Level Water: The Energy of Swimming

As autumn routines settle in, I needed to share a fast private replace: earlier this Summer, after 9 years, I stepped down as a Trustee at Level Water 🌊

Swimming was a basic a part of my very own childhood (title a UK pool and I’ve in all probability swum in it!), so contributing to an organisation devoted to giving extra kids that very same pleasure and confidence was actually important to me. Learning to swim unlocks a lot freedom for disabled youngsters – from household vacation splashes to out of doors adventures.

I’m grateful to have supported Level Water via a pivotal chapter of progress, serving to to scale a comparatively younger charity and serving to it develop to an organisation at present that’s significant for therefore many swimmers, academics and fundraisers. Together, we:
• Scaled from ~50 to 250+ swimming pools nationwide, now enabling supply of  classes for 1,500 kids per week
• Constantly iterated and refined how we run the programme to make sure we are able to assist extra kids while balancing the practicalities of prices and operations
• Acquired iconic open-water occasions (Dart 10k, Bantham Swoosh) which now function as Swim Collective, securing sustainable income to guard Level Water’s core mission.

I discovered an immense quantity from the sensible workforce and my fellow trustees alongside the best way – thanks Ian Thwaites, Lucy Powell and fellow trustees new and outdated, Stuart Rhodes, Mark Haslam, Laura Batty, Toby Radcliffe for an exquisite close to decade of working collectively.

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