Water Safety
On the 23rd May, the ASA released a report which stated thatmore 50% of children aged between 7 and 11 years old cannot swim. This is a particularly shocking statistic when we take into consideration the fact that more than 400 people drown in the UK each year, with thousands more suffering from near experiences.
World of Swimming consider Swimming to be one of the most important skills that any person will learn during the journey of life, and are therefore promoting the Royal Life Saving Society UK’s Drowning Prevention Week. This campaign is running from the 22nd to the 30th June 2013 and is a national campaign to promote water safety messages and help reduce incidents of drowning.
Drowning Prevention Week encourages schools, clubs, leisure centres and communities to come up with new and exciting ways to show people how they can have fun and stay safe around water. The campaign also aims to raise money for the charity’s drowning prevention programmes.
We’re all passionate about swimming, so lets make sure that everyone can take part, safely!
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No swimming Monday 27th May
No swimming on Monday 27th May due to the Bank Holiday.
All sessions cancelled at Beeches and Handsworth pools.
Big Ricks Swim Team Update following the interview on Radio WM
Hi all..thought u would like to hear the guys on BBC Radio WM last Sunday. You are All a big part of this fun club.
Big Ricks Swim Team were very kindly asked on the BBC`S Dr Carl Chinn Radio WM show last Sunday (19/5/13) to talk about the why BIG Ricks Was started ,also about its charity work with BHF and CRUK and now Breakthrough Breast Cancer , and also about our the channel swims .!, including this year’s 2 way channel re match swim in memory of Pip Thomas …
This is the Link to our You Tube page to hear it Gary,Bob and Richard give a great interview about our small club ,
added a few pictures from 2008 to help with the listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReQdkMy050
( we added a few pictures from ricks swims since 2008 To help with the listen )
Pip channel team swim on the 15th july 2013…in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer .
http://www.justgiving.com/pipschannel…
more info about ricks check us out on facebook and twitter or Blog
http://bigrickchannelswimteam.blogspo/
Kind Regards
Paul
Pips double CHANNEL Is in 53 DAYS
Hasna and Keira at the East Midlands Disability Championships
On Sunday 19th May,Dave Marsh attended the East Midlands Disability Swimming Championships with Hasna Hakim and Keira Shepherd as part of Swim West Midlands team.
Hasna collected 7 golds and a bronze.
Well done to both Hasna and Keira for their achievements on the day.
Well done to all the swimmers at the friendly ‘Diddy’ gala at Cheslyn Hay
A big well done to all of the swimmers at tonight’s friendly gala at Cheslyn Hay, hosted by Cannock Phoenix.
With 24 personal bests out of 32 individual races, the results speak for themselves.
All the swimmers swam beyond their best, and enjoyed themselves at the same time.
Special mention goes to Daniel Kilminster, who was the only winner on the night, in the 9/unders 25m Backstroke, achieving a personal best time whilst doing so.
Competing on the night were:
Sophia Deans, Ria Gogna, Emma Sarling and Elizabeth Unwin.
Jack Skett, Mohammed Ismail, Harvey Kang and Daniel Kilminster.
Esha Gogna and Lily spencer.
Reiss Deol.
Jessica Deans, Vicky Cox and Chloe Talbot.
Harpreet Singh Dhillon.
Hannah Kilminster and Maisy Brennan.
Sam Gale, Joseph Gale and Tayor Siviter.
Many thanks to all of the swimmers for taking part in tonight’s fun gala.
Results available in the members section.
Big Ricks Swim Team on BBC WM on Sunday 19/05
Big Ricks Swim Team on the BBC this coming Sunday..!!
Rob Cash, Richard Brownjohn and Gary Edgington will be on Carl Chinn`s BBC Radio WM show sometime shortly after 12.00 Sunday afternoon,
talking about the why the Ricks swim team was started , also about its swims and charity work over the past 5 years and about our up and coming history breaking attempt at a double swim of the English Channel in memory of Philippa “Pip” Thomas and aid Breakthrough Breast Cancer…hopes u can listen in should be interesting! (We hope).
This is the Link to Carls Page on BBC Radio Wm you can listen from here on Sunday…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7j8
Blog link to Pip, s Double channel swim.
http://bigrickchannelswimteam.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-show-must-go-on.html
Best wishes
Paul