Surf Club Registration

Clubs that are members of Swiss Surfing enjoy the following advantages:

• Partnership – Strategic partnership with Swiss Surfing as the official elite sports federation and Swiss Olympic member.
• Discounts – Exclusive member discounts and discounted Swiss Surfing Active Membership. As well as discounts from our partners, such as special offers from Swiss Olympic.
• Ranking – competing in the Swiss championships for the club ranking.
• Support the Community – To assist Swiss Surfing in growth and development of a healthy, happy and sustainable surfing community.
• Sport Fonds – As one of the clubs affiliated to Swiss Surfing, you can benefit from money provided by the Swisslos Sports Fonds (different from canton to canton). Infos about Swisslos Sports Fonds
• Affiliation – The right to use the federation's logo on club documents.
• Protection – Protection by the articles and regulations as well as by the organs of Swiss Surfing
• Registration – place on our website, so you have a wider reach.
• Development & Education – Access to Education Opportunities and support from our committed and passionate Competence Centers (river wave, sports law, sports medicine, safety, judging, etc.)
• Network – profit from our network to different other federations
• Contact Point – Swiss Surfing as a competent contact point that provides up-to-date and well-founded information.
• Marketing – Receive at least one annual post on our Swiss Surfing social platforms to promote your club.
• Shape the future – Receive an invitation for the Swiss Surf Council.

Swiss Surfing abstains from a club fee in order to build up the sport together with the clubs and relieve the clubs financially. Nevertheless, the member clubs have the following obligations towards Swiss Surfing:

• By becoming a member of Swiss Surfing, an association is obliged to follow the articles and regulations of Swiss Surfing.
• The club recognises the “Ethics Charter” of swiss sport, the doping statutes of Swiss Olympic and propagates the ethical principles to its members.
• The club actively offers its members the National Membership. The National Membership is the Active Membership of Swiss Surfing which the local surfer can purchase at a reduced price (CHF 35.-) through the clubs. This allows us to tailor our offer for each and every surfer and to empower local surf associations as they will be the primary contact of local surfers.
• At the beginning of each calendar year we need the current membership list (deadline is the 31.12. of the previous year) which contains names, gender, addresses, e-mail addresses and type of membership. New members who join a club after the deadline are not to be named until the following year. National members must be reported periodically, otherwise they will not immediately benefit from the advantages of Swiss Surfing and will not be able to participate in the Swiss Surfing events.
• The payments of the National Memberships to Swiss Surfing are to be made in due form (by 30.01. of each calendar year at the latest).
• Swiss Surfing must be informed of any changes in the club's articles.
• Voluntary: It would be desirable that all board members of the association are Active Members of Swiss Surfing and pay the National Membership fee.

There are several reasons why Swiss Surfing needs the member lists:  

1. all members of a club affiliated to Swiss Surfing are automatically basic members of Swiss Surfing. To create a basic membership we need at least the name, surname and e-mail address of the member.
2. for the activation of the active membership we need to know which members have paid the national membership fee, so that we can activate it.
3. to see if and how the surf community grows we need data about the residence, gender and the age of the members. This data we have to forward annually to Swiss Olympics. The data is anonymized in each case. First and last name are not included in this analysis and are only used for points 1 and 2.  

Swiss Surfing treats this data confidentially at all times. It will not be passed on to partners or third parties (except Swiss Olympics as described in point 3).