The pool is now OPEN for the 2025 season!
Our New Heat Retention Cover was Fully Funded
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The great news as regards the replacement pool cover is that in addition to the £1000 grant from the DCC Locality Fund through Councillor Jerry Brook and the £1400 from various corporate sponsors (Edmundson Electrical, Air Vent Services, Air Improve, SDE Group & Simply Switchgear), we were also awarded £7595 from the UK government, through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the Teignbridge DC Green Business Grant, meaning that our replacement cover was fully funded from external sources.
The cover significantly reduces heat loss when the pool is closed. This helps to keep the pool at a nice temperature and reduces the amount of gas our boiler uses. It also reduces our chemical use. Both of which reduce our operating costs and benefits the environment.
We breathed a huge sigh of relief that we would not have to pay for the cover out of our limited financial resources, but the Community Pool finances remain increasingly challenging. Keeping the pool viable will ensure that it remains available to the residents and organisations of Chudleigh, and that the primary school children continue to get swimming lessons.
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Photometer
Our old photometer (this tests the chemicals in the pool water) was obsolete and was no longer servicible. We are grateful to our two district councillors (Cllrs Suzanne Sanders and Richard Keeling) for funding the majority of the cost of the replacement through their Councillors' Community Fund.
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Please Continue to Sponsor our pool
The pool made an operating loss of £7k in 2024. We aren't going to get any financial help with running costs from Chudleigh Town Council in 2025. So, if you are able, we would really appreciate you making a donation towards the day to day running costs of the pool or to the replacement of other equipment that has seen better days. To do so, please follow this link.
Ways for you to Donate to
Chudleigh Community Project
If you are able, we would appreciate you supporting us financially. This could be by cash donation or by buying Teignbridge lottery tickets.
We've now added a GoFundMe page for you to contribute towards our ever rising operating costs.
Details of how to do this are here.
50% of ticket money for tickets purchased via our lottery web page will come back to us. Help us improve our facilities and cover our increasing running costs. Buy your tickets here!
Chudleigh 6 Mile Road Race
We are delighted that both the 2023 and 2024 Chudleigh Road Races raised an amazing £900 each to go towards our Community Pool running costs. A huge thank you from us to the road race committee.
There is now a defibrillator on the school site. More details here
ABOUT US
Welcome to the Chudleigh Community Project web site. We are a Registered Charity, formed in 1989, Charity Commission Registration Number is 900204. We contribute to Chudleigh life in three ways – we operate the Community Swimming Pool, we manage the Community School Hall outside school hours and we promote arts and dramas events.
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The pool was built in the 90s on land leased for 99 years from The Exeter Diocese and Devon County Council. It opened in 1997.
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Normally open from the end of April/early May to the beginning of September, the crystal clear water is warm! - heated to around 28 deg C and helped by our solar panels. There is a large timber framed shelter adjacent to the shallow end that provides shade when sunny and shelter when wet. The pool has public sessions and is available for hire at other times. Sweets, hot drinks, flapjack and cakes available from our kiosk.
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When the school was built in the early 1990s, the community, in the form of Chudleigh Community Project contributed £100,000 to pay for an enlarged hall, an additional hall store room and shower facilities. It is operated by CCP under a Dual Use Agreement.
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The hall is a light and airy space big enough for two badminton courts. Available for hire for parties and events. Facilities include portable stage, seating, tea/coffee making facilities.
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Regulars hirers include badminton, short tennis, tae kwon do, Chudleigh Baptist Church and the FISH holiday club.
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You’ve been kept safe by the pool lifeguards organised by volunteer Alison. But the lovely pool water you swim in has been kept up to scratch by volunteers Chris Evans and his team, other volunteers operate the kiosk, and plan the timetable and another volunteer administers the hall bookings.
All of these operations are overseen by the good folk of the Chudleigh Community Project committee.
We can't operate without volunteers. The trustees forming the CCP committee are also volunteers, comprising our officers, Rick Ward (Treasurer), together with other committee members. The Chair's and Secretary's posts are vacant, following the AGM, held 15th October 2024, which is concerning.
So we rely on volunteers to form the committee and to undertake numerous tasks for the pool, hall and fundraising.
Please have a think about how you might be able to contribute to the running of this charity and email us on admin@chudleighpool.org.uk if you can help in some way.
There is now a defibrillator on the school site. More details here