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Save Whitehill Pool Campaign Launch and Fundraiser

Save Whitehill Pool Campaign are hosting a launch night and fundraiser on Friday 19th September from 7pm until 11pm at St Rollox Bowling Club, 63 Kennyhill Square, Dennistoun, Glasgow G31 3LL.

This will be a great chance for you to come along, connect with other neighbours who are passionate about getting the pool re-opened, and really get the campaign on its feet again.

There’ll be food for all, plus local DJs, and bands planned also. First confirmed DJ is Michael Rooney, who’ll be bringing the Northern Soul! And there’s a raffle planned, too!

Last but not least, you’ll get a chance to hear from the Save Whitehill Pool campaign group and Living Rent members on where the campaign is at, and how you can get more involved!

It’ll be a great community night out, get yourself, your family and your friends a ticket and see the autumn in by getting the Save Whitehill Pool campaign back up to full power!

Further details and tickets available via livingrent.org/swhp_launch.

Save Whitehill Pool – August 2025 Update

An update from the Save Whitehill Pool campaign…

Hi everyone,

It was wonderful to see folks at the Alexandra Park Festival last month and we realised it’s been a wee while since the big meeting in the spring. Here’s an update all on what’s been happening with the Save Whitehill Pool campaign since then.

We’ve built strong support with other local community groups which we will keep building on. The working group have met several times, independently and with representatives from Glasgow Life and Glasgow City Council. And, we’ve learned that the current building has a LOT of issues, in all parts of the building. RAAC is just the recent one! Because of that, where we are now is that there are four options Glasgow Life will consider:

A) A new pool and gym facility (estimated £30m – £35m, 5 years build, 50-year life).

B) Retrofit and refurbish the existing building (estimated £25m – £35m, 5 years build, 50-year life).

C) Temporary pool, no gym or additional facilities (estimated £3m – £4m, 1 year build, historical use – around two years. Beyond two years is unknown territory with no guarantees).

D) Do nothing & close the pool for good (estimated £0.85m).

Our aim is still 100% to re-instate the swimming and gym activities at the Whitehill Pool site! Options A and B are the only ones that provide long term stability to swimming and sports provision in the neighbourhood. We believe our community deserves investment in our physical wellbeing and mental health, so we are focused on the first two as the best options. It has been achieved elsewhere, but we need you to help make it a reality!

What can you do?

We are calling on everybody who ever used the pool or hopes to use it again in the future. You all will have different knowledge, capability, power and influence to contribute.

Here’s how:

Fill in the survey: forms.gle/c5qkfezswg81PQ2t8. We’re using this to understand community needs and hopes for Whitehill Pool in our advocacy to stakeholders.

Sign the petition: livingrent.org/save_whitehill_pool and let decision makers know you want the pool reinstated!

Write to your elected members and let them know you want them to Save Whitehill Pool!

Support the campaign: email savewhitehillpool@gmail.com to get involved with the working group. If you are part of a club, school or community group that wants to support the campaign, we’d love to hear from you.

Please don’t delay – signatures and surveys are most useful to us now – before the end of the month!

What will we do next?

We’ll be reaching out to Councillors, MPs, MSPs in arguing for the re-instatement of Whitehill Pool. They ultimately hold the budgets that invest in our communities.

We will work with Glasgow Life to develop the business case for the pool. Using survey responses and additional research, we will demonstrate that Whitehill Pool has been a huge asset to the East End for over 50 years, that its two-and-a-half-year closure has had a significant impact on our people and our area, and that we will continue to champion the reinstatement of this vital community resource.

Thanks to all of you for your support!

Warmest wishes from the Save Whitehill Pool campaign.

Whitehill Pool Working Group

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting to revitalise the Save Whitehill Pool campaign last night.

Bill Stark chaired, welcoming new faces and introducing people who provided valuable support back in the early years of the original campaign.

The meeting itself provided great community input, in terms of personal experiences, and hopes for the future over the current closure of Whitehill Pool.

Video of Whitehill Pool Meeting Held on 8th April 2025

A follow-up meeting will be held in the upstairs room at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre, 13 Whitevale Street, Glasgow G31 1QW, on Tuesday 29th April at 7pm.

Whitehill Pool Follow-up Meeting

We're still here! Save Whitehill Pool. — We’re still here! Save Whitehill Pool.

Dennistoun Community Council is following up on our recent public meeting about Whitehill Pool with a community-only meeting for people who’d like to be actively involved with the campaign to save the pool.

Whitehill Pool Meeting Summary

Summary

Last night’s meeting to address uncertainties about Whitehill Pool was productive.

Thank you to all members of the public who attended and contributed. The comments and questions left no doubt about how important the pool is to our community.

There is clearly no easy fix as significant capital funding is required.

Commitments

Glasgow Life gave several commitments:

They will improve communication and supply Dennistoun Community Council with monthly progress updates, leading to a Glasgow Life report presenting approximately 4-6 options to Glasgow City Council, to be completed by August.
They will liaise with swimming clubs about the possibility of supplying a bus service to other pools while Whitehill is closed.
There will be no further imposition of items such as the hated metal fence, without consultation. The exception would be if something was urgently required for safety reasons.

It was reiterated that Glasgow Life cannot opt for permanent closure of the pool: to do that would require councillors voting to do so.

Whitehill Pool 2025 – What’s Happening?

A meeting to establish the answers

Dennistoun Community Council (DCC) will be hosting a meeting to establish the answers to the many questions surrounding the future of Whitehill Pool.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday 8th April, at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre, 13 Whitevale Street, G31 1QW.

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