At Northern Stars Swim School, we are committed to actively supporting our local community in a variety of ways. Our Community Afloat Program brings together all of the initiatives we get involved in within the community. If you would like to discuss any intiatives that would be a good fit for this program, please email [email protected] and one of our friendly staff will give you a call
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What have we been involved with lately?
Saving Chloe SaxbyChloe Saxby is one of our valued little swimmers at Northern Stars, and we are actively involved in the fight to save Chloe from a rare genetic degenerative terminal brain disease called Vanishing White Matter Disease. Chloe's family are fighting hard to find a cure and need all the help they can get - to read more about Chloe's journey or to donate, please visit her website: http://chloesaxby.com.au/
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Project 291Northern Stars proudly won a Swim Australia Community Service award for our participation in Project 291, which is a collaboration with Big Fat Smile, Surf Educators International and Bellambi Bowling Club for underprivileged children in our local area. These children are given a free week of intensive swimming lessons, along with beach and surf awareness education. The program has been evolving and is still happening at Northern Stars today with Big Fat Smile organising underprivileged local children to attend and gain life-saving swimming skills.
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Gift for Life ScholarshipsNorthern Stars are collaborating with Woonona Bulli RSL to make available 20 scholarships to give 20 local children a 6 month scholarship of free swimming lesssons. Applications are accepted from families going through any type of financial or medical hardship and scholarship recipients are awarded the free swimming lessons on a day and time that suits them. We are committed to giving the gift of swimming to as many children in our local community as possible.
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UOW Rwanda Project We recently supported Tim Pollock, one of our team members who went to Rwanda to assist with the UOW Humanitarian Project building new facilities for poverty stricken communities in Rwanda. Thanks to everyone who bought goodies at our bake sale - Tim reached his fundraising goal!
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Awsom ProjectWe proudly sponsor the Awsom project each year to help save Vietnamese children. 32 children drown in Vietnam every day and this program provides vital swimming skills to poor children in the Mekong. More info at: https://www.beattypark.com.au/swimming/awsom-charity-project.aspx
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Skyia Thomas ScholarshipSkyia Thomas was born on 15 July 2001. She was the first baby for Siria & Mal Thomas, and her arrival was eagerly awaited. After a very traumatic posterior birth at 41 weeks, Skyia suffered a brain haemorrhage caused by overuse of the ventouse (suction) and she died on the day she was born.
Over the next 16 years, Siria & Mal were blessed with 3 more beautiful children, and opened Northern Stars Swim School, where children from all over the Illawarra are learning skills that could save their lives in the water. The Northern Stars, Skyia Thomas Scholarship began in 2017, and is a way for Siria & Mal to give back to local families who are under medical hardship, in Skyia’s memory. The recipient of the scholarship receives a year’s worth of swimming lessons free of charge at Northern Stars Swim School |
Supporting Our Local Schools!We are big supporters of our local primary schools, providing donations, fete & raffle prizes and trivia night prizes at various times through out the year.
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Know something our Community Afloat team could get involved with?
Email us at [email protected]
Email us at [email protected]