Swim Buddies

07/10/2026

Who else is heading to the pool this week? 🏊

If you’re not, what are you waiting for?! Pop us a message today to start your swimmers journey and build water confidence for life! 💙

02/10/2026

Waving bye to September 👋 As we are half way through our first half term back!

From swimmers having their first ever lesson, to welcoming back our usual gang, we can see the progress being made already 🤩

Lots of exciting things still to come… including starting to plan our Halloween week 🎃🕸️👻

Keep up the amazing work buddies! 💙

29/09/2026

Only 3 more days to enter our poncho competition🎉

Bookings now open for our new sessions, enquire today for best availability! 🐠

🎉COMPETITION TIME 🎉

To celebrate us opening up two new swimming sessions in October, we are giving away 3 of our original Swim Buddies ponchos!

Starting from October, we have Tuesday evenings at Hummersknott and Sunday mornings at Education Village opening brand new sessions. We are also preparing to launch Thursdays and Saturdays at Education Village, exciting things happening for Team Swim Buddies!

This means we are operating 7 days a week and will have multiple venue options each day to find the class that works best for your family, pop us a message for more information 🐳

These ponchos are no longer available to buy, so once they are gone they are gone! If you want a chance to win, please make sure you’ve:

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You can also enter on both Facebook and Instagram for two entries, we will draw the winners on Friday 2nd October!

Happy Friday everyone! 💙

25/09/2026

🎉COMPETITION TIME 🎉

To celebrate us opening up two new swimming sessions in October, we are giving away 3 of our original Swim Buddies ponchos!

Starting from October, we have Tuesday evenings at Hummersknott and Sunday mornings at Education Village opening brand new sessions. We are also preparing to launch Thursdays and Saturdays at Education Village, exciting things happening for Team Swim Buddies!

This means we are operating 7 days a week and will have multiple venue options each day to find the class that works best for your family, pop us a message for more information 🐳

These ponchos are no longer available to buy, so once they are gone they are gone! If you want a chance to win, please make sure you’ve:

🌊 LIKED this post
🌊 SHARED this post
🌊 FOLLOWED our page
🌊 TAGGED 3 people in the comments

You can also enter on both Facebook and Instagram for two entries, we will draw the winners on Friday 2nd October!

Happy Friday everyone! 💙

21/09/2026

Teachers… Assemble! 💥

Our team of teaching heroes are looking for new recruits, think it could be you?

We are accepting applications for both trainee and qualified teachers, pop us a message to find out more 😎

16/09/2026

A little insight into one of our staff training nights…

Our teachers top up on their first aid, CPR and water rescue skills throughout the year thanks to the lovely guys at Leisure Training and Consultancy North East Ltd

This session we worked on a CPR refresh and deep water rescues, as well as playing through some team rescue scenarios ready for the new term to start 🏊

It’s always a great time when we manage to get the whole team in the same pool for a change, even if we get a bit loud… sorry Graeme! 💙

11/09/2026

And that’s our first week back officially done! In the last 7 days, we’ve welcomed over 1000 swimmers across 3 pools thanks to our amazing team 🌊

We hope all our buddies have loved being back, and ready to get straight back into it for week 2! 🧡

08/09/2026

This is Paul, one of our incredible swimming teachers at Swim Buddies and this is what he's looking forward to teaching this term. Can your child do any of the things Paul mentions? Let us know if the comments below...

06/09/2026

Swimming lessons available at Education Village! Here at Swim Buddies we still have spaces for lessons at Education Village, Hummersknott and Longfield Academy in Darlington!

Spaces are filling fast, however we still have spaces on most days available for you.

If you're looking to start lessons, or need to move from other swimming lessons, we're here for you. Drop us a message now to book your place.

05/09/2026

Looking for swimming lessons at Education Village in Darlington?? We've got spaces at Swim Buddies, as well as lesson spaces at Hummersknott Academy and Longfield Academy 7 day a week.

Spaces are filling fast at this time of year so drop us a message now to get your little one swimming.