NO TRAINING on weekend of 24/25/26 November
NO TRAINING on weekend of 24/25/26 November
Due to the Scarborough Winter Gala open meet being held at our pool.
Scarborough Spring Splash April 2024 – Important changes to meet.
SCARBOROUGH SWIMMING CLUB
IMPORTANT ANNNOUNCENT
SPRING OPEN MEET
SUNDAY 7TH APRIL 2024
To All Our Supporting Clubs
We are sure you are all aware that our Spring Open Meet has reached its capacity very quickly when entries were opened last week. It has been a disappointment that we have had so many entries rejected.
However, in conjunction with our pool partners, Everyone Active, we have managed to secure the pool for the Saturday afternoon 6th April 2024.
This does mean that we have had to rearrange the scheduling of the events over the 2 days. The new scheduling will be attached to this note and we hope that this will allow more swimmers to compete in our gala. There will now be 3 sessions of 12 events. Session 1 will be on Saturday afternoon and will finish no later than 6.30pm. Session 2 will be on Sunday morning and Session 3 on Sunday afternoon.
The entries that have been submitted and accepted do not have to be re-entered. Those places are confirmed. Please withdraw any swimmer who cannot compete if the new scheduling is not suitable. Any monies sent will be refunded to the relevant club.
It is our intention to release the gala for entries on Wednesday 15th November at 10am and entries will be accepted on a first come basis until the capacity is reached.
We hope this is acceptable to all our supporters and that the swimmers can all enjoy the unique gala that Scarborough Swimming Club offers?
If you have any further query’s please contact the meet promoters through the normal channels.
Thank you for your understanding.
Nathan Renshaw & Chris Rhodes
Meet Promoters
Please find new time table of events here:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!AneCWAVEhiSjuTzZt4IvNXm7-C_Q?e=ncrtz1
NER Qualified Swimmers – Kingfishers SC
NER Qualified Swimmers – Kingfishers SC
Congratulations to all of our Kingfisher Swimmers who have achieved NER qualification times… A fantastic achievement.
Its great to see that all the training, coaching & parental support is assisting our swimmers achieve their full potential.
Everyone in the club should be proud…..
Next challenge can any of our swimmers reach the Nationals?
Well done once again …
Good Luck Everyone
BR
Shaun
Autumn 2023 Newsletter – Kingfishers Swimming Club
Autumn 2023 Newsletter – Kingfishers Swimming Club
Kingfishers Yorkshire Championships – Meet Information
Kingfishers Yorkshire Championships – Meet Information
All of our entries have now been made for the up and coming Yorkshire Championships.
Link to races swimmers are entered into:
Yorkshire Winter (swimmingresults.org)
Spectators tickets are limited & selling very fast please use the links below for access to buy your tickets.
Upper age group 13 yrs to 16 yr swimmers
https://www.swimmingresults.org/events/yorkswinter23tickets/
Lower Age Group 9yrs to 12 yr swimmers
https://www.swimmingresults.org/events/yorkswinter23tickets2/
All Meet Information & Conditions can be found here.
Speed Swimming | Yorkshire Swimming Association
Regards
Shaun Vasey
Open meets Secretary
Kingfishers Yorkshire Qualified Swimmers – Congratulations !!
Kingfishers Yorkshire Qualified Swimmers
Congratulations to all of our swimmers that have achieved Yorkshire qualification times for this Novembers Winter Championships.
Our list of swimmers are:
Please find details of the Yorkshire Championships here: Speed Swimming | Yorkshire Swimming Association
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES – 12 NOON – 22nd SEPTEMBER 2023
Please can you get in touch with Shaun Vasey or Zoe Naylor asap to advise if you wish to enter your child.
Well done & good luck everyone with this weekends Beverley meet I’m sure we will have more swimmers to add to this list…….
Regards
Shaun Vasey
Kingfishers open meets secretary
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU!
YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU!
We are looking for more volunteers to join the club committee. The committee meets once a month. If you feel you can help support the continued success of the club please contact Vicky (Hon. Secretary) on secretary@kingfishersswimmingclub.org.uk
What does the committee do?
The organisation and operation of Kingfishers Swimming Club is the responsibility of its committee. As we are a registered charity, the committee are also the trustees.
The committee is charged with organising the efficient running of the club. All committee members are elected to their posts, but offer their time freely as volunteers. Maureen Dickinson (President),Colin Simmons (Chairperson), Vicky Gough (Hon. Secretary ) and Brian DeAlker (Hon. Treasurer) head-up our current committee. The committee comprises of parents of current swimmers, parents of swimmers who have now left and members of the poolside team.
The duties of the committee are wide ranging and encompass all aspects of the clubs administration such as finance, membership, welfare and child protection, pool hire, liaison with external organisations, organisation of club galas, arranging club/swimmer entry into competitions and of course supporting the club’s poolside team.
The committee meets monthly to discuss any issues related to the running of the club. They discuss both long-term issues in a planning capacity as well as smaller more immediate issues that arise during the course of the swimming year.
Vicky Gough
Honorary Secretary
Kingfishers Swimming Club
Kingfishers Newly Appointed Head Coach – Zoe Naylor
From our newly appointed Head Coach, Zoe Naylor
As the Club’s new Head Coach, I’m really looking forward to building on the many successes we have already achieved and, supported by our already strong coaching team, our members and our Committee, delivering a healthy and vibrant future for our Club’s swim offer which will always have our swimmers at its heart.
I’ve been a coach at Kingfisher’s since 2020 and prior to that coached at Scarborough Swimming Club for several years where I made the first move from swimmer and swim parent to poolside. Swimming has always been a big part of my life. As a teenager, I swam competitively to National level. I’m a Level 2 Swim Coach and Open Water Coach and bring additional leadership skills from my 30-year management career in the creative industries. I’m a Mum to Jack and Bess (both swimmers and still involved in swimming). My other big passion, aside from swimming and being a Mum, is film – I run a film business and support young people from all over the UK to make short films for the British Film Institute.
It always feels like a privilege to support swimmers to achieve their goals, to be a part of their journey and to try to make all that hard work fun whilst enabling every swimmer to swim and train well, whatever their level. I respect every swimmer who trains and turns up for their sessions week after week to push themselves to achieve – swimming is a hard sport, one of the hardest – and am grateful for our volunteers who give their time to their club and look forward to working more closely with our swimmers’ parents who are always supportive. Kingfisher’s Swimming Club wouldn’t exist without you all and we will never take that for granted. Seeing all that hard work and joint effort come together at events and swim meets or even after a good session is always super rewarding.
Safeguarding – Kingfishers SC
Safeguarding – Awareness
Safeguarding is an integral part of any club and here at Kingfishers we take that role very seriously.
Safeguarding is EVERYONES responsibility from coaches to parents.
In the link below you will find a short training module which will give you a better understanding of safeguarding and what to do should you have any concerns.
We would like as many parents as possible to take part in the training.
If you require any further information about the training either before or after then please contact the club welfare officer Adrian.
Membership Renewals – 1st April 2023
Membership Renewals
First of all thank you for being a member of Kingfishers Swimming Club and for training with us during the past year.
Changes
If anyone has changes or questions please contact us BEFORE Friday 31st March at 12 noon so we have chance to make changes.
Annual Membership
The committee are pleased to announce the annual membership for this year (1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024) will remain at £100 per swimmer including Swim England Club Train Membership. Invoices will be generated on 1st April. The club are absorbing the increase in Swim England fees again this year for Club Train members. For Club Compete members (Cat 2) the upgrade will be an additional £20.50.
Gift Aid
Please help us to help you and keep our subscriptions down!
You can further elect to support the club by completing a Gift Aid mandate. This helps to keep membership increases to a minimum. You can be do this by logging in to Swim Manager and ticking the box on your account page. Please do this today, as we are applying for gift aid this month, and your tick means we can apply for Gift Aid for the last 4 years against your membership payments.
If another family member who is a tax payer pays for membership rather than yourself, and you are not a tax payer, please email the club secretary a name and postal address so we can update our records manually.
Thanks!
For assistance please contact:
General/Juniors: secretary@kingfishersswimmingclub.org.uk
Open Water: openwater@kingfishersswimmingclub.org.uk
Open Meets: openmeets@kingfishersswimmingclub.org.uk
Swim Manager and Accounts: admin@kingfishersswimmingclub.org.uk
Kingfishers Swimming Club is a registered charity in England No: 1093018.