Volunteering
Wycombe District Swimming Club is run by members for its members, and we rely on volunteer support. We have a great army of volunteers, helping in all areas of the club, Committee, Team Manager, Volunteer Coaches, Officials and Open Meet Support Volunteers.
Current Roles
Some current non-poolside roles are listed below and there are more poolside roles on the link buttons. We are always interested in talking to you about what you can offer the club. Volunteering can help you gain new skills, meet new people and learn more about the sport. We can provide you with training and resources, you just need to be able to give your time.
If you want to know more please contact Ali Schwiderski or speak to a member of the committee.
External Meet Entry Secretary
Role
To liaise with the coaching team to ensure that external swim meet entries are planned, managed, and submitted within deadlines set by hosting clubs. The role ensures smooth coordination, communication, and timing for all meet-related activity. Additionally, the role supports the Swim Admin team in ensuring that all meets are billed accurately.
You will need to use the entry systems on Team unify and acess to a club email account
This is a great way to learn more about Licensed Meets in the UK, and to support your club and swimmers at a time to suit you.
Time Commitment
This role will be typicaly take a few evenings a month but can easily be done from any locaion with access to a PC and the internet.
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Trophy Secretary
This is a great non-poolside role that only takes a few hours per year and can be done in your own time.
Role
- Collect the County Championship trophies awarded to Wycombe swimmers to return to the County Champs organisation team
- Collection takes place in November each year
- Facilitate engraving for any of the County Championship Team/Relay trophies that need to be returned to the County in November of each year
- Polish the trophies in the trophy case once or twice per year (or as needed)
- Dust the display case as needed
Time Commitment
This role will be occassional. This would be ideal entertainment during training sessions or meets whilst your swimmer is busy
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Ali SchwiderskiClub Records and Results
Role
This role involves maintaining the Club's database of meet results and record swims. It incvolves using the Swim England Rankings Software to download meet results. These are then uploaded to Team Unify which highlights any new records. These are then added to the database and recorded on the Club Records Spreadsheet.
The role also involves maintaining the Spreasheets for Pool records when they are claimed
Time Commitment
This role typivally requires 1 or 2 hours twice a month depending on the competition schedule.
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Website Support
Role
We are looking for someone to help us develop our website content and support the best use of the Team Unify platform.
Requirements
Ability to work on our online content management system. The system is fairly simple to learn. Some knowledge of HTML/CSS content creation would be useful but is not essential.
Time Commitment
This work can be carried out in you own time and would be occasional commitments of a few hours.
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News and Content Creation
Role
We are looking for a team to provide content for our website, newsletters and the local press. Could you write a short piece about an event you have attended with us. Would you be able to produce News content based on information from Swim England or the committee.
Time Commitment
This role will be occassional. This would be ideal entertainment during training sessions or meets whilst your swimmer is busy
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Event Promotion
Role
Each Open Meet we run requires a promoter to take the lead in the organisation on the day and the planning up front of the meet. This role is part of the open meets team and the promoter works closely with the meet secretary (who porcessess entries), the pool staff, the external suppliers and the officials.
Requirements
This would suit someone with a project management or events management background or just good at organisning.
Time Commitment
The more people we have to share the load the less the time commitment. During the meet the promoter or a delegated person needs to be available at the pool. In the build up to the meet there is a requriement for co-ordination and planning that ammounts to a few hours in the weeks leading up to the event
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Technical Support
Role
To run the club and our events we rely on a number of technical systems including PCs, IT infrastructure, Electronic Timing systems and our PA systems. Whilst all our equipment is supported by external suppliers we need people who understand how to operate them, can provide basic support and help us developing our systems.
Requirements
This would suit someone with a Technical, Engineering or IT background or interest. Whilst all our equipment is supported by external suppliers we need people who understand how to operate them, can provide basic support and help us developing our systems.
Time Commitment
This work can be carried out in you own time and would be occasional commitments of a few hours.
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