It was wonderful to hear the council has taken up a suggestion from my colleague Sheila Boswell to treat the children of Wandsworth to free swimming during the summer half term in celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee. UPDATE: The scheme runs from Saturday, June 2 to Sunday, June 10 at all leisure centres in Wandsworth.
Cllr Boswell, pictured above celebrating with local children, said: “On the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, it was proposed to give ‘a treat’ to the poor children of Battersea in the form of a Jubilee meal. I thought it would be great to replicate this in a modern day universal gift to mark the occasion of this Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and so proposed the idea of free swimming during half term week for all Wandsworth children under 16” Continue reading






