Life Saving Victoria congratulates its six remarkable and dedicated lifesaving volunteers and members who have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday 2021 Honours List.…
Month: June 2021
While Victoria’s 57 volunteer lifesaving clubs have taken down the red and yellow flags until season 2021-22, the Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter Service will still be on standby ready to help as required.
This wouldn’t be possible without our incredible …
Today, in the metropolitan areas, modern aquatic and leisure facilities provide a broad and increasingly more sophisticated range of health and social wellbeing benefits to local communities.
The strong growth in Melbourne’s suburbs drives community demand for new and large …
As a valued individual or representative of an organisation in Life Saving Victoria’s (LSV) network in the aquatic and education sectors, we would like to advise you of an opportunity to be involved in the governance of LSV.
We are …
A new national Water Safety Strategy has been introduced in a bid to significantly cut the drowning rate in Australia.
The Australian Water Safety Strategy 2030 was launched on the 25th March by the Hon Mark Coulton MP, Minister …
New CEO for Life Saving Victoria
After a rigorous and highly competitive recruitment process, LSV are pleased to advise Catherine Greaves has been named Life Saving Victoria’s new CEO. Formally of Emergency Management Victoria, Catherine will commence with Life Saving …
Swim teachers are being offered the opportunity to renew their swim teaching licence with Life Saving Victoria (LSV) for free throughout the month of June.
The initiative follows a significant increase in the Victorian drowning toll during 2020-21 and a …
Life Saving Victoria (LSV) have joined forces with Aligned Leisure, Belgravia Leisure and The Y to create 240 new Victorian swim teachers through the provision of free accredited training.
With estimates that more than 1,000 new swim teachers are required …
As a qualified primary school physical education teacher, Margaret Hewett always had a keen interest in sports.
After becoming involved at Beaumaris Life Saving Club in 1992 through her daughter’s interest in swimming, Margaret soon took up the role of …
As Melbourne enters its second week of lockdown, LSV is reminding parents to be aware of the hidden drowning dangers around the home following a spike in child drownings during last year’s lockdown.…