CAMELFORD Leisure Centre has secured £50,000 of Olympic legacy funding from Sport England's Inspired Facilities Fund.

The Inspired Facilities fund is part of the £135 million Places People Play legacy programme that is bringing the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country. Every sports facility that receives funding will carry the London 2012 Inspire mark – celebrating the link to the Games.

This funding will enable the leisure centre to purchase platforms to reduce the depth of the pool and the installation of a key fob controlled access system which will undoubtedly heighten. This will enable controlled access to pool for members that can swim unsupervised in a depth of less than 1.5 metres. The money provided will also help install a link to the schools biomass boiler that will greatly reduce heat energy costs by up to 75 per cent when schools don't require it.

Sport England's Chair, Richard Lewis, said: "This investment will create will be a fantastic sporting legacy for Camelford. This fund has really hit the mark with sports clubs in Cornwall. It shows we're offering the legacy that people want for their local community.

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