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Annual report 2011
Shona Robison, Minister for Commonwealth Games & Sport, Louise Martin, Chair sportscotland, Keith Brown, Minister for Transport (formerly Minster for Skills and Lifelong Learning) and Ashley Howard, Chief Executive Scottish Swimming celebrate the launch of an ÂŁ800k investment into swimming lessons for young children
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Contents Chair and CEO joint report
2011 – a year in pictures About Scottish Swimming
Development Team
Our team
Performance Team
Looking ahead
Services Team
Headline targets
We are the national governing body for swimming in Scotland. Scottish Swimming represents our clubs, swim schools, aquatic disciplines, athletes, coaches and thousands of talented and committed volunteers across the entire swimmer pathway. We are focused on delivering in the following key areas to reach our vision to ensure that everyone can swim: learn to swim, participation in aquatic activities, club development, coaching partnerships and performance.
Scottish Swimming, National Swimming Academy, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 466520 | Fax: 01786 466521 info@scottishswimming.com www.scottishswimming.com Company number: SC246645 Registered in Scotland
Principal partner
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Partners
Photo credits: Rebecca Lee; Nick McGowan-Lowe; Ian MacNicol; swpix.com
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Chair and Chief Executive’s Joint Report Scottish Swimming is delighted to celebrate the support of our members in pursuing a long term strategy for growing the sport and delivering quality results in Glasgow 2014. Appreciating our new and uncertain financial pressures, we were delighted that Scottish Swimming’s members approved a new membership category structure including an increase in fees for swimmers at the 2011 AGM. The additional income generated through this new approach and our income and value in kind achieved through strong partnerships with sportscotland, British Swimming, our valued sponsors and Commonwealth Games Scotland has enabled the performance team to prepare better and make stronger 2014 focused plans. These plans benefit our national squad athletes, their coaches and club programmes. A number of successes to feature from the 2010-2011 Scottish Swimming year, also focused on building capacity and quality within our clubs:
The regional swimming development managers built on the foundation they established in their earlier years, supporting clubs in working through swiMark and offering assistance on matters such as learn to swim, pool programming, volunteering, child
protection, performance development coach agreements and general coordination and support. The education team continues to support teacher and coach development with quality courses, licensing and continuous professional development, leading the way in Scotland in putting teachers and coaches at the heart of our sport. Our water polo programme continued to grow successfully, specifically with the development of grass roots activity through Mini Polo!, more junior polo within clubs, and a growth in the number of trained coaches emerging with the help of a licensed tutor. We are reviewing the water polo model in order to better support the other disciplines. Partners continued to get behind our aim of increasing regular participation in swimming through our Just Add Water campaign, including a swimming entitlement for our children, exciting fitness programmes for adults in the water, and aquahost, a programme to engage with Scotland’s pool providers.
The fitness, development and education work that we carry out with the support of our volunteers, pool providers and partners is essential for underpinning the success we experience on the national and international stage. We are proud of our athletes, coaches, and support teams for their hard work and successes throughout the 2010-11 season. While heading into the London 2012 Olympic Games, the British eye will be on our top athletes. However, it is with the strategic approach our members demonstrated during last year that we can be confident of a strong Glasgow, a promising Rio, and an excellent long term future. Please join us in celebrating a successful 2011 for Scottish Swimming. Maureen Campbell, Chair – Board of Directors Ashley Howard, Chief Executive
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Development Team Supporting Quality Participation, Club Development, Discipline Development and Education Just Add Water - health, fitness and fun in the pool
2011 Key Development Successes
Top-up – Ensuring that Everyone Can Swim! (see front cover) Swimming was given a fantastic boost last year when the Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport, Shona Robison, announced an investment of £800,000 to implement a National Top Up swimming programme in Scotland with the aim of reaching those children who would not normally have the chance to learn to swim. The programme, delivered by Scottish Swimming in partnership with sportscotland, ensures that more children are able to swim to a minimum standard prior to leaving primary school. Each local authority in Scotland received investment to add value and enhance its current school swimming or community learn to swim programme. Monitoring of the programme is underway. Early indication of a strong impact is positive with a number of important partnerships having been established throughout the delivery of the programme. These relationships have led to connections in other areas of swimming in addition to our participation drive and will be in place for years to come serving as an excellent legacy.
