Swimming is the sport that disabled children are most keen to do (Sport England 2001), but there are serious barriers which often prevent them ever getting started.  It can be unsafe and ineffective for disabled children to learn to swim in mainstream group lessons. They may need additional support in the water, may not learn at the same pace as other children or may have other specific needs and restrictions because of their disabilities.

Without one-to-one lessons, most disabled children will never learn to swim.

Level Water provides free, bespoke, one-to-one swimming lessons for disabled children.  We do this until they can confidently and successfully integrate into group swimming lessons. These children are aged between 4 and 11 and have either a physical disability or a visual or hearing impairment. Each child will receive fifty 1-to-1 lessons, each lasting 30 minutes.

For every project Level Water completes, 20 disabled children learn to swim. Projects are located at centres nationwide. Level Water has 30 projects running and aims to double this by the end of 2017.