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24

Feb 2021

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Harrogate diving club prepares to jump back in

Published: 24 Feb 2021, 13:47 GMT

Updated: 24 Feb 2021, 13:48 GMT

by Suzannah Rogerson

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Harrogate Diving Club is looking forward to getting back in the pool after this week's government roadmap out of lockdown. Sessions for under-18s are set to. begin on April 12; adult sessions will resume in May.

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Harrogate District Diving Club is planning to resume training in April following this week's government roadmap out of lockdown.

Outdoor pools and lidos can reopen from March 29.

Indoor pools can reopen for individual use or within household groups from April 12. Indoor children’s activities, including diving club sessions for under 18s, can also resume from this date.

But organised indoor adult sport, including diving, is not allowed to resume until May 17.

This means divers aged up to 18 will be jumping back into the pool from April 12.

Leanne Jalland, the club's chair, said lockdown had highlighted the club's mental health benefits and members were looking forward to returning.

She said:

“One of the most important things we have learnt from this pandemic as a club is how diving as a sport benefits both the mental and physical wellbeing of our divers.
"Therefore, we are keen to bring those benefits to others in our community and make diving accessible to all.”


The club hopes to introduce a disability diving squad in April.

It ran, in conjunction with Harrogate Borough Council, one of only two disability diving schemes in England but these haven't taken place since March last year.



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The diving club is working with Brimhams Active, which is the new company brought in by the council to run leisure facilities, to ensure diving has a future in the district.

Mark Tweedie managing director of Brimhams Active said:

"We are working with our clubs to produce a long term development plan for aquatics.
"This plan will ensure we make the most of the opportunity presented by the multimillion pound council investments to improve the district’s leisure centres over the next three years.”