Active Adults - Engaging 7,500 inactive adults aged 45 years plus Supported by the Government and Kellogg’s Swim Active investment, Scottish Swimming developed an education and resource support programme to provide pool operators with three exciting products to enhance their pool programmes and encourage and engage new customers to the pool.
for health
for fitness
for fun
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Increased learn to swim opportunities with Government investment in a new top up programme: £800k
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A new strand to our Just Add Water campaign: Aqua Host, aqua Zumba and Swimfit
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Increased sign up for swiMark, our club development programme
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Increased national coverage for our Kellogg’s Scottish Swimming Learn to Swim Awards Scheme
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Strong impact from the regional managers: Quality local and regional partnership work
Led the way with teacher and coach education: Targets exceeded
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Aqua Zumba - A fun, safe & effective dance-based aquatic fitness class.
Swimfit - The online resource centre and pool-side club that provides swimmers with a gym style work-out programme for the pool. British Gas Swimfit engages swimmers based on their motivation for working-out, whether they are seeking to maintain their health, shape up and tone their body, reach their peak fitness level or compete at swimming competitions.
Last year, Scottish Swimming trained 45 people to be able to deliver aqua zumba classes across Scotland, we delivered 30 aqua host workshops and engaged 60 pools in Swimfit. We are on course to reach our target of attracting 7500 adults aged 45+ to the pool, excellent progress as part of our Just Add Water campaign.
swiMark The number of clubs that have signed up to swiMark increased to 100, with the number of clubs achieving accreditation rising to 46. Swim schools achieving swiMark accreditation also increased during 2010/11, rising to 8 with 13 more signing up.
Education
AquaHost - A new initiative focused on customer engagement and ensuring customers using swimming pools throughout Scotland have a positive experience. Interactive training workshops were designed to support pool operators and managers to reach the target audience and also support leisure centre staff to interact positively with their customers on a regular basis.
With quality teaching and coaching at the heart of our governing body, we are delighted to report that the number of teachers and coaches achieving United Kingdom Coaching Certificate (UKCC) certification in 2011 was at a new high of 1109 candidates. Particularly pleasing for the on-going development of our workforce and our clubs was the increase in the number of coaches qualifying at level 2 and level 3.
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1461 teachers and coaches were licenced in 2010/11, against a target for the year of 800. The trend of the more experienced and qualified coaches becoming licenced has continued including our own National Coach. Scottish Swimming now has 5 Level 5 licenced coaches, more than double the previous 3 years.
Scottish Swimming Aquatics Programme and Awards Scheme
SynchroSkills DiveSkills PoloSkills SwimSkills
Ask at reception for details of lessons available at this Centre.
Rookie Lifeguard Pre Club Development
UK COACHING CERTIFICATE
Personal Survival 1-4
E X C E L L E N C E I N S P O RT S C O A C H I N G
School Swimming
Scottish Swimming Aquatics Programme and Awards Scheme The number of local authority/leisure trusts to sign up to Awards Partnership Agreements has increased to 12. This means that half of Scotland’s local authorities and leisure trusts that take Scottish Swimming’s Learn to Swim programme, powered by Scottish Gas, and /or Kellogg’s Scottish Swimming Awards Scheme have signed to longer term (3 years) Awards agreements contributing to the sustainability of our programme. Sales of Awards continue to be positive with an increase on like for like sales from the previous year.
AquaChallenge AquaSkills 1-6 5m >>>>>>>>>>>>> Distance >>>>>>>>>>>> 5000m
Learn to Swim Levels 1-8 AquaFun Level 1-6 Adult & Child
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Performance Team Leading Excellence for our Coach Focused National Programme The Updated Innovative Performance Plan
Disability Swimming- Integration and Progress Continues
Scottish swimmers and coaches delivered fantastic performance results on both the National and International stages. Scottish Swimming continues to support both developing and senior athletes through the national programme from the District Regional Programme through the Senior Gold squad. The support we offer is detailed extensively in our updated performance plan, developed with strong involvement from our coaches, the sportscotland Institute, and other key partners. The plan involves a new area: “mindset”, critical as we build our sense of TEAM heading toward Glasgow 2014.
