Alice Dearing: From Olympian to co-founding The Black Swimming Association
Olympian Alice Dearing speaks with Aimee Fuller about how she’s using her platform to help dispel racial stereotypes and working to help members from the BAME community get into aquatics by co-founding The Black Swimming Association.
In our sixth episode, Aimee speaks with game changer, Olympian and co-founder of The Black Swimming Association, Alice Dearing. After becoming the first black woman to swim for Team GB at an Olympic games during Tokyo 2020, Alice has been working to help ensure people learn the life-saving skills that swimming provides whilst also dispelling harmful stereotypes.
“Stand up for something, even if you’re sometimes standing alone”
Find out how Olympian Alice Dearing began her Olympic journey and went on to co-found The Black Swimming Association, where she educates people from BAME communities on the importance of the life-saving skills swimming provides. Alice speaks with Aimee about the journey of getting the Black Swimming Association to become a regional success. We also hear from Seren Jones; one of the four co-founders of the Black Swimming Association who discusses the process of setting up the project.
Poet Robert Montgomery talks to Aimee about how he created a poem that was displayed in sporting locations across the UK and read by broadcaster, Claire Balding, in honour of Alice Dearing and our other Sport Game Changers
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