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Summer Festival of Swimming

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British Swimming, while confirming that there will be no British Championships or Swim England Summer Meet in 2021, have invited all English Regions and equivalents in Scotland and Wales to organise regional competitions, which will be aggregated to create a National Leader Board.

Swim England South East, after consideration, has decided to participate, even if there are still Social Distancing rules in place. Two weekends of swimming will be run, in collaboration with the host clubs at Wycombe and Crawley.

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Crowdfunder Workshop

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The South East Region are running a Crowdfunding workshop to introduce clubs to this different way of raising funds and for clubs to share their experiences with each other.

The workshop will include an introduction to Crowdfunding and Return to Play: Active Together match funding.

We will be joined at the workshop by members of clubs in the South East that have successfully run Crowdfunding in recent months.

We would like to invite any volunteers from clubs in the South East that are interested to book onto this short workshop. Successful clubs have had a small team of volunteers working together and therefore we would encourage multiple people from your club to attend.

Time – 7pm

Date – Tuesday 18th May

If you have any questions regarding the Workshop please contact Ben McDonald

To book onto this free workshop please complete the booking form below

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‘Working Together’ toolkit a ‘valuable asset’ to club and operator relationships

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A new toolkit has been issued by Swim England which will act as a ‘valuable asset’ to both clubs and operators across the country.

The ‘Working Together’ toolkit has been created in conjunction with a focus group consisting of club and operator representatives and has been driven by the sector as both sides recognised the need to work effectively together.

The toolkit aims to help develop new relationships and build on existing ones between clubs and operators, which are both seen as cornerstones of the aquatics sector.

The content is centred around three key areas and will provide insight into club and operator’s organisations, practical advice on developing partnerships and exploring shared opportunities and useable resources that will assist with the practical elements of developing partnerships.

Alex Hains, head of business engagement at Swim England said: “This practical resource has been designed to help clubs and operators to foster new partnerships, strengthen existing ones, and understand each other’s value within the sector.

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Regional President – Terry Norris

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It is with great sadness that we share with you that our President, Terry Norris (Chalfont Otters) passed away today. Terry was truly a great supporter of the swimming, of the Region and club.
He was inaugurated as Regional President in September 2019 and was due to stand down at our ACM on Wednesday. He will be sorely missed by many throughout the swimming community.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.

If you have any personal comments or memories that you would like to pass to his family please write to Bryony Gibbs.

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Plans for summer ‘Festival of Swimming’ along route back to competition

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An ‘exciting prospect’ to compete in a national ‘Festival of Swimming’ has been unveiled by Swim England and British Swimming.

While the plans for a return to competition are still in the early stages, a network of racing opportunities has been agreed.

This ‘restart to racing’ will consist of meets held throughout England, Scotland and Wales, in long course facilities, with the aim of getting as many young swimmers back racing as possible.

It is hoped that the meets will be held within a short window between mid-July and early August, combining to create a ‘Festival of Swimming’, with a pooling of results to create a national leaderboard for age groups and events.

The meets will be largely age group based, with a focus on 100m to- 400m distances and following a similar format.

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Reopening of indoor pools will be a ‘welcome relief’ to millions

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Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said confirmation that indoor pools will reopen on Monday 12 April would be a ‘welcome relief’ to millions of people.

At an Easter Monday press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Step 2 of the roadmap out of the coronavirus national lockdown would go ahead as planned.

That will allow indoor swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms to reopen once again after being closed for more than three months – two weeks after outdoor pools were given the green light to open.

However, while clubs will also be able to resume training indoors, over 18s will not be permitted to join in until Step 3, which is currently scheduled for Monday 17 May.

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Swim England Swimming Leadership ‘keen to see’ events return before end of season

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The Swim England Swimming Leadership Group is ‘keen to see’ formal competition resume before the end of the season.

Following the Prime Minister’s roadmap out of lockdown announcement, the Swimming Leadership Group has been formulating plans for the safe return of licensed and unlicensed meets, open water, Masters, para-swimming and league competition.

Meanwhile, a second series of Level X Racing will run until 23 July when pools reopen from Monday 12 April.