2011 proved to be a breakthrough year for Scottish swimmers with a disability with 5 Scots making the IPC European team and 3 travelling to the World Deaf Championships. Overall, 3 swimmers made their Great Britain debuts in 2011, a timely development with London 2012 on the horizon. There continues to be encouraging signs from the developing athletes progressing into inclusive programmes and accessing greater support from Scottish Swimming in working towards London 2012 and beyond.
British Swimming – Close Partnership Working Our performance and management teams work closely with British Swimming colleagues in a number of areas ranging from the partnership that underpins the British Gas ITC in Stirling, to technical matters across Home Countries, to the sharing of best practice across the Association’s remit.
Quality Performance and Performance Development Coaching Across Scotland Coaches continue to be at the centre of the swimmer development process, and without their continued hard work the performances delivered by the swimmers would not be possible. Scottish Swimming has developed a long history of investing in full time paid coaching positions to help lead a number of quality performance and performance development club and composite programmes across the country. This is a strategy we will continue to pursue, working in partnership with clubs, local authority councils, leisure trusts, universities, British Swimming and other key partners.
2011 Key Performance Successes 1 2
An updated, innovative Scottish Swimming Performance Plan
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Further integration of disability swimming into our mainstream programme
Close working relationships with British Swimming Continued investment and support for Performance and Performance Development Coaches across Scotland
Kris Gilchrist meets the press in Shanghai
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Roll of honour: Featuring the Success of Scotland’s Athletes
FINA World Championships, Shanghai SILVER – Hannah Miley, 400m IM
Craig Benson – Commonwealth Youth Games
IPC European Championships, Berlin
Tri-nations water polo
Summary Highlights 6 Scots selected for 2011 FINA World Swimming Championship – 18% of the British Gas Swimming Team 5 Scots selected for 2011 European Junior Championships – 18% of British Gas Swimming Team – with three Scottish medallists (Dan Wallace, Craig Benson, Gareth Mills) Achieved 11 medals (half of medal count for Team Scotland), including 3 golds for Craig Benson at the Commonwealth Youth Games, Isle of Man 5 Scots selected for GB Junior Men’s Water Polo Squad Mark Szaranek selected for European Youth Olympic Festival
Commonwealth Youth Games, Isle of Man – 11 medals GOLD – Craig Benson, 50m Breaststroke GOLD – Craig Benson, 100m Breaststroke GOLD - Craig Benson, 200m Breaststroke SILVER – Craig Benson, Joshua Booth, Alisdair Stirling, Mark Szaranek, 4x100m Medley Relay BRONZE – Fiona Donnelly, 400m IM BRONZE – Emily Jones, 400m IM BRONZE – Emily Jones, 100m Breaststroke BRONZE – Charlotte McKenzie, 50m Backstroke BRONZE – Alisdair Stirling, 50m Freestyle BRONZE – Mark Szaranek, 200m IM BRONZE – Fiona Donnelly, Emily Jones, Kirstin McKinley, Rachel Sharples, 4x200m Freestyle Relay World Youth Championships, Lima, Peru GOLD – Craig Benson – 100m Breaststroke SILVER – Craig Benson – 50m Breaststroke BRONZE – Emily Jones – 4 x 100 Free Relay LEN European Junior Swimming Championships, Helsinki GOLD – Gareth Mills - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
SILVER – Craig Benson – 100m Breaststroke SILVER – Dan Wallace – 200m IM BRONZE – Dan Wallace – 400m IM
LEN European Junior Diving Championships, Belgrade SILVER – Grace Reid, 3m springboard SILVER – Grace Reid/Chloe Hurd, 3m synchro IPC European Championships, Berlin SILVER – Andrew Mullen, S5 50m Butterfly BRONZE - Jim Anderson, S2 50m Freestyle BRONZE - Jim Anderson, S2 100m Freestyle BRONZE - Jim Anderson, S2 50m Backstroke BRONZE – Sean Fraser, 4 x 100m 34pt Freestyle relay BRONZE – Andrew Mullen, 4 x 100m 34pt Freestyle relay World Deaf Championships, Portugal GOLD – Callum Ross, 400m IM SILVER – Callum Ross, 200m IM BRONZE – Callum Ross, 400m Freestyle BRONZE – Jack McComish, 1500m Freestyle Water Polo Men’s team crowned Celtic Tri Nations Champions
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This year Scottish Swimming launched its new TEAM brand – representing the swimming community at large, from our rising stars and leading athletes to their families, coaches, volunteers, officials, sponsors and fans. With two iconic symbols of Scotland on show, a fluid saltire and lion rampant, we can all feel part of the TEAM heading towards 2014 and towards podium success. The brand will now feature on squad kit as well as a range of supporter’s kit coming soon.
