The funding is being made available to help centres facing cost pressures, including operational and maintenance costs, and energy bills. Improved energy efficiency is a key aim of the funding. The new funding makes it the ideal time for leisure facilities to invest in energy efficient ventilation that also enables centres to benefit from their heat gains, such as Breathing Buildings’ NVHR 1700, thus helping cut future heating bills.

The new funding, managed by Sport England, aims to offer financial help to leisure centres with pools through a one-year fund. Local authorities can apply for funding for leisure centres that face immediate cost pressures. £40 million of the fund will be for investment in decarbonisation and long-term energy efficiency, while £20 million will help with costs to make centres more energy efficient.

“We’re delighted that this new funding recognises the importance of improving the energy efficiency of leisure centres to lower carbon emissions and to cut bills. With centres able to apply for funding to invest in technologies to facilitate this, now is the ideal time for leisure facilities to improve their ventilation,” said Louise McHugh, product manager at Breathing Buildings.

Breathing Building’s NVHR 1700 is the newest addition to the company’s multi-award-winning range. Not only has it won the Energy Efficient Product of the Year Award at the Energy Awards, but it also recently won three awards for providing ventilation to the East Anglian Air Ambulance project that utilised Breathing Building’s NVHR range.