Amateur Swimming Association : Everyday Swim

SUFFOLK SWIM WEEKEND OFFERS ACCESS TO ALL 24 May 2007 People in Suffolk are being given the opportunity to get in the swim through Everyday Swim’s Suffolk Swim Weekend running from 9-10 June. more -->

EVERYDAY SWIM LAUNCHES ONLINE NEWSLETTER 17 May 2007 The ASA’s Everyday Swim programme has launched its first newsletter which will be available every month online and in hard copy. more -->

Everyday Swim is a pioneering national programme, led by the ASA and funded by Sport England, which aims to look at the barriers to swimming and provide best practice examples to affect a culture change across the country and get more people into our pools, for leisure, fitness and fun.

Everyday Swim Launches Online Newsletter

The ASA’s Everyday Swim programme has launched its first newsletter which will be available every month online and in hard copy. The first edition will be June 2007 and it will be produced on a monthly basis thereafter.

Everyday Swim is a pioneering national pilot to remove the barriers to swimming and get more people into the country’s pools for fun and fitness and as part of a healthy lifestyle. Spearheaded by the ASA, the project is funded nationally by Sport England and by local funding partners in each of the eight areas.

The first edition will be distributed with the Wavelength magazine and thereafter it will be available each month on www.everydayswim.org. All issues can also be downloaded from the link below.

For more information on Everyday Swim or to subscribe to the newsletter email everydayswim@swimming.org or call 0117 3302667.

EDS Newsletters online

June

EDS Stakeholders Meeting – 20^th March 2007

Everyday Swim coordinators and stakeholders were in London on the 20th March 2007 to receive updates on the initiatives’ progress.

Coordinators from the programmes already underway and those that have joined the team this year met at the Sport England offices to share best practice information and consider the next steps for Everyday Swim. For a full copy of a presentation please click on a link below:

Neil Allen - Introduction to EDS Partners Conference 20 March
Simon Shibli - (SIRC) Monitoring and Evaluation - The Basics
Helen Graupp-Fisher - Suffolk - Working Countrywide
Duane Newton - Easington - Media Profile and Launch
James Barter - Working - Partnership Working
Matt Shields - Telford and Wrekin - Making Swimming Accessible
Discussion Group
Kate Sargant - The Future
Simon Shibli (SIRC) - Monitoring and Evaluation - Local Input and next Steps

AREA PROJECT OUTLINE

Wirral The Wirral project will look at ways of enabling older people to swim and to swim more regularly. Possible interventions will include making activities such as aquafit more accessible to this group. It is hoped that through engaging with older people in this way they will become ambassadors, encouraging other family members to get involved.

Easington In Easington the focus will be on tackling obesity and the risk of obesity in young people. The project will introduce swimming into existing projects as well as looking at new ways to keep young people active through swimming.

Kirklees Increasing participation by making swimming ‘fun for all’. The project will work across the whole community, but will focus on certain groups identified as having particular needs, especially health needs. The project seeks to develop a large range of activities in the pool.

Telford and Wrekin The Everyday Swim project in Telford and Wrekin will focus on improving access to swimming opportunities for people with a disability and disadvantaged children. The project will introduce an aquatic element to existing projects as well as looking at new avenues to increase participation.

Suffolk Working through the County Sport Partnership, the Suffolk project will address swimming provision for a number of groups across the county. These will include those living in rural areas and young people.

Islington The project in Islington seeks to apply the success of the wider fitness industry to the pool environment. Working with the whole community to encourage people to be more active through swimming.

Lewisham Lewisham will focus on improving swimming opportunities for three key groups, with a focus on the North of the Borough: young people; black and ethnic minority communities; and older people.

Woking The Woking project will focus on working in partnership across pool providers locally to maximise access to water time for local residents. The project also seeks to increase participation rates at the main ‘Pool in the Park’ facility.