Welcome to Portishead Open Air Pool

A heated, 33-metre community pool situated on the edge of the Bristol Channel

WE ARE RECRUITING FOR A BUSINESS MANAGER

We are looking to recruit a business manager who would have overall responsibility for the entire business, with a focus on strong leadership, project management, growth and staff/volunteer manager. FOR MORE INFORMATION read our BLOG POST

CUSTOMER NOTICE: ALL AVAILABLE SESSIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK ARE PUBLISHED ON OUR BOOKING PAGE. IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION AND T&Cs ON THE BOOKING PAGE BEFORE YOU BOOK

Happy New Year 2024 to all our customers, staff and volunteers from Portishead Pool Community Trust! From January to March this year we are continuing to run our ever popular cold water swimming sessions at weekends – sessions are released a week in advance and you can book via our booking page.

We will be heating the pool for our 2024 summer season opening on Good Friday and Memberships will be available at that time.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Pool soon and hope that you enjoy your visit!

Email us: info@portisheadopenairpool.org.uk

Portishead Open Air Pool

Café Lido – Our Community Café

Our ethos is to be an inclusive café and to offer a variety of drinks and snacks, ice creams, cakes, fresh fruit, light meals and tuck shop sweets, as well as pool related merchandise, and much of our stock is sourced from local suppliers.

Latest Blogs

Train to be a Lifeguard

Train to be a Lifeguard

BarbaraFeb 27, 20241 min read

TRAIN TO BE A LIFEGUARD!! We will be running a course for the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification – #NPLQ – at the pool for 6 full days from 8 to…

Competition entry sheet

COMPETITION – YOUR POOL NEEDS YOU!

BarbaraAug 26, 20232 min read

At Portishead Open Air Pool, we’ve been busy smartening up the place with lots of coats of paint.  It’s been great that so many volunteers helped us with that.  But…

Portishead Open Air Pool

Autum/Winter Season

BarbaraSep 25, 20221 min read

Wow! What a great summer, with some of the warmest days on record. Thank You to everyone that visited us. We hope that you made some fantastic memories with us…

Portishead mum Heidi Loughlin makes a splash for Swimathon

Portishead Mum makes a splash for Swimathon at the Pool

BarbaraFeb 13, 20205 min read

MUM HEIDI Loughlin from Portishead who is well known for her outspoken blogs and living with incurable cancer, is backing a fundraising campaign to raise money for Cancer Research UK…

Audience watching Bohemian Rhapsody from the terraces

Bohemian Rhapsody Screening on Picture Perfect Evening

BarbaraSep 12, 20191 min read

12 September 2019: Last Saturday night nearly 500 cinema goers packed the Lido terraces to watch an open-air screening of Bohemian Rhapsody and sing along to their favourite Queen hits.…

Pool hosts Eighth Inter Schools Gala

Pool hosts Eighth Inter Schools Gala

BarbaraAug 1, 20193 min read

At our eighth Annual Inter Schools Gala on 11 July, all five Portishead primary schools entered teams from years 3 to 6 competing to win the coveted Arthur Grannan Champions…