Seaford Life Saving Club
Ms KILKENNY (Carrum) (09:54): Congratulations to Seaford Life Saving Club on their successful funding in this year’s state budget. Following compelling advocacy by the club, Seaford Life Saving Club will receive funding to purchase all-abilities equipment like beach matting and beach wheelchairs to help more people get down to the beach and into the water. I commend Seaford Life Saving Club not only for the wonderful work they do as volunteers in helping to keep our communities safe but for their commitment to wanting to make our beautiful Seaford Beach accessible to even more people. Back in 2019 I met with the then junior coordinator for the Nippers program, Jackie Goudy, about getting kids as well as adults with additional needs on the beach and in the water with their friends. I commend Jackie and the Seaford Life Saving Club for taking such positive steps and generating change to make our community more inclusive, more welcoming and fairer and better for all of us. I wish to acknowledge club members Samantha Collins, Darren McLeod, Sheila Stones and Peter Stones, with whom the Treasurer and I recently met, for their ongoing commitment to making our beaches more accessible to even more people.