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Reference Information
about the Sovereign Disabled Swimming Club
Annual Report : Links :
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Extracts
from our
Annual Report
2008/2009
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The Club
benefits the community by providing recreational swimming facilities for
disabled people at Motcombe Pool, Eastbourne.
Club swimming sessions are held on Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4.15 pm and
our pool hoist is available for public use throughout the week.
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Chairman's
Review
Looking back at our club activities for 2008/09, the
first word that comes into my head is “weather”. We seemed to have an
awful lot of it.
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Snow greeted our 2008 Fun Gala at Motcombe Pool
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The
2008 Fun Gala was nearly abandoned as we had blizzard conditions, it
rained at the Garden Party and we walked along the seafront for the Rotary
Fun Walk in a monsoon. However, despite the best efforts of the weather to
thwart all our endeavours, all these events were a great success.
As well as these major events, the club also took part in various other
activities. In July, we had a stand at Motcombe’s Open Day when the
Mayor and Mayoress of Eastbourne officially opened the refurbished
changing rooms. This didn’t raise much in the way of funds, but did
raise our profile, as it was a chance to meet local councillors, and some
of the managers from SERCO who run the pool.
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Andrew
Goodwin who is a councillor for Old Town was so interested in us that he
took part in the Rotary Fun Walk with our club receiving his sponsorship
money.
We again sold our Annual Draw tickets outside Sainsbury’s at Hampden
Park. As the previous year had been so successful, we decided to attempt
two days, so on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd November, we set up a stand
in the foyer and with a small but enthusiastic team we raised £344.
Looking forward, the club has a thriving membership, a new enthusiastic
team of young helpers and is ready to cope with whatever the weather may
throw at us.
Rowena Gausden, Chairman
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We had a team of 14 walkers who raised £527
during a very wet Rotary sponsored Fun Walk along Eastbourne seafront in
August 2008.
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Income and Expenditure 2008/09
Income and expenditure have returned to our normal
levels this year following 2007/08’s increase in both due to the
purchase of two new swim chairs and corresponding generous donations.
Our own fundraising activities are again the mainstay of our income with
the annual draw, sponsored seafront fun walk and garden party being events
which many of our members can participate in.
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The vast majority of our expenditure is the cost of
hiring Motcombe Pool and maintaining the poolside hoist.
Over all, our expenditure exceeded income by £273.36.
Membership
Club membership numbers remain steady and, by the year end, stood at 88,
comprising 68 full members, 16 associate members and 4 active volunteer
helpers
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Fun Gala relay race (above)
and Motcombe Open Day (below)

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