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STAFF AWARD FOR BLACKPOOL WATERPARK
Sandcastle Waterpark, one of Blackpool’s leading tourist attractions,has won a Community Award for Retail and Hospitality at the inaugural St John Ambulance First Aid Awards, rewarding the way the site looks after its customers. Sandcastle Waterpark was honoured by the first aid charity at an awards ceremony in London. The park was commended for its first aid standards, with judges saying that high levels of first aid are maintained at the organisation with good training for staff.
ISLE OF WIGHT REVAMP A revamp of The Heights pool is under way on the Isle of Wight.
The first phase of the £2.5m project includes revamping the main swimming pool and changing rooms, building a new gym and an activities studio.
The swimming pools and wet-side changing rooms will be closed until June, while the first phase of the project is carried out.
NEW 25 METRE POOL FOR WEST MIDLANDS Sandwell Council in the West Midlands is to build a new 25 metre pool for 2013.
The new £8m complex is to be built on vacant land in Tipton.
Construction of the leisure centre, which will also include a learner pool changing facilities, dance studio and community space started this month, with completion due in February 2013. Once built, the pool will replace the existing Tipton Swimming Centre on Queens Road.
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CERTIKIN SURVEY SHOWS BETTER THAN EXPECTED INDUSTRY GROWTH
The recent trading performance in the industry may not have been as bad as many thought – according to new survey results from Certikin. The first data to come out from how the industry performed in 2010 against 2009 was one of the key points in Managing Director Neil Murray’s presentation to a Certikin annual seminar in Taunton. He told suppliers attending the first of three January seminars around the country, that the survey taken last January showed customers reported order book increases year on year of 43%.
25% of the companies achieved a growth of over 100% while only 21% saw a sales decline.
When asked how they predicted the outlook based on a one to 10 rating, the average score was seven. In terms of income, new pool building accounted for 30% of turnover, refurbishments 25%, servicing 24% and retail 16%. Internet sales accounted for 2% of income. The allocation of turnover throughout the UK was based, he said, on 46% in the south east, 24% in the south west and 30% across the rest of the country.
Neil Murray said that Certikin itself had shown a 3.5% increase year on year.
He said the growth areas were automatic covers, timber pools, vision filters, commercial pumps and filters, saunas, steam rooms, disabled lifts and heat pumps.
“That’s a substantial list but it does show how there’s real increase across the board sales,” he added. The seminar was made up of 11 individual presentations each highlighting one aspect of Certikin’s business. Steve Nelson’s presentation on commercial pools and the opportunity they presented to the trade included the current size of the market.
He told the seminar there were 4,674 commercial pools in the UK, 1,905 in private health clubs and 2,769 in the public sector. There were 37 new pools completed in 2011 against 39 in 2010. Other figures include 2,190 commercial saunas, 1,973 commercial steam rooms and 1,543 commercial spas. He said there were an unaccountable number of refurbishments throughout the commercial sector
which had been one of the highlights of the year in terms of the industry. Bruce Coppuck said that the industry faced having to deal with a heavy load of legislation issues in 2012 including Parts L and F of the Building Regulations. He said looking forward he thought it was only a matter of time before more formal legislation was introduced for ratings on heat pumps.
Other highlights from the all day seminar included Certikin’s announcement of a distribution deal with Harvia saunas, a greater involvement in natural swimming pools and an impressive presentation on a major highlight for the Certikin business in 2012, the availability of CertiSkin, a polyseal applied spray system which was, said Neil Stephenson, one of the great new products for the year.
THREE NEW POOLS TO LIFT MANCHESTER’S PROFILE
Three new swimming pools are to be built in Manchester under £18m plans to improve swimming facilities in the city.
Outdated pools will be replaced with new leisure centres in Chorlton, Levenshulme and east Manchester. They council say the run-down buildings are too expensive to run and poor value for money. Despite facing huge cuts forced by the government’s spending review, the local authority believes it can find the money to fund the schemes – and will save cash in the long run.
The Chorlton centre is expected to cost £5.7m and would save the council more than £190,000 a year in running costs. Up to £2.4m from the sale of land and financial contributions from the developer could help fund it.
In Beswick, a new pool and leisure centre, in Grey Mare Lane, would replace Miles Platting pool and save more than £100,000 a year, according to a council report. The council has already identified £6m potential funding for the £6.5m project, including money from Sport
England and national sports governing bodies.
Manchester City Football Club will also help fund the scheme. The club has already pledged cash for community leisure facilities as part of plans to put the Etihad Stadium at the heart of a ‘world capital of sports’ in east Manchester. The new centre in Levenshulme will replace Levenshulme Baths and the historic ‘Carnegie library’. No funding has yet been identified for the project, which would cost up to £6.5m.
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