Congratulations to Stuart Croshaw on completing his 25 metres for a badge and certificate on 13th January 2012.

Happy New Year to all our members and friends.

Congratulations to Emily Robbins on completing 10 metres for her badge and certificate.

Welcome to our new voulunteer helper – Emily’s brother Daniel Robbins. Simon and Amina visited us this week – both are enjoying university life.

The presentation evening will take place after swimming on 20th January. Any contributions of snacks/sweets/drinks will be appreciated. Many thanks.

Thank you to everyone who supported the raffle, especially to Marie’s friend Vanessa Hart (http://www.sweethartcakes.co.uk ), who made the cake.

£79 was raised for club funds.

List of winners:

1. Victor Palmer (cake)

2. Victor Palmer

3. John Tomlinson

4. Gill Benn

5. Bethany Kelly

6. Oliver McFarland

7. Alison Murphy

8. Thomas Slater

9. Tracey Slater

10. Mark Day

11. Barbara Lanwarne

12. Glenys from church (Steph)

13. Thomas’s grandad

14. Fred Burgess

15. Julie Hodge

16. Nick McFarland

17. Barry Elkington

NEW HOIST READY

A new hoist has been installed at the pool at a cost of £7000. The staff have received training in it’s use and it is all ready to go.

Welcome back to all our hoist users!

Mark Day completed 800m for his badge and certificate on 2nd December.

Last chance to buy / sell raffle tickets. The draw will take place next Friday – 9th December.

Remember the pool is CLOSED on 16th December (staff christmas party).

Thank you to Barbara for the end of year newsletter.

We have now received our first ever cheque from Easy Fundraising for £27.22, which is the amount we raised up to the end of September 2011. Many thanks to everyone who has registered and helped us to raise this money.

Please visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/bedworthdsc  if you would like to register and help us raise some funds while you shop online, at no extra cost to yourself.

Thank you!

We have been awarded a generous grant to cover our planned expenses for the next year. This grant does not include competition items such as trophies, medals and engraving. It also depends on our continuing to fundraise at the previous level. We would to thank Sported for this kind grant.

James Askew presented Treasurer Marie Clarke with a cheque for £1049.83, which was kindly donated by the “Ram Ravers” for the disabled. James has been a member of the Ram Ravers for several years, but it has now sadly closed. As a result, their funds are been given to other clubs who help disabled people. We are very grateful for this donation, and it will be used towards the running costs of the club.

Ashley Campbell-Barker swam 400 metres for his badge and certificate on 25th November 2011.

Thomas Slater swam 1000 metres for a certificate on 25th November 2011.

Emily Robbins was presented with her T-Shirt.

Dillon Webb swam 10 metres for his badge and certificate on 18th November 2011

Keeva Johns swam 10 metres for her badge and certificate on 18th November 2011.

Well done to you both!

Raffle tickets for the Christmas raffle, will be on sale from next week, (25th November 2011)

We will be holding a Christmas Raffle on Friday 9th December 2011. We are now collecting raffle prizes and looking for ticket sellers. If you have anything that you would like to donate, or you would like some tickets to sell, please speak to a member of the committee.

We will be holding a presentation night in the new year. The date is still to be confirmed, but details will be on this website as soon as they are available.

Thank you.

Well done to Gurvinder Garcha who swam 50 metres on 4th November 2011 for his badge and certificate.