A new partnership has been launched to provide inclusive swimming for children with mobility, visual and hearing disabilities.

Everyone Active started the one-year partnership with charity Level Water on 1 March 2022, to help develop swimming for up to 500 children every year across the UK.

The swimming programmes will support children with disabilities, between the ages of 4 and 11, to develop essential swimming skills. Everyone Active will run the private swimming lessons at 54 pools, and Level Water will provide specialist training for Everyone Active swim teachers.

Level Water uses the power of swimming to improve the lives for children with disabilities. In the UK, access to swimming is not equal. Level Water gives children with disabilities the opportunity to learn to swim by working together with pools to provide one-to-one swimming lessons for the same price as a standard group lesson.

Everyone Active’s group aquatic and activity manager, Ian Cotton, said: “We are proud to support the fantastic work of Level Water. Over the next year, we look forward to supporting the swimming development for hundreds of children with disabilities and engaging them with the fun of swimming.

“Inclusivity is one of the Everyone Active core values, so we’re delighted to partner with Level Water who are making a real difference to support children with disabilities.”

Level Water’s CEO, Ian Thwaites, said: “Swimming isn’t just a life skill; it’s a source of passion, play and fun for so many of us. Swimming is also unique amongst sports in the benefits and opportunities it offers to people with disabilities.

“We are delighted to be working with Everyone Active nationally, to be able to support so many more children learning to swim, and to give them a great start to their swimming journeys.”