Settle Area Swimming Pool

Jack Illingworth, a year five pupil at Settle Primary School, is celebrating after designing the winning poster in a competition to promote Settle Area Swimming Pool’s fiftieth anniversary carnival. Jack’s poster will be seen around the area over the next few weeks as the pool steps up preparations for the carnival on June 21 that marks fifty years since the opening of the community-funded pool.

The pool, which continues to enjoy massive local support, was built largely as a result of local fund-raising that included regular town carnivals. The event on Saturday June 21, which will be held in the car park in front of the pool and field behind (thanks to Settle College,) will seek to recreate the spirit of those early events. A wide range of local organisations will be represented and there will be food and drink stalls as well as entertainment – such as the young farmers’ ducking stool and the ever popular crockery smashing stall. The Giggleswick and Settle Brass Band will be playing and Bretton Lord, of Lords Courtyard will act as compere.

Jack’s poster was chosen from a large number of entries by Settle Primary School pupils. All the designs are now on display in the poolside café. Winning the competition means that Jack will now enjoy a pool party for himself and his friends. 

The reason the community came together all those years ago to help fund a community swimming
pool was to ensure local children were able to learn to swim safely and so avoid accidents in the River Ribble that runs close by, so it is appropriate that Jack learnt to swim at the pool, which he has been attending since he was just a few months old, taken by his mother to the splashing tots sessions.

Wow! 

Things are coming together nicely for the Settle Area Swimming Pool 50th Anniversary Carnival on SATURDAY JUNE 21. 10am-4pm at the pool, in the carpark and in the field behind.

What we need to know:

If you want to book a space in the car boot sale that will form part of the event contact info@settleswimming pool.co.uk as soon as possible (there will be a £10 booking fee and a strict limit on numbers)

If your organisation wants a stall and haven’t booked yet get in touch again through info@settleswimmingpool.co.uk by May 11 at the latest ( a small admin charge applies)
If you can help on the day, for instance giving out programmes, or helping steward, again let us know – the same address

What to expect:

* Games, including the young farmers ducking stool and the crockery smashing stall

* Music with Giggleswick and Settle Brass Band

* Food and drink stalls

* Children’s fancy dress parade and competition (get your costume ready).

* Bouncy castle

* Much more besides

Auction on the 6th June

And before all that we’ll be starting our 50th anniversary celebrations with a grand auction at North Ribblesdale Rugby Union club on Friday June 6 starting at 7pm. Save the date and look out for details.

The Settle Area Swimming Pool spring newsletter is now available to read here Our Newsletters.

This issue includes news of plans for our 50th anniversary celebrations; a report on changes to the way we collect donations for our charity shops; our plan for the next five years; and our response to the customer survey conducted earlier this year.

We have now published our business plan for the next five years and, alongside that, details of the customer survey conducted earlier this year that helped inform the business plan.

You can read the plan here SASP Business Plans and the survey here Customer Surveys

The business plan reflects on the fact that, despite many obstacles, we achieved far more over the past five years than we thought possible when the earlier plan for the period  2020 -2025 was adopted. We now look forward to a period of building on our achievements and the opportunities for further developments in the longer term.

The customer survey showed that in general you are happy with what we do. There were specific issues on pricing, water temperature and variations in the timetable. These and other issues are addressed in the report on the survey.