Save Tunstall Pool - My Campaign Diary

And in addition to that

1. We have notes going out with Goldenhill Primary School kids tomorrow - ok they finish school tomorrow but we are hoping to get them to sign the electronic one on line - WM will update you at open night tonight on what I was thinking - school have agreed to this.

2. We are also out this weekend around the estate with petitions.

3. Still working on a plan for the parents at swimming lessons on Saturday to get signatures from them as well.

Paula, will you take your camera and get some piccies for the website (maybe one of the staff would take one of you and Joan with the handover)

Me and my 6 year old have done a couple of houses tonight on the JRW side of the estate, out of 41 houses, 19 signatures, 23 not ins and only 3 not interested in signing - so that's not bad. Most people tonight were all for signing and were surprised that Tunstall Pool was up for closure once again.

Before you say my figures don't add 41 (some houses had visitors who also signed).

Those houses that had no response from, have made a note so they can be aimed at again over the weekend! they won't escape us.

Many thanks for all the hard work that is going into saving Tunstall Pool.

Hopefully we can get over the 3,000 mark tomorrow which will be fantastic.

Just read in Sentinel, Hope the gentlemens doing OK

A quick thankyou to those households that were in on the Wilson Connelly estate this weekend that very kindly signed the petition. 25 - 30 houses not in which isn't too bad and only 5 - 6 no thank you's.

Paula and Web Monkey 2465, we will assume 550 for Bill, We have 487 from Tunstall Pool and the Swallows Rise Estate. I am awaiting the Heritage Park Estate Totals and Web Monkey has a few more. I will email Joan Walley with a PDF of the complete dataset Tuesday of this week.

I would estimate the total to be approximately 3,600 at present. We could really do with a copy of Bills petition forms if anyone can ask him.

A few of the shops in Tunstall were running petitions also so we could do with getting those in. I have copied all the sheets I have and added them to your copies.

Is anyone attending the council meeting as we could then put forward a copy of the petition.

I gave my completed petitions to bill.

The Aqua fit , swimming groups and anyone else who wants to join in, are having a swin in at the pool on tuesday at 1.30. As we swim ,we can plan our next" plan of action".

my email to all councillors

Do you know what your spending on?

What is £7M contingency for, if for rainy day what is todays closure of much valued services if not dark and rainy?

Why increase adition to reserves from £0.5M to £1.5M a year increase UN-allocated reserves to £8.3M, I say alternative budget and ALLOCated some, you only need around £4M in UN-allocated reserves?

What is the City Council’s “service redesign and remodelling programme” ? if you don’t know why spend £25M on it, if you do please let residents know.

Last what options are available for Tunstall Pool, have you read the consultants report into alternative ways to run it?

If you can answer all the above please contact http://PitsnPots.co.uk and http://mytunstall.co.uk and provide them with the answers

Please make an IMFORMED decision when setting the budget, if you’re not sure your surely can’t vote on it surely, Defer until your sure.

Just been to the "Swim In" at Tunstall Pool, but there was no one there that I recognized from the protest last week. The Sentinel did turn up though and luckily one lady was there with a banner so hopefully that'll keep the profile up. Was the "Swim In" rescheduled?

I have spoken to the Amateur Swimming Association who are very enthusiastic about keeping this great facility open. They are having a conference call with the council tomorrow, lets keep our fingers crossed that they can successfully negotiate the start of setting up a charitable trust, this could be a new start for this great facility.

And so the stitch up is finally revieled in todays sentinel.

If this is what they'e been working to, why haven't they said? Lots of the Tunstall Pool campaigners have been asking lots of questions directly, but it's the first we've heard.

Basically the investment in established pools will be placed in school pools. Which currently don't open outside of regular school times, don't have the changing facilities and so on.

I thought I saw dirty politics with dimensions but to release this info today of all days, well it tells you everything about this current council.

I wish the people they once were could come along and have a chat, but chances are they'd drop them in the canal.

For me, this hasn't been about politics, or hidden monies, it's been about saving a well used facility by the young the old, that if run better (i.e not by the council) would be making profit and would not need to be closed. It's been about preserving and improving fitness and also preserving heritage.

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I think we need to check into the implications of the school pools being kept afloat at the expense of Tunstall Pool. Are the schools who do not have pools and currently use Tunstall Pool for their swimming lesson going to be forced to use one of these school pools instead....

I think a councillor needs to look into this ASAP..

Can anyone meet up with Phil Mc Can, from radio Stoke at 10a.m tomorrow ,31.3.11 to discuss the pool closing?

I can't make it ,is anyone free?

his no 01782 221264