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Mission Statement

“This Swimming Club is a friendly club run entirely by volunteers for the benefit of its members, and seeks to provide:

High quality tuition in the core skills of swimming and stroke development, water safety and life saving.

This it will do in a safe environment, whilst making learning a fun process and maximising the potential of its members in their chosen disciplines. In doing so, it will treat everyone equally within the context of its activity. This shall be regardless for example of sex, ethnic origin, religion, disability or political persuasion, on any grounds. In pursuance of this, the club shall implement the ASA Equal Opportunities Policy. It shall also comply with the ASA laws on Child Protection Procedures, and insist on its members doing likewise.”

History

The Club was founded in 1946, at the original site in Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding. We now use the facilities at Kingstanding Leisure Centre in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding. We meet on Thursday evenings from 6.15 pm until 9.00 pm, for 46 weeks per year. (See “Location” on menu on left for map showing location.)

Structure

The Club consists of officers, committee, helpers and members. We currently have 13 fully qualified swimming and life saving teachers associated with the club. All who help in the running of the club and in the teaching process are volunteers. A full list of current officers appears in the Who’s Who section. (See menu on left.)

We have classes to suit all abilities and ages, from parent and baby, through early development, to advance swimmer. We also cater for older swimmers who simply want a social swim in quiet, safe conditions. Training for RLSS lifesaving badges and the National Pool Lifequard Qualification is also structured, and includes tuition from RLSS trainer/assessors.

Achievements

In 2003, we became the first Swimming Club in Birmingham to attain Swim21 accreditation. Swim21 is the national recognition for good practice within, and management of swimming clubs. We achieved re-accreditation in May 2007.

In 2006 we attained approved training site status for the Royal Life Saving Society, and repeated this achievement in 2007 at the follow up assessment. This means we are able to train and examine swimmers for all of the RLSS awards, including the National Pool Lifeguard award. We have three RLSS Trainer/Assessors associated with the club.

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