MACPool News

Often in our busy lives we don’t get the chance to say thank you, however, your help and dedication to the pool is indeed greatly appreciated. As a community enterprise we are sometimes resource poor. This year, like those before, we’ve taken up many generous offers...

Regular swimmers can save money by signing up to one of our membership packages. Gold membership from £4.20 per week is great value and gives you access to all of our public swimming sessions. Platinum Membership from £6.35 per week includes admission to classes like...

Hosted in conjunction with Mid Argyll Sports Centre, each day of camp features a land-based and a water-based activity for children of all ages. Campers can try a variety of sports including football, rugby, shinty, tennis, and table tennis. There’s also arts and...

The directors of Mid Argyll Community Enterprise (MACEL) cordially invite members of the public to attend our AGM at 6pm on Tuesday 7th October September 2014 at Mid Argyll Community Pool, Oban Road, Lochgilphead PA31 8NG. The agenda for this meeting can be downloaded...

School’s back so from Monday 18th August we’ll be operating on our new timetable. If you’re an early riser there’s the early-birds swim on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Our learn to swim program returns and there's a new session for boys 8 - 18 with MAYDS on...

School’s out, so we’re operating on our summer holiday timetable. This means there’s a family fun session every day from 11am-12pm. If you’re up with the larks you can now start your day with a dip - we’ve introduced extra early –bird swims from 7am on Tuesdays and...

Do you want to learn a skill that could save lives and provide you with career opportunities across the globe? We’re running a lifeguard training course later in August. Successful participants will receive an internationally recognised qualification from the Swimming...

The Queen’s Baton Relay is coming to Mid Argyll Community Pool on Sunday 13 July and we’re celebrating with an open day, free swimming and family fun activities. This is your chance to get up close to the baton, which has travelled to every country in the...

Places on our summer camp are filling up fast but there’s still time to save your space. Hosted in conjunction with Mid Argyll Sports Centre, each day of camp features a land-based and water-based activities for children aged 8 and over. Campers can try a variety of...

Did you know you can hire MacPool for parties at weekends? We offer a variety of party packages, with prices starting from £72. You’ll get exclusive use of the pool for an hour and another hour in our function room so you can bring along cake and snacks for after your...

MACPool will close for major maintenance and refurbishment on Monday 23 June and will reopen on Saturday 28 June. During this time we’ll be replacing the media within the pool’s 17-year old sand filter – a critical piece of equipment which makes sure we maintain our...

It's been a busy few months and overdue that we publish the swimmer of the months. This time we have the April and May awards for the junior and senior swimmers who have made the greatest contribution to the club or shown the biggest improvement, April's prizes went...

We are pleased to say that the pool will be open as usual with public swimming from 7am tomorrow (Thursday 8th May). Our technical wizards have done their stuff and the boiler is now operational. We also have taken this time to complete some preventative maintenance...

As we are unable to have the repair completed today we have decided to remain closed this Wednesday (7th May). This, we hope, will give us time after the repair to bring the water temperature back to a more comfortable level. Again, our apologies!

I am sorry to say we have to temporarily close from this evening (Sunday 4th of May) the pool due to a technical problem with the boiler.  The auger that brings the wood chip into the boiler is damaged and has been removed and needs to be repaired. As a result of this...

Expect to see some new faces on poolside this summer as a new batch of lifeguards completed a week-long training course at MACPool to gain an internationally recognised qualification. Some of our regular lifeguards also attended to renew their qualification – a...

Dalriada Dolphins member Ruby Bosomworth completed her five mile fundraising swim on 13 April 2014. And in the process she raised hundreds of pounds for Inveraray-based charity First Aid For Gambia. Ruby completed the swim in three hours and fifty six minutes and has...

This year’s Scottish Sea Farms Crinan Puffer 8.5 mile fun run was a sell -out – and a great success. All of the 175 available places were sold out. This was the first year MACPool had taken on organisation duties, in conjunction with Jog Scotland. Next year all of the...

