6346 people in total in sessions and hire (including repeat customers) estimating 3788 individuals in lessons came last year. This breaks down to 597 coastal explorers, 2900 surfing, 1119 bodyboarding, 485 SUP, 605 rockpooling, 122 snorkelling, 146 in private lessons, 418 in adaptive sessions. This last year we worked with 30 schools (reaching 2123 school children) and 62 community groups (1083 people accessing through community groups). We’ve had fewer groups and schools this year but more people as we’ve had longer term engagement and bookings. 802 instances of individual hire 43 kids benefited from our weekly SEN surf club for children aged 8-16 using 303 spaces in the sessions with an average attendance of 10 per week and maximum of 19. Increase on last year of 22 kids with average attendance up 25% 15 kids benefited from our weekly SEN surf club for children aged 16-24 using 99 spaces in the sessions with an average attendance of 3 per week and maximum of 8. 23 people identifying as LGBTQ+ attended 2 free sessions. 24 vulnerable students from a local secondary school surfed for free over 10 sessions using 24 spaces. 36 women and girls attended 4 sessions using 74 spaces for free. 32 Young Carers attended 26 sessions using 198 spaces for free. 35 individuals from the Laygate Mosque surfed and paddle boarded for free using 128 spaces over 18 sessions. 16 individuals from the Compact For Racial Equality South Tyneside surfed and paddle boarded for free using 34 spaces over 9 sessions. 2 schools came for 6 week surf programmes for 32 kids each for free - targeting the schools with the highest proportion of children on free school meals. 83 children accessed our holiday surf lessons through the Holiday Activity and Food Programme, using 183 spaces through 24 sessions. 39 different people benefited from our fully funded adult wellbeing session and used the drop in sessions when they needed and 170 spaces were used in the 19 sessions. 63 Veterans are registered with the Sea Company project with average weekly attendance of 6 people. Increase of 28 people and up 50% on regular attendees. 268 people with disabilities came surfing with our adaptive surf offer using 418 spaces. Over 30 volunteers signed up and helping us out but only an average of 10 regular volunteers. Same as last year. We funded and trained 12 new qualified lifeguard staff plus 3 renewals. We ran 2 beach lifeguard courses and 1 surf coach rescue for 19 new candidates and 5 renewals 32 regular attendees in our community kids surf club. 50 beach cleans We act as a point of information/safety for the public at the beach - particularly when the lifeguards are not on duty and have been directly involved in 3 rescues/first aid incidents involving 3 people accessing the beach/ocean independently of us. Ran the Autumn Beach Festival with 18 organisations including the national trust. We estimate that over 1000 people attended the event each day. We collected data from our participants on the impact of our sessions via a questionnaire and we had 58 responses from those attending our SEN sessions, our adaptive surfing sessions, our women's surf sessions and our adult wellbeing sessions. 86% of respondents said they wouldn’t be able to access an alternative or similar service. This increases to 100% if just looking at provision for SEN and disabilities. 100% said that they enjoyed our sessions. 93% said they learned something. 55 said that they learned something, 3 who did not said it was about sensory experience due to PMLD 100% said it benefited their wellbeing in a significant and positive way. 81% of people said that the sessions benefited them in their lives outside of surfing in a positive way.

We work with our local organisations and groups to create projects that serve our community, in some cases we are approached by the community to create these projects like our adaptive surfing for people with disabilities and in our veterans project. In others we approach them asking how we can serve like in our diversity group where we worked with CREST and the local mosque to see how to help encourage more people to gain the benefits of our sessions. In day to day operations we have encouraged all participants to leave reviews of their experiences and listen to their feedback. We also ask verbally all clients about the experiences they had, and record this in the session reports. We work with groups that come down consulting via email prior to trips to make sure that they get the trip that they need, and create bespoke programmes for them and resources. We then follow up after to see what experience they had and use this in future courses. We use a designated feedback form for this process. We send out a general feedback from at the end of our busy season to find out what we need to improve on. This years overall rating is below based on a rating from 1 poor to 5 great. How was the booking process? Average rating (4.73) How was the checking in process? Average rating (4.72) How did you find the facilities? Average rating (4.37) How did you find your session/lesson/activity? Average rating (4.88) How would you rate your experience as a whole? Average rating (4.77) We got participant, parent and group leaders in our pay it forward scheme to fill out feedback and experience forms (seen in the previous question) We have used wellbeing questionnaires and have shown across all measures beneficial improvements from our activities for our participants. We have an online public feedback form available via our website and facebook page.

£30,818

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