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BBC News
5 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Workington Leisure Centre solar panels 'to cut running costs'
Solar panels have been installed on a leisure centre as part of efforts to reduce costs and protect the Leisure Centre in Cumbria has been fitted with 160kW panels, which will provide about 20% of the site's electricity installation is expected to save money on running costs and generate income by exporting electricity back into the National Grid during periods of low Council's executive member for vibrant and healthy places, Anne Quilter, said the solar panels were one way the council was working to "build a greener, more sustainable future for [its] communities". She said their installation also aligned with the Labour-led local authority's "commitment to tackling the climate emergency and building environmental resilience" across the solar panels were paid for using capital grant funding from the Sport England Swimming Pool Support Fund, which also helped to pay for panels at The Sands Centre in Carlisle. Tom Rice, partnership manager at Greenwich Leisure Limited, which runs the centre, said: "One of our key priorities is to futureproof leisure facilities across [the area] and champion environmental resilience."He said the cost savings made from selling electricity back to the grid would be reinvested back into the leisure centre. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
26-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Cumbrian children offered 10p swims in May holidays
The May school holidays will see the return of children's swimming sessions costing 10p. The discounted scheme will apply to children aged up to 16 years at five indoor pools in Cumbria from 26 to 30 May. The pools at Cockermouth Leisure Centre, Workington Leisure Centre, The Sands Centre in Carlisle, Copeland Pool and Fitness Centre and Wigton Baths, will operate the 10p rate for specific time Council said "hundreds of children" have taken advantage of the price cut every time it has run the scheme during previous school holidays. The council said it was able to put on the sessions with support from organisations Greenwich Leisure Limited and Wigton Baths the February half term, more than 800 young people took part in the discounted project at Barrow Leisure and Furness Council said it received "extremely positive" feedback from previous roll outs of the initiative. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
