surf Sports Officials, Stephen Strange OAM and Gary Daly ESM for the Club’s competition support at carnivals with the March Past Team. Todd Mison also competed at the Aussies in the Ocean swim. The Royal National Park Manager Brendon Neilly, along with Area Ranger Mel Keith, and Team Leader David Croft, continued the financial support towards our rescue gear and equipment along with first aid for the visitors to the beach and Figure 8 pools. This has greatly assisted the Club, in particular towards supporting our many visitors. Our relationship with the RNP is strong and we look forward to this close association continuing. We are still in negotiation with the RNP and State Government over additional financial support to assist with building maintenance, also gear and equipment. We again thank Brendan, David and Mel for their additional expenditure to assist us and the public with a new safe all weather access to the beach. We also thank the RNP for their support with the vehicle exemption permits for our members. We are disappointed that the new approved helicopter landing area has not commenced building. This is due to resources being allocated to other urgent areas within the Park.
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