www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk IN BRIEF
XXXXX XXXXX Xxxxxx xxxxx
ISRM CONFERENCE The 80th Institute of Sports and Recreation Management Conference will be taking place on 18 and 19 November at Holywell Park, Loughborough. The 2010 conference will bring together keynote
presentations by first-rate speakers, many of whom are acknowledged leaders in sports management.
For more information visit
www.isrm.co.uk
NSPF SPONSORSHIP DEAL
The US National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF), has just announced the awarding of US$10,000 in scholarships and fellowships to eight students for the 2010-2011 school year. The scholarship programme honours Certified Pool/Spa Operator
certification graduates and their family members by helping them to pursue higher education.
CHEMICAL DOSING HITS THE IPHONE
A new pool chemical iPhone application has been launched by the National Swimming Pool Foundation in the United States which makes chemical dosing easier, faster, and more accurate for pool technicians, water treatment managers and home pool and spa owners. Several tools within the application will help the user properly calculate the amounts needed of many chemical adjustments in order to achieve the required chemical levels.
The interface includes pre- loaded chemical formulas for the most commonly used pool chemicals, organised by category.
IndustryNews OCT 2010 SPN
5557
SPA CREST DONATES TUB THROUGH STARLIGHT CHILDREN’S CHARITY
Spa Crest Europe recently donated the gift of a hot tub through the Starlight Children’s Foundation for Oliver Bessant from Portishead in Bristol. The Spa Crest Duke LX hot tub was donated and installed by Julian Morgan of Aqua Spas, the local Spa Crest dealer, who donated his time and effort free of charge.
Tony Welsby said: “We at Spa Crest Europe were glad to help and supplied and fitted a Spa Crest Duke LX. We visited Oliver’s home and met the family on ‘handover day’ it was a truly heart-warming experience, especially to see Oliver and his little brother getting so much enjoyment from the tub. It is also good to hear from Oliver’s mum, Emily, that the tub is giving Oliver a better quality of life, as it assists in relaxing his muscles which, due to his issues, are very often stiff and painful. Starlight do a wonderful job in helping to fulfil the dreams and wishes of seriously and terminally ill children and it has been a pleasure working with both the
Left to right : Julian Morgan, owner of Aqua spas, Oliver Bessant (in the tub), Charlotte Bridgewater, wish granter from The Starlight Children’s Foundation, Harry Bessant (Oliver’s younger brother, in the tub) and Tony Welsby, Managing Director of Spa Crest Europe Ltd
charity and the family.”
Starlight was founded in 1986 by British actress Emma Samms and her cousin Peter Samuelson. Starlight brings smiles and laughter into the lives of seriously and terminally ill children, who are afraid and in pain, by granting wishes and creating
innovative entertainment in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. Of Starlight’s wish children, 70% go on to make a full recovery and many parents say they believe that the Starlight wish created the excitement and anticipation that helped their child pull through.
OXFORD BATTLES WITH ‘RENOVATE OR BUILD AGAIN’ DEBATE FOR POOLS
Two public swimming pools in Oxford are to be closed and replaced by one larger pool. Oxford City Council said pools in Blackbird Leys and Temple Cowley are outdated and too expensive to run.
A report has recommended they are both closed and a new pool built adjoining Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre.
But campaigners fighting to save
the pool in Temple Cowley have criticised the plan.
Jane Alexander, from the Save Temple Cowley Pool campaign group, said: “There are a thousand reasons to keep it where it is. “Environmentally the idea of building new from scratch and knocking down two buildings doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever.
“You don’t knock your house
down when it needs a new boiler or a new sofa, nor should we knock down this much-loved and much-used building because it needs a new air conditioning unit and new seating.” The council said it would cost £24.2m to refurbish Temple Cowley Pool, and £24m to rebuild it entirely. It claims it is more cost effective to build a new eight-lane pool in Blackbird Leys, along with a learner pool, which would cost £16.8m.
COST CUTTING AT BIRMINGHAM’S GLAMOUR POOL
Birmingham’s planned £58m Aquatics and Leisure Centre, which is to include an Olympic size swimming pool, could be cut dramatically in size and built at less than half the cost.
Council officials are considering scrapping a large fun pool and a separate diving pool which were to have been central features of the new centre. Only the 50 metre pool would remain on the proposed site close by in Ladywood. Plans for a scaled down version were being developed following discussions with the Amateur Swimming Association and the cost of the project could be cut to about £20m, enabling the Olympic pool to be built and open by 2014. A diving pool had been included in order to form part of a possible Birmingham bid for the Commonwealth Games. But a recent change in rules meant diving is no longer a compulsory event.
As far as the fun pool was concerned the council says it cannot go ahead in the present financial climate with what was bound to be a loss-making venture.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91