Swimming

jonf
jonf Online Community Member Posts: 326 Empowering

does anyone know if there are disabled swimming sessions at government pools in uk.

Maybe they don’t have the staff

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  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 279 Pioneering

    That seems unlikely to me, based on quite the range of disabilities out there. Lots of very different skills...

    In Liverpool the Brothers Of Charity has a wheelchair accessible swimming pool at Thingwall Hall. Gently ramped at the bottom end so one just pushes a wheelchair straight into it. That's where I demonstrated why I can't swim but I haven't been there since I stopped working there years ago.

    These folk may have more advice:

    https://disability-swimming.org.uk/

    These do some sterling work organising groups and swimming lessons and apparently we have the right to access public pools:

    https://www.wheelpower.org.uk/sports/swimming/

    And these:

    https://www.better.org.uk/what-we-offer/lessons-and-courses/swimming/disability

    Others are also available, it seems.

    I hope it works for you, good luck

  • jonf
    jonf Online Community Member Posts: 326 Empowering

    I want to swim or try in a normal pool. Only need help getting in and out, fed up with hospital pool