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Services Team Services Team: Leading Best Practice for Membership, Finance, Marketing, and Human Resources Partnerships with our Valued Sponsors Sponsorship continues to be strong through on-going partnerships with Scottish Gas, British Gas, Kellogg’s, Speedo, InterContinental Hotels Group and Winning Students.
Investment from sportscotland Once again sportscotland awarded Scottish Swimming one of the highest levels of funding for a sport’s governing body in Scotland, totalling £1,255,000. sportscotland investment provides opportunities for members involved in every aspect of our pathway. The funding also supports the area of governance, where we continue to strive for best practice. As our Association is professionally managed, we can provide the framework within which our members and partners can flourish. We continue to work closely with key individuals at sportscotland to maintain our position as one of Scotland’s leading sports governing bodies and we thank them for their continued support.
Relationships are being forged with Scottish Gas who supported our Awards Event held in September 2011. A number of affiliated clubs also benefited from the British Gas Club Development Grant Scheme, where up to £1000 of funding is allocated to clubs that demonstrate a commitment towards achieving swiMark plus, diveMark plus, poloMark plus and synchroMark plus accreditation. The British Gas Great Scottish Swim was another success this year, offering opportunities for wide participation and elite engagement alike. Our partnership with Kellogg’s moves from strength to strength with their ongoing support
2011 Key Service Successes 1 2
Strong investment from sportscotland: £1.255M
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New and successful Awards Event
Quality partnerships with our sponsors Good progress on the equity agenda
for the Scottish Swimming Awards Scheme and the Kellogg’s Swim Active Programme for helping more children with their water confidence and swimming.
In its fourth year, our partnership with Winning Students provides circa £50,000 directly towards supporting our senior athletes based at Universities and Colleges across the country.
Speedo continued its role as “official kit supplier of Scottish Swimming” supporting our squads, and our national events, providing opportunities for members to purchase event specific items as well as Speedo merchandise at a reduced cost.
Scottish Swimming thanks our sponsors for their continued support and looks forward to growing the partnerships in the years to come.
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Awards Event 2011 The Awards Event took on a new format in 2011, with the Glasgow Science Centre playing host to Scotland’s swimming community for a great night of celebration. Held for the first time in September, and sponsored by Scottish Gas, the event provided the opportunity for our athletes, coaches, volunteers, sponsors and partners, to come together and celebrate the outstanding achievements from 2011, of which there were many. Looking forward to 2012, we will continue to work with Scottish Gas and our members on making this the ‘must attend’ event in the Scottish Swimming calendar: Friday 14 September 2012 at the Glasgow Science Centre.
Complete news report from the awards event Above: Kellogg’s sponsored athlete Hannah Miley wins the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal. Hannah is pictured here with the principal sponsor Kevin Roxburgh, Managing Director, Scottish Gas and host Alison Walker
Extra photos of guests and award winners
Equity Agenda Progresses Steadily Scottish Swimming has continued to develop its commitment to equality and diversity and works to our Equity Action Plan, developed to promote, implement and monitor the activities of the governing body and its members in raising the awareness of equity in swimming. The action plan sits alongside the current Scottish Swimming Corporate Plan 2006-2014 and reflects all areas of our work. Scottish Swimming is currently working towards the intermediate level of the Equity Standard, which will be delivered in early 2012.
