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Meet the former Great Britain swimming champion teaching Sunderland's children to swim
Sunderland Echo
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05/10/2023
Former national 200 metre backstroke champion Jonathan Carlisle talks about his Swim City enterprise and Ice Kids community interest company.
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Okay then John if you could start by asking about how you got into swimming, what your
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background is in swimming?
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Yeah I got into swimming when I was younger just like every other child, learnt to swim
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in Sunderland and then I joined a club at Sunderland Club, ended up going to the Bath
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National Centre and then swam for my country, became national champion in 2014, never made
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Olympics what I really wanted to do but then got into learning to swim with my business
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in Swim City.
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And what is the rationale behind Swim City and what does it involve?
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So Swim City when we first started I really wanted kids to kind of experience what I did
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in the sport and that's slightly changed over the last six years and now I really want as
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many kids, adults, everyone really enjoying the sport as long as possible so not just
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learning to swim and stopping when they're eight or nine, we want kids enjoying swimming
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all the way through the teens and then also when they're into the adult ages as well and
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then also all the way up to old age as well.
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Is there a safety aspect as well?
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I mean we often hear about people getting addicted to water, instance at the beach and
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in rivers and lakes, is there a safety aspect as well?
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Yeah I mean it's crazy, I mean we live, I mean the full of the UK we're an island and
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how many kids who don't learn to swim, I think it's around about 50% of kids who never ever
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learn to swim in the UK and especially living in Sunderland, I mean being on the beach front,
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we really want kids to not just learn to swim but understand water safety, if they ever
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do get in a difficulty what to do but hopefully never get in a difficulty as well and understanding
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you know rivers and seas and how to handle that kind of situation.
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I understand also you've recently set up something called Ice Kids, what's that all about?
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Yeah so we set up Ice Kids, it came off just trying to give something back to our swim
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city parents, got a lot of engagement from it through beach events and then we set up
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a CIC early this year in January and pretty much the aim of that is to try to get kids
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from low income families, families who maybe are struggling with the cost of living crisis
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into swimming but also activities and we've been working with the Hath Fund through Together
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for Children to offer free/funded events and we'll be doing that over every half term over
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the next year as well.
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