North Palm Beach surf club was founded in 1946 by holiday makers and locals families who holidayed at the northern end of Palm Beach, which in the early days existed as a public camping ground. Palm Beach Itself is a popular destination for families and tourists who travel the 28km from the centre of Sydney; It is also a place of choice for celebrities to stay in Sydney away from the hustle and bustle of the CBD. Regular holiday visitors to Palm Beach and surrounding area have been, Sir Paul McCartney, Bono, John Cleese, Lleyton Hewitt and Nicole Kidman to name but a few.
The club bears newly renovated facilities which include, 15 bed female bunkhouse and 23 bed male bunk house to accommodate its members along with full kitchen facilities, male and female shower rooms, club room \ lounge and a public kiosk which operates 6 days a week.
The club patrols each and every Saturday, Sunday and Public Holiday in the summer months, which runs from late September to late April so that your family, friends and visitors can surf and swim in safety.
Membership is increasing more rapidly than any other club in Australia. This year’s membership has increased by an amazing 125% over the last two seasons, due to many factors including an innovative Junior Programmes developed by North Palm Beach.
North Palm Beach boasts a higher average of examiners, trainers and awards holders than most other Surf Clubs in Australia. The Club has always been at the forefront of new techniques and the introduction of new technologies.
The Surf Club has been at the forefront in Surf Life Saving and been an innovator in Rescue Equipment and techniques for decades. We were one of the first clubs to use Inflatible Rescue Boats (“I.R.B's”) commonly known as "Rubber Duckies". We were one of the first Sydney Clubs to use Jet Rescue Boats in the late 1970's and one of the first to have a quick response all terrain vehicle to patrol one of the largest beaches in Sydney. Many members have gone on to crew the Rescue Helicopter Service, which has become an icon in rescue and retrieval services in Australia.
Many of the accepted Patrolling methods and equipment on today’s beaches were in use on North Palm Beach first.
The club has pioneered the use of UHF radios in Surf Lifesaving and introduced spinal care management techniques used now adopted Australia wide.
The club is the base for the Barrenjoey Power Boat group which operates and maintains Jet Ski's that patrol from the beaches from North Palm Beach to Newport.
In the year 2000, North Palm Beach acted as the aquatic safety advisors for the Sydney Olympics and have acted as aquatic safety specialists on numerous Corporate events, for film, TV and Advertising events including the movie Oyster Farm, the Australian series “Chopper Squad”, for the Reg Grundy organisation and, of course, Channel 7’s long running series “Home and Away”.
In 2007, North Palm Beach SLSC launched a cultural exchange programme titled “Outback meets the Beach”. The objective of the programme was to promote iconic young groups of Australians from the beaches with those of Outback Australia to travel to each other’s communities and spend invaluable time learning and living in the vastly different environments that each has to offer.
Every year twelve indigenous youths from the ages of 13 to 18 will be selected from the remote communities of Burunga, Beswick and Wugularr, near the heritage listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern territory of Australia.
On February 13, 2008, (National Sorry Day) coincidentally the day that Australia’s Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd apologised to the stolen generations on behalf of all Australians, the first group arrived. They travelled via Darwin to Sydney and onto North Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club, where they stayed for two weeks.
These twelve kids undertook a “mentoring and mateship” programme that focused on building their self esteem and learning valuable life skills. The training provided covered subjects such as basic first aid, water safety, water confidence, indigenous tour guiding and deckhand skills to name but a few. They also were provided with motivational and self esteem building activities, sometimes lacking in these remote communities, giving these youth the chance to gain hands on skills and the hope these will be used towards a better future.
Well know indigenous Australians such as Michael O’Loughlin and Adam Goodes from the Sydney Swans, Stan Grant and his wife Tracey Holmes and Tom. E. Lewis visited the Outback meets the Beach “camp” alongside other fantastic Australians such as INXS’ Andrew Farris, veteran TV journalist, author and lobbyist Jeff McMullen, Radio and News Columnist Mike Carlton and of course Australia’s most successful Olympian, Ian Thorpe.
Vocational training courses were run by North Palm Beach SLSC with the assistance of Sydney Ferries and the Maritime Union of Australia, NSW National Parks and Wildlife and the dedicated members of the Surf Club who took many days off work conducting surf safety, first aid and resuscitation training.
Later in 2008/09 the Surf Club “mate” kids who worked through training with the indigenous youths will travel to Kakadu from Sydney and stay in these remote communities, learning how to live in the traditional way these people have for thousands of years, hunting Kangaroo and turtle, eating bush tucker, making didgeridoos, learning about aboriginal art and living the life that they live.
This ground breaking program is a “two way street” idea of learning. It’s about breaking down the barriers of bigotry, racism, and learning from and depending on each other regardless of each other’s background.
Many of the accepted Patrolling methods and equipment on today’s beaches were in use on North Palm Beach first. 
In the year 2000, North Palm Beach acted as the aquatic safety advisors for the Sydney Olympics and have acted as aquatic safety specialists on numerous Corporate events, for film, TV and Advertising events including the movie Oyster Farm, the Australian series “Chopper Squad”, for the Reg Grundy organisation and, of course, Channel 7’s long running series “Home and Away”.