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South Lanarkshire Leisure – Awards Scheme Providor of the Year
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Financial Statements The Scottish Amateur Swimming Association Limited Abridged Consolidated Accounts The following information has been extracted from the full statutory accounts, which are available on request from the company’s registered office at: National Swimming Academy, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA The directors have pleasure in presenting their report and the unaudited financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 October 2011.
Statement of Directors responsibilities The directors are satisfied that the company is entitled to exemption from the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) relating to the audit of the financial statements for the year by virtue of section 477, and that no member or members have requested an audit pursuant to section 476 of the Act.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).
Consolidated income & expenditure account for the year ended 31 october 2011 2011
£
INCOME
2,771,573
2,529,692
Expenditure
2,706,903
2,532,393
64,670
(2,701)
10,012
13,167
74,682
10,466
Principal activities
OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)
The principal activity of the company during the period was the promotion and organisation of swimming in Scotland and the co-ordination of activities with other U.K. and world bodies. The income and property of the company is applied solely towards the promotion of the objects and is not available for distribution to members or officers of the company.
Interest receivable SURPLUS ON ORDINARY ACTIVITIES BEFORE TAXATION Tax on surplus on ordinary activities SURPLUS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR
17,035
8,896
57,647
1,570
Consolidated balance sheet as at 31 October 2011 2011 £
Directors The directors who served the company during the year were as follows:
2010
£
2010 £
£
17,868
24,773
FIXED ASSETS Tangible assets CURRENT ASSETS
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for: (i) ensuring that the company keeps adequate accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act, and (ii) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of section 393, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Act relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
Ms. M. Campbell Mr. P. Bilsborough Ms. W. J. Hayes Mr. J. K. Mason Mr. I. MacCallum Mr. D. McGowan Mr. A. M. H. Fletcher Mrs. A. Howard Mr. N. Valentine Mr. J. Deans (Appointed 26 February 2011) Mrs. D. S. Mair (Retired 26 February 2011)
Small company provisions This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
Stocks
34,701
32,980
Debtors
250,220
144,355
Cash at bank
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year
978,650
1,119,838
1,263,571
1,297,173
865,285
963,439
NET CURRENT ASSETS
398,286
333,734
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
416,154
358,507
Income and expenditure account
416,154
358,507
MEMBER’S FUNDS
416,154
358,507
RESERVES
These financial statements were approved by the directors and authorised for issue on their behalf by: MS M CAMPBELL Director Date: 29 November 2011
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2011
A year in pictures...
Commonwealth Youth Games Craig Benson takes 3 golds
World Silver Hannah Miley on the podium in Shanghai
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Disability team Scottish Gas Disability Squad at DSE Junior Swimming Championships
Shanghai Robbie Renwick poolside in China
All for one! Scotland’s Commonwealth Youth Games aquatics team for Isle of Man
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Big Splash! Shona Robison, MSP, Minister for Commonwealth Games & Sport, talks with swimmer Anne Syme at the Big Splash launch
Great Scottish Swim Liz McColgan at launch event
2014 preparations Jak Scott joins VIPs celebrating the start of Glasgow 2014 construction work at Tollcross
Youth Development Squad team camp Looking to the future with young talent
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District Masters event swimmers Prestonpans Pool – November
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Our Team Management team
Scottish Swimming Board and Council Members
SASA President Council Neil Valentine Chair Board of Directors Maureen Campbell
CEO Ashley Howard
Director of Performance Ally Whike
Director of Development Richard Gordon
Director of Services Elaine Mackenzie
Maureen Campbell
Chair, Board of Directors
Peter Bilsborough
Director, Board of Directors
Allan Fletcher
Director, Board of Directors
Win Hayes
Director, Board of Directors
Ashley Howard
Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors
Ian MacCallum
Director, Board of Directors
Danny McGowan
Director, Board of Directors
John Mason
Director, Board of Directors
Neil Valentine
President, Council
John Deans
Vice President (1), Council
Gina Logan
Vice President (2), Council
Joanna Maguire
East District President, Council
Cath Fleming
East District Secretary, Council
Chris Warwick
Midland President, Council
Phil Cartright
North District President, Council
Lynn Alderton
North District Secretary, Council
Elizabeth Stewart
West District President, Council
Ian Fleming
West District Representative, Council
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Looking Ahead: What’s in store during 2012
Being part of a British Swimming led review on long term athlete development and how this might enhance our Scottish Swimming performance programme in the future.
