Water Wellbeing to expand through local and national leisure operators

Leisure operators from across the nation recently gathered together at a virtual event delivered by Swim England’s health and wellbeing team, in partnership with Good Boost, providing educational content on swimming after surgery, discussions around the new England Swims insight, products, programmes and offers around health and wellbeing.

Discussions included how partnerships with the likes of the We Are Undefeatable campaign could help to reach more communities up and down the country.

Strength in numbers

Listening in on the updates and conversation at the event were pool operators from across the country, who have either completed or are working towards Water Wellbeing accreditation.

To date, there are 19 accredited sites, with 155 more working towards accreditation and likely to achieve this standard in 2023. 

Current Water Wellbeing accredited sites within GLL:

Energise, York (GLL)

Bath Sports & Leisure Centre, Bath (GLL)

Find your local Water Wellbeing accredited pool

Also announced at the event was some additional functionality for Swim England’s PoolFinder. Users can now search for local pools that are Water Wellbeing accredited, or might have specific accessibility support in place.

Health and wellbeing sessions offered by pools can also now be searched for, with health sessions, dementia friendly sessions and aquatic physiotherapy support in hydrotherapy pools also now easily found through PoolFinder.

Andrew Power, water wellbeing specialist at Swim England, commented after the event: “It’s great to see so many leisure operators committed to becoming more accessible, inclusive and welcoming through the Water Wellbeing programme, which will have a significant impact on health and wellbeing across communities in years to come.

“Also now with PoolFinder in place, it is not only becoming easier to access, but to find the right facility and offers too.”

For more information on Water Wellbeing or other aspects of Swim England’s health and wellbeing work, get in touch at health@swimming.org.