Community Programme
The community programme is delivered by the OWEN volunteer leaders and the Ambassadors when available.
The session content and length can be tailored to the needs of your group. Please note that the minimum session is 60 mins.
Please email your enquiry to with your group information and requirements or click here to send us an enquiry.
For people 18+ years of age the community programme will be delivered with the added session about:
- Water safety awareness
- Spotting dangers in and around open water sites in their geographical area
- Self-rescue
- Performing rescues safely
- Looking at cold water shock and the effects it has on their bodies
- Float to live, how to float effectively
- Use a throw line effectively
- Safe places to swim - Accredited sites from Swim England
- Effects of alcohol and drugs around water
- Safe routes home
- Staying together
- What3words app
For more information about this opportunity and for your school to be part of the subscription, please Contact Us.
COVID-19 UPDATE:
Whilst we love getting into schools and community groups to deliver our water safety packages in person, we know that during these unprecedented times it is important in some cases that we adapt our sessions to a DIGITAL INTERACTIVE PACKAGE format. This covers all the learning sessions stated and will be available soon, to download and use within your classroom environment by your teacher/group leader.
We are dedicated to doing everything within our capacity to support our volunteers and programme recipients through these challenging times. It is paramount over this period, to provide guidance and support so that everybody involved with the OWEN programme can remain safe.
Please note this is an ever-changing environment and guidance will be updated regularly following changes from the government. It is important that you ensure you have the most recent version, which can be found here. https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus - Stay Alert to help save lives and our NHS.
