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Surf Leadership – The WavePoint Foundation

Take a look at our past and present fundraisers to see how we've delivered tangible aid to surfing communities around the world.
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How did this come to our attention?

The Wave Point Surf Leadership Initiative was born out of a need to raise and develop future leaders using surfing as the vehicle. It’s a leadership program that focuses on character development and finding your God given purpose and vision for life.

Surfing is a fun, healthful, physically and emotionally stimulating activity that is the perfect sport to incorporate and impart these leadership skills. It teaches patience and tenacity and instills confidence. Surfing is all about the individual; it builds a young person’s confidence organically and they will become more self-assured not just in the water, but in their day-to-day life.

Through surfing the Wave Point Foundations trains young people to become who more self-assured not just in the water, but in their day-to-day life.

100K

Children Helped

18000

Volunteers Worldwide

$100M

Fund raised

The Wave Point Foundation is a Christian non profit organisation based in JBay South Africa. It is the outreach ministry of Wave Point Church who is lead by Ps Cjay & Natalie Jansen
  • Raise up: growing young leader that can bring transformation to their community
  • Activate: inspiring new generations to connect with God, his creations and help them to make healthy choices for their future
  • Lift up: giving our community opportunity to truly lift themselves out of poverty


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The Story of us

How did this come to our attention?

The Wave Point Surf Leadership Initiative uses the sport of surfing as a vehicle to raise up future leaders

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What is Groundswell Aid?

– During the 19th century a profusion of charitable organizations emerged to alleviate the awful conditions of the working class in the slums. The Labourer’s Friend Society, chaired by Lord Shaftesbury in the United Kingdom in 1830, aimed to improve working-class conditions.

How do you make sure my gifts to Groundswell Aid are spent wisely?

– In the Enlightenment era charitable and philanthropic activity among voluntary associations and rich benefactors became a widespread cultural practice.

How do you know which organisations need help?

– Charities also began to adopt campaigning roles, where they would champion a cause and lobby the government for legislative change.

Is my donation tax-deductible?

– If you’re in the U.S., yes, you can.

Where does my money actually go?

– In the Enlightenment era charitable and philanthropic activity among voluntary associations and rich benefactors became a widespread cultural practice.

How do you choose surf communities?

– This emerging upper-class fashion for benevolence resulted in the incorporation of the first charitable organizations.

What percentage of my donation goes towards programs?

– The Enlightenment also saw growing philosophical debate between those who championed state intervention and those who believed that private charities should provide welfare. The Reverend Thomas Malthus.

What’s your goal?

– Charities also began to adopt campaigning roles, where they would champion a cause and lobby the government for legislative change.

Updates

2020 / Hello World

Groundswell Aid is given a booth at the January Global Surf Expo trade show in Orlando Florida where they connect with the mainstream surfing industry for the first time.

2019 / Groundswell Trade

Simultaneously in order to meet the growing running and infrastructure costs of Groundswell Aid, we launch Groundswell Trade a small fair trade sustainability product line that assists with branding and increases sustainability.

2019 / Groundswell Made

We discover that the supported projects are producing products. To aid with sustainability Groundswell Aid sets up an online retail space selling the products on behalf of the Projects.

2018 / Launch

In an unscripted poetic moment, Groundswell Aid launches formally at the Christian Surfers International Gathering in Hossegor, France 14 years after initial concept is pitched.

2017 / Soft Launch

Groundswell Aid is soft-launched to the senior leadership of Christian Surfers and starts supporting projects raising and distribution $60,000 in Aid within 18 months.

2016 / GSA meets Misfit Aid

Roy Meets Jeff Ryan, Founder of Misfit Aid. Jeff re-brands Misfit Aid into Groundswell Aid Australia.

2015 / Conception

Roy Harley the incoming International Director for Christian Surfers refloats the Groundswell concept refined as a community development vehicle for Christian Surfers.

2004 / False Conception

Roy Harley & Mark Edwards pitched Groundswell as a branding idea at the Christian Surfers International Gathering in Hossegor, France, but nothing comes of it.