Our team
Westward Waves is a family run business down on Northam Burrows, Westward Ho! We pride ourselves in being known locally as the friendly surf school! Going into our sixth year on the beach, we’ve developed a real community feel to the school with local passers by often stopping to chat about the waves, borrow kit, swap opinions on the surf forecast or just hang out in our deck chairs!
You’ll always find founder, Mark, at the school as a constant- it is his baby after all. He’s been instructing since school age and has never wanted to do anything different. In the years since setting up Westward Waves, he’s grown the school into something more than just the odd novelty lesson. We now see returning customers year on year, weekend on weekend…even day by day!
Alongside public lessons, Mark also works closely with The Wave Project to host their surf therapy sessions and surf club for local residents. Working with school groups then led to the natural progression of working with locally home educated children too. These weekly sessions are so much fun and really add to the community feel.
Only a couple of years into the school opening, Meagan (Marks partner) joined forces to help with the day to day running of things…its safe to say Mark needed some help with the admin! Jumping on lessons, taking out private lessons and becoming our female representative to inspire women and girls to jump on and join in she soon became a key member of the team!
Soon after, we couldn’t fit all the lessons into two peoples working week to we roped in a local friendly face with many strings to his bow! Jez, of Pier Point Belly Boards, joined the team. His energy, plethora of qualifications and ethos really fit with Westward Waves and fortunately for us he's back for his second season with us. When he’s not on sessions with us, he’s always outback with his very own two groms- inspiring the next generation!
We’re really proud of the natural growth of Westward Waves and can’t wait to see what the future holds for our little surf school on the beach.
Everyones welcome down at Westward Waves so if surfing is something you want to get into, improve on or compete with your partner over…give us a message and we’ll see what we can do!