'Fit for the future Project' Tenders & Requests for Quotations

The Portishead Community Trust is being awarded ~£ 1.3 million under the Community Ownership fund to refurbish the lido facilities and the pool. The refurbishment should firstly enable the PPCT to continue to:

• secure current and future use of the asset:

• retain & improve engagement & local support
  as well as retain & enhance community benefits

•  improve environmental sustainability

And more importantly enable us to expand and improve our offering to staff, volunteers and the community to provide

• Access for community members with mobility needs

• Offer a wide range of additional services including social prescribing

• Strengthen our involvement with local charities & provide discounted
  or free event and meeting spaces

• Increase overall accessibility to a wider community

• Increase the environmental sustainability and commercial viability of the facility

The grant money must be spent by 19 December 2025. This means the development and refurbishment phases now need to move quickly and we therefore need to engage with professional partners to deploy the money in the most meaningful and efficient way. We are going to publish a number of tenders and specifications over the next couple of weeks to procure the respective skills and services for our project.