It is with great sadness that the County reports the death of its current President, Mike Callcut. Mike started his involvement in swimming at Borough of Waltham Forest where he became an official in the 1980’s. He qualified as a starter after which he made numerous appearances at the Essex Championships. Mike moved onto being […]
The “Time to Listen” workshop has gone online for the first time! This workshop is specifically for Club Welfare Officers and should be attended by all Welfare Officers once. Attendance on this workshop applies to all aquatic clubs; it is for both SwimMark clubs and the remaining clubs all completing “Stronger Affiliation” this year (to […]
Coming soon… Wavepower 2020-2023 Wavepower, Swim England’s Child Safeguarding Policy and Procedures manual, is being updated. The latest version will be released in March 2020 and all Swim England-affiliated clubs will receive one copy of Wavepower free of charge. Coiniciding with the launch of Wavepower, there will be a new and improved child safeguarding area […]
Invitations have been sent out to licensed officials to officiate at the Age Groups next year. If you have not received an invitation, please send an email to secretary@essexswimming.org and you will be sent the form. Applications will only be accepted this way and individual emails will not be acknowledged. Mentoring at level 1 […]
The East Region Inter County Champs took place on 9 Nov. 2019. It was a very close gala with Essex & Bedfordshire swapping places all the time. In the end it went down to the last couple of relays. Essex eventually turned out winners by 6:5 points. A great effort by the team and brilliant […]
Statement: In the last couple of days we have been informed that Basildon Sporting Village will be closing for 2 weeks in January for ‘essential maintenance ‘ on the pool floor. They are due to re-open on 17th January, just 1 day before Block A of the County Championships. We have therefore made the decision to ‘move’ […]
2019 Senior Winter Champs Results A big thank you to all volunteers and officials, swimmers and coaches who helped make this year’s Senior Champs a success. Please find downloadable results files here: RESULTS ESSEX SENIOR WINTER CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019.pdf TOP CLUB POINTS ESSEX SENIOR WINTER CHAMPS 2019.pdf
A total of 60 athletes have been selected to form part of the British Para-Swimming World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2019/20 season. After an extremely successful World Para Swimming Championships in London last month, a strong squad of Podium, Podium Potential and Academy swimmers have been named for the 12 months in the run […]
Open Water Regional and County Championships The Swim England East Region Open Water Championships took place on 21 July 2019. Here is the results file, with medal winners highlighted. Congratulations to all! 2019 OW Results

Essex swimmers were triumphant at winning this year’s Junior Inter County Competition held in Luton. Counties from Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Hertfordshire and Suffolk competed in this top class event. Those who competed were: Margarta Stoimenova, Raheel Mahmood, Joshua Shepherd, Jeremy Godwin, Maddox Roberts, Erika Pasakinskaiter, Tarelle Laniyan, David Neacsu, Glennon, Lee, Max Arnold, […]