WHO ARE ONEWAVE?
OneWave is a non-profit surf community tackling mental health issues with a simple recipe: salt-water, surfing, good mates and Fluro Friday’s.
Since launching in Bondi in 2013, OneWave, has reached over 50 beaches Worldwide, raising awareness and reducing social stigmas around mental health issues through our Fluro Friday sunrise sessions, OneWave Surfing Experience and colourful social media activity.
HOW IT ALL STARTED?
“When I was diagnosed with bipolar 3 years ago, it was surfing with my family and my mates that helped me the most. Sometimes one wave really is all it takes. I want anyone experiencing mental health issues to have this opportunity” Grant Trebilco
– OneWave Founder
TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING ALONE...
1 in 5 people experience mental health issues each year and 65% of these people never seek treatment. We lose 6 people every day to suicide in Australia.
TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THIS
Over the next year our dream is to start 20 millon conversations about mental health and get 10,000 people in the ocean, so they can experience how good it feels to catch a wave and openly talk about mental health. These people can then use the benefits
of the ocean and surfing as part of their recipe for managing their mental health.
HELP US BUILD THE ONEWAVE COMMUNITY... BECAUSE SOMETIMES ONEWAVE IS ALL IT TAKES
We have seen first-hand the positive impact surfing and talking openly about mental health can have on peoples lives and this is why we need your help.
We need your help to continue to build the OneWave community Worldwide. By growing a supportive community connected by the ocean, we can provide a place where people feel safe talking about mental health issues. This combined with getting in the ocean and
catching a wave, can give people hope - it is this hope, that could change someone's life.
YOUR DONATION CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE
***$50...can get one person experiencing mental health issues in the water
***$500...can fund one person to be part of the 12-week OneWave Surf Experience
***$5,000...can fund an entire 12-week OneWave Surf Experience for 10 people experiencing mental health issues
If we hit our tipping point of $50,000 your support will help us implement the following intiatives:
Initiative |
Description |
Cost |
Reach |
Fluro Friday |
A weekly OneWave community event raising awareness for mental health by dressing in fluro and going surfing and doing yoga. OneWave provides a safe place where people can openly talk about mental health issues and share their lived experience. |
$20,000 will help us achieve our goal of 20 beaches doing weekly Fluro Friday's in 2016 |
10,000 people in the water |
The OneWave Surfing Experience |
12-week learn to surf program for mental health clients |
$22,000 funds 4 programs |
40 people in the water |
First Wave Experience |
Providing surfing lessons to selected individuals experiencing mental health issues. People are nominated by family/friends/health practitioners |
$8,000 funds 200 surf lessons |
200 people in the water |
Looking for a creative way to raise funds to build the OneWave community?
Why not host a Fluro Friday at your work or school, run a Free the Funk surf comp, organise a concert, start an art exhibition, host a surf film night..The possibilities are endless... Rally your family and friends to back you in your goal to get more people
talking about mental health and share the message that OneWave is all it takes! Be sure to let us know your succesful campaigns by using the hashtag #onewavestartsomegood and adding it to your donation description.
Thank you so much for amazing support!
Love from the OneWave community
ONEWAVE TEAM
The OneWave Team is made up of surfers and ocean lovers. We are extremely passionate about making it easier for people to talk about mental health and make sure people now
how to reach out for help. We want anyone who is experiencing mental health issues to have to opportunity to experience how good it feels to get in the ocean and catch a wave, because sometimes onewave is all it takes.
Grant Trebilco
OneWave Founder
After 10 years of battling with mental health issues, without seeking treatment Grant was hospitalized in 2012 and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The ocean and surfing was Grant’s saviour in tough times when he was released from hospital. He discovered
that sometimes onewave is all it takes. After hiding mental health issues for years, he decided enough was enough, it’s time to start talking and sharing his experience to try and help others. “Maybe if I share the simple recipe of saltwater, surfing and talking
about mental health I can prevent people from ever feeling the way I did”. So one Friday morning he decided to dress up in a shirt and tie and go surfing solo at Bondi to try and spark conversations about mental health. That was the first OneWave Board Meeting
and 4 Board Meetings later Fluro Friday’s were born, which have now taken place at over 50 beaches Worldwide.
Sam Schumacher
OneWave Co-Founder
Sam is not your typical surfing instructor in fact he has graduated as an aero-space engineer, however this was overpowered by the pull of helping other people enjoy the ocean and surf board riding. Sam and Grant became mates over a shared love of surfing
and giving people in a funk the chance to experience how good it feels to catch a wave. Sam and Grant have been working on OneWave together since it was founded in February 2013.
Joel Pilgrim
OneWave Surfing Experience Manager
Joel Graduated as an occupational therapist specialising in Mental Health. He first heard about OneWave through a friend in the second week of its existence. After Joel was told about Grant going surfing solo in a suit, he had to join. In week 2, he donned
a tux and headed down to meet Grant, combining 3 life passions, surfing, mental health, and dressing up. Since then Joel has launched the OneWave Surfing Experience, a program which gives mental health clients the opportunity to learn how to surf and turn
their life around.