Southwold Swimming Club

Southwold Swimming Club was founded in 1973 and currently has around 180 members. We operate primarily out of Yate Leisure Centre, 10 miles north of Bristol, but also train at Bradley Stoke, Thornbury and Bath Univerity. We cater for all ages and abilities, from non-swimmers who wish to learn to swim through to Masters who have been in the water for many, many years.

We are Swim21 accredited at "Teaching", "Skill Development" and "Integrated Masters" Levels. Swim21 is the quality standard for UK swimming clubs. The club has reached an important stage in its development, having enjoyed considerable success in the last few years.

Through improvements in coaching and sourcing more pool time, our competition performances have continued to improve. We entered into the Western Area of The National Swimming League in 2004 where we immediately won promotion into Division Two at the first attempt. We continued to improve year by year until in 2008, we gained promotion to Division One. We then made the top final in 2009 and 2010, a great achievement. The performances of our younger swimmers have also improved dramatically and in 2011 we were "A" finalists in the Southern Junior League, a league covering a large section of south west, eventually placing 6th overall in 2011, the highest placed Gloucestershire/Bristol Club.

We are a competitive club and are always looking for new members who have the commitment to train hard, improve and then take part in competitions.