Swim the Pacific in Chester

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Funded on
02 Dec 2021

This appeal is to pay for the hand-crafted Victorian tiles required to repair the Pacific Pool at Chester City Baths which was drained due to Covid-19, but caused damage to the floor of the pool.

£41,650 Raised of £41,649

215 Backers

100%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 02 December 2021 | Delivered on 28 June 2022

£41,650

RAISED

215

BACKERS

56

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

Largest pledge from Earl of Chester's Fund

£10,000

From Earl of Chester's Fund

£20

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

30

people have visited this project!

Marjory Boddy Trust donated £10000

£10,000

DONATED

By Marjory Boddy Trust

donated £100

donated £20

donated £50

donated £20

Cheshire West and Chester Council donated £5,000

donated £100

Cheshire West and Chester Council donated £5,000

Cheshire West and Chester Council donated £5,000

Chester Swimming Association Ltd donated £100

Chester City Baths

Chester City Baths donated £50

More about our impact

The local economy

Chester City Baths has been a centre of swimming since it opened in 1901, but to remain viable, the Pacific Pool needs to be re-opened. Without this, the baths could be forced to close.

Volunteering, jobs & education

Re-opening the Pacific Pool will maintain the security of employment for our staff, while creating more water-time so that local children will benefit from a learn-to-swim program at Chester City Baths.

Arts, culture & heritage

Chester City Baths is a Grade Two listed building in the centre of the historic CIty of Chester, where generations of local citizens have learned to swim. This project has been a major step towards ensuring the future of the building for years to come.

Activity, health and leisure

The ability to swim is not only an essential life-skill, but is also a fantastic and pleasurable way of keeping healthy by promoting activity in the water. As previously mentioned, re-opening the Pacific Pool is essential for the future of Chester City Baths.

http://www.chestercitybaths.com

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.