Swim 21 is the ASA's Club Development model - a planning tool, based on the principles of Long Term Athlete Development, enabling clubs to help athletes, teachers, coaches and administrators to achieve their full potential. It focuses particularly on the needs of athletes - striving to provide them with the best possible support and environment.

Swim 21 Accreditation is a 'Quality mark'. It recognises nationally and regionally the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members.

Clubs work steadily towards the attainment of a series of outcomes all of which are seen as essential if the right level of support is to be provided at each stage of an athlete's development.

Swim 21 Accreditation is available to ASA clubs of all aquatic disciplines that are positioned at one or more of the four levels of:

·         Teaching

·         Skill Development

·         Competitive Development

·         Performance.

In 2003 Tyldesley Swimming and Water Polo Club were:

·         The first club in the Wigan Borough to be accredited with Swim 21.

·         The first club in the North West to be accredited with Swim 21 as a Swim Teaching Club.

·         One of only three clubs in the North West to be accredited with Swim 21 as a Swimming Skill Development Club.

In 2008 Tyldesley Swimming and Water Polo Club has been re-accredited with Swim 21 as a Swim Teaching and Skill Development Club and is:

·         The first club in the North West to be accredited with Swim 21 as a Water Polo Teaching Club.

 - proving that after 132 years of development, Tyldesley SWPC is still leading the way.

It does not end there as Swim 21 is an ongoing process. We have an action plan now to improve all areas of the Club progressively each year.