Re-open Chester City Baths training pool

Funded on
20 May 2022

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.

£10,040 Raised of £9,640

66 Backers

104%

Updates

Re-open Chester City Baths training pool published their Delivery Report!4 years ago

63 Donations worth £2,2604 years ago

60 backers!

60 people have backed Re-open Chester City Baths training pool!4 years ago

Whoop, 60 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Re-open Chester City Baths training pool hit its fundraising target!4 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

Cheshire West Crowd Fund pledged £6,5004 years ago

Re-open Chester City Baths training pool has reached 30% of its target!4 years ago

50 backers!

50 people have backed Re-open Chester City Baths training pool!4 years ago

Whoop, 50 people have pledged since fundraising began!

40 backers!

40 people have backed Re-open Chester City Baths training pool!4 years ago

Whoop, 40 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Re-open Chester City Baths training pool has reached 20% of its target!4 years ago

Anonymous pledged £1,0004 years ago

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Chester City Baths is the Registered Charity dedicated to maintaining the swimming facilities at our 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 48 years. The charity 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 schools and 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 City Baths to ensure that swimming and other sports continue to flourish in Chester.

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 City Baths The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.