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laura bower, Sta’s regional Sales manager (left) with Kayle burgham, the foundation’s Senior Sports development officer


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allocation of local schools swimming has increased from 3 to 42 schools, and they now host 195 after school swimming classes a week, each with 8 to 10 children. Kayle adds; “Initially our relationship


CovENTry sporTs fouNdATIoN ToT up kEy sAvINgs wITH sTA sCHEmEs


With many leisure facilities currently looking for ways to cut costs yet uphold their client services, Coventry Sports Foundation confirms that in- house training has been the key in creating significant cost savings and has served to raise standards further. Kayle Burgham, the Foundation’s


Senior Sports Development Officer says; “By working in partnership with the STA, I am able to deliver all the swimming teaching, lifeguarding and first aid qualifications required for all staff across our three sites. The nature of the leisure industry means


we have a high turnover of staff, so by being able to run in-house training courses on a continuous basis, the Foundation is saving thousands of pounds every year.” The Sports Foundation first started


working with the STA in 2002, in response to an initial brief to provide a more cost effective way of delivering Swimming Teaching training to facilitate the expansion of its Aquarius Swim School. Since this time, with the support of the STA, the Foundation has significantly grown its swimming lesson programmes. The


guidelineS launched to prevent drowning


A British cold water survival expert has helped draw up international guidelines to prevent drowning, released to coincide with summer when the number of fatalities always rises. More people take to the water


thanks to a rise in air temperature, but the water temperature remains low. An international task force of 18 experts from 12 countries included Professor Mike Tipton at


an international


than a quarter of all unintentional deaths from injury among children are due to drowning. The number of near-drownings is


nearly five times higher and can cause long-term disabilities including brain damage, memory problems, learning disabilities or permanent loss of basic functioning. The guidelines are:


the


University of Portsmouth. Professor Tipton said: “This is important


collaboration which is potentially life-saving. Drowning is a major cause of death from injury for all ages and of the hundreds who drown in British waters each year many lives could have been saved if safety advice had been followed.” According to the World Health


Organisation, drowning is the second leading cause of death from injury for children in the UK. Worldwide, more


• Learn swimming and water safety survival skills


• Always swim with others • Obey all safety signs and warning flags


• Never go in the water after drinking alcohol


• Know how and when to use a life jacket


• Swim in areas with lifeguards • Help and encourage others to learn to swim


According to the latest figures from RoSPA, 435 people accidentally drowned in the UK in 2005.


with the STA was very much focused on training, developing and sustaining Swimming Teachers and Lifeguards. However, it quickly became apparent that the STA had a lot more to offer, and today we now utilise the STA’s range of First Aid, Manual Handling and Customer Service qualifications, in addition to the many specialist swimming programmes like disability swimming. “The STA has played a huge role in


our success, and not only in terms of the breadth of qualifications available. They give us the freedom to schedule courses to suit our needs; there are no restrictions placed upon us in terms of when we can run our courses or how much we charge. Significantly, there are no additional costs to pay to become an approved training centre.”


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StarS celebrate 10,000 mileStone for poolS Scheme


Sporting legends Mark Foster, Steve Parry and Dave Moorcroft have been helping to celebrate the success of British Gas Pools 4 Schools programme which has reached the milestone of teaching 10,000 children to swim. The trio were at the Coventry AT7


Centre to mark the success of the scheme, which is delivered by Total Swimming in conjunction with the ASA and the Department of Education. Since 2009, portable pools have


been travelling all over the UK with the aim of teaching children and families to swim in areas where this opportunity has been limited. And now, 160 schools, 250,000m


and 100,000 swimming lessons later, British Gas Pools 4 Schools has achieved what it initially set out to do – to teach 10,000 children from diverse backgrounds, communities and lifestyles, to swim. The swimming lessons provided by


British Gas Pools 4 Schools aim to help school children achieve the National Curriculum target of teaching school children to swim 25m unaided and is a highly effective solution to school swimming.


DRÖM UK APPOINTS NEW PROJECT MANAGER adding,


Dröm UK Limited has appointed James Cartmell as Project Manager. James, 31,


from Camberley,


Surrey, was previously self-employed as a designer, prior to being project manager for property development company, Milllgate Homes. With a degree in product design, HNC in construction and fully CAD trained, James was selected to strengthen the team at Dröm UK and assist with the company’s expansion plans. A leading company in the design,


supply and installation of the finest quality sauna rooms, steam rooms and steam showers, Dröm UK is based in Byfleet, Surrey and is currently undertaking numerous prestigious projects around the UK and internationally, and it was this aspect that appealed to James when applying for the post. “I was particularly impressed with


Dröm UK’s commitment to quality and the bespoke nature of the projects they undertake,” he said,


“this gave me the


opportunity to utilise the experience I have amassed in my previous positions as well as to stretch myself and learn about a new, expanding industry.”


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