Arugam Bay Well Project - Sri Lanka

Surfplugs is proud to report that we have donated enough money from Surfplugs sales to fund a new village well project in Sri Lanka. Tim Tanton, founder of the Paddle4Relief charity has said:

'Arugam Bay Surf Club have managed to lease some land on the beach front, we will soon be building a surf club and are fortunate to have a well on the land. Your donation will go towards the regeneration of an unused, dirty and contaminated well and it will be named SURFPLUGS!'

A proportion of all Surfplugs sales continues to be forwarded to this fantastic charity which helps to rebuild the community which lost over 40,000 people and assist the forgotten victims of the tsunami that hit these islands on Boxing Day 2004.

Surfplugs assists the P4R charity

Surfplugs has teamed up with local Devon based charity Paddle4Relief which was formed shortly after the 2004 Asian Tsunami. The founder of P4R is Tim Tanton who has been raising funds to help rebuild the local community of Arugam Bay on the south east coast of Sri Lanka. The P4R charity holds a range of activity including the popular Saunton sponsored paddle and Surfplugs are pleased to being doing our bit and donating 1.5% of all sales to the charity - we aim to be able to donate enough to fund a well project each year. For more details about Tim and the P4R charity visit http://www.paddle4relief.co.uk/

Why text your mates about your surf trip?

The little Beep Beep of my phone just alerted me to another nugget of useless text information, but these little notes often take the edge off the day. This particular day isn't going well, it's raining outside, the surf is blown out, and I'm sat in the workshop making Surfplugs getting heady on the lacquer and covered in dust and on top of all this I've just superglued one of my fingers to an envelope (??). So reaching for my phone I was further depressed to learn that it was Nick 'Lloydy' Lloyd just letting me know that he's off on a 10 day surfing boat trip to indo. Has the man got no feelings? and on top of that he wants me to provide him with a new set of surfplugs for his trip, He's a great chap and a decent surfer but fancy telling me stuff like that! it was only a few months ago that he texted me in the same way to tell me he was off to Sri Lanka (have a heart my man, think of us all left behind trying to paddle out through blown out freezing mush back here in Devon)..... Well I'm making the plugs right now for you...... One of them is poo brown with a big picture of a C*ck on it and the other Surfplug has the words 'I love it up me' on it... I hope you like them!

Rob