BOOKING OPEN NOW!
OVER 1200 BABIES SWIMMING LESSONS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY MANUKA DOCTOR
Northern Arena is delighted to announce that Manuka Doctor have not only agreed to sponsor the initiative again in 2013, but to increase its’ funding to $125,000, which will allow over 1200 infant and toddlers, under the age of three a term of free swimming lessons.
Silverdale’s Northern Arena, in conjunction with Manuka Doctor’s ApiTherapy range, are offering a term of free swimming lessons to 1200 infants and toddlers under the age of three, for the second year in a row.
With the aim of being proactive in the community and provide a positive family experience in a safe environment, in 2012 Manuka Doctor funded a joint initiative with Northern Arena, which allowed 904 infants and toddlers to receive a free term of swimming at Northern Arena Learn to Swim School, Silverdale, Auckland. The response to the sponsored lessons was overwhelming, with all spaces for free lessons being filled within 2 days of the promotion opening.
Knowing that New Zealand is among the worst in the Developed World for its’ drowning statistics, Manuka Doctor and Northern Arena agreed that a continuous effort is required to make a change. New Zealanders “she’ll be alright” attitude toward learning to swim needs to change. A cultural shift is required and we believe programmes like, Manuka Doctor Water Babies are a much-needed move.
With the help of Manuka Doctor we can teach more infants and toddlers a valuable life skill of learning to swim, to be safer around water and arm parents and infants with the skills to save themselves and potentially other lives in the future.
Three times Olympian, parent and Northern Arena Head of Swimming Dean Kent, says “learning to swim isn’t just an activity it is, especially in New Zealand, an essential life skill. As a parent, learning to swim is an activity I view as just as important, for my son Connor, as learning to read and write.”
BOOKING OPEN NOW!
Spaces are limited and are filling fast. Bookings opened July 1st, 2013 for the start of term three, week beginning July 29th.
Please note: By completing this form you are not guaranteed lessons. Infants and toddlers must be under 3 years age before 29th July 2013 to qualify. Lessons are subject to availability. After current swim school members, bookings operate on a first come, first serve basis.
call us on: 09 421 9700 or complete the form here.