The Margaret River Wineries team has won the SurfAid Cup in Western Australia with a last-second ride in solid six foot (two metre) surf.

The MR Wineries scored 51.90 to narrowly defeat HSF aka the “Bar” Boys (51.80), with Macquarie WA third (42.67) and defending champions CineAds fourth (36.77). MadFish Wines and Grace Farm’s Finest finished equal 5th, while Caporn Young and Property Construction Nuts were equal 7th.

The eight teams raised $84,000 for SurfAid and Caporn Young (Jono Cullen, Todd Bennett, Jeremy Bower and Justin Wallace) won the fundraising trophy by collecting $17,500. ...read more

SurfAid is pleased to share with you a talk - Do something that matters - that our founder, Dr Dave Jenkins, gave at the recent TEDxManly. ...read more

Top pros on the ASP World Championship Tour are lining up to compete in the SurfAid Cup, which will be held in conjunction with the Drug Aware Margaret River Pro, Western Australia.

This will be the third SurfAid Cup in Margaret River proudly supported by Surfing WA. Eight teams are aiming to raise $40,000 for SurfAid, and the event will be held on Sunday 6 April 2014 at Surfers Point.  ...read more

SurfAid and Sumba Foundation Australia are proud to announce a merger of the two charities.

Sumba Foundation Australia has been delivering health projects, clean water and a better quality of life to the Sumbanese people, while respecting and preserving their fragile culture and traditions.

Joining these two organisations, which have compatible missions, will strengthen the delivery of programs in the field. ...read more

SurfAid is proud to announce that it has received non-government organisation (NGO) accreditation from the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

SurfAid was founded in 2000 to work in the Mentawai Islands, off West Sumatra, Indonesia, but has expanded its field operations to Nias, the Telo and Banyak islands off Sumatra, as well as Sumbawa and Sumba in eastern Indonesia, and was involved in the recent emergency response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. ...read more

Newcastle City Council Boardriders have won the Michilis SurfAid Cup in half-metre (two foot) surf at Dixon Park, Newcastle, with 16 corporate teams raising $52,000 for humanitarian organisation SurfAid.

Beilby Consulting won the fundraising trophy by collecting more than $7,000 and their East Coast manager, Ben Hainsworth, who is also a committee member of the Hunter Business Boardriders, said they were delighted to support SurfAid. “It’s an awesome reflection of local community support for international humanitarian initiatives and we are very proud to be able to help,” Hainsworth said. ...read more

All JND proudly presents Surf'N'Turf -  a celebration of music and surf culture, now in its 3rd year at the laid back North Freo Bowling Club on Sat 8 March 2014. ...read more

“We have faced many challenging conditions together with the communities in the past year,” Wuijts said. “But a lack of roads, land tenure complications and severe flooding will not stand in our way to bring positive change to remote communities. We are proud and humbled by the many results we were able to achieve together.” ...read more

SurfAid has launched an appeal to assist the Filipino people in the wake of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda. Billabong and the Quiksilver Foundation have already pledged $5,000 each. Both were lead donors in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, which was SurfAid’s first emergency response after being established in 2000.

The Philippines Government estimates that the super typhoon has affected more than 13 million people (including 5.4 million children), and 4.4 million people have been displaced from their homes by one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall. ...read more

The Surfing Lawyers have won the OzForex SurfAid Cup in one-metre surf at South Curl Curl, on Sydney’s northern beaches, with sixteen corporate teams raising more than $180,000 for humanitarian organisation SurfAid. ...read more