Stamford Bridge Group Pool acquired a £5,000 donation and committee chair Shelley Lawton mentioned the monies will go in direction of important upkeep tasks.
Shelley mentioned: “The pool has been the scene the place native kids have realized to swim for the reason that Nineteen Eighties – when the altering rooms have been outdoor!
“Not solely does it present native employment for younger adults within the village who’re our lifeguards, everybody from mums with their infants to these of their seventies use it.”
Shelley – a New Zealand native whose Invercargill upbringing on the tip of South Island additionally noticed her take a primary job as a lifeguard, pressured the significance of the Stamford Bridge Group Pool and far wanted donations.
She mentioned: “After I moved to Stamford Bridge with my then three-year-old son, we taught him to swim on the Group Pool and it was an effective way for me to get to know folks.
“The £5,000 will go in direction of a brand new pool cowl – the present one has holes in it and is extraordinarily tough to wind.
“A brand new cowl will assist in direction of controlling vitality prices too, which is particularly obligatory provided that within the monetary yr to finish August 2023, our vitality payments ran to £8,000.
“We’ve additionally received warped picket doorways to exchange and a giant capital challenge could be to put in photo voltaic panels on the roof, however that wants strengthening first.”
Shelley Lawton and fellow volunteers on the committee accepted a £5,000 donation on behalf of Stamford Bridge Group Pool from Swish Fibre / AllPoints Fibre’s Group Undertaking Crew.
The corporate added that it’ll make extra donations to the pool as clients take up the service.
Mark Furnass from AllPoints Fibre mentioned: “As somebody from the world, I’m happy that we’re capable of assist with worthwhile group & charitable causes such because the swimming pool.”
