TSRUK Supporters

1. Donate to the Tsunami Surf Relief UK fund

Please send cheques payable to “Tsunami Surf Relief UK” to:

Tsunami Surf Relief UK

2. Join our fundraising efforts

We know there are lots of you out there already running campaigns and raising money. We aim to coordinate the efforts of surfers and surf businesses across the UK and support them under the TSRUK banner. Get in touch and let us know what you’re doing! We’ll publicise your event on this website.

3. Support Surf Relief Day on 9th April 2005

The main event of Surf Relief Day will be a major contest held at Fistral Beach in Newquay. Details of the day and big name entrants will be posted here as they become available. Bookmark the site and keep checking back! But if you can’t make it to Newquay, there will be coordinated surf events, contests and sponsored activities taking place around the country to raise funds for Tsunami Surf Relief UK.

4. Buy a Calendar

The BPSA 2005 Surf Calendar (sponsored by Sri Lankan Airlines) is on sale at participating surf shops around the country. It costs £5 and 100% of your money goes to the Tsunami Surf Relief UK fund.

Disasters Emergency Committee
This is the largest of all the aid organisations organising support for the affected countries.
12 charities are affiliated with DEC, they are: ActionAid; British Red Cross; CAFOD; Care International; Christian Aid; Concern; Help the Aged; Merlin; Oxfam; Save the Children; Tearfund; and World Vision.
Visit: www.dec.org.uk

Shelterbox
Lots of the money being raised in Cornwall is going to ‘Shelterbox’, set up by the Helston Rotary club. One of these boxes contains a ten-man tent, ten sleeping bags, tools, cooking aids and clean water. One box costs £490. So far, 250 Shelterboxes have been shipped out to Sri Lanka, and 250 to Jakarta, Indonesia. To see pictures of the boxes in use, visit: www.shelterbox.org

Surf Aid ’s mission statement is: ‘To significantly improve the health of the Mentawai people, and to encourage and coordinate the support of the global surfing community.’ They have been working to help people in the Mentawi Islands off Sumatra since 2000, and now, in response to the tsunami, initially sent a medical team of 10 into Nias to deliver emergency aid to the population. More recently they sent two more boats in, and now have a medical team of thirty, which is expected to grow. SurfAid have also contracted an offshore tanker with 60 tons of fuel so that boats operating within the area can deliver aid quickly and efficiently.
Visit: www.surfaid.org