Introducing Tama's new Safety and Compliance officer, Brett Appleton

"Seascapes of the East" Throughout Covid-19 and even without a clubhouse at Tamarama, we continue to present WONDERLAND ART FESTIVAL… and this year we celebrate our 4th edition over 5 years.  

Notice is hereby given that the 117th Annual General Meeting of the Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club Incorporated will be held at 1400 hours on Sunday 6th August 2023 at Bronte Surf Life Saving Club, Bronte Road, Bronte in the State of New South Wales.

Please join us and bring your friends to this year's Tamarama Awards Night to be held at Bronte Surf Club from 6.00pm. 

Join us at Bronte Surf Club for Wonderland Art Festival!

Please join us in celebrating our ‘Exhibition Opening Night’ at the upcoming 3rd Wonderland Art Festival at Bronte Surf Club. See below for your special invitation and exhibition program - tickets just $10. On the festival program is an exciting FREE ‘Art Auction’… with lots more on offer over three special days from 12th to 14th October, 2022.

Season 2022-23 Club Office Bearer Nominations

President: Matteo Salval
Nominated: Zoe Scott-King. Seconded: Michelle Cowans. Accepted: Yes.

Vice President: Sandra Fox
Nominated: Matteo Salval. Seconded: Zoe Scott-King. Accepted: Yes.

Captain: Richard Hamilton
Nominated: Alex Jang. Seconded: Michelle Cowans. Accepted: Yes.

Secretary: Charlotte Grace
Nominated: Arnaud de La Chaise. Seconded: Albert Gillies. Accepted: Yes.

Treasurer: Thomas Love
Nominated: Michelle Cowans. Seconded: Richard Hamilton. Accepted: Yes.

CTO: Arnaud de La Chaise
Nominated: Albert Gillies. Seconded: Michelle Cowans. Accepted: Yes.

JAD: Jon Hancock
Nominated: Brad Charters. Seconded: Albert Gillies. Accepted: Yes.

Notice is hereby given that the 116th Annual General Meeting of the Tamarama Surf Life
Saving Club Incorporated will be held at 14:00 hours on Sunday 7th August 2022 at Bronte
Surf Life Saving Club, Bronte Road, Bronte in the State of New South Wales.
This notice has been made available via email and on the Club Website. Tamarama SLSC
respects the environment, and so unnecessary mailed paper notices have ceased.
Nominations for Club Officers and Support Roles are open 18 July 2022 and close 2pm
Sunday 31 July 2022. All nominations must be received by this time via email to
[email protected]. Each nomination must be proposed and seconded by active
members of Tamarama SLSC and be accompanied by the written consent of the candidate.
A complete list of nominees, proposers and seconders will be posted by 6pm on Sunday 31
July 2022 on the Club Website.
This year the Annual Report and Financial Statements will be available via the website at
http://tamaramaslsc.org/theclub/annual-reports/ before the meeting.
We hope to see you at the Annual General Meeting, which is a time for us all to meet and
plan for another successful season together.

Yours Sincerely

Albert Gillies
Secretary

The project to rebuild Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club is well underway. Those that would have walked past would have seen little progress as the project has experienced an enormous amount of rain delays. There have also been a lot of delays as the project team put in a lot of work in carefully demolishing the original building without affecting the iconic façade. 

Now there have been strong foundations built, some asbestos has been carefully removed and there has been a lot of effort put into reinforcing the retaining walls. The building is now ready for the concrete slab for the base of the building which will be poured in the next couple of weeks. 

Hi Team Tama

I hope everyone is having a good week and staying dry (when out of the ocean).

Can you believe this is the last profile of our Tama Women series?! It’s been quite a journey I think and it is fair to say that we have highlighted the tremendous talent we have across all our women at Tama, and I know some were a little shy but we know you are all awesome too.

Well, we are finishing on an even higher note! It is only fitting that our Woman of the Year for last year, takes the honours to finish our series. 

It is a great pleasure to introduce Lisa Bodrero, or Lisa Frenchie to many of us. I was lucky enough to be part of the same Bronzie cohort in 2020, and now she is one of my closest friends. That's the magic of Tama again.

Lisa is one of our key Comms team members, she is our club Registrar, she is a key helper for our ‘She’s a Lifesaver’ campaign, she ensures that these profiles are out every week! She was integral to our Celebration of Women in SLS weekend, she was also one of the main event organisers for our incredible Awards Night last year, she is IRB Crew and Driver in training and she will soon be one of our club trainers. I know she is highly regarded and appreciated by our Management Committee for all her hard work, energy, and time she devotes to our club. 

Aside from all of that, she is also incredibly tough, as many of you know, she is recovering from an IRB knock, but is already itching to get back in the ocean. She is also one of the most organised, structured people I know, whenever I need assistance trying to solve a problem that requires logical thinking, there is only one person to call (she usually finds it quite amusing as well!). She is a social bunny, passionate Gropers member, extremely generous with her time and a damn good friend.

So over to our Tama Woman of the Year 2021…to you, Lisa

Thank you,

Zoe - VP

Lisa :)

Hello amazing Team Tama People,

This special edition is a summary of the end of season Tama Glama 2021 Awards night. It started back in March when I was asked to chair the Awards committee, which felt such an honour, I had to say yes!

So here we go, we created a few new Whatsapp groups (!) and started planning a night that we hoped would be a success. First thing first, when are we celebrating? Well, with the club rebuild starting on 4 May we only had a few options, so the end of season weekend it is, Saturday 24 April!

Now it’s time to get the survey out and ask you to nominate club members, across 9 awards, for their contribution throughout the season. You certainly responded: 132 nominations were submitted in just 10 days, thank you!

The Awards committee (Marc Larmour P4, Lance Brooks, P5, Jemima Waddell P8 and I, Lisa Bodrero P4)  met after patrol on 10th April to review nominations.

Having awardees is one thing, but we also needed a crowd to cheer and celebrate with them. How many people can we have?, what's the Covid limit, how many functioning tables and chairs do we have… 66 people and a few “staff” working on the night, bringing us to 70, no more, no less!

Harriet, our fabulous MC for the night, sets-up tickets on Humanitix and you start buying them light hot cakes. Sold out 5 days before the event. We would have loved to host all of you but such is life post 2020.

On the day, David Murphy and his Keen Beans sous chefs: Audrey, Sammy, Paul prepared the most delicious food!

Harriet, Michelle, Ben, Guy, Arnaud and Lisa glammed up the hall for its final hoorah. Marlin compiled some of our best shots of the season for a background slideshow.

There was a red carpet, fairy lights, candle lit red and yellow table centres, the iconic cabana bar was stocked and the room was filled by happy members dressed with a touch a Glamarama and sparkles