Swim News The Brockwell Swim club is based at Brockwell Lido; an unheated open-air Lido in Herne Hill, South London, SE24. The pool is open all year for both Winter and Summers swimming. Challenging during the colder months and blissful on a hot sunny day. The Brockwell Swimmers club was formed in January 2016 by a group of Lido users keen to see more swimming activities at this historic South London landmark. The aims and objectives of the Club are to promote participation of the whole community in the sport of swimming. We work to facilitate and encourage the teaching, development and practice of good swimming both at the pool and open water. We also work with Lambeth Council and Fusion Management to ensure the continued accessibility of this public facility for the local community. As well as events at the Lido, the club organises indoor Water Polo and Swim Sessions at local indoor pools, as well as taking part in national and international club events and swims. We also organise Summer walk/swims, club socials and liaise with other swimming clubs.
Get Merched for the Summer
We have an an increasing range of fabulous club Merchandise to show your support for Brockwell Swimmers, including a very limited edition of Barbie Pink swim caps, both regular and big hair size. These can all be found on our Shopping pages at www.brockwellswimmers.com/swim-caps Our insulated mugs will be especially handy for our next Swim […]
An Epic Channel Relay 2023
Having been in training for months and completed their qualifying swims, our team of four, Colm Leonard, Emily Chittock, Miriam Parish and Przemek Szafran, travelled down to Folkstone ready for their attempt to swim the English Channel. Weather delayed the start by one day, but luckily the sea calmed down and Kevin, the skipper of […]
Smashing our Channel Goal
On Saturday 12th August Brockwell Swimmers started our Channel Challenge by attempting to swim the same distance collectively at the Lido (this is before our five person relay team who will be swimming Dover to France on Monday). Fusion kindly supplied a lane for the event and swimmers started at 9am with a deadline of […]
Our best Club Relays yet.
Another great evening was had at Brockwell Lido on 20th July with our annual Summer Club Relays. This was our greatest number of participating clubs yet which included Clapham Chasers, Crystal Palace Triathletes, Out to Swim, Serpentine Swim, Serpentine Triathletes, Spencer Swim Club, Tri London, Windrush and ourselves Brockwell Swimmers. The races started prompt at […]
Channel Challenge 2023
This year Brockwell Swimmers will again be attempting to swim the English Channel as a five person relay to raise money for charity. Are you up for the challenge? We have booked the Connemara, skippered by Kevin Sherman, for the neap tide 14th August. This is a prime slot to swim but if the weathers […]
Open Water Swimming 2023
Challenge yourself in 2023 with a wealth of UK open water swimming events, wet suit or skins. Click on an event title for more information: 1 mile 3 miles 5 miles – Dover Kent Sun Jan 01 skin/wetsuit New Years Day Swim – Salford Quays Salford Sun Jan 01 skin/wetsuit New Years Day Dook – Dundee Fife […]
Winter Wooly Warmers
Keep you bonce warm this Winter with our fabulously soft Brockwell Swimmers Beanies and Bobble Caps in blue and red. These 100% acrylic knits are guaranteed to insulate your head from the worst of our British weather and keep away that wretched post-swim brain freeze. Click across to our Shopping Page to order yours online […]
We Swam the Channel!
On Thurday 22nd October 2022 four club members attempted to swim the English Channel from Dover to France to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, RNLI, aboard the good ship Gallivant skippered by Mike Oram. You can find our fund raising page at gofund.me/743e3194. The original date should have been the end July […]