Street party in Ladywell
Sunday, 1st August 2004 the Ladywell Pool Campaign had a large outlet outside the LLC, this was intended to be our first high visibility initiative.
There
were about 15 voluteers to inform as many people as possible. The LLC
was indeed on Sunday afternoon hosting an event of Active Sport (Sport
England) together with Lewisham Sport & Recreation, a department of
Lewisham Council. Well done to both! We need more of these initiatives
to promote swimming.
The 20 months of closure of the Ladywell Leisure Centre greatly damaged swimming as a sport (and as a leisure activity) in Lewisham.
The title of the Event was Splish Splash at London's first Swim Festival and it was aimed at promoting swimming as a sport to Lewisham school children.
By the title of the initiative and the tone of the promotion we thought that there would have been a large participation to this event. It was instead catering for a narrow selection of highly achieving young swimmers.
Therefore there where 17 children (plus brothers and sisters), 34 parents and some coach and official from Lewisham Sport & Recreation.
Most of them signed our petition, tasted the fruit salad and ice cream offered by the Ladywell pool Campaign and received the informations reguarding the background of the mayoral decision to demolish the Ladywell Leisure Centre.
Many would be users of the pool, which didn't know about the closure for this event joined in what became a beatiful street party.
It's been a great afternoon, we made many new friends which will be participating actively on Thursday meeting.
We know now that we can count on a large number of people that is willing to give their Sunday to help the campaign. Better still thinking that they all had a very short notice about this event.
See some images of the event at Andrew Milton's photogallery
The 20 months of closure of the Ladywell Leisure Centre greatly damaged swimming as a sport (and as a leisure activity) in Lewisham.
The title of the Event was Splish Splash at London's first Swim Festival and it was aimed at promoting swimming as a sport to Lewisham school children.
By the title of the initiative and the tone of the promotion we thought that there would have been a large participation to this event. It was instead catering for a narrow selection of highly achieving young swimmers.
Therefore there where 17 children (plus brothers and sisters), 34 parents and some coach and official from Lewisham Sport & Recreation.
Most of them signed our petition, tasted the fruit salad and ice cream offered by the Ladywell pool Campaign and received the informations reguarding the background of the mayoral decision to demolish the Ladywell Leisure Centre.
Many would be users of the pool, which didn't know about the closure for this event joined in what became a beatiful street party.
It's been a great afternoon, we made many new friends which will be participating actively on Thursday meeting.
We know now that we can count on a large number of people that is willing to give their Sunday to help the campaign. Better still thinking that they all had a very short notice about this event.
See some images of the event at Andrew Milton's photogallery
