We are currently looking for Casual staff across all our centres in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. GLL requires enthusiastic, hard working, customer focused and business driven people. Sound like you? Come and see us. Screening interviews available at the recruitment fair. Please bring proof of identity [...]

“Bell Leisure Investments, the holding company of health club chain Esporta, has been put into administration.”

(Via Leisure Opportunities News Esporta’s owners in administration: .)

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Dear swimmers,

If you are aged 8 – 12 and are looking for something to do at the end of the school holidays, then please see the attached flyer relating to the ‘Oceans of Fun’ events promoted by the ASA and taking place at several locations near here over the period 13-16 April.

Also could everyone please [...]

“HACKNEY S Olympic-sized outdoor swimming pool will not be open in time for the summer, it has emerged. London Fields lido was due to open this month, but that has been put back until at least October because of construction problems???”

(Via Hackney Gazette High and dry: .)

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Smoke billows out of Kings Hall leaving Hackney residents without a swimming pool and reliant on an aging lagoon pool in Shoreditch.

The 109-year old building with only one divided tank remaining of its original three 33-yard pools was closed yesterday when a fire in the health suite nearly destroyed it completely. We are told [...]

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If ever evidence was required that the London Olympic Bid Committee and the Cabinet Office have been in charge of whether you or I could swim in Stoke Newington witness the work starting on Clissold three days after the Singapore decision and one year, seven months and thirteen days after, it is alleged, it was [...]