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SPN AUG 2011 IndustryNews


www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk CERTIKIN HELP BRITISH GAS POOLS PROGRAMME


The British Gas Pools 4 Schools Programme which is providing greater access to swimming by taking special teaching pools around the UK is being supported by Certikin North which is now providing the pool liners. The pools provide free swimming lessons for children in areas where there is limited access to a swimming pool. British Gas Pools 4 Schools is run by Total Swimming in collaboration with the Amateur Swimming Association which takes


temporary pools across England. The portable pool is designed to accommodate a full class of children within a specially designed tank. The 12m x 6m x 1.2m pool features an Adriatic Blue 30thou beaded liner, a felt underlay to protect the liner and surplus blue liner vinyl to trim the surround of the pool construction, all supplied by Certikin North. The pool remains at a particular host school for six weeks and is open to the wider community in the evenings.


National Sales Manager for Total Swimming, Neil Richardson, says: “It’s hoped that this will help local youngsters achieve the National Curriculum target of learning to swim 25m unaided by the time they leave primary school. By constructing temporary pools in school buildings (gyms, halls and play grounds), we are able to bring swimming right where it is needed and tackle the problem head on.” Neil adds: “Our primary focus is on helping children to reach the National Curriculum requirement of swimming 25 metres unaided, and attainment has been as high as 80% so far. However, success is measured much more widely as in some areas we have visited, many of the children have never even been in a swimming pool.”


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PLANS TO AXE SCOTTISH BORDERS POOLS ARE DROPPED


Plans which could have closed a number of swimming pools throughout the Scottish Borders have been shelved.


The move was being considered as local authorities looked at re- organising its provision of sports facilities across the region. Now Scottish Borders Council has issued revised plans which will allow all the swimming pool sites which had been under threat of potential closure to remain open. The council


decided that swimming pools were a key factor in a number of sports facilities in the Borders which needed investment.


The council will seek to develop pool facilities around hubs in the nine ‘major’ Borders towns – Hawick, Galashiels, Peebles, Selkirk, Kelso, Jedburgh, Eyemouth, Duns and Earlston.


Councillor Graham Garvie said the process of formulating the strategy had been “in-depth and exhaustive”.


LSPC TEAM MAKE IT TO BRIGHTON TO SUPPORT HEART CHARITY


The enthusiastic team of cyclists from the London Swimming Pool Company got on their bikes to Brighton in support of British Heart Foundation. They all made it to Brighton in one piece and fortunate enough only to be suffering from a few sore muscles and a bit of sun and windburn. It was a tough but thrilling ride with steep down-hill runs and sharp turns followed by tiring climbs pushing the bikes up narrow country lanes. A couple in the team completed the 54 miles in a rather quick three hours and 40 minutes and the rest trickled in over the next three hours. You can still donate by sending a cheque made payable to BHF to London Swimming Pool company address or go to http://original.justgiving.com/lspcwheelies. Raising some more funds for the British Heart Foundation would make all the training, aches and strains even more worthwhile for the team.


“We have had to look at the need to balance the desire for aspiration and ambition with the harsh reality of financial cutbacks which will affect us all for the foreseeable future,” he said.


He added that it was not something the council expected to “get 100% right immediately”. George Burt, of Jedburgh Leisure Facilities Trust, said: “It is very good news that none of the pools are likely to close.”


£10M WAKEFIELD POOL GETS UNDER WAY


Work started in June on a new multi- million pound swimming pool in West Yorkshire.


The £10m Wakefield ONE, in Wakefield city centre, will include two pools, a fitness centre, a 200- seater viewing area and a café. The building is scheduled to open in summer 2012.


People have been calling for new pool facilities in the city since the Sun Lane baths closed five years ago when it was found to be in danger of collapsing.


The new pool will house a six-lane, 25 metre pool, a learner pool, a 100 station fitness suite, a multi-use activity and dance studio plus a spectator area.


Paul Denson, Assistant Director for project managers Drivers Jonas Deloitte, said: “We’ve been working hard to get the project to this stage, and it’s a real credit to the council and the project team that we are now starting on site.


“Wakefield ONE will be open at just the right time to coincide with the Olympics.


“This will be a fantastic facility that can be enjoyed by all the community and we are delighted to be playing a part in this.”


Plans for two new pools for the district were first announced in 2009 after plans for a stadium and sports village proposed for Thornes Park were scrapped.


But while the city centre pool is set to go ahead, plans for a £1.5m Hemsworth pool were scrapped last year.


The first three of the LSPC team reach Brighton


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