Waterside Pool, The Heights and West Wight Sports & Community Centre are to all benefit from newly-announced Government funding to the tune of £258,000. It has been revealed that the 3 leisure facilities in Ryde, Sandown and Freshwater will receive a share of £60.5million to ensure their long-term financial sustainability, by improving their energy efficiency in order to keep running costs down. £128,297 has been allocated to Waterside Pool in Ryde to enable the installation of solar panels and heat recovery to air handling units. Meanwhile, the Council-run The Heights in Sandown will get £43,625 to fund shower flow restrictors. The money will also go towards replacing fluorescent lighting with LED lighting. West Wight Sports & Community Centre will receive £86,315 to upgrade the pool hall windows to triple blazing, and install solar panels. Clare Griffin, manager at West Wight Sports and Community Centre, has said:
“We are delighted to be receiving this grant from Sport England. “It’s critical for us to be able to keep our costs as low as possible in order to be able to continue to operate our pool. But this grant will also help us to reduce our carbon emissions and our reliance on gas. “Reducing our carbon footprint and contributing to raising the profile of important environmental issues is all part of being a responsible charitable business.”
Todd Miller, general manager at Ryde Waterside Pool, adds:
“We are elated to have received a successful outcome from the Sport England Grant, with great support from the Isle of Wight Council in the process. “The centre is currently struggling with the monthly cost of its electricity and gas, which has doubled in cost since September last year. “We hope the new more energy efficient heating system for the swimming pool and pool hall, combined with the solar PV will make help to reduce the centre’s energy consumption and associated costs to secure the financial sustainability of the Centre.”
Lawrence Edmonston, the council’s leisure facilities manager, added:
“Swimming pools and leisure centres are vital community resources and are enormously important in helping people to be physically active. “This new funding will help us improve our energy efficiency to be more environmentally and financially sustainable, so they remain available for future generations to enjoy.”
Sad, sad news. These local stations get swallowed up by the nationwide broadcasters and that means a far greater number, and very repetitive, adverts. As Freddie would say, “another one bites the dust”
Let’s pray they buy out Isle of Wight Radio and get rid of the boring presenters and shows! Absolute shambles of a station nowadays since the best presenters were pushed out and left with that morning show that’s embarrassing. Bring back the likes of Taylor, Stroud and lightnight love from Clark.
never liked it always got more up to date situations with wave ..travel etc..
Is that what they call modernisation?
What must be must be, but please keep it local
Have listened to Wave for 25 years and I’m gutted at this news. Love the current presenters and format. Don’t want to hear old songs all the time. Am so so sad. Or radio is on 18 hours a day and I will miss it terribly.
Please please rethink this.
At least we’ve got Victory back on digital radio.
for those that don’t like it,.. it’s time to re-tune to a different station (and not to the ‘replacement’)
The only way Bauer Media will get to realise their mistake, is if audience figures ‘fall off a cliff’ following the change.
Is the local radio station still on the airwaves. The IW Radio? I have to admit the every shop office pub that i go in and there is a radio station on it seems to be Wave?
I live in Gloucestershire, and Wave 105 is playing all day and I don’t even live within its TSA area! No other station plays the music variety. You hear today’s tracks and some very obscure songs from the past. Radio has just got even blander with no personality or local gossip. Such a shame as you can listen to Greatest Hits already online. Bauer have badged it as a better station but Wave 105 still existed untouched as it was very different from the vanilla networked stations. I think the listenership figures will drop as I for one will have to find another station. Local radio like local shops have all turned the high street into multiples selling the same stuff all over the country.
Same sort of thing here. I moved to Northern Ireland a good few years ago and still listen to wave every day. The presenters and music are unique. I can get Greatest Hits Radio on DAB here, it’s not good. I don’t want 70s, 80s and 90s music. I want all that plus a bit of the 60s and a fir bit more modern. Just good music.
Simplest question is why ? Wave 105 is for south coast – we’ve loved it starting and finishing and during our day – I listen for the lovely hosts – and the music of all ages !! Aged 63 and will be sad to see the lovely people I’ve become to know disappear from our lovely station 🙁
very sad day for all concerned
Thats a nice bit of news for the weekend
That investment will soon be recouped in lower bills, ensuring the facility remains open for all.
As YOU very likely know full well, the spongers on tax credits pay NOTHING to use these facilities, and all people like you do is demand all the facilities that working people put themselves out for, for all those who just think by dumping another child or several onto society gives them a right to have as much, and sometimes more than full time working people.
