Press Releases
Press Releases
A bigger splash – Mayor goes poolside with ÂŁ7.5m drive to get Londoners more active
London Mayor Boris Johnson today announced plans for a ÂŁ7.5 million programme of investment in community sports facilities, which will help deliver his aim to make Londoners more active and healthy.
Gladiators stars Enigma and Doom joined the Mayor and his Commissioner for Sport Kate Hoey on a visit to Greenwood primary school in Ealing, where pupils tried out a mobile pool that has been temporarily installed for use by the school and the local community.
The pool is part of PlaySport London: Make a Splash, a new scheme that offers swimming in parts of London without facilities, which is being delivered in partnership with The Variety Club Children’s Charity, serviced office providers MWBex, the Amateur Swimming Association, Total Swimming and London Swimming.
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Make a Splash – The Variety Club working with the Mayor of London, PlaySport London and MWB Business Exchange
The Variety Club Children’s Charity and their corporate partners MWB Business Exchange are working towards providing access to swimming in disadvantaged areas across the capital by teaming up with the Mayor of London and PlaySport London.
For 60 years The Variety Club Children’s Charity has been helping sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. The Variety Club has an illustrious history stretching back to the golden age of British entertainment. The charity has raised over ÂŁ200 million in the last 6 decades and improved the lives of more than a million children and young people.
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Pupils make waves at Greenwood Primary
Delighted pupils had a splashing time in their temporary swimming pool when they were visited by the mayor of London this week.
The youngsters from Greenwood Primary School, in Wood End Way, Northolt, showed off their techniques to Boris Johnson who was joined by his sport’s commissioner Kate Hoey and Enigma and Doom from the hit endurance show Gladiators.
The pool was introduced at the beginning of the autumn term and is designed to help people from the surrounding area learn to swim in time for the opening of the new Northolt Leisure Centre at the end of January.
It will replace Northolt Swimarama, in Eastcote Lane, which has been closed since October 2007.
The learner pool, based at Greenwood Primary School, introduced as part of the London mayor’s Make A Splash Scheme, will be open until December 19.
Speaking after the mayor of London’s visit last Thursday (22) Greenwood Primary’s headteacher Jim Britzman, said: “The children have loved having the pool here. “Some go swimming regularly, but for many it’s been their first time and they have overcome any fears and grown in confidence.
“The feedback from parents has been terrific and they’ve said they will continue to go swimming, which coincides beautifully with the opening of Northolt Leisure Centre.”