Forest of Dean Swimming Club (formerly Cinderford and Lydney Swimming Clubs) are looking for new members to join in our exciting future

We have squad’s for all abilities from Swim England Stage 5, to County, Regional and National swimmers and even a dedicated Masters section. We train up to 5 days a week over 2 sites at Freedom Leisure Cinderford and Lydney under our enthusiasic Head Coach Craig Skinner.

If you love swimming and would like to get in touch to learn more about our Club, please email Headcoach.fodsc@gmail.com

All our entries for this Meet on 21 and 22 December have been accepted. Below are FoDSC entries and estimated timings. We will post more information when it is received.

Please click here to see all accepted entries.

For details of timings please click here

All our entries for this meet have been accepted. We will inform you of the actual times of the sessions when we have the information.

Click here for the Meet Pack

Click here for list of FoDSC entries

Welcome all swimmers from former Clubs: Cinderford & Lydney, as they move forward with the newly named Forest of Dean Swimming Club and the new Head Coach, Craig Skinner.

The new timetable can be found under the Members Information heading. If you have any queries about the new squads or timetable please email Craig headcoach.fodsc@gmail.com

Good luck everyone and a very warm welcome to all the swimmers, parents, volunteers and helpers. We very much look forward to seeing everyone this week in the new united Club.

We will be holding this years Club Championships at Monmouth Schools Sports Club on Saturday 9th, Sunday 10th and Saturday 16th November.

The aim of the Club Championships is to provide all swimmers, whatever their ability or age with the opportunity to take part in this competition.  

10 year olds and under will swim 4 races comprising of 3 x 50m races and 1 x 100m race.

11 years olds and over will swim 7 races comprising of 2 x 50m, 3 x 100m and 2 x 200m races

We encourage every swimmer to participate and the less experienced swimmers will swim in races suitable for them.

Medals and trophies will be awarded at the Presentation Evening on Saturday 23rd November at Oaklands in Cinderford. More information will be available soon.

Click here to see race programme

The 2024 Challenge. During this year all our swimmers have been attempting to swim the equivalent of The English Channel from Dover to Calais (21 miles or 1351 lengths of our pool) – some of them numerous times

We have added up the lengths they swim each training session and the total of these distances are posted regularly on our notice board. 

This Challenge will finish on 30th August and certificates will be awarded soon after. So this is the final push to achieve your personal goals on this Challenge. Good luck everyone.

Well done everyone at the Gloucester City Open Meet the swimmers, poolside staff and officials.

We had great results throughout the weekend, 45 personal best times and 9 new times achieved by the swimmers. It was a weekend of sisterly gains, in the 400m IM Ella took gold and Grace silver, in the 100m Backstroke both Beatrice and Harriet achieved silver medals and in the 200m Butterfly Molly took the gold and Libby a bronze.

Gold Medals for: Flora 50m Back, 50m Free and 100m Free; Thomas 50m Breast and 100m Breast; Morgan 200m Fly; Chase 50m Fly; Molly 200m Fly; Imy 100m Breast and Ella 400m IM

Silver Medals for: Chase 50m Free, 200m IM and 100m Fly; Morgan 400m Free and 200m IM; Harriet 100m Back and 200m Back; Grace P 200m Back and 400m IM; Flora 50m Fly; Josh 50m Back; Imy 100m Back and Beatrice 100m Back

Bronze Medals for: Thomas 50m Fly, 100m Free and 200m Free and 400m Free; Chase 100m Free and 100m Breast; Jade 400m IM; Imy 200m Back; Libby 200m Fly; Ella 200m IM and Morgan 100m Back

We are all proud of Phoebe who has qualified for the Swim England National Championships to be held in Ponds Forge International Swimming Pool in Sheffield in August – Congratulations Phoebe

Congratulations to Charlotte competing in her first Masters Meet and achieving a gold and silver medal for her 400m and 200m freestyle. All your team mates are very proud of you.

What a great Open Meet for all our swimmers with Tewkesbury, Brockworth & Dursley Swimming Clubs on Sunday 23 June at Leisure@Cheltenham.

We had over 77 improved times, 8 new times and plenty of happy faces from the swimmers and families at this event. Well done to Jessi, Lola and George R who were competing in their first Open Meet.

3 gold medals were won by Chase and 2 by 8 year old George R who swam in the 10 year and under category. Silver medals were won by Daisy (2), Flora, Imy, George W, Millie and Chase and bronze medals by Thomas R (3), Daisy (3), Josh (2), Jade, Flora and Chase.

All the swimmers showed great ability and all were a credit to the Club – well done everyone. Also thank you to all our poolside staff, officials and helpers who many the event possible.