EVENT / DIGWYDDIAD 🏛️ Buildings for Sport & Leisure 6: The Social Role of Sports Buildings in Wales / Rôl Gymdeithasol Adeiladau Chwaraeon yng Nghymru 📅 27 November, 6.30pm 📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London or online via Zoom 🔗 buff.ly/g0bh9Lt

EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Sports Architecture continues with Mike Hall, partner at FaulknerBrowns, exploring the practice’s pioneering and playful work on Leisure Centres. 🗓️ Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm – 8pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ Book Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

🚨 Calling all lido lovers! Have you got 2 mins? The campaign for a lido at Dublin's George's Dock is out for public consultation. Please show your support by completing this short survey, and help get Dubliners (and us visitors!) the lido they deserve. engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...

Nearly the 20th anniversary of the Reviving Lidos conference, which celebrated London Fields Outdoor Pool reopening, having been closed for 18 years. A movement started in the 90s as pools started closing in numbers continues through @future-lidos.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/society/2006...

Another one! And heated too. ☺️

EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more! Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... See full calendar below 👇🏼

Thanks to Swim England for a wonderful Dip at the Docks alongside the Labour Conference in Liverpool today. It was great to meet MPs Katie White and Simon Opher - both passionate supporters of their local lidos and of #LidosForAll.

We’re delighted to have been able to join Chipping Norton Lido to celebrate 21 years of community ownership - defying the wind and rain thanks to heated water and the warmth of the love for this very special pool! 🔥

But good news at Wick! Work to repair the storm-damaged Trinkie started yesterday. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BA3...

In contrast to yesterday’s sad post about Ramsgate’s lost lido, here’s a great feature just out in the RICS journal, Modus, celebrating the great British lido revival - ww3.rics.org/uk/en/modus/...

This is why Future Lidos exists - to help prevent this happening and bring more heritage lidos back into community use. Ramsgate Lido then and now - look and weep. And fight for your local lido. ✊

The lido there is also fantastic - beautiful art deco design, and full of bikes outside. Imagine pottering here on a cycle and swimming whenever you want. It was also super easy to book - you could just book at the time you wanted to go. … 6/13

Brilliant. It was #Buckfastleigh 's 10th rebirthday May 25 too!

Happy Rebirthday(s) to Beccles and Chipping Norton lidos! 15 and 21 years ago respectively, these precious community assets in small towns were taken into community ownership. They've both gone from strength to strength since, and we wish them many, many happy returns! 🎂🥳🎉

Thanks to @thetcpa.bsky.social for commissioning this article for the latest edition of their Journal. Hope you enjoy the read. 😊 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is a fabulous celebration of lidos - and thanks for the mention for Future Lidos, @seasideferry.bsky.social!

Well, surely it’s got to be Stonehaven Outdoor Pool?! Vote now! 🗳️ 👇

Investments in tangible spaces for leisure can increase connection and fun activities while reducing carbon emissions. prospect.org/sponsored/th...

Congratulations to Studio Octopi architects and the Friends of Tarlair for winning the Gold Award in the Conservation category of the Scottish Design Awards last night. More info and beautiful pix in the link below. 👇 www.scottishdesignawards.com/2025/conserv...

Thanks to the marvellous @figlover.bsky.social for this great feature on the lido renaissance, now out as a bite-sized podcast special. A perfect listen for a sweltering weekend. 🌞 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

TimeOut features @hilsealido.bsky.social and the vision looks absolutely amazing!! www.timeout.com/uk/news/the-...

💯 not out: '100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings' is available now! Published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social, this is a fascinating architectural exploration of the spaces where we play, from modernist lidos to iconic stadia. 🛒 Order from the C20 Shop: shop.c20society.org.uk/products/pre...

Huge thanks to all the MPs and allies who attended our event in Parliament yesterday, to celebrate and help sustain the 21st-century Lido Renaissance. We were overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of support. 🙏 #Lidos #FutureLidos

This was a fabulous discussion, and the exhibition is highly recommended. Not enough lidos for our taste (could there be?!) but lots of inspiring stuff on Swim Dem Crew, Subversive Sirens and radical swimwear design.

ICYMI this is a great chat about the lido renaissance. 👇

Thanks to the fabulous @figlover.bsky.social and Jane Garvey for inviting Future Lidos co-founder Deborah Aydon in for a great chat about all things lido on Times Radio today. Listen on this link @ 20 mins in - www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Lead on, Macduff: how the tide turned for Aberdeenshire’s #ArtDeco lido at Tarlair @theguardian.com story on community action that's led to this pavilion's restoration. Next stage is to reopen the adjoining sea pools 🏊 @future-lidos.bsky.social 💚 #ArtDecoCentenary www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Tynemouth Outdoor Pool celebrates its 100th birthday today. First opened 30th May, 1925. A decade researching its existence, building the evidence base for restoration means I've got to know it well! People's fond experiences and their ambitions for the future. Happy birthday. x

Happy 100th birthday to Tynemouth Pool! Set on the stunning Longlands Beach, this pool is a potential hub for community wellbeing and a tourist magnet. Wishing every success to the campaigners working to bring it back to life.

