How to Contact Rykneld Swimming Club and Find Where It Trains

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Rykneld Swimming Club is based at Sharley Park Leisure Centre in Clay Cross, and its website provides three main ways to get in touch: a general "Contact us" page, a committee contacts page, and dedicated welfare contacts for safeguarding concerns. Venue and direction details sit under "How to find us." The club also uses Heja and SwimClub Manager for communications and membership, and directs joiners to a short online interest form rather than publishing a single general email address.

Contact routes on the club website

The site's navigation lists these contact-related pages:

  • Contact us – the general enquiry route.
  • Our committee / Contacts – named committee roles and their contact details.
  • How to find us – location and directions to the training venue.
  • Safeguarding & Welfare → Welfare contacts – the route for welfare matters.
  • Report a welfare concern – a prominent link on the homepage for raising a safeguarding or welfare issue directly.

For joining enquiries, the homepage asks prospective members to complete a quick registration-of-interest form with a few details, after which "someone will be in touch." If the interest is artistic (synchronised) swimming, the club asks you to message it through a separate link on the same page.

Which route to use

Your reason for contacting the club Where to go
General question about the club Contact us
Question for a specific officer or role Our committee / Contacts
Want to join Learn to Swim or a squad Registration of interest form on the homepage
Interested in artistic swimming The dedicated artistic swimming message link
Directions or venue question How to find us
Welfare or safeguarding concern Welfare contacts, or the "Report a welfare concern" link

Where the club trains

The homepage states the club was established in 1971 at Sharley Park Leisure Centre in Clay Cross, which is the venue referenced for its swimming activity. For practical travel details, use the "How to find us" page in the site navigation; the homepage excerpt does not reproduce the address or directions, so check that page before travelling.

Welfare and safeguarding contacts

Safeguarding has its own section of the site rather than sitting under general enquiries. It contains a welfare contacts page and a link to report a welfare concern. If your query concerns the conduct of a coach, another member, or a child's wellbeing, use these routes rather than the general contact page — the club separates them deliberately.

Communications and membership systems

The site references two platforms:

  • Heja – listed in the main navigation, used for club communications.
  • SwimClub Manager – the membership management system that powers the site; the footer and a navigation link both reference it, and the site includes Login and Logout links plus a Dashboard entry, indicating a members' area behind a login.

Existing members who need account help should raise it through the committee contacts rather than the joining form.

What the site covers beyond contact details

The navigation also covers Learn to Swim, squad swimming with squad times and coaches, a calendar of events, upcoming competitions, a parents' guide to open meets, swimmers' times, disqualification codes and time conversions, equipment and swimwear, artistic swimming, Masters swimming for over-18s, and finance and policies including kit orders. News and awards include a DASA International Award (February 2025) and East Midlands Club of the Year 2025.

The homepage notes the club has spaces in its Learn to Swim programme and capacity in its squads, so a joining enquiry is worth making if that is your aim.