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Artistic Swimming Regional Games training

Swim England East Region are very excited to announce that we will continue to build on our recent successes competing at the National Artistic Regional Games (First and Second place overall were achieved in 2025 by individuals in our Squad ) by creating a squad of the top East Region Artistic Swimmers to compete at

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Water Polo Leadership Group Manager

Do you have a passion for water polo? Swim England East Region is searching for a Water Polo Leadership Group Manager to help shape the future of the sport across our region. This rewarding volunteer leadership position offers the chance to improve pathways for athletes and coaches, and foster a stronger, more connected water polo

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Swim England East Region Strategy

Swim England East Region is pleased to announce the publication of our exciting new strategy. This document represents a significant step forward for aquatics across our region, and we are proud of the vision it outlines. Our new strategy has been developed to be fully aligned with Swim England’s One strategy, including their values and goals.

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Delivering outdoor swimming sessions

Swim England has issued guidance for clubs for delivering outdoor and open water swimming.The Outdoor Swimming Guidance for clubs provides a comprehensive framework to help clubs plan, manage, and deliver safe aquatic sessions in natural environments. This guidance is designed for clubs and volunteers involved in organising outdoor swimming activities. It covers everything from risk

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Club Heath Tracker is now open!

All club chairs and secretaries should have now received their link, logins and passcodes for the Club Health Tracker. The tracker will now be open all year and we are encouraging clubs to complete annually, this being their 2025 submission.  The Club Health Tracker helps to spot areas for development and it will also clearly

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Jeff Cook Salver Nominations

This year the region invites nominations for the Jeff Cook Salver award from our clubs, counties, regional committees and leadership groups. Nominations close at midnight Sunday 13th July 2025. The Jeff Cook Salver was presented to the Region at its inception in 2005. The intention is that the salver is awarded to a person, team

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Open Water Championships – Received Entries

The Received Entries have been published on the Open Water Competitions page and can also be found here. Swimmers and their representatives have until midnight on 27 June to check the Received Entries and notify the entries administrator by email to [email protected] of any errors after which a final accepted entries list will be published and

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SwimMark benefits

Swim England has confirmed that any club who was SwimMark accredited at the time that SwimMark was suspended (1st November 2024) will be eligible for any associated benefits for a further 12 months regardless of the stage they were at in November 2024. The benefits will be available and expires as follows: January 2025 renewals

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Swim England National Awards 2025 – Nominations close in 48 Hours

Only 48 hours to get your nominations in. The Swim England National Awards will return to the Great Hall at the University of Birmingham on Saturday 29 November 2025. This year’s awards will honour contributions of the past year across a variety of categories, spanning clubs, coaches, teachers and volunteers, inclusion, health and more.  Nominations

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National Volunteers’ Week 2025

As part of National Volunteers’ Week Swim England East Region would like to say a big thank you to all our volunteers that give up their time to help our clubs, counties and the region. Check out our social media channels to see our clubs also saying thank you!

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Artistic Swimming Regional Games

Over the last 9 months, the region has organised 4 development days, which culminated in the selection of a squad of 15 swimmers to compete at the annual Artistic Swimming Regional Games.  Our lead Regional coaches Kerri Clewlow and Jayne Jarvis made a great job of running the sessions, with the input of other coaches

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Senior Coach Programme 2025

The Senior Coach 2025 programme is now open for applications, please find the links below; Senior Coach 25 programme – https://instituteofswimming.org/course-information/swim-england-senior-swimming-coach Senior Coach 25 Recognition of Prior International learning https://instituteofswimming.org/course-information/swim-england-senior-swimming-coach-recognition-prior-international-learning The delivery model has been amended slightly this year following on from feedback and taking into account when coaches busy periods are. Rather than running

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