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Certikin joins in the Big Brother action
DERBYSHIRE TAKES
TOP SPOT IN UK
Innovation needed LIFEGUARD TRIATHLON
Sport England has challenged Fifty sports facilities and 600
innovators in the sport sector to lifeguards took part in the UK
come forward with ground- Lifeguard Triathlon across the
breaking concepts and solutions UK and Jack Chambers of
that will shape community sport Sharley Park Leisure Centre
over the next decade. The best in Derbyshire won as the
innovations, and the people who highest scoring individual.
can turn them into reality, will His overall score of 98 out of
benefit from expert support and 100, put him in first place for
investment through Sport the third year running.
England’s new Innovation Fund. The event was designed
£5m of National Lottery funding is to challenge and reward staff
available each year, through a who demonstrate a
Pooling around
highly competitive process, with commitment to training and
up to 20 projects expected to standards.
secure investment. Competitors were
Sport England wants to hear challenged in three
with Big Brother
about innovations that will unlock disciplines; speed in getting
a major barrier to participation in to the casualty and With a lot of action in Channel producers of the show asked
sport; exploit technology to recovering them; technical 4’s latest Big Brother series in us to insert clear vinyl window
deliver sport at new times, in new knowledge – knowing what and around the specially strips into each of the four
settings or to new audiences and to do when you get to the constructed pool, Certikin and walls so that lights can be
inspire more people to take up a casualty; and a skills test to Buckinghamshire pool installer, shone and images taken
sport by creatively adapting an ensure that first aid is given Deep End Pools, couldn’t have through the pool wall.
existing game. as efficiently as possible. asked for a higher profile. “The pool did not take long
Ralph Riley, Chief The 4.88m x 2m to build as the whole thing is
Executive of ISRM, said: “At a parallelogram shaped liner timber framed,” says Deep
Carbon Trust makes time when pool attendances pool complete with wooden End’s Dan Robinson. “The
loans easier have been boosted by free decking was installed by hardest part was crawling
The Carbon Trust is to improve swimming, it is more Beaconsfield’s Deep End Pools, under the timber framed
access for small and medium important than ever to using much of Certikin’s garden as the Big Brother
businesses to over £100m in encourage lifeguards to equipment, at the now famous garden is elevated about 2.5ft
interest-free and unsecured loans. improve their skills and stay in Big Brother location at and the pool’s access hatch is
The move is intended to help the industry. We must act Borehamwood Studios. The located on the other side. We
more businesses survive the urgently to cater for those pool features a whole variety made a run of jablite insulation
recession by cutting both their who would be more enthused of Certikin equipment, ranging to crawl across as it was wet
energy costs and their carbon by a higher education from a three tread ladder, the and marshy underneath. I was
footprints. Thousands of small structure beyond the current popular HGS pump, Trimline standing up top, cutting pipes
businesses have already slashed basic qualification.” c100 filters, Multicyclone, for my boss Rob Coombs whilst
their annual energy bills, some by ISRM and IQL also Certikin 11kW electric heater, passing them through a gap
as much as 75%, by installing manage the National Pool Rainbow Feeder, Fi- Clor next to the pool for him to
energy-saving equipment paid for Lifeguard Championships, chemicals and Certikin flexi plumb up.”
by Government-funded Carbon which will be running for the pipe. Certikin’s Neil
Trust loans. Now the Carbon Trust fifth time in Birmingham on Stephenson says: “The liner
CONTACTS
has extended eligibility for the 28 November. was certainly one of our more
pc www.certikin.co.uk
pc www.deependpools.co.uk
recently-expanded loan fund. The unusual orders as the
minimum loan amount has been
lowered from £5,000 to £3,000,
putting the loans within reach of
micro-businesses. The upper limit
New local tax could threaten pool owners
has been doubled from £200,000
to £400,000. A proposed new Business Rate increased participation in sport average operator in London
Supplement, which will allow and fitness on the one hand, for example, could be as much
local authorities to levy an whilst simultaneously imposing as an extra £13,000 per facility
HQ ahead of schedule additional tax on businesses to a crippling tax burden on per year.
Construction of Loughborough the normal business rate, is a organisations tasked with The FIA’s recommendation
University’s SportPark, the new ‘wellbeing tax’ which could hit helping the Government include organisations which
home for the ASA along with commercial swimming pool achieve those targets.” provide consumers with the
British Swimming’s World Class owners. The FIA, the trade The impact of the proposed opportunity to be physically
department, is continuing ahead body for the UK health and bill will be disproportionately active (i.e. swimming pools
of schedule. Work on the new fitness sector, says the tax hits greater on swimming pools and health clubs and leisure
building, scheduled for those people who are trying to leisure facilities because the centres) should be exempt
completion in spring 2010, is improve the fitness levels of former need large and from the tax. The proposed
on track. SportPark is located at UK residents. Andree Deane, expensive spaces as an integral Bill was included in the
the West end of the University the FIA’s Chief Executive said part of the building deign. recent Queen’s Speech
campus next to the pioneering “There is an inconsistency Therefore the cost of a 2p and is currently at
Sports Technology Institute. between setting targets for Business Rate Supplement to an Committee stage.
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