Special Awards


National Honours
Every year the Sussex Branch nominates members of clubs throughout Sussex for National Awards.  Clubs put forward names of their members for consideration by the awards sub-committee of the branch.  To qualify you have to be a full member of the RLSS.  Nominations are sent to headquarters for national ratification, and once these are cleared by the National Honours Committee, the various medals and certificates are awarded.

  • The Medal of Distinction is awarded for outstanding service at club or national level or notable contribution at national level
  • The Certificate of Recognition is awarded for continuing contribution at club or branch level
  • The Certificate of Merit is awarded by the branch for ‘Meritorious Service’ cited and endorsed by the branch.
  • The Service Medal is presented for 12 years continuous service to the RLSS
  • The Bar to Service Medal is presented for 16 years continuous service to the RLSS

This year the following Club members have been nominated and will receive the following awards:

  • Reg Blackwell - Medal of Distinction
  • Richard Calvert- Medal of Distinction
  • Nigel Divers - Certificate of Recognition
  • Rachael Kaiser - Certificate of Merit
  • Betty Hakelsey- Recognitionof Service (40yrs)
  • Simon MacDonald-Mewton - Bar to Service Medal

We would like to congratulate all the above members for achieving national recognition!

 

 

Is This A Record?

In January a special presentation was made to three members of Worthing Life Guard Corps all aged 14. Nothing unusual, except, that the presentation was for the Distinction Award, the highest award in RLSS Lifesaving.

Ellie Prail aged 14 in June 2009, George Linfield-Brown aged 14 in March 2009, both from Worthing and Richard Lintern aged 14 in May 2009 from Sompting. They all passed the pool section of the award at the Aquarena in December 2009, fourteen is the lowest age that the award can be taken. They all completed their Silver Cross open water award in the sea during the summer months. A magnificent achievement and it shows the considerable dedication they have all applied.

Three all passing the award at the lowest age possible, this must be a record!

Richard, Ellie and George

George, Ellie and Richard

 

The Diprose Award

This is a Branch award named after our own Club's previous President, Bob Diprose. It is awarded to a branch member who is deemed to have contributed a great deal to the promotion of Lifesaving in the county.

This year we are pleased to announce that it has been awarded to Pamela Shaw in recognition of the sterling work she has carried out in the field of competition. Not only has Pamela done very well as a competitor in her own right, but has guided the Club Squad to great heights during her incumbency as squad captain. Only last year Pamela attended a judges course and now helps out at Branch events in that capacity, if not competing herself. Both the Club and Sussex Branch owe much to Pamela's keeness and dedication over the years; this accolade we feel is greatly deserved.

Recently after six years as our Competition Secretary, Pamela has decided, due to pressure of her job, to have a rest and has relinquished the post. Pamela has worked tirelessly for our Club as our Secrcreatry, and the squad has made remarkable inprovements. During her leadership we have been represented at Sussex Branch level, Regional level and at National level and have had some wonderful results. Pamela has been a National Champion and has seen her many charges blossom under her leadership; we have had the best results ever during her time as Secretary.

The 2007 Worthig Town Cup was one of her spectacular triumphs with the senior team winning the event and the Geoff Taylor Trophy for the incident and the Rookies winning the trophy; a superb triple in front of the Mayor of Worthing. The Mayor was suitably impressed and invited the teams to visit the Mayor's parlour; this was particulalry enjoyed by the younger memebrs of the squad and a fitting reward for Pamela's leadership skills. Her enthusiasm knows no bounds and she has managed to keep the squad together during some very difficult times. Quite how we will find a replacement of such stature, we do not know. Pamela will still be a Trainer/Assessor and will hopefully compete for the Club for many years to come and we hope the momentum she has created will continue. Congratulations Pamela on a well deserved award.


Pamela and her National Championship GOLD medal.

Previous WLGC winners of this award are:

1983 Betty Hakesley
1984 Richard Calvert
1992 Frances Garrard
1993 Betty Hakesley
1998 reg Blackwell
2000 Wayne Dix
2006 Hayley Bourne

 


Betty Colquhoun Cup

The fifteenth presentation of the Betty Colquhoun Cup will be made at this year’s AGM. This award is given to a member who has made a significant contribution to Club activities. The winner is presented with the Cup for a year and a miniature replica to keep.
The recipient of the Cup this year is Heather and we are delighted to honour Heather with the presentation of this award. Heather has been a member of our Club for well over 20 years. Teaching, examining, assessing she has also been a member of the committee since 1997. Heather is also our representative as Child Protectio Officer for the Club. Her experience as a professional lifehuard really comes in useful when she teaches the NPLQ and also in all the other awards she gets involved with. She is a very fair and consisten examiner/assessor and puts her candidtaes at ease with her lively personality.
Heather has also been instrumental, together with Paul Olliver, in guiding the Club towards the Club Mark award. This is an award recognised as the benchmark for club organisation which we are well on our way to gaining. We are ahead of the game mainly due to Heather and Paul’s efforts and we are only now waiting final approval.
Heather's commitment and contribution to our club has been tremendous, her enthusiasm and her infectious laugh has graced our committee meetings now for may years and we are all grateful for her commonsnnse approach to all that she tackles.
The committee are delighted to present the Betty Colquhoun Cup to Heather Herridge and we would like to thank her for the enormous contribution she has made to the success of our Club.

Previous winners of the Cup are:

1995-96 Barbara Watson
1996-97 Bridget Harrison & Sheila Rickson
1997-98 S. MacDonald-Mewton
1998-99 The Carter Family
1999-00 Wayne Dix
2000-01 Betty Hakesley
2001-02 Geoff Taylor
2002-03 Carly Salmon
2002-03 Richard Calvert (Trophy)
2003-04 Reg Blackwell
2004-05 Nigel Divers
2005-06 Pamela Shaw
2006-07 Frances Garrard
2007-08 Paul Olliver


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