Guidance for Community Owned and Managed Swimming Pools has been written to help communities who are thinking about taking on responsibility for managing their swimming pool. The Guide offers advice about how best to establish a suitable community organisation to manage a pool, considers the processes which have resulted in success around the country to date, and explains how to avoid some of the potential pitfalls. It also provides Local Authorities with the information they need when considering the feasibility and varied benefits of community owned and managed pools