The Swimming Teachers’ Association

Registered charity 1051631 · since 1995sta.co.uk·United Kingdom·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

The Swimming Teachers' Association is most relevant to an individual who wants to train as a swimming teacher, since its Ripple Effect initiative uses a ring-fenced bursary fund to help people access that training.
An organisation seeking money for its own project should not expect a grant, as the register records no grants to institutions.
Its stated priority is the UK, but neither the annual report nor the register gives a grants figure or grant range, so there is no basis for judging a realistic request size.
No application process is published, so if your work touches swimming teaching or water safety, contact the charity first to ask whether anything fits.

Overview

The Swimming Teachers’ Association is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1051631).

The Swimming Teachers' Association is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It exists to preserve human life by promoting the effective teaching of swimming, lifesaving and survival techniques, and to advance health through swimming and water exercise. It has over 19,500 members. Its Ripple Effect initiative supports more people into the profession through a ring-fenced bursary fund.

What they fund

Priority Areas

STA’s charitable work focuses on preserving human life through teaching swimming, lifesaving and survival techniques, promoting swimming as a life skill and water safety, and advancing health through swimming and water exercise. It provides training in swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid and pool plant. Its Ripple Effect initiative uses a ring-fenced bursary fund to help individuals access swimming-teacher training, with the aim of strengthening the workforce and access to swimming and water-safety education across the UK. Learners are supported through STA’s swimming-teaching qualification and ongoing professional development.

Themes

Swimming teacher training
Water-safety education

Geographic Focus

Priority: The UK.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 May 2021	£1,798,159	£1,755,149	—	Accounts for year to 31 May 2021
year to 31 May 2022	£2,445,785	£2,094,554	—	Accounts for year to 31 May 2022
year to 31 May 2023	£2,642,607	£2,431,588	—	Accounts for year to 31 May 2023
year to 31 May 2024	£2,656,050	£2,473,451	—	Accounts for year to 31 May 2024
year to 31 May 2025	£2,631,938	£2,530,507	—	Accounts for year to 31 May 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.