Wonderful feature on the community-led rebirth of the extraordinary Tarlair Pools - www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

The photos below illustrate what my job is all about 🔻🔻🔻. Let's create #places where it's easy, fun and cheap to live #healthy lives... More space for #lidos... less space for #cars... @future-lidos.bsky.social

It's back! Peterborough Lido, threatened with 'mothballing' last year and saved by community pressure, opens for the summer season today. This is a big day across the country, with seasonal lidos bursting into life - wishing a great season to all! www.dailymotion.com/video/x9k0o3u

Happy seasonal opening day to wonderful Woodgreen Lido, Banbury. This magnificent 50m pool, with lawns, splash pad and flume, originally opened in 1939. This year, @cherwellcouncil.bsky.social have invested in upgrades ahead of the season, so it'll be better than ever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy 90th birthday to the iconic Ilkley Pool And Lido! This opening weekend is particularly special, after the lido came under serious threat last year. But community activism and collaboration with the council saved the pool for this and many more birthdays. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy seasonal opening day to lovely Lazonby Pool! One of *five* village pools in Cumbria's beautiful Eden Valley, this community-run pool and campsite has been providing summer joy for villagers and visitors since 1964. Why not plan a summer tour? www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ir...

Happy summer season opening day to Ware Priory Lido! Lovingly sustained for the community since 1934 by the town council, for the last two years Ware has joined the nationwide boom in winter cold water swimming, making it yet another year-round lido. Enjoy your summer, lucky people of Ware!

Happy summer season opening day to Beccles Lido! Beccles is one of only two surviving public outdoor pools in the whole of Suffolk and Norfolk. Owned and run since 2010 by a community-led charity, this is a fantastic lido and a wonderful example of the power of community ownership.

Perfect day to dive back into the glorious Sea Pools by @chrisromerlee.bsky.social. So many astonishing yet humble loved swimming sites across the world, created by visionaries and communities.

Happy seasonal opening day to gorgeous Gourock! Built in 1909, Gourock was once tidal with a sandy floor. Today it's a modern, heated saltwater pool, with some of the best views of any lido in the world. And in 2023, it graced the cover of Blur's album, the Ballad of Darren.

Wishing a happy and successful summer season to three P's - Pells, Ponty and Portishead - which moved into summer mode on 12th April. The oldest continually operating pool in Britain, the National Lido of [only lido in] Wales, and a groovy 1960s pool, they show the rich variety of our lido heritage.

As a regular swimmer and swimming researcher, I agree with all of this. Enhanced strength, physical fitness and mentally refreshing. I'd also add joy when swimming outdoors. And the breadth of inspiring social communities. Time will tell on the longevity front! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Here's a tale of two Jubilees - Jubilee Pool Penzance and Jubilee Park Woodhall Spa - which opened for the season on 5th April. Both born in 1935, and now run by independent charities, they're invaluable to the wellbeing of their communities and to their local economies. Have a great season, both!

Happy seasonal opening day to Nantwich Brine Pool! Fed by a natural brine spring, this is now the only lido within reasonable striking distance of Merseyside - a city region that once boasted *eleven* glorious outdoor pools. thenantwichnews.co.uk/2025/04/14/n...

If you're looking to visit Hathersage, or any of the other iconic Outdoor Pools that we are currently blessed with, check out the @future-lidos.bsky.social map, which is the go-to destination for architecting a road trip which involves a swim! www.futurelidos.org/lido-map

Happy seasonal opening day to the gorgeous Chippy Lido. With a 25m pool, children’s pool, a café, swathes of lawn and mature trees, it brings a delightful beach experience to this landlocked Cotswold town. chippylido.co.uk

Happy seasonal opening day to the beautiful behemoth that is Tooting Bec Lido. 90m of unheated water, it’s been open year-round since 1905 for club members, and opens to the public every summer. After a £4m investment in its future by Wandsworth Council, the experience will be better than ever.

We’re shining a light on the seasonal lidos, waking up now to bring us joy all summer. First up, the gorgeous, Grade II-listed Cheltenham Lido, in heated summer mode since 29th March after its regular winter cold water season. Big, beautiful, community-owned and solar powered - what’s not to love?

First 6Music, now C5 - this is quite the day for seaside chat. Must be a cue for the weather to change. 😏

Great to hear Gemma Cairney extolling the joy of lidos and swimming on 6 Music, on the back of an interview with Amber Butchart about the Splash! exhibition at the Design Museum. Swim chat from 2hrs 6mins in - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

An overdue deep dive into the finer details of outdoor pool history! After the post WW1 boom, which saw around 300 built and successfully operational across the country, 1960 through to 1990 saw marked decline as policy favoured indoor pools, with no detailed plan for modernisation.