SSC Takes Another Giant Step
SSC Takes Another Giant Step
Hi as you are hopefully all aware we have made huge strides over the last three
years achieving our five-year plan for financial stability and to regain our numbers
following COVID; and most importantly achieve charitable status.
This was achieved from a starting base of around 20 swimmers in the January of
2021 with a coaching bill for £18,000 pounds, with the committee having to draw
£20,000 pounds from the clubs reserve in order to stay afloat. The committee and
Executive at that point had to seriously contemplate planning to windup the club up
if we did not turn things around within six months due to the financial situation.
Now we have more than a hundred swimming members who enjoy the cheapest
water time in the county who are building on our and their success. At every event
we attend the swimmers continue to achieve personal bests attaining the best
possible results for themselves and the club. Meanwhile we have succeeded in
holding costs as low as we possibly can and taken up the challenge to pay for all
Yorkshire, Regional, and National Entries for first preference club members who
attain qualifying times.
Our Open Meets continue to be a huge success with favourable feed back from all
who attend them, but they do require a large contingent of volunteers to make them
run as smoothly as they appear. We have piloted a number of different strategies to
incentivise volunteers to step forward to help the club in anyway they can (reduced
entry fees for those helping at open meets in any capacity) and have identified that a
major barrier to people volunteering is the requirement to pay for the privilege.
So in response to that and in accordance with our main aim as a club to make
swimming for all our members as affordable as we can while encouraging more
volunteers to step forward, your committee has decided to pay Swim England Fee’s
for all our first preference members which drops the cost of volunteering to a
nominal £6 membership (we need to charge for insurance purposes).
Finally I just want to reiterate that volunteering at the club is a rewarding experience;
helping our many swimmers to make the best of their time with the club and we
always welcome any one who wants to move into coaching, officiating or joining us
in any of the myriad of tasks that our thriving community need to succeed.
The finance team will be putting out some eligibility information via swim manager
please log in and familiarise yourself with them.