A day to celebrate courage. A chance to save lives.
On 4 March, Australia turns red and yellow to honour the volunteers who run toward danger so the rest of us can enjoy our coastline safely.
Support Red & Yellow Day
Every donation helps Surf Life Saving deliver lifesaving services nationally and supports your local club. Gifts made directly through our Red & Yellow Day Appeal - administered on Raisely - are counted immediately toward both national totals and club fundraising, making your impact clear and direct.
If you choose to donate on this page, your gift will still be securely added to the Red & Yellow Day Appeal on the Raisely platform, ensuring it supports both national and club efforts.
Red and Yellow Day
Every summer, volunteer surf lifesavers pull loved ones from rips, reunite families, and give terrified swimmers a second chance at life. Long after the beach towels are packed away, they’re still training, still responding, still preparing for the next moment someone needs them.
Red & Yellow Day is your chance to say thank you, and to make sure they have everything they need to come home safely too.
How you can make an impact
Wear the colours
Pull on red and yellow at school, at work, with your club or community group. Show our volunteers that Australia stands behind them.
Donate or fundraise
Your generosity puts rescue boards on beaches, equips volunteers with advanced training, and ensures lifesavers are ready when someone’s worst moment arrives.
Support every month
Become a Guardian of the Surf. Your ongoing monthly support helps repair and replace equipment that takes a beating from salt, surf and sun.
Share the message
Tell your friends. Get your workplace involved. Spread the day so more lives can be protected.
Why your support matters
Behind every red and yellow flag is a story, a swimmer who was brought safely to shore, a family who gets to walk out of the surf together, a life that didn’t become a statistic.
Our volunteers give their time freely.
But keeping them safe takes resources, training and equipment, things only made possible through community support.
When you stand with lifesavers on Red & Yellow Day, you’re not just celebrating a uniform.
You’re honouring bravery. You’re backing the people who keep us safe. You’re helping save lives.
Where does my money go? Can even a small donation help? Your questions answered.
The Red & Yellow Day Appeal is the coordinated fundraising campaign connected to this national day. Donations made through the appeal help fund lifesaving equipment, training and frontline capability across Australia.
This enables clubs to engage their communities while contributing to a unified national movement.
Importantly:
- Funds raised by an individual club under the Red & Yellow Day Appeal are allocated to that club.
- These funds sit alongside - and in addition to - the broader national fundraising effort.
This structure ensure local fundraising benefits local clubs, while also strengthening Surf Life Saving capability nationally.
If you donate through the national Red & Yellow Day appeal, your gift contibutes to national and state-based lifesaving priorities.
Both approaches support Mission Zero - Every Life Counts.
Could you give regularly?
As well as training new volunteer surf lifesaver, your monthly donation helps repair and replace the equipment that constant exposure to the sun and sea can damage. As a Guardian of the Surf your monthly donation ensures that we are rescue-ready at a moment’s notice. You would be the silent hero behind every life saved.