Notice of 2025 Annual General Meeting

Posted on 2 November 2025

All mem­bers and par­ents are invit­ed to attend the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the City of Leeds Swim­ming Club at 18:30 on the 3^rd Novem­ber in the Deni­son Suite.

Any pro­pos­als for change to the rules to be con­sid­ered at the AGM must be received in writ­ing by the Hon­orary Secretary.

Nom­i­na­tions are invit­ed for both offi­cer ship and sup­port­er mem­bers of the City of Leeds Swim­ming Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee and should be sub­mit­ted to the Hon­orary Sec­re­tary. Nom­i­na­tion forms are avail­able from the Club Chair­man and must have the sig­na­tures of the nom­i­nee, pro­pos­er and sec­on­der and all must be paid up mem­bers of the Club.

Please make every effort to attend the above meet­ing. This is your Club and the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing is your oppor­tu­ni­ty to hear from the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee about devel­op­ments dur­ing the year and to put for­ward thoughts you may have about the future run­ning of the Club or the way it is managed.

Agen­da

1. Chair­man’s Address
2. Apolo­gies for Absence
3. Min­utes of the 2024 Meeting
4. Hon­orary Sec­re­tary’s Report
5. Hon­orary Trea­sur­er’s Report
6. Chief Coach’s Report
7. Swim Mark Report
8. Elec­tion of Officers
9. Change of Rule (see sep­a­rate paper)
10. Fees for 2026
11. Any Oth­er Busi­ness relat­ing to the above

Gen­er­al Information

In accor­dance with the Club rules, only paid-up mem­bers of the Club aged 16 and over will be allowed to vote at the AGM. Asso­ciate Mem­bers are invit­ed to attend the meet­ing but will not be allowed to vote.

Any­one requir­ing nom­i­na­tion forms please con­tact the Chair­man Rod War­dle at rjw1062@​aol.​co.​uk.

Anna Chees­brough
Hon­orary Secretary

Shepherd and Ransom Bring Home 2 Silvers From World Juniors

Posted on 30 August 2025

Whilst we were on sum­mer shut down, our very own Gabe Shep­herd and Dan Ran­som were fly­ing the flag at the World Junior Cham­pi­onships in Otopeni, Romania!

• Gabe brought home a sil­ver in the 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay
• Gabe smashed a PB of 48.95 to fin­ish 5^th in the 100m Freestyle
• And togeth­er, Dan (Heat & Final) and Gabe (Heat) helped GB to anoth­er sil­ver in the 4x100m Med­ley Relay

Huge con­grat­u­la­tions to both – incred­i­ble achieve­ments on the world stage!

International Success at European Aquatics Junior Championships

Posted on 21 July 2025

In April our swim­mers attend­ed the Aquat­ics GB Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships. This is the high­est lev­el of domes­tic com­pe­ti­tion in the coun­try. As a result of some strong per­for­mances from the Leeds Swim­mers 5 of them were select­ed to rep­re­sent Great Britain at the Euro­pean Aquat­ics Junior Cham­pi­onships in Slovakia:

• Emma Wood – Start­ed at Kip­pax Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2016
• Daniel Ran­som – Start­ed at John Smeaton Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2016
• Matil­da Pot­ter – Start­ed at Kirk­stall Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2018
• Hol­lie Wil­son – Start­ed at Scott Hall Stage 8, joined the scheme in 2018
• Gabriel Shep­herd – Start­ed at Har­ro­gate SC, joined the scheme in 2022

Last week the select­ed swim­mers trav­elled to Slo­va­kia for the Euro­pean Junior Cham­pi­onships. Which proved to be a week of fan­tas­tic devel­op­ment for all 5 of the indi­vid­u­als some of which per­formed at an out­stand­ing­ly high lev­el and came away with medals, whilst oth­ers expe­ri­enced suc­cess in the form of learn­ing and devel­op­ment which will serve them well for future expo­sures to the inter­na­tion­al stage.

Medals

Gabriel Shep­herd

• Bronze – Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
• Sil­ver – Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay
• Gold – Men’s 4x100m Med­ley Relay

Hol­lie Wilson

• Bronze – Wom­en’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Daniel Ran­som

• Gold – Mixed 4x100m Med­ley Relay
• Gold – Men’s 4x100m Med­ley Relay

As a result of their per­for­mances across the week both Daniel and Gabriel have been sub­se­quent­ly select­ed for the World Aquat­ics Junior Cham­pi­onships in August, where they will rep­re­sent Great Britain again amongst some of the strongest junior swim­mers from across the world.

To have 5 swim­mers at Euro­pean Junior lev­el is a fan­tas­tic achieve­ment and is more than any oth­er pro­gramme in Brit­ian. A true tes­ta­ment to how strong our age group and youth devel­op­ment pro­gramme is.

First, Third and Fourth at White Rose Junior League

Posted on 13 June 2025

What an excit­ing morn­ing of com­pe­ti­tion at the Annu­al White Rose Junior League on Saturday.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our City of Leeds A, B and C Team who fin­ished 1^st, 3^rd and 4^th. The City of Leeds A team tri­umphed with 384 points. The A Team will now progress through to the Nation­al Final Leeds A had an amaz­ing 39 1^st places. The B Team (311) and C Team (268) fought with Sheffield (312) all the way through to the end and came an over­all third and fourth in the com­pe­ti­tion. Well done everyone.

The next round of the Junior League is the Grand Final which will be held on Sun­day 30^th Novem­ber at Cor­by Inter­na­tion­al Pool Northamp­ton. This is our four­teenth year in the com­pe­ti­tion win­ning four years in a row (2010 – 2013) and claim­ing the title back again (2017 – 2019, 2022 – 2024). It would be great to secure the tro­phy back in Leeds again by win­ning the Grand Final for anoth­er year.