Often in our busy lives we don’t get the chance to say thank you, however, your help and dedication to the pool is indeed greatly appreciated. As a community enterprise we are sometimes resource poor. This year, like those before, we’ve taken up many generous offers...

Regular swimmers can save money by signing up to one of our membership packages. Gold membership from £4.20 per week is great value and gives you access to all of our public swimming sessions. Platinum Membership from £6.35 per week includes admission to classes like...

Hosted in conjunction with Mid Argyll Sports Centre, each day of camp features a land-based and a water-based activity for children of all ages. Campers can try a variety of sports including football, rugby, shinty, tennis, and table tennis. There’s also arts and...

The directors of Mid Argyll Community Enterprise (MACEL) cordially invite members of the public to attend our AGM at 6pm on Tuesday 7th October September 2014 at Mid Argyll Community Pool, Oban Road, Lochgilphead PA31 8NG. The agenda for this meeting can be downloaded...

School’s back so from Monday 18th August we’ll be operating on our new timetable. If you’re an early riser there’s the early-birds swim on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Our learn to swim program returns and there's a new session for boys 8 - 18 with MAYDS on...

School’s out, so we’re operating on our summer holiday timetable. This means there’s a family fun session every day from 11am-12pm. If you’re up with the larks you can now start your day with a dip - we’ve introduced extra early –bird swims from 7am on Tuesdays and...

Do you want to learn a skill that could save lives and provide you with career opportunities across the globe? We’re running a lifeguard training course later in August. Successful participants will receive an internationally recognised qualification from the Swimming...

The Queen’s Baton Relay is coming to Mid Argyll Community Pool on Sunday 13 July and we’re celebrating with an open day, free swimming and family fun activities. This is your chance to get up close to the baton, which has travelled to every country in the...

Places on our summer camp are filling up fast but there’s still time to save your space. Hosted in conjunction with Mid Argyll Sports Centre, each day of camp features a land-based and water-based activities for children aged 8 and over. Campers can try a variety of...

Did you know you can hire MacPool for parties at weekends? We offer a variety of party packages, with prices starting from £72. You’ll get exclusive use of the pool for an hour and another hour in our function room so you can bring along cake and snacks for after your...

MACPool will close for major maintenance and refurbishment on Monday 23 June and will reopen on Saturday 28 June. During this time we’ll be replacing the media within the pool’s 17-year old sand filter – a critical piece of equipment which makes sure we maintain our...

It's been a busy few months and overdue that we publish the swimmer of the months. This time we have the April and May awards for the junior and senior swimmers who have made the greatest contribution to the club or shown the biggest improvement, April's prizes went...

We are pleased to say that the pool will be open as usual with public swimming from 7am tomorrow (Thursday 8th May). Our technical wizards have done their stuff and the boiler is now operational. We also have taken this time to complete some preventative maintenance...

As we are unable to have the repair completed today we have decided to remain closed this Wednesday (7th May). This, we hope, will give us time after the repair to bring the water temperature back to a more comfortable level. Again, our apologies!

I am sorry to say we have to temporarily close from this evening (Sunday 4th of May) the pool due to a technical problem with the boiler.  The auger that brings the wood chip into the boiler is damaged and has been removed and needs to be repaired. As a result of this...

Expect to see some new faces on poolside this summer as a new batch of lifeguards completed a week-long training course at MACPool to gain an internationally recognised qualification. Some of our regular lifeguards also attended to renew their qualification – a...

Dalriada Dolphins member Ruby Bosomworth completed her five mile fundraising swim on 13 April 2014. And in the process she raised hundreds of pounds for Inveraray-based charity First Aid For Gambia. Ruby completed the swim in three hours and fifty six minutes and has...

This year’s Scottish Sea Farms Crinan Puffer 8.5 mile fun run was a sell -out – and a great success. All of the 175 available places were sold out. This was the first year MACPool had taken on organisation duties, in conjunction with Jog Scotland. Next year all of the...