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12/12/2025
This afternoon was that biannual Christmas tradition of renewing my lifeguard qualification! Thanks to James Rodgers & the Bradfield College Sports Complex team for letting me gate crash your staff training session and to Javier Prado for assessing this old lady 👵🏼. I need to make sure Lisa Calcutt knows I got 100% on my theory paper but only a couple of seconds to spare on my timed swims so we are now lifeguard twins! 😜
02/10/2025
This has just been on the BBC. If you’ve got a child aged 18 - 23 they may have an unclaimed Child Trust Fund. You can check on the government website
29/09/2025
And just like that it was all over! 10k swum in one month 🏊♀️ Thank you to everyone who donated x
28/09/2025
A quick 30 lengths at lunchtime today 🏊♀️
Tomorrow will be my last swim of this 10k challenge. As a group we have raised a whopping £94,000!
If you haven’t donated yet and you can spare a few pennies please show your support in the next 24 hours.
I am swimming 10km and joining the fight for better mental health, this September. Sport Relief is funding organisations that are improving people’s wellbeing, through the power of sport so please donate and together, we can help change lives. Any donation you can give, no matter how small, will h...
22/09/2025
Today’s lunchtime swim gets me to 8km.
I have 8 days to complete the final 2km 🏊♀️ My sport relief swim hat hasn’t arrived yet so I’ve been wearing the 50 years of Cobham hat gifted to me by Jenny Gray 🐸
19/09/2025
So it turns out if you head to the pool at 7.30pm on a Friday evening you can have a whole lane to yourself and tick another 48 lengths off 🏊♀️✔️ Thank you to everyone who’s donated I’ve smashed my £150 target 😊
15/09/2025
I almost didn’t swim today, the thought of getting wet again just didn’t appeal. But I reminded myself that if I swam just 4 lengths, I’d hit 5k and be halfway to my goal.
Once I got in, I just kept going… and 44 lengths later, I’d reached 6k!
Now it’s time to give my poor old arms and legs a well-earned rest for a few days.
Thank you to everyone who has donated x
15/09/2025
My first swim in the new Rivermead pool 🏊♀️ 52 lengths and if I’d know that that would take me to 4.9k I would have done a few more lengths! 🤦🏻♀️ All being well I’ll hit 5k at lunchtime 🤞Thank you to Rob Gallop & Mel Paul your donations got me to £200 and a new swimming cap!
I am swimming 10km and joining the fight for better mental health, this September. Sport Relief is funding organisations that are improving people’s wellbeing, through the power of sport so please donate and together, we can help change lives. Any donation you can give, no matter how small, will h...
12/09/2025
What a crazy first few weeks of term! Lifesaving course, lifesaving assessments, first aid courses, council meetings and a return to club coaching for both Reading Royals and Electric Eels 😴 It was lovely to catch up with my old work colleagues & friends as they embarked on the new Combined Emergency First Aid at Work/Emergency Paediatric First Aid course. 100% pass rate too 👏
08/09/2025
Week 2, Day 1 - Ran out the office late for lunch, dashed to the pool with only 20 minutes of the session left and managed a quick 26 lengths! It felt slow and hardwork today but only 7.5km to go. Does anyone fancy swimming with me? 🏊♀️
I am swimming 10km and joining the fight for better mental health, this September. Sport Relief is funding organisations that are improving people’s wellbeing, through the power of sport so please donate and together, we can help change lives. Any donation you can give, no matter how small, will h...
07/09/2025
52 lengths this morning = 2km swum this week. Absolutely buzzing 🏊♀️
I’m swimming 10k in September raising funds for comic relief as part of The Big Sport Relief Swim. Thank you to everyone who has donated.
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Hi, my name is Di and whilst this is my new business venture, I have worked in this industry for the last 30 years.
I am a passionate, committed, personable person who strives to make people comfortable whilst delivering First Aid tuition. I previously worked for the British Red Cross as a youth trainer in the Thames Valley area teaching First Aid to both young people and adults working with or responsible for young people. I currently train all the lifeguards who work in the Reading Borough Council leisure centres and previously ran all the lifeguard courses too.
With regards to First Aid courses and First Aid training my client list includes: Theale C of E Primary School, The Abbey School, John Madjeski Academy, Reading Borough Council, Berkshire Maestros & Brightstart Nursey.
I am fortunate enough to have worked with young people, and in education for many years and you may know me or associate my name with other groups I am connected with rather than first aid.
In education some of you will know me as the Reading Primary Schools Swimming coordinator at South Reading Leisure Centre whilst others may know me through my Business Development role with schools is East Berkshire for Berkshire Maestros.
I was the Head Coach at Reading Royals Synchronised Swimming Club for over 10 years, coaching many young people who lived locally at both club and national level which included swimmers who competed in the London 2012 Olympics. I still coach with Reading Royals and continue to be a National Synchronised Swimming Judge.
On a Saturday evening you will find me on the poolside at Windsor Leisure Centre coaching for the Electric Eels Swimming & Synchonised Swimming Club for people with Down Synndrome as well as coaching the GB Down Syndrome Synchro Team.
I look forward to being able to work with you, giving you skills for life in a professional, engaging and relaxed environment.
My Qualifications:
Current DBS
Sports Coach UK Safeguarding & Protecting Children Certificate
NSPCC Safer Recruitment in Education Certificate
Active IQ Level 3 Award in Education & Training
First Aid at Work Qualification (FAW)
National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ)
I have RLSS UK Membership & Public Liability Insurance.