?50,000 Sport England money for Highworth Rec

25th January 2013 by Roger Ogle

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Highworth Recreation Centre (HRC) has secured Olympic legacy funding from Sport England?s Inspired Facilities Fund.

Highworth Recreation Centre (HRC) has secured Olympic legacy funding from Sport England?s Inspired Facilities Fund. The Inspired Facilities fund is part of the ?135 million Places People Play legacy programme that is bringing the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country. Every sports facility that receives funding will carry the London 2012 Inspire mark ? celebrating the link to the Games.
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HRC Trustees, Swindon Borough Council (SBC) and Highworth Town Council (HTC) have worked together to achieve funding to provide a new modern swimming pool changing village. A total of ?130,500 (including ?50,000 from Inspired Facilities) has been approved for the project. This funding will increase participation, improve access for everyone and specifically those with disabilities, families, older people and schools. The plan now is to;
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Use the existing male/female changing rooms to create a new changing village with new showers, separate cubicles including individual and family changing rooms.
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Provide more accessible facilities with a dedicated changing room for disabled users
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Relocate reception to allow more space for the new changing area and create views into the swimming pool

Pictured welcoming the grant, Ian Bickerton (Swindon Borough Council?s Head of Leisure, Libraries & Culture), Richard Williams (Highworth Town Crier), Jenny Shorten (Chair, Directors of Highworth Recreation Centre), Nathan Hall (Highworth Rec Team Manager)

Chair of the Highworth Recreation Centre Charitable Company Board, Jenny Shorten said ?We are delighted to have secured this investment so we can upgrade our changing rooms to match the quality of our swimming pool. When we surveyed our customers they told us how much this will encourage them to use the centre even more.
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?I?m sure local people and our partners will all be very proud that Highworth is getting a lasting reminder of the Olympic and Paralympic Games last year. It will really help us deliver our vision of excellence in leisure and sport here in the town.?
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Highworth Recreation Centre is one of hundreds of projects across England benefitting from lottery investment through the second round of the Inspired Facilities fund. Sport England today launched a further ?10 million funding round to help local community sports groups to upgrade their facilities For more information, go to www.sportengland.org/inspiredfacilities.
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Places People Play is being delivered by Sport England, working partnership with the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the British Paralympic Association (BPA) with the backing of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the London 2012 Inspire mark.
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Sport England?s Chair, Richard Lewis, said: ?This National Lottery investment will create a lasting sporting legacy for Highworth. This fund has really hit the mark with sports clubs in the South West region. It shows we?re offering the legacy that people want for their local community. For hundreds of clubs and tens of thousands of people, this will be the year their local sports facilities got better.?

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Highworth Recreation Centre is one of hundreds of projects across England benefitting from lottery investment through the second round of the Inspired Facilities fund. Sport England today launched a further ?10 million funding round to help local community sports groups to upgrade their facilities

For more information, go to www.sportengland.org/inspiredfacilities.
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Source: http://www.swindonlink.com/news/50000-lottery-money-for-highworth-rec

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