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Re-open Chester City Baths training pool published their Delivery Report!5 months ago
Delivered 1 November 2022
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By Chester Swimming Association
To raise £10k to cover energy, labour & teacher training costs to open the training pool, thereby increasing the number of children and others who gain confidence in the water by learning to swim.
This fund-raising project is re-open the Chester City Baths training pool to increase the number of swimming teachers and provide more capacity to teach children to swim. Opening this facility will: Enable more children and young people to have a better start in life. Create more jobs Support healthier communities It is intended that a number of these places will be free of charge to children eligible for free school meals. So far over 50% of the total required has been raised and we need your help to raise start-up funds to cover energy, labour & teacher training costs to get the training pool fully open and running. We are hoping to secure around £10,000 through this Spacehive crowd-funding session and specifically need our supporters to help us do this!
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Why it's a great idea:
It is important that all children have that essential life-skill, the ability to swim, especially in a city that has both the river Dee and Shropshire Union Canal running through it, and is located close to the coast of North Wales and North-west England. With only one pool open, the time available for children’s swimming-lessons has been halved from pre-Covid times, so this project aims to return to the situation that existed before the pandemic by increasing the number of local children who can be taught to swim. This will be achieved by a combination of more teachers and more pool-time, while making lessons available to some children who are eligible for free school-meals.
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Whoop, 60 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Whoop, 40 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Total £9,640
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Total £9,640
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VolunteerChester Swimming Association is the Registered Charity dedicated to maintaining the swimming facilities at Chester City Baths, a grade II listed-building built in 1901 in central Chester. Originally operated by Chester City Council, the charity took over the operation of the Atlantic and Pacific Pools in 1977 to avoid their closure and demolition. Our mission is to keep them open for many years to come, a task that has been extremely successful for the last 44 years. The Association is run by unpaid volunteers who dedicate their time and energies to ensure the smooth operation of the pools and to support our paid staff.
We have a long history of school, youth, multicultural, leisure and competitive swimming, as well as water polo, sub-aqua diving and triathlon at our home in Union Street, Chester, where a very large portion of Chester’s community has learned to swim. Apart from public swimmers, our main user-groups are Chester Swimming Club, Chester Water-polo Club, Chester Triathlon Club, Chester Sub-Aqua Club, the Noontide Club and many others. These all rely on Chester Swimming Association to ensure that Chester City Baths continues to flourish.
Featured in the book ‘Great Lengths; The Historic Indoor Swimming Pools of Britain’, published by English Heritage, our aim is to keep the swimming-baths financially viable, and to avoid closure. To quote English Heritage on describing the demise of Forest Hill Baths, another historic pool, ‘And so the nation’s stock of historic baths steadily dwindles’. We don’t intend to let that happen in Chester.
Project Owner: Chester Swimming Association The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
