SwimAware at Golden Square Pool offers basic water safety and swimming lessons to adults who haven’t had the opportunity to learn to swim. Thanks to funding from Victoria, the SwimAware Bendigo program operates throughout summer (early December to early March) at its home, the Golden Square Pool. Lessons run on a Monday evening from 5.30pm-6.30pm, with qualified volunteer swim instruct
ors providing sessions tailored to individual needs. This season we have also launched our SwimAware Kids program, thanks to funding from . Forty children, from diverse bacgrounds, are involved in a ten week swimming and water safety program, led by fully qualified instructors. Our spaces have all been filled for this coming season, but please feel free to contact Golden Square Pool’s SwimAware Manager Nat Kurzke on 0438 643 130 or [email protected], if you have any questions or enquiries. The ability to swim and be safe around water is an important skill if you live in Australia. It means you can keep yourself, your family and others safe. It increases confidence plus it creates social opportunities and has lots of health benefits. There are lots of reasons people may not have had the opportunity to gain these skills. It might be due to financial disadvantage, growing up in a country where swimming lessons weren’t offered, a physical challenge or other barriers. SwimAware at Golden Square Pool aim to help all people be confidant around water and learn to swim. Golden Square Pool also hosts VicSwim, low-cost swimming lessons for children aged 4 and up.
