I am part of the Hendy Pool Committee 

who are busy designing a calender to celebrate the pools 75th anniversary

In our search for old photos to produce the calender we've found a web site which shows old and new photos on its site

There are lots of old and new photos on the Pontarddulais History which includes Hendy Pool the web site can be found here

The web master for the Pontarddulais History site has a main web page and local business in Morriston here

The pool committee meet once a month on the first tuesday of the month.

Two lido's this year have won lottery funding one of the communities that has won their lottery bid is coming to Hendy to advice how they made a successfull lottery bid they appeared on the channel four news on june 28th see news report here

SAVE HENDY POOL

this page was update 9th January 2007

The hendy pool committee have recently launched a brand new communitee magazine called both sides read evening post report here The committee have just won a grant from C.A.V.S which is going to be used to develop new web sites for Hendy Pool and Both Sides.

Recently the campaign to save Hendy Pool has been very active.There was the carnival day in 2006 which had two floats and a stall at the field supporting.

Setting up the stall at Pontarddulais Carnival.

        

  

            

        

           

     

     

  

     

     

Gwyn Jones of Iscoed Road has been to this lido   and discussed their sucessfull lottery bid.

Glouster has just won lottery funding and one of their committee members has promised to help Hendy with advice on how to put together a successfull lottery bid.

there's now lottery funding for lido's as reported on the bbc news here

Tony Polverino landlord of the Red Lion,

  

has joined the Hendy Pool committee, Tony and myself organised a fundraising weekend on Saturday and Sunday August 12th and 13th, with amazing results. £5,200 was raised over the two days. 

Please ring Tony if you can help with donations or sevices to help the committee on 01792 883989

Three tribute acts did the show over two days led by Red Mick the uk's ultimate tribute act to Simply Red. He has sung all around the UK visit his web site here  to listen to some of his tracks he's sung

The organising of the event saw a huge support over 130 local companies and individuals have already pledged their support from llanelli, gorseinon, morriston, tycroes, swansea.

As Red Mick one of the tribute acts said quote "It would be awesome if the local people save the pool in time for it's 75th Anniversery, built by the community saved by the community, it would be nice if the county council did save the pool but if you are honest, if we wait the council we will miss this historic event"

Below are two of the tribute acts simply red and meatloaf outside the Red Lion in Hendy  

     

The Auction day went extremely well here

This is the second time that the village has rallied around to save its pool here

This year's fundraising raised £4,900 in two days here

The photo below shows the counting of the money after the event. left to right, back row Nia Griffith Llanelli MP, Llanedi vice chairman Alun Richards, Sean Maloney (Meat Loaf), Catherine Thomas Llanelli AM, front row Llanedi community councillor Steve Lloyd-janes and Landlord of the Red Lion Tony Polverino 

  

I've had also been busy campaign for national respect day earlier in the month here

On 11th October Vernon Hicks of Iscoed Road presented the petition of 2800 signatures to the full council of Carmarthen County Council. Read the evening post here 

Vernon Hicks told councillors that the committee could save them money and the pool committee wanted value for money here

NEWS about the pool on wednesday 13th December the committee are meeting the county council to discuss the future here's a press release from Carmarthen County Council dated 14th December about the future of Hendy Pool HERE