National Life Saving Championships

The road to this year’s RLSS UK National championships began on a sunny October afternoon in Dorchester. To qualify and represent the Southern team, you need to win the Southern Regional competition against teams drawn from across the Wessex region in the West, to Thames valley in the North and East and as far South […]

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Rookie Gold Stars

Congratulations to the following 13 members of our club who have all worked extremely hard over the last 4 months to achieve their Rookie Gold 1 Awards. Aimee Ball Lewis Percival Dylan Hall* Lola Pilley Riley Hayes* Ellen Shakles Emma Heckford Archie Snook* Emily Kenway Sidney Sullivan Isla McGregor Samuel Travers James McGregor * – […]

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Sandbanks Tri – Safety Cover

Today (18th September 2022) saw the last of our Safety Cover Events this year with the Results Triathlon at Sandbanks Beach. This was the 3rd attempt of starting this event, seeing as the traffic lights due to the prolonged roadworks earlier in the year, at shore road, prevented the organiser from being to start the […]

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Lifesaving at Hamworthy Fete

The club had its first stand, since the pandemic started, at Hamworthy Park where we were able to not only promote the club, but along with RLSS Wessex Branch, promote water safety and lifesaving skills, as well as giving members of the public the chance of having a go on our resus manikins. It was […]

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Beach Training 2022

Our first beach training session of the year got off to a great start. The weather was warm but overcast with occasional showers. Both Rookie and Survive & Savemembers turned up eager to get in the sea.Our aim was to teach the young people how the skills learnt at the pool can be transferred to […]

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