📣 Busy Weekends Ahead for Our Swimmers!
We’re diving into a packed few weeks of competition—best of luck to everyone representing the club! 💪🏽🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️
🏆 South West Regional Championships:
- Florence – 50 Free on Sunday 27 April at Millfield
- Thomas – 100 Back on 4 May at Plymouth
- Harriet – 100 Back on 10 May at Hengrove
- Nia – 50 & 100 Fly, 50, 100 & 200 Breast, and 200 IM on 3, 4 & 5 May at Plymouth
💥 Gloucester Masters Open Meet – 27 April: Wishing all the best to Morgan, Grace, Jane, Kirsten, Charlotte, and Nia—go smash it!
🌟 Cotswold Final – 26 April at Pontypool: Let’s bring the energy and finish strong—good luck to all our swimmers taking part!
Let’s go team! 💙💛
Easter bank holiday weekend
Easter weekend update!
Swimming is as normal apart from no training for any squads on Easter Monday.
Enjoy your long weekend.
Gloucester City Sprint Meet on Sat 12 April
We are looking forward to seeing you all at the Gloucester City Sprint Meet at GL1.
Please could swimmers be on poolside for the morning session at 8.45am and for the afternoon session at 12.45pm . The afternoon session is anticipated to finish at 4.45pm.
Can all swimmers wear their Forest of Dean hats while racing and warming up.
All swimmers MUST sign out with a team manager before leaving. The races are on the MeetMobile app. There will be spectator tickets available to be purchased on the entrance to the balcony. Tickets will be ÂŁ8 for the whole day.
Welfare officers are here for you!

Calendar Dates
We have a few busy weekends ahead, so please make sure they are in your diary. The full list can be found under “Calendar”.
Sat 12 April: Gloucester Sprint Open Meet at GL1
Sat 26 April: Cotswold Final / SW Age group Regionals at MIllfield
Sun 27 April: Gloucester Masters Meet at GL1 / SW Age group Regionals at Millfield
Sat 3 & Sun 4 May: SW Youth Regionals at Plymouth
Sat 10 & Sun 11 May: Age group Regionals at Hengrove
Sat 17 May: Junior League Gala at Tewkesbury
Sat 24 & Sun 25 May: FODSC Open Meet at GL1
New Members Welcome

If you are a competent swimmer and are thinking what next – why not come for a free session to see if Swimming Club is for you.
Sessions are available for Stage 5 and above, swimmers can train 3 times a week from just ÂŁ38.00 per month.
There are places available for stronger swimmers within our other squads. Just get in touch for more information at members@fodsc.com
Cotswold League Round 4 on 5 April 2025
The final round of the Cotswold League Galas before the final in Pontypool was held at GL1 hosted by Severnside. The results can be found on our noticeboards.
Despite a couple of our swimmers competing at Bristol, the rest of the team put up a valient effort accruing 17 PBs, 2 new times 5 x 1st places and 12 x 2nd places between them. Some swimmers swam out of their age group to help out their teammates as well as swimming their own races.
Well done to everyone on the night, swimmers, officials, coaches team managers and to the enthusiastic flag wavers.
The finals of the Cotswold League will be held on 26th April at Pontypool.
SW Regional Summer Championships 2025
Please click here for the Meet Pack for the SW Regional Summer Championships .
Click here to view the consideration times. Please note all times are consideration times, times to have been achieved since 01/09/2024 in Licensed meets L1, 2 or 3 and appear on BS Ranking lists. All times are Long Course but conversions using the Swim England Equivalent Performance tables are acceptable. Age is at 31/12/25.Â
Junior League Gala 8 March 2025
Participating Clubs; Cirencester, Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury and Gloucester.
The Junior League Galas aim to provide a relaxed and healthy competitive environment for developing swimmers, and improve support and networking across clubs in the north of the County.
- FODSC hosted the first gala which took place at 8 March. 34 swimmers competed for FODSC with 7 new to competition, so well done everyone. The results can be found on our noticeboards at the pools.
- The final results were FODSC 158, Cirencester 143, Tewkesbury 116 and Gloucester 101 points. But more important was the enthusiasm and enjoyment had by all the teams in a friendly atmosphere. The cheering was off the scale on many occasions and we are looking forward to the next gala on 29 March at Cirencester.
Cotswold League Gala Round 2 on 1st February
Team spirit was alive and kicking at the Cotswold League Round 2 Gala with Forest of Dean Swimmers coming joint 2nd with Cheltenham, with Clevedon winning. Well done everyone who journeyed to Hutton Moor to compete, officate, volunteer and cheer on the team.
The next Cotswold League is at GL1 Gloucester on Saturday 1st March.