Integration of the Government support and Kellogg’s Swim Active investment within the Development Team to focus on connecting and maximising our partnerships for increasing swimming participation, club development and facility programming.
The examination of online membership registration, working with club membership secretaries and our Council to review this area’s pros and cons.
The launch of a support programme for our rising stars, reaching out to companies and groups -large and small- to back our athletes as they head for London 2012 and Glasgow 2014.
Taking forward our education work, including a Comic Relief supported programme for training up youth in need of opportunities.
Broadening the range of aquatic education opportunities, including further on-line learning developments.
“TEAM - Be Part of It” - the launch of our performance branding plan including our new athlete videos (found at www.scottishswimming.com) and engaging with TEAM supporters including athletes, coaches, volunteers, parents, and partners.
Continuation of the positive work delivered by the network of Regional Swimming Development Managers.
Working closely with the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee on the delivery of a quality Commonwealth Games.
Supporting performance as we head toward 2012 with a focus on Aberdeen/ Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and the British Gas ITC Stirling and Scottish Swimming Integrated Training Centre programmes.
Continuous development of the Scottish Swimming Learn to Swim programme powered by Scottish Gas and the Kellogg’s Awards, as well as the introduction of a merchandise strand through a dedicated National Business Manager.
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Headline Targets 2011–2012 DEVELOPMENT Learn to Swim programme development and growth, measured by:
28 swim schools/local authorities/leisure trusts using Scottish Swimming Learn to Swim framework 12 local authorities or leisure trusts with Award agreements
Club development, measured by the number of clubs accredited to swiMark and the growth of our members, volunteers and active teachers and coaches:
60 swiMark accredited clubs 19,500 Members 5,000 Volunteers 1,500 active (licensed) teachers and coaches
A participation strategy to get more people swimming for health, fitness and fun, measured by:
6 local partnership agreements in place 22 full-time paid coaches in position involving Scottish Swimming investment (11 Performance Development Coaches and 11 Performance Centre Coaches)
7,500 new active adults (45+) through the effective implementation of swimfit, aqua zumba and aqua host 32 local authorities implementing phase one of the Top Up Programme as part of the drive to ensure that every child can swim 25m 59 “young people who are not in education, employment of training” completing both an aquatics qualification (ex, UKCC level 1 swimming teaching) and securing a work placement through our swimming leadership programme
PERFORMANCE Support for youth and senior performance programme athletes, coaches and performance centres/home programmes, measured by:
Local partnerships between Scottish Swimming, each local authority, and the club(s) in their area, measured by:
Our Vision: To ensure that every single person in Scotland has access to quality swimming programmes, regardless of age or ability
6 (core target) to 8 (stretch target) Scots attaining top 15 in the world (2 per nation), measured at the time of the London 2012 Olympic team selections A 4th place finish on the swimming medal table at the 2014 Games; 5 medals in swimming with a 6th in disability swimming and a 7th in the disciplines 3 athletes on the GB Paralympic Team
Thank you Scottish Swimming is grateful for the generous support we receive from our athletes, teachers, coaches, tutors, organisers, clubs, technical officials, committee members and volunteers. Scottish Swimming also wishes to express its thanks to the following companies and organisations for their support during the past 12 months:
Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence
Principal partner
Official partners Pool providers: Scottish Swimming would like to acknowledge and thank Scotland’s local authority councils, leisure trusts, universities, and operators of school pools with whom strong partnerships make the successful development of swimming possible.