Awarded at the Finance and General Purposes Committee on 12th December, each Club received £500 towards their projects: The Football Clubs and Imberhorne School are all developing girls football teams, the Rugby Club and Cricket Club developing their coaches through qualifications and the Hockey Club installing safety dividers to allow more practice opportunities.  The Cheques were presented by Mayor Cllr Danny Favor at the start of the Council Meeting.

Hockey Club (EG Sports Club) Roger Hanspal and Adam Halpin

Imberhorne School – Steve Hill

EG Cricket Club – Geoff Border

EG Rugby Football Club – Peter Reed

EG Football Club – Richard Tramontin

EG Meads FC – Steve Phillips

EAST Grinstead Town Council celebrated the success of young football talent on Monday night at the start of the Annual Council meeting. Outgoing Town Mayor Rex Whittaker presented individual certificates along with an overall picture certificate commemorating the Imberhorne under 12’s Team win of the Sussex County Cup.

The Team won in the final against St Andrews 3-2 in April. Presenting the certificate to the team and coach Year 7 head Dan Celani, The Town Mayor said that “the talent showed bright for the future and the school is part of the exemplar sports performance in the town. The boys should be as rightly proud of their performance as the Town was of them”

The evening marked the end of Cllr Whittakers Mayoral year of office as he handed over the Mayoral chain to Cllr Danny Favor for the 2019/20 year.

Between 04 June and 20 July this year major improvement work, jointly funded by Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC) and Places for People Leisure (PfPL), will take place to the Triangle Leisure pool.

PfPL’s Contract Manager Tom Carter said “The improvements reflect what our customers have been telling us they want to see at the centre. The leisure pool has always been a popular activity and we are excited to be able to deliver these works to show our ongoing commitment in providing great local leisure facilities for Mid Sussex.”

The improvement works will include the full refurbishment of the flumes along with renovation works to the flume tower and steelwork. The slides will be repainted and resealed and a new traffic light system will be installed to help improve safety further.

The works will also include the removal of the falling rapids slide to create space for a new slide which will be introduced later in the year. The beach area will also be transformed, replacing the pirate ship with some exciting new interactive water play features for children of all ages.

During this period of work the leisure pool and lido will remain closed to the public. However, the works are taking place at this time to ensure the improved Leisue Pool is open for use during the busy Summer months.

Tom continued “We would like to apologise for the inconvenience the closure will cause. There is obviously no ideal time to undertake such extensive improvement works but we believe District residents will be very pleased with the final results”.

To keep disruption to a minimum the fitness pool is expected to operate as normal during the works, as long as safe to do so.

Gary Marsh, Cabinet Member for Service Delivery at MSDC added “We are proud to continue to invest in our three Leisure Centres and this refurbishment work at the Triangle will ensure the Leisure Pool there is upgraded and can continue to be enjoyed by the residents of Mid Sussex for years to come”

During these works alternative pools are available at The Dophin Leisure Centre and the Kings Centre.

To keep up to date with the improvement works please visit the Triangle website or view the PfPL or MSDC Facebook pages.