Winchester leisure centre delivers swimming support to children with disabilities
The sessions will support children with mobility, visual, and hearing disabilities
Winchester inclusive swimming sessions. PHOTO: Everyone Active
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A new partnership has launched at a Winchester leisure centre, in Hampshire, to provide inclusive swimming for children with mobility, visual, and hearing disabilities.
Everyone Active, the operators of Winchester Sport and Leisure Park, is hosting the one to one sessions every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm to 4pm.
The sessions will support children with disabilities, between the ages of four and 11, to develop essential swimming skills.
Everyone Active will run the private swimming lessons and charity, Level Water, will provide specialist training for the centre swim teachers.
Level Water uses the power of swimming to improve the lives for children with disabilities.
The charity gives children with disabilities the opportunity to learn to swim by working together to provide one-to-one swimming lessons, for the same price as a standard group lesson.
Everyone Active started the one-year partnership with Level Water on Tuesday, March 1, to help develop swimming for up to 500 children every year across the UK.
Everyone Active’s group aquatic and activity manager, Ian Cotton, said: “We are proud to support the fantastic work of Level Water in Winchester and across the country.
"Over the next year, we look forward to supporting the swimming development for hundreds of children with disabilities and engaging them with the fun of swimming.
“Inclusivity is one of the Everyone Active core values, so we’re delighted to partner with Level Water who are making a real difference to support children with disabilities.”
Level Water’s CEO, Ian Thwaites, said: “Swimming isn’t just a life skill; it’s a source of passion, play and fun for so many of us.
"Swimming is also unique amongst sports in the benefits and opportunities it offers to people with disabilities.
“We are delighted to be working with Everyone Active nationally, to be able to support so many more children learning to swim, and to give them a great start to their swimming journeys.”
To find out more or to sign up for sessions, visit here.
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