NEWS IN BRIEF
STA JOINS FORCES WITH CAA STA (Swimming Teachers’ Association) and the newly established Children’s Activities Association (CAA) have joined forces to offer parents double the peace of mind when booking swimming classes for little ones. As the world’s largest
independent swimming teaching and lifesaving organisation, STA is supporting CAA’s exciting new mission to give parents a recognisable benchmark for standards for all organised children’s activities.
The CAA aims to establish and improve consistent standards and accreditation; and also to give more children the opportunity to experience a wider range of organised activities.
Kayle Burgham, Technical Manager for Aquatics at STA, said: “As a registered charity dedicated to saving lives through the teaching of swimming, we work at the forefront to support and represent the UK swim school market in both the public and private sector to help raise standards.
Alongside the popularity of baby swimming, the private swim school market, in particular, has grown significantly over the past decade. This level of choice has made it difficult for parents and carers to know which is a good swim school or not – and for swim schools to differentiate their services.”
For the swimming world,
STA has addressed this with its STAmark quality accreditation mark, which provides a standardised level of accreditation that swim schools can work to demonstrate best practice in the key areas of running a swim school and or leisure facility.
“Now by working in association with CAA, our STAmark accredited swim schools can benefit from wider public recognition through an accreditation mark that is common across the whole of the children’s activity market,” added Kayle.
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Gainsborough Bath Spa Launches With DaleSauna Thermal Rooms
The Gainsborough Bath Spa, the only hotel in the UK to offer direct access to natural thermal waters and featuring a range of experiences from DaleSauna, has opened in Bath. Designed by New York based design firm Champalimaud Design, the 99-room hotel is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World and is the first UK property from YTL Hotels. The hotel’s Spa Village Bath has been designed to honour the healing traditions of Bath. DaleSauna supplied a number of thermal experiences for the luxurious spa including a salt steam room designed to cater for up to eight guests with LED lighting and bespoke glass mosaic tiles from Trend in hues of brown.
A pine herbal sauna features a conventional sauna heater and a stainless steel herb tray for the infusion of fresh herbs. As well as the traditional herbal sauna, guests can relax in an infrared sauna, also in pine, with a single tier of bench seating and five infrared heaters. These emit infrared light, which is experienced as radiant heat and absorbed by the surface of the skin for a number of health
benefits including the removal of toxins. The sauna also features a wall of Himalayan salt to soothe respiratory and skin conditions. Finally, DaleSauna has created a bespoke walk-in ice grotto and two experience showers. Clad in Trend mosaic glass tiles in blue fade, features of the ice room include marble tops, a chiller to emit cold air, fibre optic lighting on the ceiling in the design of the zodiac and most striking of all, a model of a lion’s head which dispenses the crushed ice. The Gainsborough Bath Spa has created a one hour ‘Bath Circuit’, a self-guided tour which takes advantage of the saunas, steam room, ice alcove relaxation
rooms as well as three thermal pools, which sit at the heart of the spa beneath a glass atrium. The circuit concludes with a special Water Ritual Ceremony.
DaleSauna 01423 798630
www.dalesauna.co.uk
F T Leisure Completes De Vere Gardens Project
One Kensington Gardens (De Vere Gardens) will provide 97 luxury apartments, basement car parking and a private hotel with fitness and leisure amenities including a 25-metre, 3-lane lap pool and spa, family rooms and entertainment facilities. The new development is situated opposite Kensington Palace Gardens on the site of the former Kensington Park and Kensington Palace Thistle hotels. The scheme provides two new seven-storey buildings, both with a penthouse suite, and one five-storey block incorporating retained façades. F T Leisure,
specialists in luxury aquatic spa facilities, designed, supplied, installed and
commissioned the water
treatment and filtration systems and vitality water/air features in the spa pool. The filtration system is based on medium rate sand filtration and the water treatment consists of chlorine for disinfection, pH control and an ozone sterilisation system. The ozone provides optimum water quality and air quality in the pool hall. Finally, F T Leisure designed and installed a fibre optic lighting scheme.
The main contractor for the project was Sir Robert McAlpine who worked with David Chipperfield Architects for the developer De Vere Estates.
F T Leisure 0161 494 5785
www.ftleisure.co.uk
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