The Swimming Pool and Allied Trade Association (SPATA) and the British and Irish Hot Tub Association (BISHTA) joined together for the newly named British Pool & Hot Tub Awards in February, to celebrate the achievements of their member companies. Held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and timed to coincide with the SPATEX swimming pool […]
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National Leisure companies lived up to their elite reputation with a clean sweep in the Residential Indoor Pool of the Year category of this year’s UK Pool & Spa Awards. The residential pools categories proved to be the hardest fought sector in this year’s competition with National Leisure stalwarts, Tanby Pools, taking gold, narrowly pipping […]
POOL & SPA SCENE EXCLUSIVE The main player in a fraudulent home hot tub firm which went under with debts of £2.7 million has been ordered to cough up just £10. Hundreds of customers across the country were cheated by Staffordshire-based Spaserve with faulty goods or hot tubs that never arrived. A jury at […]
It may have been the wettest winter in a hundred years but pool and spa retailers should be getting set for a sizzling summer, if we are to believe scientists, who are 75 per cent certain that 2014 will be the hottest summer on record for the UK and Eire.
With a new venue, a new look and a splash of new exhibitors, as well as products, the eagerly anticipated SPATEX exhibition returned with a more professional feel.
Partners in a failed home hot tub firm that went down with debts of £2.7 million took more than a million pounds out of the business for themselves, fraud trial jurors heard.
An expert accountant called by the prosecution to assess Staffordshire-based Spaserve’s three and a half years of trading concluded that the partners were having money the business could not afford.
Two of the partners, principal shareholder Simon Foster and Stuart Cox are on trial accused of fraudulent trading and conspiracy to defraud. With them in the dock is general manager Johnathon Husselbee. They all deny the charges.
Basking in the biggest heatwave for years, record high temperatures have resulted in a much-welcomed spike in sales for the UK pool and spa sectors heralding the return of the feel good factor to the UK water leisure economy.
Watergate School, in the London Borough of Lewisham, is a priceless asset for children with severe learning difficulties. The school’s 90 pupils, aged between three and 11, include some with profound and multiple learning difficulties and many wheelchair users. Watergate’s hydrotherapy pool is particularly valuable for their development, using programmes developed by the NHS physiotherapists based at the school, who also run after school sessions for a baby and toddler groups and visits from another local special school. “As you can appreciate the swimming pool is very important to our school and its pupils,” says Watergate School’s Nick Frost.
It has been ten years since The Spa at Celtic Haven in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, first opened. The Spa at Celtic Haven forms part of a charming, cliff-top cottage resort on the outskirts of Tenby. Celtic Haven’s collection of 12th Century Cottages along with The Spa, Waves cliff-top bar and restaurant and their Golf & Leisure Club make it an ideal destination for spa breaks in Wales.
The Vale Resort in Hensol, south Wales, has scooped a top industry award for its leisure division at the annual 59 Club Service Excellence Awards. The Vale’s leisure offering includes a full range of gym facilities, squash and tennis courts, a 20m swimming pool as well as more than 50 led fitness classes per week
