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Annual Report and Accounts 2010 “I Wish to Take the Opportunity to Salute and Thank All Our Dedicated Staff and Volunteers Who Serve Our Sport So Well
Annual Report and Accounts 2010 “I wish to take the opportunity to salute and thank all our dedicated staff and volunteers who serve our sport so well. The British Swimming family is in good spirits and ready for a once-in-a-lifetime performance over the next two years.” Contents Chairman’s Report 03 Chairman’s Report It is with great pleasure that I present my second World Championships in Rome demonstrated the Alistair Gray report as Chairman of British Swimming. 2009 potential for growth. Together we will build a new Chairman 04 Chief Executive’s Report has been one of the most successful years in our platform for the development of our respective history. I hope you find this report interesting and organisations. We are especially grateful for the 05 Excellence that it adequately reflects our success, in and out of enthusiastic way in which British Gas staff have > Swimming the water. embraced the sport at all levels, and the support > Profile: Keri-Anne Payne Following on from agreement of our strategic they have given us in our efforts to change and > Disability Swimming priorities the Board spent most of 2009 working improve performance. Our other partners and > Diving with the Executive to develop our future plans. We sponsors, especially Speedo and Kelloggs, have > Profile: Jazmine Stansbury also reviewed our own performance as a Board also responded to our challenge to be the world’s > Synchronised Swimming both individually and collectively. This has been a leading swimming nation. > Water Polo most useful process and I am pleased to report that I wish to take the opportunity to salute and > Profile: Scott Carpenter your Board and the Executive of British Swimming thank all our dedicated staff and volunteers who are working well, and are focused on achieving our serve our sport so well. -
Annualreport Andaccounts
Visual 3a_Layout 1 30/09/2009 14:08 Page 1 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUALREPORT 09 ANDACCOUNTS Visual 3a_Layout 1 30/09/2009 14:08 Page 2 On the cover: (l-r) Becky Adlington, Jo Jackson and Gemma Spofforth with their medals from the World Championships in Rome Chairman’s report It is with great pleasure that I present my first Early in 2009, the Board reviewed its strategic report as Chairman of British Swimming. From priorities through to 2012. We aim for the my appointment in December 2008, the last London Olympics to be our ‘best ever Games’ David Davies few months have flown by and I thank and for the UK to be the ‘best swimming nation everyone in the sport who has made me feel in the world’ by 2020. These are ambitious very welcome. I hope you find this report goals and ones that we believe are achievable interesting and that it reflects well on one of given the necessary commitment and the most successful years in our history. investment. We are particularly grateful for the The last year has been one of considerable evolving partnership with UK Sport and the success in and out of the water. financial investment through the Lottery. Our success in the pool would not be possible In taking over from my predecessor, Chris without this and the support provided by other Baillieu, I would like to thank him for his efforts major sponsors and stakeholders, as outlined over two terms as Chairman, and commend to later in this report. you his efforts in addressing a number of major issues of change in the sport. -
British Swimming Limited // Abridged Consolidated Accounts
british swimming annual report and accounts //2013 02 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2013 ^ Matthew Johnson Jonathan^ Fox 03 CONTENTS CONTENTS // world championships^ page 30 contents ^ ipc world championships page 44 04 Chairman’s Report Maurice Watkins 05 Chief Executive’s Report David Sparkes 06 Excellence 24 European Junior Championships 2013 28 International Influence 29 Corporate 30 World Championships Barcelona 2013 40 London Olympic Cycle Results 44 IPC World Championships Montreal 2013 50 Financial Statements 54 Acknowledgements Front cover, bottom left to top right: Tom Daley, Amy Marren, Jenna Randall and Olivia Federici and Hazel Musgrove. Back cover: Andrew Willis in action and Ellie Simmonds. The majority of the text in this report refers to the period April 2012 to the end of June 2013 whilst the featured major events are from the summer of 2013 04 BRITISH SWIMMING ANNUAL REPORT 2013 ^ maurice watkins chairman’s report// his is my first report as Chairman the next quadrennial, ensuring British voices of British Swimming and it would will be heard. We have made a good start Tbe very remiss of me if I did not, but there is no room for complacency. We first of all, pay tribute to my predecessor must maintain consistency and move on Alistair Gray for all his hard work in the towards new standards. last quadrennial. My initial reflections on taking on the role Whilst our swimmers did not perform up of Chairman are very positive. First of all, I to expectations in the 2012 Olympic Games, have received a warm welcome from the nevertheless we did achieve a record Board, our Chief Executive and many people number of semi-finalists and finalists. -
British Swimming Annual Report and Accounts 2008
british swimming Annual Report and Accounts 2008 08 World short course 100m backstroke champion, Liam Tancock Cover - Rebecca Adlington won gold in the 800m freestyle at the 9th FINA world swimming championships (25m) backstroke in Manchester 100m BRITISH SWIMMING Report and Accounts 2008 | 03 Chairman’s report Last year, I wrote that British Swimming’s success in 2012 when a generation of young primary focus had been to set in place the swimmers who began their journey under plans that would underpin our drive for Bill’s direction will reach maturity. success in 2012, and this year I can record Michael Scott was appointed National that significant progress has been made in Performance Director to replace Bill creating the structure to achieve this. Sweetenham in September 2007. A former swimmer and coach, he is best known for Bill Sweetenham was appointed National his role as a former Director of the New Performance Director for Swimming in 2001 South Wales and then subsequently, the when British success was at a low ebb. The Australian Institute of Sport. Most recently, Olympic results in Sydney 2000 were the he was Director of the World Swimming poorest since 1936; the team failed to win Championships in Melbourne in 2007. He any medals and our swimmers achieved brings excellent strategic experience to a role only five final positions. Bill’s brief was to that is expected to include the formation transform the performance of British of a network of Intensive Training Centres swimmers and coaches and he set about throughout the home countries after Beijing.