Well done Ashley!
February 15th, 2010
Congratulations to Ashley Campbell-Barker who was awarded his 25 metre badge on 12th February 2010. Well done Ashley, keep up the good work!
Grand National Sweepstake
February 7th, 2010
As part of a fundraising event, we have decided to run a sweepstake draw on the Grand National. Each ticket costs £1 and entitles the holder to a stake in a horse in the Grand National taking place on 10th April 2010.
The draw for a horse for each ticket holder will take place on Friday 9th April using the most up to date list available.
The draw will be published on this website.
The holder of the ticket for the first horse to finish will receive half of the money from the sale of the tickets. Please note this may or may not be the same as half the number of riders. The other half of the money received will be used to top up club funds.
Copies of the sweepstake tickets can be dowloaded by clicking on the link below. Any completed slips with the £1 entries can be handed to any of the committee by 9th April 2010.
Good luck everyone!
Congratulations Jack!
February 6th, 2010
Jack Broadbent was awarded his 5 metre badge and certificate on Friday 5th February 2010. Well done Jack!
Lillian and Archie are stars!
February 6th, 2010
Lillian and Archie Neil became stars of their school when they received certificates and trophies for their business enterprise fundraising project. They appeared in the school newsletter. They were, of course, already stars of our club as the fundraising was for our club funds.
Fundraising.
February 1st, 2010
Mandy Younger, our treasurer, has had to spend quite a lot of our funds in the last few weeks. We had a Christmas party, paid our insurance (which has gone up again), re-stocked on badges and certificates and paid for annual trophy engraving and replicas for two years. Not surprisingly, we need to do some fund-raising. We thought we might run a sweepstake on the Grand National in April, with half of the donations as prize money. In the meantime, the committee has sponsor forms (or you can download a copy of the sponsor form by clicking on the link below) if anyone feels able to swim, run, walk, cycle, keep quiet, or anything else to help club funds
Well done Paul!
January 9th, 2010
Paul McKillop was awarded his 25 metre badge on 8th January 2010 – the first badge of the new year. Congratulations Paul!
Annual club trophy and certificate winners
December 14th, 2009
The following annual club trophy and certificates were awarded at the Christmas party on 11th December 2009.
Kevin Whitmore Trophy (Junior Achievement): Thomas Slater.
Colin Bunn Trophy (Senior Achievement): Marie Clarke.
Fundraiser of the Year Certificate: Lillian Neil.
Long Service Awards: Mandy Younger, Peter Carey and Barbara Lanwarne.
Well done everyone!
Wishing all our members a Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year. The swimming club reopens again on Friday 8th January 2010 at our usual time of 6pm.
Meeting time to remain the same
December 12th, 2009
Following fears that our time slot would change after Christmas, the Council have held a meeting and decided that our time slot will remain the same. The article below was in the Nuneaton News on Monday 7th December 2009. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Click on the image to view the article full size.
Important news
December 3rd, 2009
The pool will be closed on 18th December and therefore the Christmas party will be on the 11th. If anyone can sell raffle tickets or donate prizes for the raffle – we only have one week left!
The pool has informed us that after Christmas our time will be 7.00pm until 8.00pm. This is too late for many of our younger members and several parents have already phoned the council to complain. If this affects any of you as members you make want to take some action yourselves. We also need you to come to sessions so that we can let everyone know how many people use the club.
Latest badge results and November news
December 1st, 2009
Well done to Elle-May Dempsey who got her 100 metre badge on 27th November and Robert Burr who got a special certificate for swimming 2 metres all on his own (underwater, but on his own!)
Two assistant teachers joined us for the first time, also on the 27th. Sue Smith and Karen Whinmill have helped many children to learn to swim at Exhall Grange. If they can spare the time to come on a regular basis, more of our swimmers will get a proper lesson or coaching.
