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As members will know, the AGM and elections for the 2024-25 committee will take place on 3 March 2024 and meeting papers have been distributed to all current members of the KLPA.

A report of the meeting and the newly elected committee will be published here following the meeting.

We apologise for the recent silence on this page resulting from illness.

The Annual General Meeting of the KLPA will take place on Sunday 20 March 2022, at 3 pm.  The venue is the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (11 South Grove, Highgate, London N6 6BS). Papers for the meeting, including the agenda can be downloaded here.  If possible please print a copy to bring with you, we will also have some hard copies available. Members are invited to bring food to share for the social gathering afterwards.  Please indicate via the RSVP button below if you are able to attend, so that we can monitor numbers (room capacity 80):

There is still time to stand for the KLPA Committee, and if you are interested please complete this nomination form and get this signed by two other KLPA members nominating you.  Please return your nomination form by 2.00 pm on 19 March 2022 to klpamailbox@gmail.com. You can renew your membership if you pay annually, at the AGM, or do so in the meantime via “MemberMojo” here.  If you use this method, click on “Join Us/Renew” (NOT “Sign In”) to start the process.  Please note your details will be new to this system so you will be greeted as a “new” member, although you may be renewing your existing membership. We look forward to seeing members in person at the AGM. KENWOOD LADIES’ POND ASSOCIATION

We have been asked by the venue to request the following from attendees, to comply with their continuing Covid-secure measures:
• that masks are worn when moving around the building
• maintain distance from others out of respect for their health
• use the hand sanitiser which is available in the foyer.
Thank you for your co-operation.

The Annual General Meeting of the KLPA will take place (in person!) on Sunday 20 March 2022 from 3.00 pm at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (11 South Grove, Highgate, N6  6BS).  We have a maximum capacity for the room of 80, so please indicate via the RSVP button below if you wish to attend:

The Agenda will be as follows:

• Welcome and Apologies

• Chair’s Report (for approval)

• 2021-2022 Accounts and Treasurer’s Report (for approval)

• Update of Constitution (resolution for decision) – current constitution can be seen here

• Membership Report (for information and comment)

• Newsletter and website updates (for information and comment)

• Election of committee members

• Priorities for the year (for discussion)

• Any other urgent business

• Social (please bring food to share)

An Annual Report including the Chair’s and Treasurer’s reports will be circulated approximately one week before the meeting for your consideration.  No further resolutions have been received by deadline.

If you wish to stand for the KLPA Committee please complete this nomination form and get this signed by two other KLPA members nominating you.  Please return your nomination form by 2 pm on 19 March 2022 to klpamailbox@gmail.com.

You can renew your membership if you pay annually, at the AGM, or do so in the meantime via “MemberMojo” here.  If you use this method, click on “Join Us/Renew” (not “Sign In”) to start the process.  Please note your details will be new to this system so you will be greeted as a “new” member, but we know you are renewing an existing membership, and next year you would be greeted by MemberMojo as a renewing member.

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at a well attended, in-person AGM.

KENWOOD LADIES POND ASSOCIATION

We have been asked by the venue to request the following from attendees, to comply with their continuing Covid-secure measures:

• that masks are worn when moving around the building;
• maintain distance from others out of respect for their health;
• use the hand sanitiser which is available in the foyer.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Following a successful breakfast event at the Ladies’ Pond in September, we are pleased to let you know that KLPA members have been invited for a return visit to Highgate Men’s Pond. The Highgate Men’s Pond Association would like us to join them for a swim and breakfast on Saturday 16 October 2021 from 8 am to 11 am. Hot drinks and croissants will be provided, along with the good company of our comrades from the Men’s Pond.  The invitation has also been extended to the Mixed Pond Association and Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club. In order to access the Men’s Pond it will be necessary to use your season ticket wristband or pay at the entry, as you would at the Ladies’ Pond.  The changing area at the Men’s Pond is no longer divided into two sections but gazebos have been provided to facilitate changing for Ladies’ Pond visitors (a large towel might also come in useful). Children over 8 who have completed their swim test (and have a wristband to prove it) will also be welcome, and will need to be supervised by their adult when at the pond. It is good to see a resumption of the social side of bathing pond swimming on Hampstead Heath, thank you to the HMPA for this invitation.

Petition – Sewage in Rivers Expiring 12 October 2021You may be interested in this parliamentary petition which will be expiring on Tuesday, and has nearly 71,000 signatures as this is written.  It can be considered for debate in Parliament if it reaches 100,000 signatures. “Ban Water Companies discharging raw sewage into water courses. Ensure Water companies treat the sewage they are responsible for. Not discharge it into rivers and water courses. After all what goes into the ocean comes back as the fish we eat.”

We have received confirmation that the Ladies’ Pond will re-open, following the end of the second national lockdown, on 2 December 2020 at 7.30 am.

Please note that the Covid-secure measures and enforced charging regime will remain in place.  The later opening time, which is usual at this time of year, also means that swimmers with an under 16 or over 60 free pass will have half an hour less each morning to make use of this option.

From 2 December 2020 to 23 January 2021 opening times are as follows:
 
Open: 7.30 am
Last entry: 2.30 pm
Vacate water: 2.45 pm
Vacate premises: 3.00 pm

Updated information from the City of London may be found here including advice on habituation after a month away and details of season ticket extension following the lockdown.

Please continue to follow the safe distancing measures put in place at the Ladies’ Pond, including maximum capacity, the number of swimmers permitted to change under each gazebo and at each bench, as well as queuing distances. Following these measures will help to keep the Ladies’ Pond open through the winter.

Welcome back to your pond!

Camden New Journal, 9 July 2020

Ham & High, 6 July 2020