Private 1-1 adult swimming lessons in Birmingham - just you, your instructor and the water. No group to keep up with, no audience, and you start exactly where you're comfortable.
Swim your first 5 metres in 5 lessons, or lesson 6 is free.
Applies after attending your first five lessons - full details on our pricing page.
Learning to swim as an adult in Birmingham should feel calm, private and completely judgement-free. At Competent Swimming, every lesson is private 1-1: just you, your instructor and the water. No group to keep up with, no audience, and an instructor in the water beside you from the first minute. Whether you have never swum a stroke or you want to fix a stroke you already have, you start exactly where you're comfortable.
Our Birmingham lessons are at a heated, exclusive-use pool at Audley St George's Place in Edgbaston (B15), between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Five Ways. It is an easy reach from Harborne, Selly Oak, Moseley and central Birmingham, whether you come by car, bus, cycle or on foot. There is free parking on site, and Five Ways station is about an 18-minute walk away. There are no public sessions running while you swim - the pool is yours for the lesson.
Swim your first 5 metres in 5 lessons, or lesson 6 is free.
Applies after attending your first five lessons - full details on our pricing page. It isn't a refund (lessons are non-refundable); it's simply another lesson, on us, until you're across.
Complete beginners, nervous adults who have put it off for years, returners who learned as a child, and improvers who want cleaner front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke or butterfly. Around 1 in 3 adults in England can't swim 25 metres (Swim England), so if you're starting later, you're in good company.
We also teach private 1-1 adult lessons at Highdown School in Emmer Green (RG4), minutes from Caversham and Reading town centre.
At a heated, exclusive-use pool at Audley St George's Place in Edgbaston (B15), between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Five Ways, with free parking on site. It's an easy reach from Harborne, Selly Oak, Moseley and central Birmingham. Lessons are private 1-1, with no public sessions running while you swim.
Yes. Most of our adult swimmers start as complete beginners, many of them nervous of the water. Your first lesson is a taster with an assessment, so we start exactly where you're comfortable, in the shallow end, with your instructor in the water beside you.
New customers start with a £24.99 taster lesson (50% off the £49.99 standard rate), which includes an assessment. After that, plans work out from £39.99 per lesson on the 12-Lesson Plan (£44.99 on the 8-Lesson Plan, £49.99 on the 4-Lesson Plan). Every price is on our pricing page, and there's no rolling direct debit.
No. You can start from the very beginning, including if you can't yet put your face in the water. Your taster assessment sets a plan around where you actually are, and at our Birmingham pools it's backed by our guarantee: swim your first 5 metres in 5 lessons, or lesson 6 is free (applies after attending your first five lessons; full details on the pricing page).
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