Save Mayfield Swimming Pool Campaign

The Save Mayfield Swimming Pool (SMSP) campaign began in August 2007, when details of a council report proposing its closure appeared in the local media.

We are a community group of local residents who are horrified at the thought that Mayfield might lose this historic and essential facility. We are committed to working with the council to help improve and promote the pool.

As part of these efforts, SMSP operates this website to provide information to the community on the pool and the events surrounding it.

We also run projects including trivia nights and the Tile project (see below) to help raise funds for improvements to the pool, totalling over $3000- already.

Our goal is to ensure the long-term viability and reinvigoration of the pool so that future generations of the local community will continue to have their lives enriched by it.

Please contact us on mayfieldpool@gmail.com for more information, or if you would like to join us in our efforts!

Fundraising

Tile Project Update

August 2009

The tile art project is coming along nicely and we have been spending the winter developing a proposal to go to the NCC Community Arts Committee to get approval for the project.

Thanks to Denise Witt, Yvette and Dean McBain, Gerri Bobsien and Lisa Hyde Mills for their help in putting it together and to council staff for supporting it.

So far so good - Lisa Hyde Mills and Tim Connor presented it to the committee with positive feedback.

We are now at the design stage and are running a number of workshops over August and September to get ideas from the community. Lisa and other community artists will then put together a final design that will go to the Community Arts Committee for final approval.

When the pool season opens we will be working hard on selling more tiles (at a cost of $10 per tile) to members of the community, giving people a chance to support the pool and also be a part of this great community art work.

We are aiming to sell 1000 tiles which will be individually painted and then put into the greater design and installed on a wall in the pool grounds. We are planning to run tile decorating workshops over the summer/autumn from January through to April.

Next year, once we get to the installation stage we are looking at requesting help from the community with the installation of the tiles and would be keen to hear from qualified tilers/tradies wanting to support the project.

Installation will include:
1. Cleaning the wall with pressure hose
2. Rendering the wall
3. Adhering the tiles following the design
4. Grouting the tiles

If you know anyone who can help us out with any of the above please send us an email at mayfieldpool@gmail.com.

Buy A Tile For Solar Heating

January 2009

Help us raise money and create some community art - all you have to do is buy a tile.

The community has been asked to raise some money to contribute to the cost of solar heating the pool, which would allow the open season to be extended.

Fundraising is already underway and the next step is the Tile Project, which was launched at the pool's 42nd birthday celebrations.

The idea is for us to buy blank tiles to decorate and mount onto a wall inside the Pool complex, to create an artwork that will recognise the community's contribution towards the solar heating of their pool.

Tiles can be bought for $10- each at the Aussie Pool Lovers shop, 160 Maitland Rd, Mayfield. Enquiries can be made by leaving your contact details at 4978 7836. Join the mailing list (on the left) to be notified when this project gets underway.

Then you can decorate your tiles at one of the community decorating workshops to be held over the coming months, or alternatively donate your tiles to a Mayfield school to be decorated by local school children.

We are currently going through the process of getting support from council and sourcing the materials. We are hoping supportive businesses will sponsor materials so all funds raised can be used on the solar heating of the pool.

If you can help or have any contacts that would be interested in supporting the project, please let us know. We are looking for:

- Businesses to sponsor the materials
- Artists to help out with the workshops
- Access to kilns
- Tilers to help place and fix the tiles

If you can help with any of these, please contact us on mayfieldpool@gmail.com.