West Dunbartonshire Community Swim Meets
Investment project code: 64
Estimated Price
£5,000
Description
The West Dunbartonshire Amateur Swimming Club (WDASC) has been in existence for over 100 years. It’s a parent led, not-for-profit organisation that develops the skills of West Dunbartonshire’s young people by participating in club swimming. WDASC is all about increasing the opportunities for our young people. Through club swimming, our young people develop life skills that will inherently improve their personal growth.
We intend to purchase equipment that will upgrade the capabilities of the local swimming pools in West Dunbartonshire. Thanks to the support of our local Leisure Trust, we operate out of the Clydebank Leisure Centre & ‘Vale of Leven’ pools. This new equipment will allow our pools to host ‘accredited’ swimming competitions in our community for the first time in 40 years. Currently our young athletes can only travel outside of our community to participate in swimming competitions. This comes with a financial cost to parents & carers that can sometimes, sadly, exclude our young people.
Hosting competitions not only for our own young athletes, but also those from outside of our community, will help generate much needed income that can subsidise the costs charged to parents from the West Dunbartonshire’s Lesure Trust.
Through community fundraising we are close to achieving our goal. A successful application to the ‘small grants’ fund will allow us to achieve our goal by summer 2024
Location: Alexandria
Proposed on behalf of: West Dunbartonshire Amateur Swim Club
Good luck 🤞
This club gave me so many opportunities where school and the rest of the community lacked. I’d love to see more young people from West Dun and wider have that same chance. Good luck team 🤝🏻
This club gave me so many opportunities where school and the rest of the community lacked. I’d love to see more young people from West Dun and wider have that same chance. Good luck team 🤝🏻
Good luck
Good luck to this club. Really dedicated coaches and organisers, not forgetting the dedication by our young swimmers & parents! Thoroughly deserving of this grant 😊
Good luck to this club. Really dedicated coaches and organisers, not forgetting the dedication by our young swimmers & parents! Thoroughly deserving of this grant 😊
Good luck to this club. Really dedicated coaches and organisers, not forgetting the dedication by our young swimmers & parents! Thoroughly deserving of this grant
Best of luck to this club. This would be a fantastic opportunity for the young people of the area to develop their sport skills in an arguably underprivileged area. Swimming opportunities should be for all and with this grant and the possibilities it could lead too would be really positive for all involved.