Crawley Swimming & Water Polo Club Funding Support

Crawley Swimming Club is one of the oldest and successful swimming and Water Polo clubs in Sussex, based at K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley, West Sussex, where we benefit from the fabulous facilities on offer.

We are a friendly and inclusive club that have been proud to have provided a high-quality professional teaching and coaching and training from beginner to International standards in both Swimming Masters Swimming and Water Polo. Currently we have over 150 members ranging from 5 years old to adults. 

Within our last season alone we have:

• 2 Water polo GB under 19 players,
• The current UK number one 200 fly 17-year category,
• International Team England for World sports games and England for the
• DISE programme in Dubai,
• English National Champion 200 Breaststroke,
• GB swimmer in the Cerebral Palsy Games and numerous National Qualifiers

This success is because we encourage our swimmers at all levels to reach their potential, and to regularly compete in galas and events.

So why are we fundraising?

Unfortunately, due to Covid 19 and to lockdown of our club over this
period we, like others, have seen a detrimental effect on our club
finances. The return to the pool will come with added financial pressure
due to social distancing in the pool along with the loss of income from
galas and costs of keeping our swimmers and members active during lock down.

During lock down we provide many different activities covering
things like land training zooms lives, Q&A’s from amazing speakers and
international swimmers and coaches, our land based weekly work out
programmes, personalised CSC YouTube workouts and fun challenges.

Now we need to reach out to you, our local community to help us with
fundraising to build the club back to the successful community-based
Swimming programme we had before Covid 19. As you probably already
know, this cause is especially important to all the volunteers, members,
and swimmers that we do everything we can in keeping the club alive for
our future generations.

We are therefore looking to build our financial reserves to support the club during this club rebuilding phase, to retain our coaches and support our members by asking for a donation to help us though this difficult time of social distancing and beyond. Before Covid we subsidised our income by running competitions inviting clubs from around the region to participate.
Due to current competition restraints we need some urgent financial support to keep the club alive for our future generation.
Currently our financial liabilities of pool hire was increased due to higher pool fees and with a loss of membership fees this has led the club into a regular financial deficit each month and unfortunately the club will not be able to sustain this loss going forward.

Our aim is to Build, Back, Better with a flexible, accessible, sustainable development programme for everyone.

BUILD OUR ACADEMY
Due to the cost of pool hire and teaching/coaching staff these pathway opportunities are only available to the community via existing after school programmes organised by the Leisure Centres. If additional funding was available to us, we could expand this to enhance our aquatic programme and would help towards not only our future but the health & wellbeing of the community.
The second part of the project would be to set up a:

HARDSHIP FUND
For members of the community who lost jobs, assisting them to maintain their children's swimming. This is vital as Crawley has been identified nationally as one of the worst areas of unemployment suffering the biggest economic hit from the pandemic with more than 50% of jobs at risk of being lost.
Your donation of any amount would truly help us reach our goal.If you could also share our fundraiser link with your friends, it would mean so much. The more people hear about our cause, the quicker we can reach our fundraising goal.

Due to input reasons and the current climate we are extending our Crawley SC project by 4 weeks. However it is still very important that we as a club support our members going forward, and we still need extra funding to support the second part of the project which would be to set up a Hard Ship Fund:

Thank you in advance for your kindness and support and thank you for helping us. Including support from: