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ROCHDALE’S EIGHT LANE POOL UNDER WAY Work has started to bring an eight-lane 25m swimming pool and learner pool with moveable floor to Rochdale town centre. Contractors Willmott Dixon, based in Oldham, are now getting the site ready for construction, which started at the beginning of this year. Plans for the centre include, as well as a sports hall, thermal and fitness suites, dance studios, a youth gym and a car park with over 160 spaces, which will be free for the centre’s customers. In the coming weeks the ground will be prepared for the centre’s foundations, an access road will be built and a drainage system installed.
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SWIMMING
PARTICIPATION DROPS New participation figures published by Sport England paint a mixed picture of grassroots sport, with a decline in swimming. Overall, the slow increase in participation numbers seen over the past five years continues, with 6,938,000 people now taking part in sport at least three times a week. Today’s Active People Survey results show regular participation is now 123,000 closer to the Government’s aim to get one million people playing more sport by 2012/13.
Of real concern, however, is the continued under-
performance of five of the top seven participation sports, including the only sports with more than two million weekly participants – swimming and football. For these – the challenge is to arrest the drop in participation outside the club structures where they have traditionally focused most of their attention.
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FLEXFLOORING INSTALLS SPLASH PAD SURFACE AT GHELUVELT PARK
Built in honour of those lost in the First World War, Gheluvelt Memorial Park recently received over £800,000 of lottery funding allowing for improvements to the play area and war memorial, as well as the construction of a new water play feature. The water play feature was installed by water display specialists Ustigate, who subcontracted the installation of the rubber surfacing to Flexflooring Ltd (formerly Poolsafe Ltd). The project at Gheluvelt Park in Worcester provided some unique challenges for Flexflooring Ltd, given the inclusion of numerous rock formations and an undulating surface. In a change from the more usual choice of blues and yellows often chosen for splash pads, the colours used within this installation include natural blends of white, beige and grey Andalucia, white and yellow Beach and an area of 100% brown.
The overall effect, along with the rocks and jets is stunning.
Since its grand opening the Splash pad has been open to the public every day from 11am till 6pm. Local councillor Roger Knight commented: “I think it’s a wonderful facility. I came down during the
testing programme and spoke to some mums and saw the children enjoying themselves.”
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JC LEISURE SOLUTIONS NOMINATED FOR CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR!
JC Leisure Solutions has been nominated for a ‘contractor of the year’ award, by LA Fitness, for their pool operations training and planned maintenance.
JC Leisure has been servicing the LA Fitness estate for over two years now and has helped to save them over £350,000 on reactive maintenance. The saving has come from having regular planned maintenance visits and a bespoke training programme.
JC Leisure Account Manager Nicole Lester says: “We are so thrilled to be nominated! We work extremely hard for our clients to help save them money and keep their facilities at their best. We operate 24/7, 365 days a year, rain or snow!”
JC Leisure Solutions have been working with LA Fitness on their national contract for two years and have been servicing the sites pool facilities, LA Fitness ‘facility-down’ figures have reduced by 55% and
have made a saving of approx £350,000 in the last year. Nicole Lester says: “We designed these bespoke programmes for LA Fitness to help them reduce their costly call outs and facility downtime which caused unnecessary disruption to their business. The proof is now in the pudding and the figures/savings that LA Fitness shared with us at the conference are phenomenal.”
JULIAN MOVES UP TO SALES DIRECTOR ROLE
Waxman Ceramics has promoted Julian Garlick to the position of Sales Director.
Julian, who joined the company 20 years ago, moved to the role of retail sales director in 2002 and has helped formulate Waxman’s retail expansion. This latest appointment means his responsibilities now include the swimming pool and contract divisions. Julian said: “The swimming pool market has been a central part of Waxman business for well over 25 years and it is my intention to
work closely to build and expand this sector.”
Waxman Ceramics is part of The Waxman Group, whose interests include the distribution of synthetic fibres from Japan as well as its newer venture into Solar Photovoltaic panels (PV) which generate electricity.
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www.waxmangroup.co.uk
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