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London Swimming & ASA Aquaforce have a joined forces for the nominations for this years award. If you value the amount of effort that athletes, coaches, teachers, club officials put in then nominate them at http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/307

 

 

Thanks to your support, London Summer of Sport 2007 was a huge success.

This year, sports clubs, organisations and youth and community groups can apply for grants of up to £1,000, plus receive extra training and marketing materials to make your activity even more successful. This year’s applications for funding open on 16 June through to 11 July. To play your part in this year's London Summer of Sport programme download an application form and supporting documents http://www.london.gov.uk/summerofsport/organisers/index.jsp

Further details at http://www.londonswimming.org/news/article/display/341

  

London Masters Swimming need to hire a central London Pool for a Masters Fun

meet in November. So if you run a pool and would like to help us please

contact christine@kcswimmingclub.org.uk

 mailto:christine@kcswimmingclub.org.uk

 

The GLL Foundation has launched with bursaries for athletes and coaches available for those operating from a GLL facility or GLL operated Borough. http://www.gllsportfoundation.org/default.asp  

The deadline for applications is the 30 June.

 

Colin Brown (RD): Colin has had meetings with consultants focused on developing the overall business plan for the Aquatics Centre in Legacy mode. Colin has also been in Loughborough looking at how London's educational needs can be met in the future. Colin also attended the London Swimming Board and completed more staff appraisals. Colin is also hoping to attend the London Youth Games Diving Competition at Hornchurch Leisure Centre, Havering on Sunday.

Next week: Colin will be in Loughborough at the beginning of the week and then off on annual leave returning to work on the 14 July.

 

This week Mark Griggs (EO) attended a number of meetings, including a regional tutors meeting, where a new process for running courses and seminars was launched and work was distributed to the tutors. He also attended meetings in Loughborough with the IOS admin team followed by meetings with the education officers, where he presented a new process for delivering

Level 2 unit 6.

   

Sun 13 Jul 08 - NPTS: Mini Polo - Hayes Pool - Hillingdon

Wed 6 Aug 08 - NPTS: Competitive Swimming - Dagenham Swimming Pool - Barking & Dagenham

Mon 8 Sep 08 - Introduction To Breaststroke - Sutton Civic Offices - Sutton

Sun 14 Sep 08 - NPTS:Aqua kids - Vale Farm Sports Centre - Brent

Tue 16 Sep 08 - Teaching Turns - The Basics - Bancroft's School – Redbridge

Mon 22 Sep 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children - Finsbury Leisure Centre                       

Tue 7 Oct 08 - Introduction To Backcrawl - Bancroft's School - Redbridge

Mon 10 Nov 08 - NPTS: Competitive Swimming - Sutton Civic Offices - Sutton

Mon 10 Nov 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children - Vale Farm Sports Centre

Tue 25 Nov 08 - Introduction To Butterfly - Bancroft's School - Redbridge

Mon 8 Dec 08 - Introduction To Backcrawl - Sutton Civic Offices - Sutton

 

Sat 02 Aug 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre, Waltham Forest

Sat 13 Sep 08 - Bancroft's School, Redbridge      

Mon 20 Oct 08 - Whitgift School, Croydon         

Mon 27 Oct 08 - Finsbury Leisure Centre, Islington          

 

Mon 11 Aug 08 - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Havering                     

Sat 06 Sep 08 - JAGS Sport Club, Southwark                  

Sat 01 Nov 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre, Waltham Forest             

Tue 11 Nov 08   Dagenham Swimming Pool, Barking & Dagenham

 

For more information, to download booking forms, or funding opportunities for any IOS course or seminar, please visit www.londonswimming.org http://www.londonswimming.org

 

This week Jo Calvino (RDDO) has been helping to finalise plans for the Diving National Skills Competition in July, and has met with 2 diving clubs with regards to S21, which will hopefully see another diving club go through from the South East very soon. Jo will also be attending the London Youth Games Diving, at the weekend, which are taking place at Hornchurch on Sunday. 

Jo will be moving on to a new role within ASA as the Aquatics Development Programme Co-Ordinator for London. Jo will be organising masterclasses across different disciplines to bring a real benefit to athletes and coaches. News of this exciting programme will appear shortly.

 

This week has seen Jo Melchior (EDS - Lewisham) busy getting things in place before going away next week for some holiday sunshine. Jo has been busy working on final arrangements for the Summer Activity Programme in leisure centres, sorting out the pool programmes for Free Summer Swimming to ensure that whilst the children access plenty of pool time, that regular swimmers and families are not displaced. She has also been assisting with the planning of pool promotions for September for all pools that will coincide with a large-scale marketing campaign. She has also spent time with parents of disabled babies / toddlers to see how an exit route from supported physio sessions to mainstream adult and child classes can be achieved. There were also meetings with mental health service users to introduce them to the benefits of swimming.

 

This week Annabel Kehoe (EDS - Islington) arranged training for Aquaterra Leisure staff, including a BSAC Snorkelling instructors course, Mini Water Polo CPD and Synchronised Swimming CPD. This coincides with the summer holiday programme that will be running in Islington this year. All four pools have a new and improved programme from last year that will be promoted through Splash magazine and several other marketing initiatives.

 

This week Janna Callan (RDO) was delighted to learn that she passed her UKCC Level 1 Synchro course. Janna completed the first draft of the Free Swimming Project Plan for Barking and Dagenham and has also met with centre managers to work through some of the costs and risks. Next week Janna will be working on the detail of the costs of the project in Barking and Dagenham and meeting with Neil Scott from Skills Active.   

 

This week Nik Jovanovic (West London Waterpolo coach) met with Ealing swimming and waterpolo club to discuss starting water-polo sessions for juniors. Discussions were very successful and hopefully things will start very soon. Nik also spent some time organising minipolo tournaments and games for teams in West London that already have minipolo sessions. For some teams it will be first time that they are playing against other teams competitively, so should be good. Mini polo sessions are running regularly. For listing see <http://www.londonswimming.org/page/:Waterpolo>

 

This week Jemma Konuralp (Swim21 Quality coordinator) has met with Haringey Borough Swimming Club in readiness for their Swim 21 assessment. Next week Jemma will be working on clubs which are due to revalidate in August 2008 and those that are due to be reaccredited in 2009.