These parasites do 20 hours at best, then have all their money made up via Universal credit, free rent and c.tax, free dental care, and STILL get free gym membership and have all the time in the world to lounge around there or on the beach all Summer.
I guess YOU are or have offspring milking the system, hence your endless support of such polices, as YOU aren’t paying.
Your comments are disgusting, your probably one of the pigs that fleece the low paid!
Um, you said parasites, that’s hate speech that is. Logged. Now, for some facts, Gammon. They get concessions, it’s not free. So do the elderly. Many people on full time wages also get UC.
I am a highly qualified business owner. All my children are highly qualified graduates. I realise that some people do not get as much out of the education my (very heavy) taxes paid for, but please, try your hand and some concerted research on the subject. It makes you look so very stupid otherwise. Here’s your starter for ten…look up Norwich Pharmacal order.
karen says… I am a highly qualified business owner
back that statement up karen by stating what business it is you own, so that we can see whether or not you are true to your word.
if you won’t back up your claim, then it is an empty and meaningless statement that could just be another pack of lies, by a lazy, bone idle, benefit sponging leech
Yes Chris Lilly, the truth is hard to hear if you are playing the system, of course then, you don’t want anyone to mention what you ‘get’, ONLY what you don’t get, so as the squeakiest wheel still continues to receives the most oil.
So when the painful truth is put up for all to see, then suddenly ‘one’ is offended, or the poster is just a gammon, a racist, a remainer, a Tory, a Daily mail reader, or the race card is pulled, or all the world all has a disability, or mental health issue etc etc. Or the poster is uneducated or mental or horrid, or data is required, YET you beings can insult to try to kill the debate as only want ‘free speech’ on your terms, well tough.
Truth is, the truth hurts.
Blimey she’s replying to herself now cos no-one else is listening to this sh*t. Ok, for the umpteeth time..free speech is not an absolute, it has restrictions. Some of those restrictions are hate speech which offends, restricts and attempts to silence whole swathes of people with equal rights, without fear of reprisals, to same free speech. Also, IF IT OFFENDS ANYONE ELSE. YOU and others like you, do not get a free pass to denigrate others, no matter how spitefully nasty you feel about them inside yourself. What you post is not truth, truth is in statistics and law. I could give you both, but you don’t have the ability to listen and digest. This is not debate, if you want proper debate stop the diatribe and ask.
Statistics – open to all sorts of manipulation – if you torture statistics enough, it will tell you what ever you want it to say.
by the way karen – you do not have the right not to be offended. You cannot legislate out the risk of exposure to feelings.
exactly – what needs to happen is, less taxation, less benefits, less freebies and more fun and freedom for those that can actually pay for it out of their own pockets.
those sponging off the state, should get nothing – no work, no effort, no money
It would be nice if the majority of families could afford to go swimming once a week. At the moment, their electricity bills alone put paid to leisure activities. The Tories want us poor, with no access to culture or leisure or health and social services while forcing us to work to the grave on minimum wages. Pension credits for those without a full NI account which are means tested just to ensure your megre savings won’t save you either. Expect long delays for cancer diagnosis and treatments too. But it’ll be ok, they’ve given our pools a small amount of cash. The UK sucks right now.
Well said, I agree.
For goodness sake, give it a rest abort the tories, they are all useless in their own ways. You are so predictable and boring.
As per the UNELECTED WEF
You will own nothing and be happy
Lol
You’re right, sir. If they really care about a healthy population there are better ways of achieving it than this.
I find once you have swam in a pool there are the same, seems there is an huge waste of money going into pools. Lots of older men doing wees in pools!
Minister says “we are sticking to our plan to get more people active by 2030”.
I was sitting on my sofa watching the football, contemplating another cream bun, when I heard my local pool had new windows and solar panels. I immediately jumped up, grabbed my speedos from a draw and headed for the pool.
What rubbish our leaders spout.
So Ryde and West Wight get the lion’s share of the funding with solar panels, heat recovery and triple glazing.
What does Sandown get? A couple of bits of cheap plastic to restrict the showers and not quite enough money to switch out the outdated fluorescent lighting with up to date LED bulbs.
Can’t help feeling we’ve been short changed yet again here.
I think the whole thing is more to do with the saving of future money. Sandown is already quite well covered in that. Fully agree with the god-awful lighting mind!