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ASA Annual Report and Accounts 2006 - 2007 ASA ANNUAL REPORT and ACCOUNTS 2006 - 2007 ASA AnnuAl report And AccountS 2006 - 2007 ASA ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2006 - 2007 contentS 3 ChIEf ExECUTIvE REPORT 4 Section 1 LEARN TO SwIm AIMS And oBJectIVeS 6 Section 2 LIfELONg PARTICIPATION The Amateur Swimming Association is the governing body of swimming 8 Section 3 AThLETE DEvELOPmENT in England. It comprises eight Regions through which we affiliate 1,220 clubs, who in turn have 50,000 registered swimmers, and more than 180,000 members. 10 Section 4 ExCELLENCE 11 Section 5 vOLUNTEERINg SwIMMIng'S MISSIon 12 Section 6 fACILITIES Swimming is a sport for life 14 Section 7 INTERNATIONAL INfLUENCE l To ensure everyone has an opportunity to learn to swim 15 Section 8 EqUITy AND EThICS l To ensure everyone can achieve his or her personal goals 16 Section 9 gOvERNANCE, l To ensure everyone has the opportunity to enjoy swimming STRUCTURES AND PARTNERShIPS as part of a healthy lifestyle 17 Section 10 mONITORINg l To ensure that we achieve gold medal success AND EvALUATION 20 Amateur Swimming Association: REPORT AND fINANCIAL STATEmENTS coVer cAptIonS MAIn pIc A happy start to a long aquatic career English disability swimmers won many medals at the ABoVe Medallists in the 2006 women’s senior first Belgian open disability championships in Antwerp and junior 1m national diving championships: top l-r Commonwealth gold medallist Sarah Price back l-r, Liz Heald, Hayley Sage, Claire Blencowe leads the fun in the pool Queen of the Channel, Alison Streeter and multiple and Jodie McGroarty (all City of Sheffield). masters world record holder, Jane Asher were both Commonwealth gold medallist, James Goddard, Front, Tandi Gerrard (City of Leeds). inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame Photo: SWpix.com Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger and friends with their ASA awards at a special event within the Swim Wirral aquatics programme 2 chIeF executIVe’S report Optimism pervaded the start of this year Recognising the massive impact that the - some good results from the English London Olympics will have on our sport, we swimmers in the Commonwealth games have begun to review our ‘vision’. we intend in melbourne, the new administrative to consult widely on this and present the structure beginning to work well with outcome to Council this year. The vision will new money attracted into the sport set out our objectives for the next 10 years through the regions, and the mouth- and our values and beliefs as a sport. we also watering prospect of the London intend that it will clearly articulate the true Olympic games in 2012. legacy of the London Olympics. And such optimism was rewarded during Some may see this ‘legacy’ as funding for the months that followed with renewed their sport or some new pools in areas interest in building 50m pools, and the where we have struggled to engage the recognition that swimming could play a local authority but it is my belief that the major role in driving up participation in sport most important quality we can gain from with the largest single investment by Sport the games is a better-trained, skilled and England in any sport. This new funding for motivated workforce. young children or the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting adults entering our sport who engage Excellence (AASE) allows us to develop a with skilful and motivated coaches and genuine English Talent programme in all teachers will, in turn, be inspired to take disciplines that complements the world our performances to as yet unimaginable Class programme. we were the first heights which in turn will stimulate more non-professional sport to take up investment and interest in our sport. this opportunity. This seismic change will, undoubtedly, be Swimming has much to offer the wider accompanied by some problems. Along with community. we are the most popular wales, Scotland and Ireland, we have signed participation sport as the Sport England up to the UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC) dAVId SpArkeS Active People survey showed but we still and, more importantly, the UK Coaching Chief Executive have massive potential for growth. however, framework which sets out the government’s there are challenges for us all. we still rely agenda for coaching and teaching for the heavily on public facilities that, in the main, next 3-7-11 years. This will bring another are managed by independent trusts or massive culture change for our sport and commercial operators. we need to develop one that will have tensions but if we get new business relationships with both of these through it, the outcome will be the envy of and also recognise that the future role of the all other sports as we will enjoy the strongest local authority will change. Authorities will swimming workforce in the