During the Covid-19 pandemic, Swim England facilitated the return to swimming competition by temporarily reducing the total number of technical officials required at each licence level. At the same time, the level of qualification required to perform certain officiating roles at some licence levels was also temporarily relaxed. This period of relaxed requirements will expire
Applications are invited from Swim England East Region members who are British Swimming Technical Officials (minimum qualification licensed Judge Level 1) and Poolside Volunteers who would like to assist at the SE East Region Long Course Championships being held in Norwich and Luton. The competition dates are: – Regional Long Course Championships (Inc. Development Events)
Swim England East Region is holding a Disability Training Session on Sunday 20th March at Great Dunmow Leisure Centre, 3pm-6pm. For more information please go to the Disability Swimming Development page
Swim England London Region is hosting Duel in the pool on Sunday 27th March at Harrow School, Harrow HA1 3HP. For more information and to find the conditions and entry pack please go to the link below. Para-Swimming competitions.
Swim England East Region Artistic Swimming held their first Grading Day of 2022. It was held on Saturday 29th January at Witham Leisure Centre, Witham. It was great to be back doing some face to face assessments and everyone involved had a great day.
Swim England East Region Water Polo held their first Club Referee course online via Zoom on Saturday 5th February 2022. It was a great turn out with 19 learners on the morning course and 20 on the afternoon course. This is the first step on the Swim England WP Referee Pathway. It gave the learners
Huge congratulations to Jordan Catchpole Paralympic gold medallist from Beccles and a member of Team Waveney on becoming one of the youngest people to be made an MBE for services to swimming in the New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations also are due to Jessica-Jane Applegate from Great Yarmouth and a member of City of Norwich
Swim England East Region is looking to recruit some members aged 16-25 years to form an East Region Youth Advisory Panel (YAP). It is a great opportunity to get involved and be part of the Panel to help give young volunteers a voice within our Region. For more information please go to the Youth
The draft race schedule for the Swim England East Region Long Course Championships and Development Competition can now be found on the Swimming Competition webpage. Please note a slight amendment to the closing date for the 1500m championship events – this will now be Wednesday 23rd March (midnight), which will also be the closing date
Following a recent resignation, Swim England East Region is seeking nominations for its Audit, Risk and Probity Committee, or ARP as it is usually known. The ARP Committee, is responsible for monitoring the performance of the Board of Directors, ensuring that the region maintains high standards of governance and that risks are identified and appropriately
Swim England have updated the guidance for running safe events in relation to Swimming competitions on 14 December 21. The guidelines that are intended to mitigate the transmission risk of Covid-19 and safeguard swimmers, coaches, officials, spectators and volunteers as we continue to return safely to competition. Swim England have also updated the “Return to
Congratulations to the players representing the Region last weekend at the Inter Regionals in Walsall. Great effort was given by all players, and a huge thank you to all coaches and team managers involved. A full report has been produced by the Head Coach, Tim Whitwham.
