Swimming lessons

We can help if your child is swimming for A and B.

Free swimming lessons through Utrecht Municipality for diploma A

The municipality of Utrecht offers a swimming lesson package. This allows children to have free swimming lessons and get their swimming certificate A.

When can your child get a swimming lesson package?

• Your child lives in Utrecht.
• Your child is 5 to 17 years old.
• Your child does not yet have a swimming certificate.
• There is no school swimming at your child's school.
• You have a U pass.
• Your child is going to have swimming lessons in De Kwakel, Den Hommel or Fletiomare via the municipality. So NOT via UZSC, Zwemvereniging Utrecht, Zwemschool Fans Heus and de Watervlo.

Sign up for the swimming lessons package
If you want to use the municipality of Utrecht's swimming lessons package, you pay a one-off registration fee of €12.80.

• Would you like to pay this registration fee with the U-pas? Then register at the reception of the swimming pool. Let the staff member know that you want to pay the registration fee with your U-pas family budget. The registration fee will then be deducted directly from the U-pas.
• When registering online for the swimming lesson package, you have to pay the registration fee yourself. You can then claim the registration fee back through us.

Read more about the swimming lesson package here: Swimming lessons with the U-pas | Municipality of Utrecht

Do you have a U pass?

First check whether you are entitled to a free swimming lesson package from the Municipality of Utrecht (see above). Are you not entitled to this? Then submit the application to us. Before doing so, check whether there is any money left on the U-pas. If so, we will ask you to clear it first. If the U-pas is empty or if the U-pas is needed for something else, you can request reimbursement from us. If we reimburse the swimming lessons, we will put the money on the U-pas. After your application, we will tell you exactly how this works.

Don't have a U pass?

If you do not have a U-pas but are eligible for help from us, you can send in your swimming voucher. We charge a maximum fee of €5 per quarter-hour for swimming lessons.

Presence

It is important that your child attends swimming lessons. Does your child get swimming lessons reimbursed via a swimming lesson package from the municipality or via Leergeld and is it absent too often? Then the reimbursement will be stopped. We will then no longer reimburse extra swimming lessons. Check the rules for attendance at the swimming pool or swimming club where your child swims.