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Swimming Lessons at
West End Gate

Private one-to-one coaching in the residents’ 17-metre pool at 285-329 Edgware Road, W2 1DH. For babies from six months, children, teenagers and adults at every level — booked around the building’s quiet hours.

30+ Yrs Experience 5.0 Google Rating 1:1 Only — Always DBS & Fully Insured 7 Days a Week

The Pool

A 17-Metre Pool Below Edgware Road

West End Gate has a 17-metre indoor pool, set in a residents’ spa on the lower ground floor. It is for residents and their households — there is no club membership to buy and no outside booking system to work around, which is exactly why lessons here are straightforward once the building has approved the coach.

Pool17-metre indoor
Address285-329 Edgware Road, W2 1DH
Homes652
Completed2023
DeveloperBerkeley Group
AccessResidents and their households — no club membership, no outside booking system

What We Teach

Lessons At West End Gate

From 6 Months

Baby Swimming

Gentle water confidence with a parent in the pool. Warm, quiet water and no echoing crowd is about the best start a baby can get.

Ages 3+

Children’s Lessons

STA Learn to Swim awards at your child’s own pace, with a verbal progress update after every session and no waiting on the side.

All Abilities

Adult Lessons

Complete beginners through to experienced swimmers refining stroke. Total privacy, which is the reason most adults come to us at all.

Nervous Swimmers

Fear Of Water

A private pool removes almost every trigger at once — no spectators, no cold, no noise. It is the best room in London for this work.

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Getting Started

Approved, Then Straight In The Water

We already teach in private residents’ pools across London, including The Broadway, Valencia Tower and Park Modern.

We are set up to work in West End Gate’s 17-metre pool. Ask your concierge or managing agent to add us to the approved contractor list — our insurance certificate, enhanced DBS checks, coaching qualifications and a risk assessment written for your pool come straight over, usually the same day.

SwimFitz also coaches at private pools in houses across London.

What your managing agent receives

Public liability insurance certificate
Enhanced DBS check for every coach attending
Swimming teaching qualifications and current CPD
A risk assessment written for West End Gate’s pool
Emergency procedure, agreed with your concierge
Named coach — the same face at the desk each week

In The Water

What A Session Looks Like

Your coach signs in at the desk a few minutes early and is on the poolside when your swimmer arrives, so the session starts in the water rather than in a changing room. Lessons run 30 or 60 minutes depending on age and stamina, and the 17-metre length means there is enough water for continuous swimming without a turn every few strokes.

Because it is the same pool every week, at the same temperature, with the same walls to push off, progress is quicker than it tends to be for swimmers moving between public pools. Familiarity does a lot of the work, particularly for nervous swimmers and young children.

Every lesson includes

One-to-one coaching for the full session
All equipment brought in and taken away again
A verbal progress update before your coach leaves
Session and awards logged in the SwimFitz app
No subscription, no contract
Free to cancel or move with 48 hours’ notice

How It Works

Four Steps

01

Tell Us Your Building

Enquire and say you are a resident at West End Gate. We confirm coverage and availability, usually within 24 hours.

02

We Clear It With Management

Insurance, enhanced DBS, qualifications and a risk assessment for your pool go to the concierge or managing agent.

03

Pick A Quiet Slot

We book the hours the leisure floor is least used, so no other resident is sharing the water with a lesson.

04

Your Coach Arrives Equipped

Everything for the session comes with them and leaves with them. Progress is logged in the SwimFitz app after every lesson.

Beyond The Pool

One Vetted Provider

Your own pool, elsewhere

Many residents here also have a house with a pool. The same coach travels, and it is the same record in the app either way.

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Coaching where you holiday

Villa, chalet or yacht — we arrange vetted coaching at your destination as well as at home.

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Every other sport, at home

Tennis, padel, gymnastics, personal training and more, from the same vetted and insured network.

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Questions

West End Gate, Specifically

The residents’ pool is a 17-metre indoor pool. Short-course length, which suits technique, water confidence and children’s lessons well.
Babies from six months with a parent in the water, children from three, teenagers, and adults at every level including complete beginners. Each session is one-to-one and planned around the swimmer, not a class.
Yes, and we handle it. Most managing agents keep a list of approved contractors; we send our public liability insurance, enhanced DBS certificates, coaching qualifications and a pool-specific risk assessment to West End Gate’s management, and start once they confirm.
Everything for the lesson comes with the coach — woggles, floats, weights, goggles, toys for the younger children. Nothing is left behind and nothing is stored in the building. The leisure floor only needs to be open and the water at its usual temperature.
Whenever the pool is quietest, which in most buildings means mid-morning or early afternoon on weekdays. We deliberately avoid the before-work and after-work peaks so other residents are not sharing the water with a lesson.
Only where the building’s own guest rules allow it, which varies and is the concierge’s call rather than ours. Where guests are permitted we can teach siblings or two families together; otherwise every session is one-to-one with a resident.

Lessons At West End Gate

Tell us your building and we will come back with availability and the documents your concierge needs.