By Arundel Lido (Arundel and Downland Community Leisure Trust)
We urgently need to provide safe, secure and accessible changing rooms to ensure the future of Arundel Lido. Our old changing huts are no longer fit for use, some have had to be dismantled as unsafe.
During the 2018 season, over 38,000 swimmers visited Arundel Lido. A whopping average of 300 visitors each day! Yet currently we only have 1 family changing room and 6 small wooden sheds which have been in place over 10 years. We work with several local schools, Adult day services, Special Education Schools, Parent & Toddler groups, Home Educated Children and Retired Adults who attend specific sessions out of public opening hours. They all attend the Lido not only for the pools but knowing that the site is safe and secure. With the excitement of Project LEAP looming (our new all-year-round facility including a Gym, Community Hall, Café, Internal Changing Facilities and Extended Swim Season) and changing hut planning permission approved, the specifically designed changing and storage huts will enhance the design of the new building, retain the views and provide, most importantly, accessible external changing facilities for the community.
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It is due to the amazing efforts of our community that Arundel Lido is still going. The site was saved by a group of locals in 2002. ‘Arundel and Downland Community Leisure Trust’ was registered as a charity and successfully run the Lido ever since. We now need more help from our community to secure the future of our site. After many repairs, the existing changing huts are now in urgent need of replacement! Some huts have already been dismantled to ensure the safety of the site and we urgently need our community to pull together to get the first stage of our renovations ready for the 2020 Summer Season. All planned site improvements will provide essential accessible facilities, especially for families and young people with additional needs, allowing the Trust to continue to provide a high-quality service to accommodate all our customers’ requirements. We want to retain the traditional feel of the Lido in the future, the huts will remain as permanent structure after Project LEAP.
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VolunteerThe Arundel & Downland Community Leisure Trust (ACT) was initially formed in September 2000. ACT was established as a Registered Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee by early-2002. The stated objects of the Trust are: “To provide a swimming pool and other recreational and leisure facilities for the local community and for visitors to Arundel - in the interests of social welfare, with the object of improving conditions of life and providing specific facilities for those persons who need them because of their age, infirmity, disability, poverty or social economic circumstances”.
It has long been the ambition of the Trustees to provide further recreational and leisure facilities for local people by constructing a new, multi-functional building and operating the site all-year-round. This ambition is now supported by both Arun District Council and Arundel Town Council.
The Lido Extended Activities Plan was accordingly launched (as Project LEAP) in September 2015. Project LEAP reflects the key principles of the “Five Ways to Wellbeing”, which actively promotes people’s wellbeing in the community.
Project LEAP aims to provide an attractive new building at Arundel Lido comprising: A Gym - A Multi-Purpose Hall - An Indoor Café/Snack Bar - Heated Indoor Changing Rooms.
Project Owner: Arundel Lido (Arundel and Downland Community Leisure Trust) The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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