Active Swim
Thanks to funding from the Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care
Trust the Active Swim scheme was able to run in 2009/10 with a
large amount of success. This was due to the coordination of
the scheme by Ashford Borough Council and the operating of the
scheme by Ashford Leisure Trust for the Stour Centre and Serco at
Tenterden Leisure Centre.
Please note the Active Swim programme has now
ended
Quotes
“This has been a great scheme and I hope it continues. My
9 month old daughter has benefitted hugely from it. It's also
encouraged us to swim as a family. It's fantastic”
“The experience for my son has been very good. The
teachers are all friendly and do a great job - especially
Barbara”
“Oliver loved the trial lessons and he now goes weekly and his
water confidence has boomed! Thank you”
“I have 2 carers to help me, but the staff at the Centre always
go out of their way to make my swim pleasurable”
“Took part in swim-a-song and Aquababes with baby. Would
definitely attend again. Great scheme to encourage swimming
from a young age”
“I thought the Active Swim scheme was very good and hope there
will be more of this in future”
“By using the leisure swim voucher I was able to take my
disabled daughter swimming which she loved”
“Aleisha thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to participate in
group swimming and gained a lot of water confidence. Thank
you!”
Back in January 2009, Ashford Borough Council consulted with
various organisations on the proposed scheme such as Kent County
Council Social Services and Sure Start Centres. They found out what
their clients wanted to enable them to take part and from this data
(over 100 people responded) the offer would be shaped. The
headline statistics are as follows:
Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford TN23 1PL
Telephone: 01233 330232 Email: activeashford@ashford.gov.uk
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