"This is our birthday gift to surfing in this country," said Craig Sims, MD of Atoll Media, who has been intensely involved with the title for many years: "I bought the magazine in year 12, was editor for the next ten years, publisher for the following eight and remain deeply involved as MD of Atoll Media, which also publishes Hip2B2, a nationally distributed high school magazine for Mark Shuttleworth.
Will Bendix, newly appointed editor of Zigzag, looks forward to the contribution the foundation will make: "It's so cool that now we have a trust set up that can put back directly into surfing, be it through development, surf culture, the environment or the very people that make up our surfing landscape."
The Foundation aims to be entrepreneurial in order to accumulate a financial base and will then invest the capital, using the return to do its work and remain self-funding. Income will be derived from various sources, including donations, fundraising events and publishing ventures.
The first of these is a high-quality, 24-page 2006 Surf Art calendar featuring five of SA's leading surf artists, available at surf stores, select stationers and by mail order from 30 November.
