Nottinghamshire ASA

The 2026 Nottinghamshire ASA AGM will take place on Saturday 28th November 2026 at 10:30am. All members are welcome to attend with a maximum of 3 voting delegates from each club.

The AGM will take place at The Welbeck Hall, Welbeck Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7QW

Please find the proposed Agenda here, and the Nomination form for positions here. Nominations to be returned no later than 20^th November 2026 to eastmidland@swimming.org.

Please share amongst your members as these roles are essential for the operation of the County.

Following a thorough review of the upper age group times in response to the feedback received, the 2027 County Consideration Times have now been revised and are available here as version 2.
The revised times have all been carefully reviewed, with the aim of easing some of the changes for the 2027 County Championships while ensuring the times remain appropriate for the competition.
Please note that all documents remain subject to ratification and licensing.

We are aware of a lot of feedback around the 2027 County Consideration Times, and that there has been significant change in most events for the top end age groups.

The Board introduced upper age group qualifying times in 2026. However, the 15-year-old to 18-and-over age groups had almost identical qualification criteria, which resulted in significantly higher numbers of swimmers competing in the older age groups. In some cases, the 18-and-over events attracted more than double the numbers seen in other age groups. In addition, the County Qualification Times had not been comprehensively reviewed for several years, so it was considered appropriate to undertake a full review, as had been done before and after the Covid period.

The data that was used with a well-established formula for Nottinghamshire was taken on the 1st June this year, and these consideration times were produced in hope to be published back in the usual time of the year in July. However, due to the Nottinghamshire ASA Board falling below quorate and not being able to carry out operational duties, these times were then delayed coming out.

With this in mind and the lateness of the times coming out, Nottinghamshire ASA have decided to re-look at the upper age group times, in the hope of easing some of them for this year, but a full review will happen again in 2027 in readiness for the 2028 County Championships.

Please bear with us while we relook over the upper age group times, and we hope to get this information back out to clubs by Wednesday 21^st October.

Nottinghamshire ASA are delighted to release the details of the 2027 County Championships (subject to ratification and licensing).

The County Championships and Relay Championships for 2027 will all be at Harvey Hadden and swum Long Course. Please find all dates below:

• Saturday 16th January (half day)
• Sunday 17th January
• Saturday 30th January
• Sunday 31st January
• Saturday 20th February
• Sunday 21st February (RELAY DAY!!)

Please find full information On the Championship Website

You can contact the new County Championships Promoter here.

Nottinghamshire ASA have been using standard documents on poolside for a while now at County run competitions. A number of clubs have asked for these. Please find the paperwork available to download, print and use here.

Nottinghamshire ASA will be holding an SGM on Saturday 18th July at Harvey Hadden starting at 10 am.

Reason for the SGM: Management Board Appointments required for the following roles:

• General Secretary
• Welfare Officer
• Development Secretary
• Swimming Secretary
• Communications Officer
• Volunteer Coordinator
• Elected Representative (Club Representative)

At present the board is not quorate and is unable to operate so it is essential for these roles to be filled for County activity to be maintained.

Should any member wish to be nominated for any role advanced nominations should be sent to: to county.chairperson@notts-swimming.co.uk with position, nominee, proposer and seconder.

The County will also accept nominations from the floor with the correct support.

Only the above matter can be heard at the SGM as per the Counties constitution.

As defined by the Counties constitution the Council is made up of the following:

8.1. The members of the Council shall be;
8.1.1. Each club affiliated to the Notts ASA who shall be entitled to send three delegates, (Please note any delegates must hold Swim England membership of the club)
8.1.2. The President and President elect,
8.1.3. The Past Presidents of the Notts ASA who are still in membership of an affiliated club,
8.1.4. The Life Members of the Notts ASA.
8.2. A Council meeting shall be quorate when at least twenty delegates are present who represent more than a third of the clubs entitled to attend.

Following on from the World Aquatics Rules Update 2026, please find the new DQ form that has been released here for use at all levels of meets going forwards. Old DQ forms can still be used, as long as the reference sheet on the back is ignored and the new one is ued.

Nottinghamshire ASA Board would like to sincerely apologise in the delay in organising this years Summer Gala.

Preparations are in place now for this years event and entry information is now live on championships pages here.

For all Officials

There is a World Aquatics Rule update that has been published, and the majority of the changes in these (with tweaks) will be coming into Swim England Governed competitions, but not quite yet!

Thanks to the referees that attended the National call tonight, and to all other officials there will be an update coming out soon.

A note to all officials, that the updated rules will come into force for Level 1 meets ONLY from 27^th March 2026

For all other level meets (which will be the majority of competitions we are involved with) will not come into force until 11^th May 2026

(Swim Wales will use the new rules from the 2^nd April 2026, Scottish Swimming are yet to publish dates. Any international meets are to use the new rules from now).

There will be a new DQ form published but this should not be used until after the implementation dates listed above.