Worcester Swimming Club is the largest swimming club in Hereford and Worcestershire and the club is now enjoying its highest profile for many years, due to its competitive success, work with the community and regular press coverage.
WSC provides swimming opportunities for hundreds of local children from 5 year olds learning to swim through to National Age Group Qualifiers and Senior Swimmers
The ambition of the WSC committee is to continue the club’s excellent progress at all levels and make it one of the most successful swimming environments in the country. The recent appointment of a full- time Head Coach underlines this commitment.
Finance is the greatest barrier to our club’s development. Worcester Swimming Club is a non-profit making organisation, run by volunteers, and is in the process of applying for charitable status. We are therefore now seeking additional funding to enable the club to achieve its aims and involve more children from the local community.
This is an opportunity for you to raise the profile of your organisation through the visibility Worcester Swimming Club can give to your financial support.
WSC is committed to:
- Building on our competitive success.•
- Increasing swimming’s profile within the community.
- Strengthening our excellent links with the local press.
- Improving the training and development of volunteers.
- Achieving sponsorship objectives with our partners.
- Becoming a fundamental element of children’s formative years.
- Establishing ourselves as a beacon of success within the swimming fraternity.
- Encouraging greater participation by children as part of healthy lifestyle.
- Developing links with education providers to encourage participation.
Through the support of our sponsors we aim to benefit swimmers across all areas of our club by:
- Expanding the training and development of volunteers.
- Conducting additional 50m training.
- Participating in training camps.
- Securing extra pool time.
- Implementing a land training programme.
- Offering specialist coaching.
- Providing essential training equipment & resources.
- Offering swimming scholarships
The club has set up a dedicated group to maximise the fundraising opportunities that exist, however we also recognise the need to tap into the resource within our club, i.e. our members. Therefore please consider the following questions:
- Does your employer operate any form of match-funding support?
- Is your employer able to offer any form of donation or sponsorship?
- Do you know of any possible sources of funding/sponsorship?
- Do you have experience of securing funding/sponsorship?
- Do you have any free time to help with our fundraising work?
- Do you have any ideas that you believe would assist the club in securing funding/sponsorship?
This issue is hugely important and represents an excellent opportunity for you to make a real difference to the club, its development and the support it can offer swimmers.
Gary Cowin
funding@worcestersc.co.uk