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The ASA is very keen to capture information around club capacity via its on-line club questionnaire. 

 

By now all clubs should have received a printed copy of our strategy. If you would like additional printed copies then email london@swimming.org mailto:london@swimming.org making sure you include your postal address. You can also download a copy from our homepage www.londonswimming.org http://www.londonswimming.org

 

 

London Swimming would like to congratulate Dervis Konuralp in being selected to represent Great Britain at the Paralympics in Beijing. Dervis was Hackney's first Olympic and Paralympic Ambassador and is a member of the London Swimming strategic disability group, as well as an active ambassador for Aquatics in London. We wish Dervis all the best for his preparations and we will keep you up to date with his progress.

 

This week Staff and Board members will be volunteering their time for the Charity Thames 21 http://www.thames21.org.uk/ in cleaning up a stretch of the Thames. This sits well with our values in terms of environment, water and quality.

Colin Brown (RD) : This week Colin had meetings with David Sparkes (CEO) regarding facility planning. Attended a networking event in the East Sub-Region and a strategy session for the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation. At the end of the week Colin will be attending the Youth Championships at Gurnell, Ealing.

Next week: Colin will be interviewing candidates for the post of Quality Co-Ordinator http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/293 as well as meeting with the London Development Agency and chairing the Everyday Swim Steering group in Lewisham.

 

Last week Mark Griggs (EO) met a number of pool operators to expand the regional network in boroughs all over London, including Wandsworth, Southwark, Brent and Merton.

The following training opportunities still have spaces, please book now as a 10 day cut off date in now in force.

  

Fri 9 May 08 - NPTS: Fundamentals- Highbury Pool -Islington

Sat 10 May 08 - NPTS: Fundamentals - Cally Pool -Islington

Mon 12 May 08 - Teaching Turns - The Basics, Sutton Civic Offices - Sutton

Sun 18 May 08 - Aqua Fun - Willesden Sports Centre - Brent

Mon 19 May 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children - Hornchurch Sports Centre, - Havering

Wed 21 May 08 - NPTS: Fundamentals - Bancroft's School - Redbridge

 

Starting Sat 10 May 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre - Waltham Forest

Starting Sat 17 May 08 - Erith Leisure Centre - Bexley

Starting Mon 26 May 08 - Whitgift School - Croydon

 

Sat 02 Aug 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre - Waltham Forest

Mon 11 Aug 08 - Hornchurch Sports Centre - Havering

 

For more information, to download booking forms, or funding opportunities for any IOS course or seminar, please visit www.londonswimming.org

 

This week Janna Callan (RDO) led the London Swim21 Panel; two diving clubs have been put forward to the national panel for accreditation on May the 14th - Janna looks forward to announcing the accreditations in mid May and hopes that one of the clubs will be the first diving club nationally to be accredited at two levels (teaching and skill). Janna also met Erith and District Swimming Club to assess their Swim21 application for swimming and synchro and hopes that they will be accredited in the summer.

Next week Janna will be meeting with the London Synchro Committee and working on some up dates for the London Swimming website.

 

Next week Cathy Carr (RDO) will be attending the staff Thames 21 cleaning session and meeting with the RDO's. Cathy will also be working on Swim 21 and will be away from Wednesday 8th-14th May.

  

This week Jo Calvino (RDDO) attended the swim21 LDN panel, having 3 diving clubs/sections being put through, which are the first in London. She also had a meeting with the South East Diving Group, and tidied up a few lose ends with the FINA Diving World Series (24/25 May) Legacy Plan. After the London Team meeting Jo met with Ben Campion to discuss the Talent Id in the London pro-active sub regions and how to move it forward.

 

This week has seen Jo Melchior (EDS – Lewisham) attending a course on how to research and engage with Eastern European Communities. It was a fascinating insight into an emerging market that will have a huge impact on London and the UK over the next 5 to 10 years. Jo hopes to share the knowledge gained with her colleagues at a subsequent Theme Day. The rest of the week has been spent organising some new activities in the Borough, mainly centering around disabilities. She has also spent time with colleagues discussing the results of Free Swimming Summer 07 in Lewisham, and looking at lessons learned to assess how to make this year's event more worthwhile for the young people of Lewisham. Next week sees Jo taking some Annual Leave, hopefully the sun will reappear.

  

This week was a very productive week for Annabel Kehoe (EDS - Islington). Twelve Aquaterra Leisure staff attended the in-house training for the Liquid Swim Programme. The staff members, from all four Aquaterra pools, will now be ready to deliver the Programme, which will be available to all new and existing members of Aquaterra Leisure sites. Also this week considerable work was done for a swimming magazine aimed at the under 16’s, that will be distributed to all Islington schools prior to the summer holidays.

Next week Annabel will be ensuring the implementation of the Liquid Swim Programme runs smoothly into all wet sites and organising the pool programmes for the summer holidays.