BOSSES at Worcestershire’s first water park are expecting a busy bank holiday weekend after already welcoming 4,000 visitors through their doors since opening in June.
Aztec Adventure’s Aqua Park, at the former Outdoor Education Centre in Upton Warren, is also looking forward to a busy year ahead after making an impressive impact since its launch.
Craig Spence, the director at AZTEC, told The Standard: “‘We have had fantastic feedback from the visitors to the Aqua Park so far this summer and we are really looking forward to welcoming even more people this bank holiday weekend.
“With the weather looking good it is the perfect place to be.”
The Aqua Park boasts a series of inflatable modules joined together and anchored to the lake to create an inflatable obstacle course. There are few outdoor aqua parks in the UK. Prior to this one, the nearest to Worcestershire was more than an hour’s drive away.
The launch of the Aqua Park has created additional jobs with ten lifeguard posts and six Aztec crew posts on a part time seasonal basis. All those appointed are young people living in Worcestershire or returning from college or university for the summer.
It comprises a 20 acre lake plus 20 acres of surrounding land and provides a wide range of high quality watersports including sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, canoeing, raft building as well as hire of pedalos, stand up paddle boards and kayaks.
There is also a climbing wall, high and low level rope courses, a tunnel complex, archery, bushcraft plus team building challenges and events for corporate groups.
Aztec Adventure Ltd was originally set up in 2014 to operate watersports and land based activities.
The Aztec Adventure Centre received a grant from LEADER, part of the Rural Development Programme for England delivered locally by Worcestershire County Council and the Worcestershire Local Action Group on behalf of Defra.
A total of £14,397 was awarded by LEADER towards the cost of purchasing an Aqua Park. This grant was matched by £21,596 private funding towards the overall cost.
Any businesses or organisations wanting to find out more about the LEADER project should visit http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/leader to find out how to apply.
