Rainbow Heritage Footprints
This project's parent organization is Northern Wave Swimming Club
It operates in United Kingdom
It uses Water sports
Entered the Sport for the Environment Award
More about Rainbow Heritage Footprints
Northern Wave Swimming Club was inspired by its coaches to lead the campaign that reduces carbon footprints. Our Leadership Drive promotes lower water temperatures, car sharing, and commitment to healthy cycling. Our main thrust strategic approach is to help sustain sport heritage facilities.
We became an awareness raising campaign following the 2012 Olympics (UK) when local councils began planning closures of heritage pools to replace with out of town new builds. The project see our club’s financial attendance and advocacy help reduce dangers to green belt land through conservation and carbon footprint reduction. Otherwise profitable new build puts natural green belt environments at risk. Our grounding helped save heritage icons like Victoria Baths (Manchester) from commercial plans to transform the site into yuppie apartments.
Other actions include our Club promoting public open air swimming pool use, like at Hathersage (Yorkshire), Hogwart’s Rossall-School pool and at Nantwich. Each sporting link has historical value including open environment views from swim-pool side, educating public users on how past generations protected surrounding countryside. “Where green belt is destroyed the loss is forever” is our Rainbow Heritage Footprint message. The raising awareness campaign is replicable into other sports by building upon mutual trust and respect.