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Camps offer free swimming with STA
NEWS IN BRIEF
because they come to associate Country Leisure expands
activities with fun. It provides Country Leisure Ltd, the UK’s
good holiday exercise for leading glass re-enforced plastics
parents too, as splashing around manufacturer, internationally
in the pool for half an hour with renowned for its swimming pool
your young child can be quite a products, has acquired the
work out. Architectural Fibreglass Division of
“As well as the health Solair Ltd.
benefits and meeting other Malcolm Brown, Managing
children, the lessons will also Director of Country Leisure, said:
promote the importance of “This is an important acquisition
water safety, whilst generally for us, enabling us to maintain our
having lots of fun.” role in the manufacture of GRP
The lessons will follow the products. Country Leisure, based
STA’s six-step STARFISH Baby near Salisbury, was founded in
Swimming Programme which is 1985 and, above all, has become
sponsored by HUGGIES Little renowned for its major swimming
Swimmers, and will be available pool products exported all over
Free lessons will promote the importance of water safety
to children between three the world for use in water parks.
months and five years old at five
parks in Brittany, The Dorgogne
Leading camping holiday swimming lessons in 2009. and Languedoc in France. Thirtieth anniversary
operators’ Keycamp and A spokesperson for the tour for Cal Spas
Eurocamp have teamed up with operators says: “Getting children
STA
California based Cal Spas has said it
the Swimming Teachers’ to begin exercising at such a plans 12 months of celebrations for
pc www.sta.co.uk
Association to offer free young age is always a great idea its 30th anniversary including a new
line of Genesis hot tubs.
The Cal Spas story began in
1978 and California Acrylic
POOLS IN SCHOOLS
£12,000 FOR POOL TO STAY OPEN
Industries was a Pomona,
PROGRAMME More than £12,000 still needs to be raised if Portishead’s open California based pool builder in
FLOURISHES air swimming pool in Somerset is to open this year. The pool is need of a way to exhibit its pool
Latest figures have shown threatened with closure after a report by North Somerset designs in a small space. The
the ‘Pools in Schools’ Council concluded the facility was too costly to run. The company created small scale
programme backed by Portishead Pool Community Trust is in talks with North versions of its formed acrylic pools
Olympic bronze medalist Somerset Council with a view to take over the management of and put them on display for
Steve Parry is helping more the seafront amenity and have the pool up and running by May. customers. The miniature pools
youngsters to swim than A trust spokesman said: “To open the pool from this May we sparked interest and the company
previously thought. need £20,000. This will pay for a pool cover and other energy began to receive special requests
Parry’s company Total saving improvements. for acrylic hot tubs. A year later,
Swimming has released with the company’s hot tub
initial figures on the business growing, California
number of pupils who took Acrylic Industries took a leap of
advantage of Pools for
Joe steps up to deputy role
faith. The company stopped
Schools when it visited building pools to focus full-time
King Edward VI Aston Waxman Ceramics has appointed Added Joe: “It is a privilege on the hot tub business and Cal
School in Aston, Joe Pape as Deputy Managing to be appointed to this new role Spas was born. The Cal Spas
Birmingham last autumn. Director, moving from the and I look forward to facing the brand includes Cal Spas hot tubs
Pools in Schools is position of Operations Director. challenges that lie ahead during and swim spas, gazebos and
supported by the ASA to Joe started over 25 years ago these difficult times. I have indoor and outdoor saunas.
ensure every child has the as the first full-time employee of been very lucky during my 25
opportunity to learn to swim Waxman Ceramics. From its years at Waxman to work with a
and achieve the start as a specialist in the great team and I believe their US trade show turn
Government’s learn to swim distribution of mosaics, experience and team spirit will around
targets, which is why the Waxman has grown to become ensure that Waxman emerges Florida’s Orlando Pool & Spa Show
scheme is backed by the a national distributor of both from the current difficult may have been of the first shows
Department for Children, large and small format tiles, conditions stronger and fitter.” to turn the corner and see genuine
Schools and Families. operating in Contract as well as growth in 2009. The Orlando event
Out of the 362 Retail markets. at the Orange County Convention
questionnaires received With a workforce of around 70 centre saw attendance register
back from the children, over staff, Waxman distributes out of 3,600, a 10% increase from the
90% reported that the Bristol as well as its Head Office 2008 Wendy Parker, Executive
Pools in Schools base in Elland, West Yorkshire. Director of the Florida Swimming
programme had enabled Richard Waxman, Chairman Pool Association: “Even
them to make progress in and Managing Director, said: considering what’s going on with
their swimming and 59% ”Joe has been the bedrock of our the economy, there is optimism for
stated that they had been tile operations and we have all our industry.” The show drew more
swimming again. come to rely on his organisational than 200 exhibitors.
skills and calm approach.”
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