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See how you can get involved with the work we do and help us to create a world equipped with water safety knowledge and survival skills for everyone.

STA believes everyone should be given the opportunity to learn how to swim and #LoveWaterSafely, and with the support and the goodwill of the public we can make a difference.

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Today with more than 12,000 members, the Swimming Teachers’ Association (STA) is an independent educational charity that works to preserve human life through the teaching of swimming, lifesaving and survival techniques to people of all ages and abilities.

Drowning continues to be one of the leading causes of accidental death in children – in fact people in the UK and Ireland are more likely to die from drowning than they are from being hit by a car or in a domestic fire. On average 402 people accidentally drown every year in the UK and many more also suffer life-changing injuries, through non-fatal accidents.

STA works with communities in the UK and around the world as part of its charitable objectives, and supports the most vulnerable in helping to promote the importance of learning how to swim and water safety. Every year in May, STA also runs International Learn to Swim Week, a campaign dedicated to helping promote the importance of learning to swim and water safety.

This is an incredibly huge and important task, and especially at this time with children having missed out on the vital opportunity to swim as a result of the pandemic, leaving a dramatic gap in school swimming and water safety education.

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STA believes everyone should be given the opportunity to learn how to swim and #LoveWaterSafely, and with the support and the goodwill of the public we can make a difference.

If you’d like to support STA and help save lives, please make a donation.

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It’s through generous donations from the public that we’re able to run charitable campaigns to raise awareness of water safety and prevent needless deaths. If you’d like to participate in one of our campaigns or get involved in helping STA organise and run one of them, please contact us.

School Swimming in Arun

In 2018, STA was tasked with managing the £150,000 funding that was donated by Inspire Leisure to promote the benefits of swimming across the district of Arun. School swimming was prioritised as part of the funding project.