{"id":519170,"date":"2022-12-18T01:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=519170"},"modified":"2022-12-18T01:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T08:19:55","slug":"black-swimming-association-earns-2022-national-lottery-uk-project-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/black-swimming-association-earns-2022-national-lottery-uk-project-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Swimming Association Earns 2022 National Lottery UK Project of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Swimming Association Earns 2022 National Lottery UK Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Black Swimming Association (BSA) was awarded the National Lottery Award as the UK Project of the Year this week.<\/p>\n

The presentation was made in Cardiff, Wales, by sports television presenter Jason Mohammad<\/strong> at the STAR Hub swimming pool in the city\u2019s Tremorfa section. The location is a nod to BSA co-founder Seren Jones,<\/strong> who is from Cardiff.<\/p>\n

The BSA, founded in 2020<\/a>, aims to expand access to swimming instruction and water safety to people in African, Caribbean and Asian communities in the United Kingdom. By working with communities, national bodies, government agencies and companies active in aquatic spaces, they hope to reduce the risk of accidental death by drowning. Per Sport England, up to 95 percent of Black adults, 80 percent of Black children, 93 percent of Asian adults and 78 percent of Asian children in the UK do not swim. Co-founder Ed Accura<\/strong> also brought attention to the cause with a documentary project<\/a>, \u201cA Film Called Blacks Can\u2019t Swim.\u201d<\/p>\n