Face-to-face talks have been planned in a bid to save a 150-year-old swimming club.

Huddersfield Amateur Swimming Club, which meets at the pool at the John Smith’s Stadium, is under threat of closure.

Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL), which runs the pool, wants to double hire fees and move swim sessions.

Holme Valley Amateur Swimming Club, which met at Holmfirth pool, shut at Christmas and Scissett Youth Amateur Swimming Club has a crisis meeting this month.

Colne Valley Tory MP Jason McCartney has stepped into the controversy.

On Friday he met with KAL chief executive Alasdair Brown and chairman of trustees David Heddon in a bid to bring both sides together.

Mr McCartney said: “My role is to encourage people to communicate with each other.

“The first thing is to get people working together.

“I am pleased to say there is going to be a face-to-face meeting, which is better than exchanging letters and emails.”

Mr McCartney said it was important that children learned to swim and that a way forward should be found.

He said KAL needed to make its pools pay their way.

KAL wants to make all its swimming pools self-sustainable in the long term to ensure they no longer have to rely on grants from the local authority.

Mr McCartney said: “The pools have to bring in enough revenue but they have to be available at an affordable price and at times when people want to use them.”

KAL wants to introduce new standards of swim teaching known as the Kirklees Aquatics Pathway.

Volunteers at some amateur clubs say they are not geared up for the new requirements.

They have accused KAL of trying to force them out of existence.

KAL says that apart from Huddersfield, Holme Valley and Scissett, other clubs were working on the new pathway.

KAL has admitted it faces “significant financial challenges”.