Our Trustees and ambassadors are committed to the continuous development of swimming and aquatic sports, and consistently work to support the aims and objectives of the Trust.
Trustees meet regularly to review finances, policies and the development of programmes and activities. Trustees also take a full role in the consideration of applications and proposals.
Trustees
Brian Havill – Chair
Brian Havill is interim Chairman of the Swimming Trust.
Brian DeVal – Honorary Secretary
Brian has been a swimmer since his youth and now competes on the Masters circuit. Working as a consultant in the public sector, Brian also volunteers as Chairman of Sussex ASA where he is also Development Manager. He has been Honorary Secretary of the Swimming Trust since 2000.
Andy Salmon
CEO Swim England
Helga Edström OBE
Helga became involved in swimming through her children who were members of City of Birmingham Swimming Club. Her son was a national swimmer and played National League Water Polo, her daughter a national synchronised swimmer. Helga was Secretary of City of Birmingham and a Warwickshire ASA Board member for many years and is currently Vice Chair of Swim West Midlands.
She is a career Civil Servant, having worked in a variety of roles latterly as a policy lead with The Office for Civil Society at The Department for Culture, Media and Sport where she supported the charitable sector in terms of governance and compliance.
Despite her children’s enthusiasm for the sport Helga has had a life long fear of water, but finally learned to swim in 2016 inspired by the “This Girl Can” Campaign.
Ambassadors
Andrew Jameson
Andrew is a former Olympian competing for Great Britain in three consecutive Olympics (1980, 1984 & 1988) taking a bronze medal in Seoul for the 100m butterfly. He won numerous individual and team medals at international competitions during his swimming career. Andrew is now well known as commentator on swimming at all major events.