“Level X Racing is a fun opportunity for them to practice some racing skills in the absence of those club, county, regional and national events. “The feedback we have had so far from the test sessions has been extremely encouraging. “Everyone who has taken part has loved the chance to test themselves against their team-mates
Champions of community sport are to be honoured as part of a new campaign for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The search is on for Hometown Heroes to be the faces of an advertising promotion when the countdown to the competition begins in 2021. Nominees could be a longstanding, inspiring coach, a dedicated volunteer who
Hertfordshire Aquatics have released the first drawings for the 50m pool project that will take Swim England Hertfordshire into the future. These early drawings give a good idea of what the centre will look like and how it will operate. The centre is being designed as a centre of excellence for swimming, water polo and
Swim England has confirmed it is committed to doing everything it can to enable the ‘excellent’ County Age Group Swimming Championships take place in 2021. However, due to the ongoing coronavirus restrictions, it is highly unlikely that these events will be able to take place in their usual January/February time slot. To that end, Swim
Swim England has frozen its membership fees for 2021. The recognised national governing body has confirmed that there will be no increase to its element of the annual fees to help support its affiliated clubs and members that have faced ‘extreme difficulties’ during the coronavirus pandemic. Category 1 members will pay £9.20, the Category 2
We will be discussing the recently announced “Level X” competition as well as other initiatives to get our sport up and running – looking to 2021 and beyond. We will be looking for suggestions from attendees as well as putting forward suggestions and answering questions on information that we expect to be published by Swim
Ten clubs have been selected to pilot Swim England’s brand new swimming competition ahead of its official launch next month. Level X is an exciting event which will enable swimmers to compete against others from across the country within the comforts of their own club training sessions. With competitions cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic,
Swim England has welcomed new research which reveals the prevalence of coronavirus at leisure centres and gyms is ‘extremely low’. The findings, published by ukactive, showed there have been only 78 confirmed Covid-19 cases among more than 22 million visits since facilities were given the go-ahead to reopen. Data was collated from more than 1,500
Swim England is developing detailed plans to enable competitions to resume across all its disciplines. The Framework for Resuming Competitive Activity will define how national, regional, county and club events can take place with coronavirus restrictions in place. It will be further supplemented by guidance to support clubs, counties and regions in the planning and
Water polo clubs and players have been given the green light for a return to training and competitive action after the Government approved Swim England guidance. The recognised national governing body submitted evidence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at the beginning of the month. Westminster has now confirmed that water polo
As part of UK Coaching Week 2020, Swim England is celebrating diversity in coaching with Mount Kelly duo Emma Collings-Barnes and Greg King-Limb. Not only do they have Devon-based Mount Kelly in common, they are also both part of the LGBTQ+ community. Here director of swimming Emma and assistant director Greg describe how swimming and coaching shaped
Owing to a number of meetings occurring over the next week – 10 days, we are moving the next combined Club/Coaches forum from Tuesday 29th September to Thursday 1st October. This move should mean we have a clearer indication of what competition might look like at County/Regional & National level in 2021 as well as
