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Holiday swim camps for club swimmers aged 9–16 in Borehamwood and Barnes.
Now booking: Christmas camps in Borehamwood and Barnes
- Ages 9–16
- Club swimmers
- 2 hours a day
- Max 8 per lane
Pick a camp
Every camp names its holiday, dates and venue. Pick the mornings you want, or the whole camp.
No camps are on sale right now. Join the waiting list to hear the next dates first.
Hertfordshire
and London
The same camp programme at each venue: two hours a day, lanes grouped by ability. Times differ by venue.
Borehamwood
Hertfordshire. Camps at The Venue, Borehamwood in the school holidays.
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Barnes
South West London. Camps at Barnes, SW13 in the school holidays.
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Berkhamsted
West Hertfordshire. See the pool, the times and what a day covers.
Coming soon · register interest
- October half term
Dates soon - Christmas
Dates soon - February half term
Dates soon - Easter
Dates soon - May half term
Dates soon - Summer
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Three to five days.
One focused block.
A swim camp is a concentrated block of squad-style training over the school holidays — not a one-off workshop. Three to five consecutive days, purposeful coaching, measurable progress across the week.
3 to 5
Days
Half-term camps run five days; Christmas camps run three or four, around the bank holidays. Momentum builds day on day rather than fading between weekly sessions.
2 Hours In
The Water
Two hours of coached pool time every day. Pool sessions only: no dryland, no lunch or childcare element.
Small
Groups
Numbers stay tight: a maximum of 8 swimmers per lane, grouped by speed, so every swimmer gets coached, not just timed.
Performance
Focus
Stroke technique, race craft, starts, turns and race-pace work — the same coaching standard as our one-to-one and squad programmes, delivered as a block. Your coach is on deck for the whole session.
Not sure whether you want a camp or a clinic? A stroke clinic is a single 1-hour workshop with one focus — the fastest way to fix a specific stroke. A camp is the opposite shape: three to five days of coached volume that rebuild technique, fitness and race sharpness over a whole holiday block. Many swimmers do both.
What a camp
costs
Each camp's price is shown with its dates at the top of this page. A £2.50 booking fee applies to each booking.
Camp
Prices
From £50 a day
Borehamwood: £50 a morning, or £150 for all four Christmas mornings. From February a 5-day camp is £200, or any three mornings £120.
Barnes: £55 a morning, or £150 for all three Christmas mornings.
The detail club
training skips
Club sessions are built around lengths, sets and fitness, and with a full lane there is rarely time to stop and work on the detail. Parents tell us the same thing again and again: their swimmer trains hard but never gets coached on dives, turns or drills. This camp is built around exactly that.
Dives &
Starts
Getting off the blocks well: a clean entry, a strong streamline and a fast first few strokes. The start is where races are won and lost before anyone has taken a breath.
Turns
Tumble turns and open turns, the push off the wall and the breakout into the stroke. Every length has a turn, so small gains add up across every race.
Drills, All
Four Strokes
Technique drills on freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, with a coach watching each swimmer rather than just setting the clock.
Sprints &
Relays
Putting it together at race speed: short sprints, and relays that bring the starts and turns into a team race.
Two hours a day, a maximum of 8 swimmers per lane.
See camps on sale →Qualified,
vetted, supervised
Every camp is run by coaches accredited by Swim England, ASA or STA at Level 2 or above, all fully DBS-checked. The coach is on deck throughout every session, swimmers check in with the coach on poolside, where a register is taken at the start of each one, and medical details and a parent's mobile are collected at booking. Camps are for swimmers aged 9 to 16 only, so juniors never train alongside adults. We'll confirm the full safeguarding arrangements for your swimmer's cohort at the point of enquiry.
Common
questions
At three venues. Borehamwood camps run at The Venue Leisure Centre, Elstree Way, WD6, in the school holidays. Barnes camps run at a 25m school pool in Barnes, SW13 (South West London), 11am to 1pm: see the Barnes page for dates. Berkhamsted camps are coming to a 25m school pool in Berkhamsted, HP4 (West Hertfordshire): register interest to hear the dates first.
Yes, that's who it's for. Most club sessions are about lengths and fitness, so dives, turns and drills get squeezed out. Our camps work on exactly those: dives and starts, tumble and open turns, drills on all four strokes, then sprints and relays to put it together at speed. Groups are small (a maximum of 8 per lane) so each swimmer gets coached, not just timed.
A stroke clinic is a single 1-hour workshop focused on one stroke or skill. A swim camp is a three- to five-day holiday intensive: two hours in the water each day, squad-style, building across the camp. A clinic is £30 for one session; a camp day is from £50, less when you book the whole camp. Clinics fix one thing fast; camps rebuild volume, technique and race sharpness over a full block of school-holiday training.
Competitive club swimmers aged 9 to 16: age-groupers, county and regional hopefuls who already train with a club. Camps are performance training, not beginner sessions and not holiday childcare.
Two hours in the water per day, across three to five consecutive days. Sessions are pool-based only; there is no dryland, lunch or childcare element.
School holidays only — October half-term, Christmas, February half-term, Easter, May half-term and the summer holidays. We book pool time for each holiday once we know how many swimmers we have, so dates go out when the pool is confirmed — to everyone on the interest list first. Places are limited by the number of lanes hired.
Camp coaches are Swim England, ASA or STA qualified at Level 2 or above and fully DBS-checked. Swimmers check in with the coach on poolside each day, and joining instructions for the venue come by email after you book. Tell us your child's age and level when you enquire and we'll confirm the arrangements.
At Borehamwood £50 a morning, or £150 for all four Christmas mornings; from February a 5-day camp is £200, or any three mornings £120. At Barnes £55 a morning, or £150 for all three Christmas mornings. Plus a £2.50 booking fee per booking. Each camp's price is shown with its dates at the top of this page.
Christmas camps fit around the bank holidays, so they run fewer mornings than a half-term camp (usually three or four). Any camp can be shorter if a bank holiday falls in the week or the pool isn't available one day. The price follows the length — you only pay for the days that run.
A maximum of 8 swimmers per lane, each lane matched on speed. Small enough that every swimmer gets coached, not just timed.
Yes. Every camp on sale is listed at the top of this page with its venue, dates, times, price and places left. If nothing suits, join the waiting list and you'll hear about the next camp first, or register interest for Berkhamsted.
How close is your swimmer
to the qualifying times?
The free checker compares their best times with county, regional and national qualifying times, event by event, with 25m and 50m swims counted the way each championship counts them. Look a swimmer up by name or membership number and it fills itself in.
Want the next step mapped out? The Gap Plan turns the gaps into a plan for you and your swimmer: the races to target, target splits, open meets near you that still count, and race-day help.
Beyond
the holidays
A camp is one block in a bigger picture. For year-round development, our competitive swimming coaching works alongside your club programme, with dedicated junior swimmer coaching for age-group athletes targeting county and national times. For a single, focused fix on one stroke or skill, a stroke clinic is the quickest route.