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ASA GO ON ‘NAMING AND SHAMING’


The ASA is to continue with its policy of naming and shaming clubs who do not pay membership fees.


The association’s website now carries details of clubs which have been suspended from membership of the ASA due to non-payment of the 2011 membership fee. Members whose fee paying club is suspended for non- payment will not be eligible to compete in events under the jurisdiction of the ASA which includes regional, county and open events.


SPORT ENGLAND HELP CLUBS OVER ASSETS Sport England has launched The Community Sport Asset Transfer Toolkit to help hundreds of community sports clubs across England tackle the complex world of asset transfer. Asset transfer involves the shifting of the ownership of land or buildings from government organisations to community groups such as local sports clubs and trusts, giving them financial stability and independence.


STA APPOINTS NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER


Laura Bower has joined the Swimming Teachers’ Association as Business Development Manager. Laura has responsibilities across all areas to ensure that the activities contribute to enhancing the profile and reputation of STA. Laura joined STA in 2009 as regional sales manager, having worked for Coventry Sports Trust as the swimming brand manager. She has a first class honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough University.


Arch Water Products held two seminar training days for their UK equipment installers, the venue for both was the Country House Hotel Manchester and delegates were introduced to the current Easiflo range of dry chlorine feeders and the “new multi pool feeder” that they have been developing. In addition three ‘Greek Gods’ were in attendance, Cronos, Crius and Cratos. This was not the Arch commercial sales team but the names of the new range of controllers for the UK market. These controllers can manage a single pool in the case of the Crius, two pools with the Cronos and four pools for the Cratos, with the latter two controllers having variable speed drive (VSD) capacity, data


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13 ARCH WATER – EQUIPPED FOR THE FUTURE Seminar delegates get hands on tuition with the Crius controller


logging, and many more features to help the pool operator. Presentations were given by Arch staff as well as the equipment manufacturers


themselves. Delegate feedback was excellent and installers have asked for a second series of seminars to be run after the summer.


£3M SWIMMING POOL COMPENSATION CASE GOES ON


A woman facing a lifetime of disability after almost drowning during a swimming class is to continue battling for £3m compensation more than a decade later. In July 2000, Annie Woodland, then aged 10, was swimming at Gloucester Park swimming pool in Basildon, Essex when she almost drowned. By the time she was rescued from the water she had stopped breathing, Judge Lord Justice Ward told London’s Appeal Court. Despite resuscitation attempts, the former Whitmore Junior School pupil’s brain was starved of oxygen and she now has severe learning difficulties. Through her father, Ian Woodland, she is claiming up to £3m damages from the Swimming


50 METRE POOL IS RIGHT LENGTH, SAYS PORTSMOUTH


Teachers’ Association, which arranged insurance for the firm running the class, Direct Swimming Services, and one of the instructors at the scene.


Lord Justice Ward said the case had been plagued by “deeply depressing” delays, as Miss Woodland appeared to have won the right to compensation in November 2007, when the association’s lawyers said they would accept liability for the accident. In July 2009 the association retracted this and said it would fight Miss Woodland’s claim, pointing, among other things, to a 2001 Health and Safety Executive report stating she had been “rescued promptly” from the pool.


Miss Woodland’s lawyers argued the body should not be allowed to go back on its original concession, but judges dismissed their challenge. This means the Woodlands must now launch a fully contested liability trial against the association. Lord Justice Ward said: “I fully understand Mr and Mrs Woodland will be distressed by this decision and will feel utter consternation that, so many years after this terrible accident and after an admission of liability, suddenly and unexpectedly they have to prepare for a trial on all fronts. “I am totally sympathetic. Some of the delay is, on the facts known to us, inexplicable and one can readily see how matters could have taken a wholly different course.”


The local authority responsible for a new £5m ‘Olympic-size’ swimming pool at Mountbatten Leisure Centre in Portsmouth has been been quick to deny a national story that it was built 50 mm too short for international competition. Although the pool dimension is 50 metres long it was claimed the length did not allow for the thickness of the touch pads that have to be fitted. Councillor Jim Fleming said: “It’s a mistake. It’s not long enough to meet Olympic standards. But now we’re being told the pool is two inches too short and as a result the city will lose millions of pounds of revenue along with cash grants.” Now Portsmouth City Council said the pool is in fact certified by the Federation International de Natation and the Amateur Swimming Association as being 50.03 metres in length.


“This extra 3cm allows for touch sensitive time pads,” said a spokesman. “The Mountbatten Centre pool was developed in partnership with national sporting bodies and was designed as an Olympic training venue capable of holding up to national competitions. It is an Olympic length, 50 metre, eight lane swimming pool.


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