Rotary Congleton's latest annual Swimathon in Biddulph has raised an incredible amount for a Biddulph sporting club.

Biddulph Amateur Swimming Club - which is also frequented by Congleton residents in lieu of Congleton's current lack of leisure centre - will benefit from some of the fantastic fundraising total of £9,000.

Biddulph Amateur Swimming Club not only helped organise Rotary-Congleton's Swimathon event at the Biddulph Leisure Centre in March, but between them, their teams also raised the most money!

Chairman of the club, Andy Plumley was presented with a cheque for £632.50 by Rotary President Stewart Price. Competition secretary, Jane Bates and members of the swimming teams were at the presentation.

Jane commented that the team in lane 4 was the 'Awesome Lane Foursome!'

This team swam the greatest distance of any, completing 264 lengths of the pool during their 55 minute session. During the event, the swimmers from Biddulph took over the pool on Saturday March 5th, swimming in all lanes from 5 to 6pm.

Under the rules of Swimathon, the money they raised, £1,265 in total, is shared equally with Rotary.

Andy Plumley said that the club's share of the money would assist with coaching and training courses for Swim England qualifications and team-building activities with any surplus going towards new timing equipment at the pool.

Remarkably, just three young swimmers from the club, Isabel, Lucy, and Millie raised over £500 between them!