Hamble Skills Centre
Recently the Club had a lunch meeting with a difference at the newly opened Hamble Skills Centre. The £6.7m purpose built centre offers technical training to 16 -19 year old students. Subjects are vocationally based and include Building and Construction, Engineering and Marine Engineering and it attracts students from the Hamble peninsula, the east of Southamptom and from as far afield as Fareham and points between. The Centre is located on the campus of Hamble Community Sports College, the Club's Swimathon and Sportathon events partner.
After an excellent buffet lunch two new members were inducted into the Club by President John Baker. Claire Powell is a teacher at the College and Malcolm Drodge has retired from the chemical industry. Members were given a guided tour of the centre by manager Andrew Stacey where they were able to see the first class facilities and state of the art IT and engineering equipment in the training workshops.
