Swimmers and staff at Ryde’s Waterside Pool are seeing the benefits of new LED lighting throughout the building after a £2,000 grant from E.ON’s Energising Communities Fund enabled the Waterside Community Trust to replace all of its old lights.
The LED lighting project, which was completed over 3 days, cost a total of £6,500 of which £2,000 was donated by E.ON. The improvement work was managed by registered charity the Waterside Community Trust, which operates the pool.
The trust is dedicated to improving the health, wellbeing and fitness of residents and visitors by providing affordable and accessible swimming. After preventing its closure in 2011, the pool’s trustees and staff have looked for ways to reduce its ongoing costs. With new energy efficient lighting now in place throughout the poolside, changing rooms, office areas and reception, energy and maintenance costs at the pool are expected to fall.
Todd Miller, General Manager at the pool, said:
“We get hundreds of people coming through our doors to use the facilities here each day, and we’re keen to ensure that the pool can be maintained for the benefit of all. We’d raised £4,500 ourselves towards the cost of the replacement lighting, but receiving the £2,000 grant from E.ON’s Energising Communities Fund meant we could go ahead and do all of the work.”
Suzanne Roe, E.ON’s Corporate Responsibility and Community Relations Manager, said:
“Since E.ON’s Energising Communities Fund was launched in 2013 we’ve given away almost £140,000 to 84 community groups and charities in England, Scotland and Wales. This figure includes £2,000 donated last year to Community Action Isle of Wight to fund heating improvements at the Riverside Community Centre in Newport.
“We’re delighted to be once again donating funds to an Isle of Wight community. The Waterside Community Trust’s plans to boost the energy efficiency of its lighting, thereby reducing its carbon footprint, energy use and bills and maintenance costs were exactly the kind of activity the E.ON Energising Communities Fund was intended to support.”
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