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Our Team
OUR TEAM
Meet the experts behind our company we are below, these are just some of our manikins (they aren't our experts)
Our Team is growing all the time. As we run Trainer courses, we have identified some exceptional Trainers and many have joined our team. Some work directly for SwimBag, some run their own businesses and some work within other companies and work alongside SwimBag as we support them in the delivery of their training. If you are interested in working with us, please contact us.
Ady Longland - Training Director
Ady served in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer for 24 years. Much of his free time was spent lifeguarding, teaching swimming and managing swimming pools at various stations. Whilst in Germany, he became a Royal Life Saving Society trainer and started delivering lifeguard courses across Germany. He organised courses leading to ASA swimming teaching qualifications and these activities were the foundations of SwimBag. Ady left the RAF in 2006 and has worked on growing the company, delivering courses and supporting trainers and customers. He completed his Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector in 2011 and holds various assessing, internal and external quality assurance qualifications. Ady is a National Trainer Assessor for the RLSS UK and has the NEBOSH National General Certificate and the National Pool Management Qualification.
Kate Kearney - National Trainer & IQA
Kate lives in Cumbria and runs courses in the North West. She is an RLSS National Trainer and has taught lifeguard and first aid courses across the country and as far as the Falklands, Italy, Germany and Cyprus. Kate is also the Head Spell Checker for the company.
Sean Brydges - IQA
Sean is our pool plant expert. Based in Croydon. He runs pool plant courses and provides a pool plant consultancy service.
He is also one of our Internal Verifier for First Aid and Teacher training courses.
Sean has NEBOSH General Certificate, PTLLS at Level 4 , IQA and is working on his NEBOSH Diploma.
Dan Tyler - East Anglia
Dan is a Pool and Beach Lifeguard Trainer working on the east coast in Norfolk and Suffolk. His day time job is an Ambulance Technician for the East Anglian Ambulance Trust. He is also a director of Life First Training.
Becky Wood - National Trainer & Mentor
Becky lives in North Yorkshire and - although having been a National Trainer Assessor for the Royal Life Saving Society - now concentrates on the delivery of first aid courses in the Yorkshire. She has worked with Kate and Ady for over 20 years and regularly mentors new trainers.
Jon Fulcher - Cambridge
Jon is a free-lance First Aid and
Lifeguard Trainer working in and around Cambridge. His regular venue for courses is Clare Hall on Herschel Road, Cambridge.
Jon also works for CG Swim Schools as a Swimming Teacher and coaches
Tri-Athletes.
Hassan Arif - East Anglia
Hass is also a Lifeguard Trainer both on the Beach and in the Pool. He trains First Aiders in and around Lowestoft. Like Dan, he also works as an Ambulance Technician for the East Anglia Ambulance Trust.
Jim Griffiths - Lincolnshire
Jim served in the Royal Air Force for 30 years as an RAF Regiment Gunner. He trained First Aid for us whilst with the Lincolnshire Co-operative Ltd for 10 years. We are extremly proud to have Jim training directly for SwimBag as we expand into Lincolnshire.
Vicky Smith - Warwickshire
Vicky is a free-lance First Aid and Lifeguard Trainer working across the Warwickshire. She provides regular courses for Solihull College. As well has all the normal qualifications, Vicky also has an IQA qualification.
Vicky really enjoys adding scenario work to her courses.
SwimBag - Approved Training Centres
SwimBag run many courses at our client's premises. However, we have developed some strong links with particular organisations. Some run courses for their own personnel only, whereas others run open courses. Regardless of the type of Training Centre, you can be assured that SwimBag's high standards are being applied across all our courses.
Royal Gibraltar Police
SwimBag have been delivering First Aid courses in Gibraltar for 3 years and this includes the government of Gibraltar. Recently, we were extremely proud to able to endorse a local First Aid Trainer working for the Royal Gibraltar Police Force. Now all police officers in Gibraltar receive their First Aid training locally in association with SwimBag.
Active Wellbeing Society - Birmingham
The Active Wellbeing Society in Birmingham have a great trainer on their team and SwimBag are really proud to be able support Sue with First Aid course resources and certification. With our help AWS are able to provide more first aid training to those working within the community in and around Birmingham.
Life First Training - Lowestoft
Dan and Hass have been working with SwimBag for just over a year. We have supported them as lifeguard trainers and now as they start to develop the First Aid training side of their business.