We now have hundreds of friends on our mailing list and on our Facebook group - that’s a powerful force of support and we need your help.

Our plan is to create a carbon neutral Eco-home for the Museum of British Surfing at Saunton in North Devon, and now is your chance to be a big part of that.
For a donation of £10 (UK sterling) to our Registered Charity, we will log your name and you will ‘buy a building-block’ to create the surf museum - we’ll make sure your name is inscribed on a founders’ plaque in the museum when it is open, to publicly thank you for your donation and support. Of course we would be delighted if you want to donate more and buy more than one ‘block’!

If you’re a UK tax payer we can claim Gift Aid on your donation, which means the Museum will receive an extra 25% from the Government.
Please help - it will be a very special Christmas present to the surf museum if you can.
Thanks very much for your support, from the Trustees and team at the Museum of British Surfing (Registered Charity No. 1131433).
How to donate:

Please post a cheque to: Museum of British Surfing Ltd, Barn View, Lower Park Road, Braunton, North Devon EX33 2HJ.
Don’t forget to include your name and address because we’ll need that to send you a Gift Aid form, and for the inscription at the Museum when it opens.
If you are outside the UK, please email thesurfingmuseum@btinternet.com for information on the best way to donate.
All donations received will go towards the planning and building of our new Museum only.

Our Charity’s official objects are:
3.1 To advance the education of the public in the history and development of surfing and its antecedents, in particular by establishing a museum for the permanent exhibition
and preservation of items of educational, cultural and/or historic value;
3.2 To promote art, music and film for the public benefit through activities including but not limited to exhibitions, displays and events including but not limited to those held
at the Museum of British Surfing; and
3.3 To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

Peter Robinson
Founder - Museum of British Surfing
www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk
Celebrating and preserving British surfing history

© The Museum of British Surfing is a Registered Charity No.: 1131433, incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee No.: 06936606. Registered office.: Barn View, Lower Park Road, Braunton, North Devon, EX33 2HJ. Tel.: (+44)(0)7801 522892

A member of AIM - the Association of Independent Museums

Our exhibition in Thurso opened with a successful launch event last night, and the discovery of an 88 year old Scottish countess who surfed in Hawaii in 1937! ‘An art history of British surfing’ runs until July 26 and if you need another excuse for visiting the waves up here on the North Shore of Scotland are superb (and not that cold - I’m mostly wearing a 3mm wetsuit).

The eco surfboard that many of you helped to fund is on display - as is Tom Pohaku Stone’s replica of the 19th century alaia surfboard ridden by Scottish-Hawaiian Princess Victoria Ka’iulani Cleghorn.

We are currently working flat out to try open in a permanent home within the next 12 months - possibly even this year. The main focus - a couple of possible buildings in North Devon - we’re waiting to here back from the local government planning team and then there should be more news.

If anyone out there has experience of creating or running a UK charity please get in touch - I’m struggling with the paperwork right now!
Thanks for your support - may the waves be with you.

Peter Robinson - Director
www.thesurfingmuseum.org.uk
Celebrating and preserving British surfing history

A limited edition British Surfing Museum Oxbow t-shirt is now available to buy.
Only 100 of these shirts have been made, so they are a collector’s item already!
We want to sell all 100 shirts and raise £1,000 for our funds.
They are available in Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large sizes - but get your order in quick if you want a Small or Extra Large in particular as there are only a handful of each.
UK & Europe - £22.50 including shipping
Outside Europe - £27.50 including shipping
Add £1.50 if you would like a British Surfing Museum sticker as well.
Payment by Paypal is preferred but please email your order first to make sure we still have your size left.

Thank you for supporting the British Surfing Museum & thanks to Oxbow for producing the shirts.

Peter Robinson
Director - British Surfing Museum
http://www.thesurfingmuseum.co.uk
Celebrating and preserving British surfing history

An art history of British Surfing

Our latest exhibition ‘an art history of British surfing’ is at the Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby from June 28 to September 7, 2008.
Art and surfing have been inextricably linked for hundreds of years, and this show looks at how both these elements combined to glide into British consciousness over the past few centuries.
From early sketches of surfers during the voyages of Captain James Cook in the 18th century and iconic hand sculpted wooden surfboards, to the flower power of the 1960s and garish fluorescent colours of the 1980s – paintings, posters, photography and film – ‘an art history of British surfing’ is a visual feast.
Also on show will be stunning replicas of ancient Hawaiian surfboards hand carved by the Tom Pohaku Stone – a lecturer in Hawaiian culture and surfer of legendary status. For the first time, you’ll be able to play our wonderful 1976 Surf Champ pinball machine, and help raise money for the British Surfing Museum at the same time!

Paddle round the Pier

We’ll be at this wonderful charity weekend on Brighton beach on July 5 and 6, 2008.
We will have a 1960s surfing beach display featuring our 1966 VW splitscreen van alongside our friends and sponsors Oxbow - come and say hello! This promises to be a great weekend for all the family down on Brighton seafront near the West Pier. Plus there’s the amazing spectacle of the Oxbow Endurance Stand Up Paddle race - a mere 10 miles from Worthing Pier to the West Pier… pray for calm conditions in the English Channel!

‘Surfing’s Golden Age: the 70s Kodachromes’ by Jeff Divine

For the first time in the UK, Jeff Divine’s iconic 1970s imagery will be on display at the Crane Kalman Gallery - 38 Kensington Gardens, North Laine, Brighton BN1 4AL - July 23 to August 31, 2008
We’ll have some original 1970s surfboards on show alongside Divine’s stunning photos. Here’s the press blurb on the show; “at a time when surfing is more popular than ever, Jeff Divine’s work pays a fitting tribute to its golden years - a nostalgic and fascinating testimony to the style, the boards, the locations, the attitudes; and not just to the sport but to the way of life. The Seventies birthed a new generation of surfers, with a new language, new attitude and, with the advent of the shortboard, a new way of surfing. Divine captured the time in a comprehensive, on-the-spot fashion. Divine’s colour saturated photography is drenched with purity and soul, and with a hint of 70s psychedelic spin. His vision was vibrantly tuned to the times and captured the free-spirited nature embodied by a sport in its adolescence.”