world. be less hands-on and far more strategic and enabling but we must work with them as To achieve this, the ASA Board has also they will set the strategic direction for reviewed its own skills and working pool provision in their area. practices and there is, without doubt, an emerging desire to move towards a team approach working in harmony with the professional staff. The Board and senior staff are committed to the programme, committed to change and the future as we see it, and whilst there might be some discomfort on the way, we are determined to deliver our vision for the sport we all share. meanwhile, we have continued in this report with the format that was well-received last time with the Key Performance Indicators offering a tangible way of reflecting progress in the period April 1 2006 through to march 31 2007. leFt One of England’s disability stars, Claire Cashmore in action 3 ASA ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2006 - 2007 Section 1 leArn to SwIM ASA School SwIMMIng StrAtegy The Strategy seeks to guide the ASA’s future role in supporting school swimming throughout England. It will embrace all leFt Ed Jackson organisations and individuals that have with his ASA national either an involvement with school swimming swim awards or who wish to contribute to the framing of this key document. The resultant swimming Below A young strategy will determine the overall direction swimmer makes progress of the ASA in relation to school swimming over the next four years. It will be aligned both with other main ASA strategies and the Department of Children, Schools and families, formally part of the Department for Education and Skills, National School Sport Strategy. The final document will be published later in 2007. pArtnerShIp workIng wIth dFeS During the past 12 months, the ASA has strengthened its partnership working with the Department for Education and Skills. This partnership has developed as BuSIneSS teAM delIVerS reSultS The innovative Kellogg’s Swim Active part of the delivery of the Top Up Swimming programme has enabled thousands of The ASA Business Team was introduced Programme. Areas of Partnership working youngsters, who may not otherwise have have included the following: nearly four years ago to support and advise learn to swim providers on how to make the had the chance, to try swimming or other disciplines such as mini-polo for the first l we have provided guidance and most out of the programmes, products and time. Delivered in the Regions and working advice to DfES on the delivery of services provided by the ASA. with local partners the scheme has also School Swimming. The role of the Regional Business managers secured match funding through the National l we have been able to discuss directly (RBm’s) is to spend time visiting pools and Sports foundation. The programme has with civil servants issues and concerns swim schemes to understand the needs and received a gold food and Drink federation relating to school swimming. challenges faced and help provide practical Community Partnership Award, which solutions and to work with customers reward UK food and drink companies that l feedback statistical data on the make a positive impact on people’s lives. outcomes of Top Up Swimming. to provide the best quality learn to swim experience. l we have received direct grant aid for workForce deVelopMent the delivery of School Swimming projects The Team and their work has been so well from programmes such as get Safe 4 received that, from just two RBm’s back in ukcc Summer and the delivery of the National 2003, we now have eight, one in each region Twelve new qualifications at levels 1-3 Curriculum Training Programme. backed up by the central administration have been written and UKCC endorsed or support of the Awards Centre in Redditch. l we have been able to access the are going through endorsement across all statistical data from the DfES relating disciplines. Thirty-nine ‘lead tutors’ have This increased focus on customer support to school swimming, which has assisted been trained to support the UKCC delivery has brought results - for the first time the us in prioritising and targeting the process whilst delivery resources including Kellogg’s ASA Awards Scheme presented delivery of Physical Education School filming of skills across all disciplines have over 2 million awards in a 12 months period. Sport and Club Links programmes. Over 90 organisations have signed formal been developed. Also, a new monitoring and Partnership Agreements with the ASA which evaluation process for course delivery has The Top Up Swimming programme has represents well in excess of 640 pools and the been developed and implemented. been delivered to over 15,000 pupils with ASA National Plan for Teaching Swimming is 60 per cent of the participants being able to being delivered by nearly 750 learn to swim cpd swim a minimum of 25m.
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