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Let's Keep Atlantis SC Swimming
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
Aim
COVID-19 has created a very uncertain landscape for many sports clubs, we are no exception, can you help us to carry on swimming?
Who We Are:
Swimming is Britain's most popular participation sport; it's also one of our most successful Olympic sports. Atlantis Swimming Club began in 1979 and is one of Sussex's leading competitive swimming clubs, with swimmers consistently achieving national qualifying times year on year.
We provide a structured, safe, motivating and friendly environment in which all our swimmers have the opportunity to realise their full potential. So at all times we strive for excellence; aspire to success; recognise and celebrate endeavour - and we never forget the importance of having fun along the way.
We offer swimming training and competition for all ages 7 and above. In total (pre Covid) we delivered over 40 hours of training per week under the leadership of the Head Coach and a skilled and experienced team of coaches. Atlantis is affiliated to the South East Region of Swim England and also holds the SwimMark accreditation.
Apart from competitive swimming, we are lucky enough to offer: Flamingos Artistic (synchronised) Swimming and Horsham Amateurs Swimming Club - HASC, teaching all ages to swim and a pathway to the competitive side of the club, who came under the Atlantis umbrella in 2018. This is our #swimfamily.
What Are We Trying To Achieve?
We all have the same focus: To achieve a growing, thriving club, to ensure swimming is accessible to all children, young adults and masters. We recently extended our growth campaign and succeeded over a 2 year period to grow the club membership by 20%, that's 65 members and we have in place measures to grow by a further 35% (more than 100 members) over the next 3 years, this would take into consideration the natural process of swimmers who leave for University or to pursue other interests. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic this recruitment drive has been suspended.
Our main wish is to ensure we attract swimmers of all ages and abilities, to encompass and welcome members from across rural Sussex and nearby towns and villages.
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our training programme dramatically and although we have been lucky enough to recommence training, we still do not have all of our swimmers back in the water and those that are, are on a vastly reduced training programme. We have also, as previously mentioned, suspended our recruitment drive and are unable to accept all those interested in joining due to the restrictions we have on pool time and guidelines we have implemented to keep our swimmers, coaches, volunteers and centre staff safe.
We are, quite simply, trying to keep Atlantis SC swimming and going and to see our artistic and swimming lesson team back in the water, but we can’t do that without help.
What Makes Our Project Great?
Over two thirds of our 324 members are children, aged 7 & over. Whether they love to compete, learn a new routine in artistic swimming, or are just learning to swim, aquatic sport has loads of health benefits for our children. It is not just a sport for life but an arena where children learn to develop important life skills such as social engagement, resilience and determination.
They may well be rivals in the pool on race day, but poolside, the camaraderie helps develop lasting friendships. Spending up to 15 hours a week with their swimming squad, team mates support each other through the lows and the highs of tough training, competition successes and life outside of the pool.
This support network is vital to the success of Atlantis, it helps swimmers of all ages cope with demands of many hours of training and with their academic studies which are of paramount importance.
We aspire to inspire our athletes new and old. To give young children, adults and masters a chance to join a swimming club; to have fun, enjoy competing and benefit physically and emotionally from this rewarding sport.
Our Story:
Over the competing season, Atlantis hold 3 Open Meets, one in Winter, Spring and Summer and inside the qualifying window for major regional and national competitions, they are always well attended by visiting swimming clubs and spectators and provide the essential funds needed for us to survive. As a not-for-profit organisation, these meets are essential for us to fund the club’s financial commitments throughout the year.
With no competitions for the foreseeable future and limited pool time, we are having to review our funding strategy. We can only flourish if we can hold our regular competitions and take on new members, although we have a lot of local interest in joining the club we are unable to accept all applicants at the present time. This is due to the number of hours we have in the pool and the Covid-19 restrictions we have in place.
We are operating on reduced membership fees alone and without the fees of new members and the income from our open meets we are in a fight for survival.
Our story continues with our volunteers;
As a Club we rely on our volunteers to manage the club, run events and assist with the coaching. Volunteers are active across all aspects of the club, from coaching to management and administration.
We believe that volunteering for the club is the best way to support swimmers. It ensures that club money is only spent in areas such as facility hire, equipment, coaching leadership and training. We rely on the members and their families to provide their skills to the club where they can be most effective in order to keep the costs of a quality provision affordable for all the swimmers.
And, of course, our swimmers:
Training and competing at this level demands a huge amount of resilience, commitment and dedication from those who participate and those who support them. We are proud of all our swimmers achievements and regularly produce Sussex County and Regional Champions. Our swimmers have also competed at the British Nationals and have been chosen to represent Sussex at the Inter County Championships.
We have built up a strong tradition of competitive swimming in the South East. Having previously won the Sussex League and been awarded promotion to the Premier League. Members of our artistic team were crowned 2019 England Champions at the National Age Group Competition.
Our Junior swimmers have lifted trophies at local level and are set to for great success!
What Happens Next?
Please be part of Let's Keep Atlantis Swimming. Support, pledge and get involved in our project to enable funding to see us through this pandemic and to secure our future, until such time, we can commence our competitions once more. Your support will help us to: increase our pool time to ensure all our swimmers are back at training, expand our membership and welcome new swimmers to this rewarding sport and ensure swimming is accessible to all those that wish to take part.
