Work in the golf industry?Join our expanding community!
With skin cancer rife in golf, it makes sense that sun protection is promoted within your health and safety policies. If you could be doing more, or want to do it better, we have the solution.
About our campaign
Slip! Slap! Swing! is the UK’s leading sun protection campaign for golf, created by the Melanoma Fund in 2019, and widely supported by the industry, helping keep skin cancer OFF the fairway.
Becoming ‘Sun Protection Accredited’ will provide you with a toolkit of resources and benefits, making implementation easy, protecting wellbeing of your staff, members, and clients, allowing you to take all the credit.
Sun Protection Accreditation
500+
Accredited Golf Clubs
We had over 500 golf clubs signed up to the campaign, by the end of 2021, which was fantastic news. Our aim is to now retain those clubs and generate expanded support for 2022.
New for 2022 is our golf tour operators Sun Protection Accreditation scheme, aimed at promoting awareness to golfers at home and abroad.
*Available in either downloadable or printed format
Golf tour operators
Get Sun Protection Accredited
If you work in golf tourism, becoming ‘Sun Protection Accredited’ will provide you with up-to-date resources to benefit health and wellbeing of your clients. By signing up you will become part of wider community within golf, helping to create national impact on skin cancer. The following actions have been designed to help create awareness, and improve attitudes and behaviour around sun protection in golf, both home and abroad. Our question is, if not, why not? (A link to our downloadable resources will be supplied to you by email following registration.)
YOUR ACTIONS
1
Add the resource sheet on your ‘golf travel information’ page (or similar) via a link, or in whole.
2
Share the sun protection statement with clients at time of booking, providing a link to our resources or the information on their website.
3
Display the accreditation logo and certificate and promote the Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign and your involvement in your regular communications and socials.
Golf clubs
Get Sun Protection Accredited
Accreditation will provide you with up-to-date resources to benefit the health and wellbeing of your staff, members, and visitors. Your club will become part of growing community within golf, helping to create national impact on skin cancer. The following actions have been designed to help create awareness and improve attitudes and behaviour around sun protection in golf. Our question is, if not, why not? (A link to our downloadable resources will be supplied to you by email following registration.)
YOUR ACTIONS
1
Appoint a ‘sun pro ambassador’, responsible for implementing these actions.
2
Add the sun protection statement and a link to the campaign on your website.
3
Display the posters and leaflets within the club.
4
Ensure sunscreen is available either to purchase, or in complimentary dispensers.
(click HERE for sunscreen support)
5
Display the accreditation logo and certificate in the club and promote your status on your socials.
Golf tournaments
Get Sun Protection Accredited
Accreditation will provide you with up-to-date resources to benefit the health and wellbeing of players, officials, and spectators. Your event will become part of growing community within golf, helping to create national impact on skin cancer. The following actions have been designed to help create awareness and improve attitudes and behaviour around sun protection in golf. Our question is, if not, why not? (A link to our downloadable resources will be supplied to you by email following registration.)
YOUR ACTIONS
1
Appoint a ‘sun pro ambassador’, responsible for implementing these actions.
2
Add the sun protection statement and a link to the campaign on your webpage and in all communication.
3
Display the posters and leaflets in the clubhouse.
4
Ensure sunscreen is available either to purchase, or in complimentary dispensers.
(click HERE for sunscreen support)
5
Display the accreditation logo and certificate at the event and promote your status on your socials.
Get Skin Savvy
We promote awareness all year round. In spring/summer we urge everyone get ‘sun savvy’ and remember sun protection, and in autumn/winter we focus on getting ‘skin savvy’, educating on a regular skin checking routine.
"Following my experiences, I am keen to ensure that fellow golfers – as well as others working outdoors – are aware of ways to avoid heightening the risk of skin cancer."
Jamie Cundy
"If you notice a changing mole or are worried about a new lesion, take professional advice, immediately. I also recommend upping your game when it comes to sun protection - why wait until you get a cancer diagnosis to start looking after your skin?"
Kenton Wright
"The work that Michelle and the team are doing at the Melanoma Fund is crucial in raising awareness of a threat that all golfers and greenkeepers expose themselves to, and on a regular basis."
Craig Cotterill
"Skin cancer is preventable and all it takes is a shift in behaviour to have healthier skin and a better chance of staying out there playing golf for longer."
Joe Cardy
"All we need to do is change our perspective on sun protection and look at the facts – namely that skin cancer is an epidemic, with incidence rising faster than all other cancers put together. I hope that if enough club’s get behind this campaign, golfers will be urged to re-think their habits."
Annabel Dimmock
"The more that can be done to raise awareness of the dangers of UV exposure the safer everyone will be. If golf is a sport for life then we need to look after ourselves while playing and protect against all the elements, not just put a brolly up when it is raining."
Richard Payne
"The Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign is great and I am so happy to be involved. I hope that many golf clubs sign up to be Sun Protection Accredited its free, easy to do and benefits everyone, including caddies!"
Rebecca Riddell
"Golf clubs are perfectly positioned to raise awareness of sun protection, and I urge them to sign up and get involved with this campaign, which really can help address the issue of skin cancer."
Paul Way
"All three main skin cancers are on the increase with rates rising faster than ever, so I am delighted to help support the Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign."
Dr Tony Buckland
"I am especially keen to ensure that young golfers take the advice offered by this campaign. The sun is a hazard on the golf course, and if habits can be created when young they will stick, just like brushing teeth."
Andrew Murray
"As a golfer, sports massage therapist and former coach, I meet so many people in this sport who underestimate the sun and neglect to protect their skin, which is a big mistake. The role of ambassador will provide me with a fine excuse to remind people to cover up."
Holly Calvert
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