News From 5th July 2019

Congratulations to Phoebe Tully, Josh Bailey and William Newton who all passed their Personal Survival Level 1 test on 5th July. Further tests next week.

We have been invited to Tamworth Gala on 19th October,  the week after our Kay Clarke Gala at Bedworth.
27th September is the provisional date for the club sprint championships.
We have been told that Gurvinder Garcha is in hospital – all our best wishes for a speedy recovery, Gurvinder.

News From 21st June 2019

Congratulations to Quinn Woollaston and Josh Bailey who successfully beat their 10 minute stamina swim bests with 225m for Quinn and 435m for Josh. William Newton equalled his best of 450m.
Well done also to Phoebe Tully who completed an open water triathlon in heavy rain last weekend.
William, Phoebe, Josh, Gurvinder,Elliot, James, Kyle, Aidan,Oliver, Matthew, Quinn and Esme have been practising their personal survival and need to bring some clothing to their next swim as a last part of preparation for their test.

Well done William!

Congratulations to William Newton who won 4 races at Enfield on 2nd June, swimming for Orion.

News From 17th May 2019

Planning for our 2019 gala (funded by Tesco Bags of Help) is now underway. The most suitable date would seem to be Saturday, 12th October 2019. Please can you all check your diaries and let me know asap if there are any problems with that date. (Sheila)

 

Two of our members have had success recently swimming for their other clubs. On May Bank Holiday,  Chris Lanwarne came back with a handful of medals from the Rugby Gala representing the Enterprise Club. William Newton swam in the East Midlands Gala at Braunstone on 12th May for Orion and also collected lotsof medals and pbs. Well done to both swimmers.

 

News From 3rd May 2019

Congratulations to Daniel Hodge who completed his 1 Mile Adult Swim Certificate on 3rd May. Daniel and Emily are now accumulating lengths towards 5 Miles.
We have confirmation from Tesco that our gala will be funded by Bags of Help.

Easter Break

Reminder that our next session will be on 26th April.

Happy Easter!

News From 5th April 2019

Congratulations to Aidan Tully who has successfully completed his National Plan Stage 5 and to Emily Robbins who has reached 1 Mile in an Adult Swim Challenge.

The pool will be closing at 6.00pm on Good Friday, 19th April and so there will be no club session.

East Midlands Gala 12th May 2019

East Midlands Gala 12th May 2019

 

Attached is pdf with details of a gala at

Braunstone Leisure Centre Leicestershire (LE3 1JN)

 

Although open to all, the event is all day (9amregistration) and quite expensive, particularly if you do not have a Swim21 ASA membership.

 

There is no team for this event and so intending competitors need to read all the information very carefully and submit entries by the closing date.

 

Swim

 

News From 29th March 2019

Congratulations to swimmers who have completed National Plan Stages:
James Davies and Quinn Woollaston Stage 4
William Newton Stage 9.

Fundraising News

KAY CLARKE GALA RAFFLE AND DONATIONS

The raffle held on 17th November 2018, at the Kay Clarke Gala raised £59.00 for club funds.

Donations given to the club at the gala totalled £21.00

 

BOROUGH LOTTERY

To date (March 2019), sales of tickets for the Borough Lottery, have raised £145.00 for club funds. For more information about the lottery, please see the poster below, or click on this link

https://www.boroughlottery.co.uk/support/bedworth-disabled-swimming-club

EASYFUNDRAISING NEWS

During the third quarter of 2018, (July to September) £20.15 was raised for club funds through EasyFundraising.

During the fourth quarter of 2018, (October to December) £25.71 was raised for club funds through EasyFundraising.

The total raised through EasyFundraising in 2018, was £117.42.

Our EasyFundraising grand total to date, currently stands at £900.48, so we have broken the £900 barrier!

For more information on EasyFundraising, please visit https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/bedworthdsc/

 

Thank you to everyone who has helped us to fundraise for our club.