If you’re not able to contribute with a pledge, but would love to support Atlantis in other ways, please help us get the word out! Shout about us on Facebook https://facebook.com/AtlantisHorsham, instagram @atlantisswimmingclub, twitter @AtlantisHorsham and, WhatsApp the link and talk to your friends and family and forward the email it to your colleagues.
Feel free to get in touch, if you are able to offer a reward or have any reward ideas that aren't currently on here. THANK YOU - We appreciate these are difficult times for everyone and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that supports Atlantis SC and our #swimfamily.
Thank you for donating our Rewards ......
Take the time to visit Sam and Liam, Evolution Fitness http://evolutionhorsham.com/. They will advise and guide you to reach your fitness goals. They have kindly donated a 2 week membership and 2 x 30 minutes Personal Training sessions - thank you! Our passion is to help our clients exceed their goals! With multiple classes throughout the week, there’s always an opportunity to work towards your fitness evolution. Our smaller class sizes and scaleable programme also means we can cater for all levels of fitness and work closely with you on your progress.
Tiffany Afflick founder of The Cooking Yam and qualified Nutrition Advisor, has a 1st Class BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough and has written 3 different nutrition packs to give as rewards:
Health & Fitness: Recipes, flexible shopping guide, meal builder, healthy lifestyle tips and a weekly planner
Individual Sport: Ideas on fast nutritious snacks, practical nutrition, pre & post training advice, meal builder, flexible shopping, guide on individual athlete (includes: advice on snacks, fuelling up, rest days, hard and light training days, timings), building a food plan and, of course, lots of recipes.
Team Athletes: Ideas on fast nutritious snacks, practical nutrition, pre & post training advice, meal builder, flexible shopping, guide on Team Sport athletes (includes: rest days, hard and light training days, match day), team sport athlete plan, building a food plan and, of course, lots of recipes.
Instagram: @thecookingyam, Facebook: www.facebook.com/thecookingyam, Blog: https://thecookingyam.wordpress.com
FINIS is known worldwide for its excellence in swimming aids and training equipment.
Founded in 1993 to motivate people too 'swim better, swim often and train smarter', the FINIS Swim range now features hundreds of innovative products designed to improve swimming technique and performance. FINIS have made available 2 amazing rewards including the Rival Backpack with water bottle. The second includes the popular and much revered stability snorkel, agility paddles, edge fins and a mesh bag. FINIS training equipment is available from https://www.mailsports.co.uk/ FINIS training aids and Atlantis branded FINIS kit is available through: https://www.mailsports.co.uk/clubs/atlantis-swimming-club-horsham.
Through the generosity of a member and Weleda, we are able to offer the following products:
Skin Food Trio Gift, Sleep Well Duo Gift, Hand Treat Gift, Arnica Bath Milk Gift Sleeved
We know how popular these will be and they will be placed on the reward page throughout the 4 week campaign - so keep checking back. A full description of each product will be placed under each reward. If you can’t wait that long check out Weleda’s website: https://www.weleda.co.uk/weleda-christmas-2020. Beautiful gift ideas that care for people and planet and if that wasn’t enough of an enticement Weleda will for each gift purchased be planting a tree with TreeSisters.
Weleda has also gifted Atlantis a quantity of its Mighty Mint Kids 2-in-1 shampoo and body wash, which are especially developed with kids, for kids:
- No synthetics, just gentle eco-detergents that are kind to skin, hair and mild on eyes
- Organic sesame seed oil to preserve the skin’s natural moisture balance
- A mellow minty freshness of spearmint with notes of lavender to encourage focus in the morning, or calm at the end of an action-packed day
With 30 years of experience, Essential Beauty are based in Horsham and offer a wide variety of treatments. The treatment facial on our reward page is just one of many on offer.
Go on pamper yourself - you deserve it: 07745 700088
email: [email protected].
Website: https://www.essentialbeautysalon.com/
Kate and Karen opened the salon at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre, Wickhurst Lane (by Tesco superstore) in 1990. In October 2018 we moved, just next door to the new building 'The Bridge Leisure Centre'. 2020 saw a big change for us in the wake of Covid-19 and we are now delighted to be in a home based garden studio in Horsham.
Independent and with such long experience we can be flexible, suiting treatments to specific needs. We never charge for consultations.
We are warm, approachable and professional Chichester qualified Beauty Therapists.
Kate holds a HND in Beauty Therapy & Karen an OND in Beauty Therapy, we both have membership and insurance with the Guild of Professional Beauty Therapists (MGPBT).
We have an established clientele and are always pleased to welcome new clients. Many of our clients have been with us for more years than they or we care to admit, in some families we look after three generations.
Be assured we are not a couple of old dinosaurs, we take ourselves off from time to time to learn new skills or update the old ones. Most recently we undertook training and are associated with MASCED (melanoma and skin cancer early detection).
Annie's Closet Tel No: 07810 750015email: [email protected]
Annie's Closet is an award-winning Fashion business based in Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Keep an eye on the Annie's Closet Facebook page www.facebook.com/AnniesCloset and our Instagram Page @AnniesClosetUK for news of new items, gifts, offers and giveaways.
Scarf offered as a reward.
Visit our website to find out all about Atlantis SC and our fundraising story:
www.atlantishorsham.co.uk
Sport England: Active Together has provided £1,000 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 24th November 2020