Your chance to register your support for Broomhill Pool on the Ipswich Cultural Strategy Survey.
Let the Ipswich Cultural Strategy team and the Ipswich City of Culture team know what you think. https://eu.jotform.com/260363418648058
The Cultural Team is asking for feedback:
- What would make Ipswich a place you’d want to stay or come back to?
- In one sentence: what do you want Ipswich to be known for?
- If you had one wish for Ipswich’s future, what would it be?
- What makes Ipswich feel like a good place to live or not?
“Ipswich is thinking about its future – how it feels to live here, what people can take part in, and how creativity shows up in everyday life. We’re working on a long-term Cultural Strategy to shape our cultural offer, and we’ve also put our name forward for City of Culture.
“This survey is a chance to have your say. What you share will help make sure plans for Ipswich are shaped by local voices, and that any City of Culture bid is stronger because it’s rooted in real experiences, not just big ideas.
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Broomhill Pool Trust 
Dear Sirs,
I have supported Broomhill Pool Trust in their efforts to get the lido up and running again since it’s closure in 2002 both financially and by writing letters to the local paper to keep support going over the years. I always hoped I would be able to swim there again myself, as I used it every day in the summers when I was young but now at 80 realise with my crippling Osteoarthritis and other problems this for me will never happen.
However, I would very much like to see it open again mainly for the children and moreover for the teenagers between 11 and 18 who in the past found this an affordable venue to go to in the school holidays thus giving them something pleasurable to do and keeping them out of trouble. I feel this is even more necessary in today’s world of drugs and County Lines, into which some of them get drawn with disastrous results, some going to young offenders institutions and a life of crime and also one or two have been stabbed and lost their lives as a result.
Swimming is a very good form of exercise for most people not only is it gentle and good for the body but is also very stress relieving. The Lido was also always a place where families who could not afford to go the the seaside went and had a great day together and why I have always thought of it as our little resort in the pines.
Things are not looking good for the pool at the moment but I wonder if it would be worth crowd funding or even writing to some of the worlds greatest philanthropists to see if they could help.
Yours faithfully,
Julie Oldring of Ipswich