Enfield Council awarded £10,000 to help improve access to local swimming pools

*Arnos Pool is one of five council-owned swimming pools in the borough*

A £10,000 grant will help give disabled children better access to swimming in Enfield.

London Sport’s Together Fund made the award to a programme run by Enfield Council and Fusion Lifestyle, which operates the borough’s leisure centres.

It will help increase the number of disabled children who are able to have swimming lessons at pools in Enfield and also provide subsidised usage for disabled families at disability-only swimming sessions. In addition, the money will provide training to swimming teachers to build their confidence in teaching swimming to people with disabilities.

Chinelo Anyanwu, the council’s cabinet member for public spaces, cultures and local economy, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded this money. It’s really important to make sure swimming is accessible to everyone in Enfield and these funds will go a long way to making this happen.

“We are breaking down barriers to make sure everyone has access to sport and we are striving to drive down inequalities in physical activity in our borough.”

Gareth Heard, Fusion Lifestyle’s head of sports and community development, said: “At Fusion we believe in providing accessible facilities for everyone and we are excited that this funding will help improve access to swimming for disabled children and their families and help give our swimming teachers access to more training too.”

During the summer holidays, the council funded free swimming sessions for under-16s at the borough’s five council-owned pools. Thousands of swimming sessions took place for free between July and August. There was also swimming success for local athletes in the 2022 Youth Games with Enfield winning the female team silver and male 25-metre freestyle bronze medals in the para swimming competition.

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