What Is Rykneld Swimming Club and What Does Its Website Cover?

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Rykneld Swimming Club is a Derbyshire club, established in 1971 at Sharley Park Leisure Centre in Clay Cross, that teaches swimming and artistic (synchronised) swimming and runs competitive squads. Its website at rykneldsc.swimclubmanager.uk is the club's public information and member hub: it explains what the club offers, lists contacts and committee members, publishes squad times and an events calendar, and gives parents and swimmers guidance on competitions, times and kit. The site is built on SwimClub Manager, and parts of it sit behind a login.

What the club offers

The homepage sets out four routes into the club:

  • Learn to Swim — the teaching programme, which the club says currently has spaces.
  • Artistic Swimming — synchronised swimming, with its own coaches and a separate contact route.
  • Competitive Swimming — squad swimming, with published squad times and coaches; the club says its squads also have capacity.
  • Masters Swimming — for over-18s who want to get back into swimming.

The club began with the goal of promoting the teaching of swimming and synchronised swimming, and both strands still run today. It also notes recent recognition: a DASA International Award in February 2025 and East Midlands Club of the Year 2025.

What the website covers

The navigation reflects a club site rather than a single landing page. Sections visible on the homepage include:

Area What you'll find
Home / Contact us Club contacts and how to find the club
Our committee Committee members and welfare contacts
Heja / Communications Club communication tools
Volunteering How to offer help
Safeguarding & Welfare Welfare contacts, reporting a concern, plus guidance on healthy eating for swimming and swimming and periods
Learn to Swim Programme information and teachers
Competitive Swimming Squad swimming, squad times, coaches, calendar of events
Competitions Upcoming competitions, parents' guide to open meets, disqualification codes, swimming times conversions
Your Swimmers' Times Swimmer time information
Equipment and swimwear Kit guidance
Artistic Swimming Programme information and artistic swimming coaches
Masters Swimming Information for adult swimmers
Finance & policies, Kit Orders Club administration and ordering
News & Awards Club news and awards

There is also a prominent route to report a welfare concern, and a login/dashboard area for members.

How to join or make contact

The homepage gives a direct next step: fill in a short registration-of-interest form with a few details and someone from the club will be in touch. If you are interested in artistic swimming specifically, the site directs you to message the club through a separate link. For general enquiries, the Contact us and How to find us pages are the starting points.

Practical points to know before you use the site

  • Some content requires an account. The site shows Login, Dashboard and Logout links, so member-specific areas such as swimmer times or kit ordering may sit behind a login. The homepage does not state costs or membership fees, so treat pricing as something to confirm with the club directly rather than assume.
  • Squad times and the events calendar are the pages to check first if you are comparing the club against another for a specific swimmer — they tell you whether training schedules fit your week.
  • The competitions section is aimed at parents new to open meets, with a parents' guide, disqualification codes and time conversions, which is useful if your swimmer is moving from lessons into competing.
  • Welfare is handled visibly. Contacts and a reporting route are published, which matters if you are choosing a club for a child.

If your goal is simply to find out whether the club has a place for you, the registration-of-interest form is the fastest route; if you want to understand the club's structure and standards first, read the committee, safeguarding and squad pages before making contact.