What is happening with the UKSA pool?
What is happening with the UKSA pool?UKSA needs help to refurbish its swimming pool that is used by over 20,000 people each year, including local Island primary school children, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds through our charity development programmes and the entire north Island community.
Our pool (built in ’93), and its systems are in critical need of significant repairs. Each year the pool has multiple repairs to enable the heating system and the filtration system to continue to run. However, the repairs are no longer enough, and the pool needs to be completely refurbished. The filtration system is continuously breaking due to increased demand and parts are no longer available from suppliers due to the age of the pool, which has lead to long pool closures disrupting the availability for our local community and charity beneficiaries.
Many community pool users are reliant on accessing the pool due to its locality, cost, and availability.
- 26+ primary schools across the Island
- 40+ users in ‘Aqua Fit Group’; using the pool for 4.5 hours per week
- 400+ babies and pre-school children doing swimming lessons through ‘Emma’s Otters’; using the pool for 40 hours per week
Offering our pool to the community is incredibly important to us at UKSA. Given the recent reduced facilities on the Island, the last thing we want to do is close our pool doors knowing there is no other option.
Instead, we need to fix the pool so we can increase our community access and provide a safer environment – but we simply cannot afford the cost alone.
UKSA is working hard to raise funds by appealing to local grant giving trust and organisation’s and are also appealing to the Island community for support to help the local Cowes community to ‘Just keep Swimming.’