Tom Baster, the chairman of the Swim England Swimming Leadership Group, said: “We know that our aquatic community is looking forward to hearing of our plans for a return to competition.

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Statement issued on 2021 British Swimming Championships

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The following statement has been issued by British Swimming regarding the forthcoming 2021 British Swimming Championships.

British Swimming has unveiled a number of changes to its flagship annual swimming meet, following the unveiling of the UK Government’s roadmap on Monday 22 February.

Due to the ongoing COVID restrictions, continued uncertainty around the exact timetable of easing of lockdown, and in recognition that relatively few swimmers are back in training, the meet has been scaled back, with the ultimate focus being senior selections for international competition later this year.

The meet will now be reduced in length by one day, running from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 April.

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Cancellation of 2021 Region Swimming Championships

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The Region is delighted to hear that swimming pools may re-open by the middle of April. This is much earlier in the roadmap out of lock-down than we had feared and provides hope for clubs and athletes.

Unfortunately, because of the the delayed return and the time available for swimmers to prepare, the Regional Swimming Group and Coaches Panel have concluded that it will not be possible to hold the 2021 Long Course Region Swimming Championships.

We know how disappointing this will be to so many athletes, coaches and parents but it would be unfair to hold a competition where swimmers had not had the opportunity to properly prepare.

We are confident that our Winter Competition will be able go ahead in November.

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Swim England South East Club Survey

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Swim England South East Region is collecting information about the likely impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the membership of clubs in the Region. This will help us plan how we can best support clubs as and when they are able to return to pools and resume competition.

All responses are confidential. We will make public a summary of the feedback, but will not make public any individual responses. We will make available an analysis of the data by County to County Associations.

We apologise if this repeats information you have previously submitted to Swim England, but anticipate that completing the survey will only take between 5 and 10 minutes.

Please let us have your response as soon as possible; this survey will close on 28th February.

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South East Region Water Polo Training outlook for 2021

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The South East Region Water Polo Coaches have been working hard over the past months on developing official attendance criteria/guidelines for Regional Water Polo training. This will come into effect as soon as regional training can safely recommence. We are pleased to be able to publish the full criteria now which can be read fully here (South East Region Water Polo training attendance criteria)

To support this new document and Junior Water Polo Athletes in the South East Region during this very difficult time we are also running the following virtual training opportunities

Online Session 1 – South East Training criteria information session

  • Description – Introduction and Q and A session regarding the new South East Training criteria information session. For coaches that attend this, we would also like to invite you to a Regional training session once they have restarted.
  • Invited – South East coaches and club volunteers
  • Date – Saturday 13th February 2020
  • Time – 19:30 – Start
  • Length – 30 minutes

Online Session 2 – Introduction to South East coaches

  • Description – Introduction to the South East coaches and outline of the training plan/expectations for players. It is also an opportunity for parents or athletes to ask any questions of the regional coaches
  • Invited – All players and parents that are interested in South East Regional Training.
  • Date – Saturday 13th March 2020
  • Time – 19:30 – Start
  • Length – 30 minutes

Please use the booking form below to book onto the Zoom Sessions, Zoom details will be sent out 24 hours before

The regional coaches will soon be in contact with members of their junior regional squads to offer them the opportunity to join an online S&C fitness session.

My thanks go to both Lauren and Alastair’s teams for creating the full criteria and running these Zoom sessions. The South East Region continues to work on plans to restart regional training, whilst this is a very dynamic evolving situation, we do not expect it to resume for a number of months once swimming pools reopen.

Ben McDonald (South East Water Polo Manager) Email – [email protected]

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Planning for your future – Club Matters Workshop

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To support the clubs in the region we will be hosting two Sport England, Club Matters workshops on the 25th January and the 9th February 7-9pm

Planning for your future

By the end of this workshop, delegates will be able to:

  • Understand what constitutes a business plan, its value, function and who should be involved in the process.
  • Begin developing a business plan using a simple framework
  • Describe how to structure an effective business plan to meet the needs of their club
  • Understand how to access further information to support business planning

Spaces are limited, to book please complete the form below;

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