british swimming annual report/ accounts 2015 2 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Cover photo: Adam Peaty with his gold medals from the 2015 world champion- ships. This page: James Guy displays his medals from the world championships 04 Chairman’s Report Maurice Watkins 05 Chief Executive’s Report David Sparkes 06 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 16 IPC swimming WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 24 EUROPEAN GAMES 2015 32 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 34 EXCELLENCE 46 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 47 Financial Statements 52 Acknowledgements 4 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 5 Tully Kearney British Swimming Annual Report Company Information For the year ended 31 March 2015 CHAIRMAN Edward Maurice Watkins CBE DIRECTORS Maureen Campbell Guy Savaric Scott Davis (resigned 31 December 2014) Graham Ian Edmunds William Raymond Gordon Samuel Greetham (resigned 31 December 2014) John Craig Hunter Robert Michael Kenneth John James Alexandra Joanne Kelham (appointed 18 October 2014) Peter Jeremy Littlewood (appointed 1 January 2015) Michael John Power OBE Simon Rothwell David Sparkes OBE Adele Stach-Kevitz COMPANY SECRETARY Ashley Cox COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 4092510 REGISTERED OFFICE British Swimming Pavilion 3 SportPark 3 Oakwood Drive Loughborough LE11 3QF BANKERS Lloyds Bank Kleinwort Benson Coutts & Co. 37/38 High Street 14 St. George Street 440 Strand Loughborough London London Leicestershire W1S 1FE WC2R 0QS LE11 2QG AUDITOR Haysmacintyre 26 Red Lion Square London WC1R 6 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 7 ^ maurice watkins CBE ^ david sparkes OBE chief chairman’s executive’s report// report// t the time of writing this, my third synchro and masters at the London Aquatics year of further change for British improvements last year and we remain report as Chairman of British Centre. Putting on events such as these Swimming as we have established confident that we are now firmly on an ASwimming, we have just held, in requires an immense amount of planning A ourselves as a new management improving performance pathway as we the magnificent neo-gothic surroundings of and preparation working with our partners, team with our Performance Directors fully monitor and performance-manage every Manchester Town Hall, an impressive British UK Sport, Mayor of London and London integrated. The results from Kazan and aspect of our work in this important area. Swimming Awards Dinner, the first for Legacy Development Corporation but it is all Glasgow this year have built on the success The board and management team support some years. This event celebrated the great part of extending our international influence in the pool from last year and have provided all our performance teams. achievements of our swimmers, divers and in our sport. a strong platform on, which to build as we We continue to try to lobby Government para-swimmers at Kazan and Glasgow and We have now virtually completed the progress towards the Rio Olympics and and our colleagues in UK Sport and the earlier at last year’s Commonwealth Games personnel and organisational changes in Paralympics next year. We hosted our first Home Country Sports Councils to see the and European Championships. I must place the organisation which followed on David ever IPC World Swimming Championships in need for a joined up approach to talent on record the Board’s congratulations to all Sparkes leaving his role as Chief Executive Glasgow with a small but talented team who development across sport, to ensure the nominees and winners at those Awards. It of the ASA. In my view, the changes have demonstrated their multi-medal winning future stars of 2020 and 2024 emerge to was also a particular pleasure to me to have made the company a more cohesive capabilities. However, if we are to climb up be even more successful. This has now the opportunity of presenting the Award of unit with its board of independent and the medal table in Rio at the Paralympics been highlighted in the triennial review of ‘British Swimming Athlete of the Year’ to stakeholder directors combining well for we still have much to do. The outstanding UK Sport by Government. In this regard, we Tom Daley. the benefit of elite aquatics and I am very performance of the diving and swimming have also contributed strongly to the debate Wonderful though our recent results grateful to them all for their hard work and teams in Kazan shows we continue to make around funding for team sports, which we have been, Rio now awaits us and planning support over the year. progress in these sports. believe needs special attention. and arrangements for the Olympics are Once again, thanks are also due to our This past year witnessed the end of the British Swimming remains a strong already well underway. We must build on staff, volunteers, partners and sponsors for fantastic relationship with British Gas and influence in international affairs contributing and maintain the momentum of Kazan and their dedicated and significant support this the search is now on to find new commercial and being consulted on a range of major Glasgow. As has been so succinctly put by last year. I would particularly mention the partners to work with us in our quest to policy and strategy changes in our sport. others, ‘the train has left the station but we excellent relationship we have enjoyed with become one of the strongest swimming A number of key post holders from British have not yet reached our final destination’. British Gas which has come to the end this nations in the world by 2020. We have also Swimming continue to work as one team Before Rio, however, we have secured the year. It has been of undoubted benefit for been working hard this year to develop our to achieve increasing impact in this honour of hosting the LEN 2016 European both parties. plans for the staging of not one but two important area. Championships covering swimming, diving, European Aquatics Championships – in 2016 Finally, I would like to pay tribute to the in London and 2018 in Glasgow. The latter hard work of all of our athletes, coaches in a new format created around the concept support staff and volunteers without whom of a European Championships which draws we could not accomplish what we have together the European Championships of a achieved. I would also like to thank my number of sports. colleagues in Wales Scotland and England The athletes have continued to work for their support. hard with their coaches to build on their 8 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 9 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS he British Swimming team Nine medals topped the tallies of eight observations enabled them to design and We have changed the whole culture of our is that it’s going to be more difficult. We’ve emerged from the World in Colombia in 1975 and Barcelona in 2003. implement a performance framework team. There are positives all round but lots seen just how difficult it is and I think we Championships in Kazan with Both previous competitions yielded only while creating and embedding an ethos of work still to do ahead of Rio but we’re can add 10 to 15 per cent to that next year renewed pride and reinforced two golds for Britain; this time there were vital to such a rapid turnaround. moving in the right direction.’ in Rio. We have to move on. We have to Tbelief following a finest ever performance five, putting them fourth on the medals ‘It’s been a great week. Nine medals and Furniss said early medal success in have a break and then straight back to it on borne out of a considerable shift in culture. table behind the USA, Australia and China. five golds is tremendous,’ said Furniss, Kazan from Adam Peaty and James Guy the front foot and we have to improve in the While the team won a record number There were also two world records and reflecting on the team’s performance. helped to set the tone for the meet. ‘The next 12 months leading into Rio. If we don’t of nine world championship medals – all this just two years after the last world ‘It’s a big move forwards. Chris and I had mentality is infectious, success is infectious do that, then we’ll have problems next year. which also featured no fewer than 12 gold championships which yielded just one a watching brief in Barcelona. We knew and so is belief,’ he said. ‘The whole team ‘We hit most of our targets in Kazan medallists – it also ignited the interest of bronze medal. after that there were quite a few things we is sharing this. They are racing more and and some would say we are in front of a growing fan base as the whole nation Barcelona 2013 was the first event for needed to address. We’ve raised the bar in getting harder to beat. I don’t want to worry where we need to be. We have a hard watched the unfolding excitement with National Performance Director Chris Spice terms of selection for the team and in what about the opposition – I want them to year of training and racing ahead of us. James Guy keen interest. and Head Coach Bill Furniss where their we expect and in terms of performances. worry about us. What I would urge, though, We’ve got the European Championships in 10 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 11 Siobhan-Marie O’Connor Adam Peaty, Chris Walker- Hebborn and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor London next May. We are going to take the come out on top, thankfully.’ Olympic team there and that’ll be a good Coach Mel Marshall colourfully “We have a hard year preparation meet for us.’ commented: ‘He is like a soldier going over An encouraging statistic is that seven the top of the trench.