NEWS IN BRIEF
SPA FINED AFTER CUSTOMERS FALL ILL AFTER PAMPER PARTY
The owner of a spa has been fined after four teenagers suffered painful rashes and puss-filled pimples after a birthday pamper party. The girls fell ill after they visited the Kensington Salon and Spa in Swadlincote, Derbyshire back in May 2013.
Inspectors found that
harmful bacteria in some areas was 24,000 times the acceptable level.
Owner Lisa Matthews admitted six charges of failing to ensure the safety of her customers and employees. Following an investigation, South Derbyshire District Council environmental health officers found a “lack of maintenance” at the spa and found the premises were significantly contaminated with the harmful bacteria, pseudomonas aeruginosa. In addition there was limescale on shower heads, bacteria breeding around missing tiles and it emerged that water tests had not been carried out in more than a year!
FLAGSHIP SPA OPENS FOR THE REYNOLDS GROUP The Reynolds Group has opened its new flagship health club – The Retreat country club and fitness spa at Borough Green near Sevenoaks, Kent. The new facility is attached to the Victorian Basted House property that the group bought last year. The 28,000sq ft health club
build included the construction of a new wing for beauty, spa and changing facilities – costing £8m. The spa features seven treatment rooms, a relaxation room and a thermal zone with hydrotherapy pools, ice pools, heated foot baths, monsoon showers and heated loungers. There is also a spray tanning room.
This is the fourth spa that the group has now opened, all of which are located in Kent.
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk Nuffield Health Partners With ASA
At the start of January, Nuffield Health and the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)
announced an on-going partnership to deliver ASA services at Nuffield Health Gyms across the country. Nuffield Health is the only national health and wellbeing provider to have signed a partnership with the swimming body. Following the ASA’s recent School Swimming Census which discovered that 45% of children aged between seven and 11 years old are unable to swim 25 metres unaided, the partnership will support their calls to help more primary-school aged children learn to swim in 2015. Nuffield Health aims to assist this by teaching 10,000 children to swim through the ASA Learn to Swim programme at its sites in 2015. Available to members and
non-members, lessons will be taught with the favourable ratio of one teacher to six children.
The partnership will provide a uniform approach which will see the ASA swim-school programme rolled out across all Nuffield Health centres over the year, along with adult swimming lessons. Nuffield Health will also introduce Swimfit, the ASA’s aqua fitness class, to all of its centres in January. The ASA Learn to Swim pathway is designed to teach children of any age to swim through its pathway programme of levels one to seven – starting with an introduction to water for babies, all the way through to swimming 100m unaided. There are also classes beyond these levels for those pupils wishing to continue swimming training or to hone a specific discipline and swimming lessons for adults.
SCP Make A Splash With The ‘Big Brother’ Pool
Working closely together, SCP and South East Pools completed the installation of the recent ‘Big Brother’ Pool as seen on Channel Five.
Matt Shoesmith and Vikki
Joyce, owner/directors of South East Pools in Bexhill in East Sussex, were approached by the production team to design, supply and install all the equipment for the show.
Matt arranged a visit to the
set to discuss the requirements, which he said were pretty straight forward apart from the shape of the pool which was going to be a temporary structure. As Matt is a qualified on site lining specialist he suggested they build the pool from timber and then he could on-site line it to whatever shape they constructed. The production team were so impressed with his knowledge they offered him the contract.
Vikki said: “We had no
hesitation in saying yes, we are a young company and thought what a fantastic opportunity to be able to add the project to our portfolio although at first we thought the phone call was from one of our friends joking about.” Matt added: “We wanted to
use good quality products on the project so that we had no worries about failures so we contacted Paul Jeffries at SCP who along with the rest of the staff were very enthusiastic and helpful. “We used SCP’s manufacturing partner PENTAIR for all the plant room equipment which was all delivered on time and in perfect condition. Paul asked if we would be interested in using SCP’s own on site lining system ‘PROFLEX’ which has been used in mainland Europe for over 15 years with great success. ‘Big Brother’ and ourselves were very happy with the samples, quality and price, so the decision was easy and we installed the Dark
Blue material. It all went very smoothly and the material was very easy to weld and work with.” Paul takes up the story: “The PROFLEX’ material has been installed in thousands of pools and is 1.5mm thick with a reinforcing scrim. It comes in all the standard colours, some exclusive colours and non-slip material. It is available now but will be officially launched in the UK in 2015 along with some other exciting new products. You can buy it in roll form or have it installed, the choice is yours but what better way to have it tested than in the ‘Big Brother House’.” Matt concluded: “It was a great project to be involved in and Channel Five and SCP were great partners. Also it was peace of mind that 100% of the equipment came from one supplier. When I walked off site I had complete confidence in the products and the whole series ran very smoothly.”
For information on the new ‘PROFLEX’ material or any PENTAIR product please contact SCP.
SCP UK 01268 273 040
www.scpeurope.com SPN February 2015 11
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