Swim England Resources
Working Together Coaches, Committees and Parents
Working Together guide is a practical resource designed to strengthen relationships between committees, coaches, and parents in all types of aquatic clubs.
It focuses on the vital partnership between the head coach and club chair, showing how they can collaborate to lead a positive, successful club environment.
Here you can find information on the day-to-day management issues which mainly cover Club Governance but also how to host events and competitions as well as crucial areas such as safeguarding and risk assessments.
Membership growth and retention
A set of resources and top tips to support clubs, including:
- How to promote your club
- How to communicate with members
- Inspired to Try sessions
- Club Links programme
A range of useful documents, including guidance on VAT issues and taxation, as well as a Financial Toolkit for clubs.
Working Together Club and Operator Toolkit
Clubs and operators are major components of the aquatics sector and their relationship is incredibly important in enabling hundreds of thousands of people enjoy the water, reach their potential across each of the disciplines and generate important revenue for the facility.
This toolkit aims to help clubs and operators develop new or existing partnerships by providing:
- Insight into each other’s organisations
- Practical advice on developing partnerships and exploring shared opportunities
- Useable resources to maximise water time and a framework for developing partnerships
Club Health Tracker
An online tool to assist clubs to review and measure their club development work, as well as benchmark against other clubs, regionally and nationally.
Clubs can get their login details by contacting [email protected].
External Resources
Buddle is Sport England’s one stop shop for sports clubs. Buddle provides free, convenient, practical resources to help develop and run sustainable club.
The UK Anti-Doping website provides wide ranging information about Anti Doping strategies including warning about the use of supplements. Following their advice could save a lot of disappointment in the future.
Swim England have a created a library of approved documents to support clubs, volunteers and athletes with Health & Safety advice, risk assessment and best practice. You can access the library through this link.
Marketing Tools
Get people thinking about your club
With support from Swim England the South East Region have developed a range of posters that clubs can personalise and use to reach new audiences.
The posters, which are based on Swim England’s Inspire Campaign that ran during the Tokyo Olympics, are in an “empty belly” format that allows clubs to add information and logo as they want. They include a general membership poster, a Masters poster and poster to help clubs build their water polo offer.
Posters featuring Artistic Swimming and Diving will be available shortly.
How to personalise your poster
Put your club information or logo in the box provided.
You can use any font, type size or style to suit your club’s message.
The image behind is in the header to protect it from editing. It will appear in full resolution and brightness when it is printed or saved as a PDF.
Posters can be printed in A3 or A4 format.
