What a fantastic turn out we had at our end of year party yesterday! The awards for this years children were given out, and the winners are announced below:

Good listener- Jonathon Stephenson and Destiny Foster

All Rounder- Cedrica Simms and Enricko Parchment

Most Improved- Leon Ebanks and Adenekia Bennett

Most Enthusiatic- Tyriiq and Amishka Clarke

Water Confidence- Liam Parchment and Latania Ricketts

Smiliest- Donovan Fraser and Yendi

Team Award- Deshawn James, Tegan Parchment, Jayden Parchment and Jordanne Ebanks

We had the pleasure of meeting Lennox Lewis, a former professional boxer, this week. He is running a boxing camp in the village for children aged 9 years and over. We were invited along to the awards, and to our surprise a little speech was given about Likkle Swimmers. We hope that in the future we might be able to work together.

We have been very fortunate to have Camilla Golledge for our first week of teaching here in Jamaica. She helped us to find our feet, and was incredible to watch teach and pick up tips from! We can’t thank her enough for her time, and would really encourage you to read her blog, an interesting insight from an expereinced teacher! 

https://www.swimfusion.com/blog

A huge success! Over 50 parents and children came along to register, and we can’t wait to get started! Some a little nervous and others over excited, some too shy to speak and others full of hugs, some so teeny tiny and others towering above us!

We held our swimathon on the 21st January and with over 30 swimmers taking part, we made a total of over £9,000, which is incredible! Thank you to everyone that took part and who donated/supported.

We are so excited to be able to announce to you all that we officially have charity status after 4 long months of hard work, and lots of stress! But it has been totally worth it, and we hope that with our number it will open up a whole lot of other opportunities for us. The number is: 1170956.

We just want to say ‘Thank You’, to everybody that came last night and helped to support our little charity. We are extremally pleased to announce that we made £1,600, which is incredible! Photos to follow…

We are very lucky to have been given the chance to talk to Usain Bolt, an incredible Jamaican Sportsman, about the charity, and even luckier to have gained support from him, he really liked our ideas. Here he is supporting the charity in a new article!

We took our ideas to a friend, Theodore Scaramanga, who very kindly offered to complete the final logo design for us. We spent the evening with him, playing with a few ideas, and different variations to the logo, finally agreeing that the combination of swimming goggles, Jamaican colours and Jamaican flag worked perfectly. After hours of hard work, we are super impressed and very happy with the logo that lovely Theo has designed, Thank you!

We had dinner with Jake (6) and Joe (5), the two little boys who lost their dad in Treasure Beach. When we told them about our future plans next year, they were very keen to get involved and help us in any way that they could. In particular, they wanted to come and stay with us for the 3 months and help to teach the children to swim underwater. So we set them the task of helping us design our charity logo; they suggested that we should use Jamaican colours and something swimming related, both of which we took into account. Here they are hard at work!