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ASA partners with Easyfundraising

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The ASA are committed to helping clubs teach, develop and nuture swimmers in the UK.  As part of this commitment the ASA have partnered with Easyfundraising – the UK’s biggest online shopping fundraising site.  This will enable clubs to generate free funding every time club members and their friends and family shop online!

How easyfundraising can benefit clubs:

Access to a free and unlimited funding source to invest in equipment, facilities, transport, coaching and more!
Exclusive resources and materials to help you get the whole club in support.
Exclusive access to a fundraising coach to give you help and advice over the phone.

With Christmas coming this is a great time to get started.

Every Club secretary has been sent out details of how to register their club – please contact them for further information.

ASA Strategy 2017-2021

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Our vision is a nation swimming

And our role is to effectively lead, orchestrate and deliver initiatives that will encourage individuals across the country to use the water in the way that works best for them.

In the process of developing our new ASA 2017-21 strategy, we recognise that to achieve our vision we need to create an inspirational organisational brand. One that is meaningful to our colleagues and the general public, and with which our members, stakeholders and commercial partners are proud to be associated.

And this is where we would like to ask for your help..

Values are at the heart of a great brand and a successful organisation.

We’d like your input to define our values and bring them to life, shaping how we work and how we look going forward. We’d appreciate your thoughts and will be able to share the results in due course.

Take The Survey

Closing Date: 5.00pm Friday 30 September 2016

Thank you for your support.

Interim CEOJane M. Nickerson

ASA

Para-Swimming Classifiers Wanted

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Following the success of the British Para-swimmers at this summers Paralympic Games in Rio, British Para-Swimming are looking to recruit classifiers to be part of the journey in the lead up to Tokyo 2020.

Classifiers are needed to assess swimmers with a Physical, Visual or Intellectual impairment, enabling them to compete and progress through the Paralympic Pathway for swimming, could that be you. For more information or to apply for please click here.

Prepare yourself for the Tribal Series 2016

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Tribal Series is holding an exciting new Para-swim open water event, the UK’s first mass-participation disability swim event at Dorney Lake in Windsor on the 15 May.

The swim brings together people of all ages and encourages disabled and non-disabled people to take to the iconic waters of Dorney Lake. Many of the swimmers will never have entered a competitive event before.

It doesn’t matter whether you can only swim a length, or if you are a hard-core marathon swimmer, there are solo swims, relays and aquathlons. The shortest swim for novices is 50m, and the furthest solo swim is 750m for more experienced swimmers. For more information please click here.

Dave Hill receives ASA Achievement Award

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53-year-old David Hill from Maidenhead in Berkshire has won the ASA Achievement Award for people for people with disabilities. The award is made to celebrate an individual who has overcome, or continues to overcome, a disability and is progressing in their chosen aquatic discipline, accomplishing great things in the pool throughout the year. This individual has completed either a personal or structured aquatic challenge in the last 12 months. This could be for their own enjoyment and sense of achievement or perhaps to raise money for charity.

David has cerebral palsy and attended SportsAble Aqua Stars in July 2013 as a non-swimmer. He did not have a good experience at school so never learnt to swim.

In April 2015 David was set the challenge of swimming the equivalent of the English Channel – 22 miles in 22 weeks – along with everyone in his class. David has gone from swimming 6 lengths at the beginning of the challenge to 28 lengths at a recent session.

An incredible achievement considering he has limited use of his right arm, little power in his right leg and struggles with his breathing.

David is an inspirational swimmer to us all, demonstrating that it is never too late in life to take up something new.

You can find out more about the ASA Aquatics Awards here. 

British Para-Swimming announces performance squads for 2016

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A group of 44 athletes has been selected to join the British Para-Swimming Podium and Podium Potential Programme as the sport enters the final stretch for Rio.

The sport has been working through a robust performance review programme with athletes and coaches to decide who will receive direct support from UK Sport through the World Class Performance Programme.

At the IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this summer the sport won a total of 32 medals with 10 golds and achieved a personal best rate of 50%.

Athletes have now returned to training for their final season ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and are working hard to make sure that they achieve qualification.

National Performance Director Chris Furber explained: “This season is the big one for all of us and we have carefully considered our podium athletes for the Paralympic year. The athletes selected to the podium programme have all demonstrated they have the ability to be able to return medals in Rio and have made positive steps to support the vision of the programme of being best performing at the Paralympic Games.

Read more about this story.

National Para-Swimming Championships 2015

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Entries are now open for the National Para Swimming Championships, 12-13 December 2015 at Manchester Aquatics Centre. This event is coordinated by the English Federation of Disability Sport, in partnership with British Para Swimming.

This year’s Championships will be a long course event and will form part of British Para Swimming’s road to Rio.  Entries are open to all S1-S15 swimmers with a national or international classification.