Bude Surf Life Saving Club

21/08/2026

18/08/2026

🏆✨Masters National Champions ✨🏆

Huge Congratulations to all the masters team for an epic weekend of racing, unbelievable team work & winning the national trophy for the 4th year running 🙌🏽

There are so many Thank yous that need to be said as there are a huge number of people needed to help make these kind of events happen;
⭐Firstly to Holywell Bay Surf Life Saving Club , for hosting the event; the months of hard work you guys have put in has not gone unnoticed…you smashed it💪🏽 good luck with the rest of the week’s competition!
⭐ Big shout out to our captains James & Mel⁩ for the mega amount of background work that they do!
⭐Our team manager Anna⁩ for keeping us organised throughout the weekend
⭐All the supporters / club handlers that were running around all weekend making sure kit was where it needed to be (superstars!!!)
⭐ The club members involved in the huge team effort of organising kit / loading trailers / making sure everything was in one piece.
⭐ The coaching team who help keep us driven & motivated
⭐ Finally the club members who gave it their all & helped Bude bring the trophy home 🏆

Good luck to our Nippers and Junior team who begin their competitions this week … let’s go Team Bude 🔴🟡

Surf Life Saving Cornwall Surflifesaving GB

16/08/2026

Surflifesaving GB National Championships is well underway with teams across the UK competing all week (Masters - Juniors - Nippers) 🙌🏽 hosting club Holywell Bay Surf Life Saving Club have done an unreal job with the hosting / organising / running of this event…it’s going to be a good week of big competition 🌊💪🏽🔴🟡

05/08/2026

Tonight our Junior members have been training hard ready for the upcoming National championships that kicks off in just over 2 weeks 🤩

Their most recent round of competition took them to Polzeath at the end of July for the Cornish youth championship 💪🏽 Bude took a fantastic group of juniors for 2 fabulous days of competition!

Wall to wall sunshine, near perfect sea conditions and a great host club meant the juniors had lots of fun on the beach and in the sea between events…☀️🌊

Bude came home with a 7th place finish which was such a great result for our club and testimony to not only the individual successes but also the biggest team we have taken for several years! As a club we want to celebrate but also thank you for your commitment to our club and support for events like this – team work really does make the dream work 🌟

📷- SLS Cornwall

04/08/2026

✨🏆 Cornish Champions 2026🏆✨

What an amazing weekend of Sun, racing and friendship ✨

So proud of not just the result but of the whole club and its ethos. We have such a great team, from our newest members to seasoned veterans and our amazing support crew and helpers.
Competitions like these are a HUGE team effort & to come away with the team win is a testament to the hard work that has been put on by not only our competitors but the people working hard in the background to make it all possible 💪🏽

Lets get ready to do it all again in 2 weeks time at the Nationals 🙌🏽

Shout out to Portreath Surf Life Saving Club & Surf Life Saving Cornwall for making it all happen!

📷 Kernow beach (Rhys Ellis-Davies)
📷 Graham Keat

31/07/2026

Huge shout out to our team of 48 awesome Nippers who headed to Carlyon Bay last week for the Cornish Nipper Championships 🙌🏽 some epic performances, big results and amazing team spirit; emphasising what our club is all about ✨

Big thank you to hosting club Carlyon Bay Surf Life Saving Club / Surf Life Saving Cornwall for running such a great weekend, so much hard work Goes into these events and it absolutely did not go unnoticed!

Our masters team are heading to Portreath tomorrow for their Cornish championships … good luck 🍀

(Bude Nipper Cornish champ medal placings in comments below 👇)

31/07/2026

Happy international Lifeguard appreciation day 🙌🏽
Lifeguarding is one of the foundations of our club, and plays a huge part of the community work that we do. Over the years hundreds of members have successfully completed their lifeguard qualification and gone on to achieve amazing things and assist / rescue / save lives 🌊

Maggie Dorey completed her Lifeguard award with Bude SLSC, and is one of Budes epic RNLI lifeguards. Today she is off to Kensington Palace to represent the women lifeguards of the South West at a special event to celebrate 25 years of the RNLI and lifeguarding.

Maggie started her lifeguard journey from being a six year old Nipper at Bideford Bay Surf Life Saving Club, competing in various National competitions over to years to taking her SLSGB Surf Lifeguard award at Bude Surf Life Saving Club at 16. She is now working for the RNLI on Budes beaches as a Senior Lifeguard ✨

In the words of Maggie’s Dad Martin; ‘HUGE RESPECT to the coaches, trainers and assessors of the Surf Life Saving movement who made this journey possible’ .

We’re so proud of Maggie, and the lifeguards of Bude past & present for all they do to keep our beaches safe & inspire the future generation of life savers 💛❤️

29/07/2026

Big shout out to the Junior coaches this evening who supported a family searching for their missing 10 year old child on Summerleaze beach.
During the training session coaches were made aware of the incident & were able to assist with the successful search 🙌🏽

Alongside this Club member Jay Turner rescued 2 people attempting to swim from the sea pool back to the high tide line on Summerleaze beach.

Well done team, this evening was a showcase of the club doing what we do best ❤️💛

12/07/2026

Today we ran our annual Northcott to Crooklets 2km swim in memory of Mike Moyle.

Well done to all of those who took part!! We were blessed with perfect conditions.

We’d like to say a massive thank you to our club members who gave up their time to organise and officiate the event, and to those who provided safety cover for our competitors!

What a day!

🔴🟡

10/07/2026

🌊 NIPPERS TRIALS – OPEN INVITATION 🌊

We're opening up places for our next Nippers trial at Bude Sea Pool!

📅 Sunday 12th July

📍 Bude Sea Pool

We'd love to see new faces give it a go. Here's what you'll need to show us on the day:

🏊 Age 7–8: One length freestyle

🏊 Age 9–11: Two lengths freestyle

Successful swimmers will be invited to a second trial at Splash to complete a 50m freestyle swim.

To confirm your attendance and get timings, please EMAIL [email protected]

Looking forward to hearing from you! 🤙