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SUPPLIER & TRAINING UPDATE


sutton facilities in line for major refurbishment


Sutton Council has announced that two YMCA Qualif ications


Awarding body Central


facilities – Cheam Leisure Centre and (CYQ) has announced that a joint £950,000 refurbishment.


Sutton Arena, London – are to benefit from Aquababies, Ariel Yoga and YMCAfit are among the


Sp rts and Leisure Management (SLM) – is funding the schemes, which will see ChLaunched last year,


Everyone Active – the rading name of providers to have signed up to its endorsement service.


e m Leisure Centre receive a £600,000 makeover, including a new gym entrance. Te remaining £350,000 will be invested


in extending the gym at Sutton Arena. Both schemes are to be completed ahead of an £11m rebuild of Westcroſt Leisure Centre.


the endorsement service aims to provide employers with a quality assurance kite-mark for the training they provide, even if no qualification is offered. CYQ director Lori Randall


says: “This endorsement is of particular benefit where training does not lead to a qualification, or go through the rigmarole of having a qualification attached. Tis independent quality assurance mark also adds value to in-house training and lessens the need for companies to send employees off-site to an external training provider.”


Te gym will be used by elite student athletes


new performance gym opens at bath university


new ‘recruits’ for cyq service


One of the largest mass studies on the benefits of exercise has revealed that just 15 minutes of physical activity a day can boost a person’s life expectancy by up to three years. Taiwan’s Department of


Aquababies is among the providers to have signed up to the scheme15 minutes of activity a day can prolong life expectancy by three years with the ‘inactive’ group, those in the ‘low volume’


Health carried out research between 1996 and 2008 and involved 416,175 individuals in standard medical screening programmes, with people placed into one of five categories of exercise volumes. The results of the study were published in the medical journal Lancet and showed that, when compared


CYQ, which acts as an awarding body group who exercised for an average of is opera ed by Central YMCA and oversees qualifications delivered through a rang years of life expectancy.


for the health, fitness and wellbeing sectors, 15 minutes a day had a 14 per cent reduced risk of all-cause mortality and three more of institutions.


deputy pm announces £1bn youth contract Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has


announced details of the government’s new Youth Contract, a £1bn programme that’s A new £100,000 p g f eople into gyp ym Ten initiveived wthich i Uniueersityunc Ba in Ao ril, he p boost the preparations of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls. cruit 18- to 24-year-olds.


designed to help youner pormance emmlo hasent. be e unatile , a the s d v to la of h th t p will cover a three-year period and includes wage subsidies worth £2,275 a year for employers who reTe university worked with the English It is hoped the programme will help at least UK Sport to undertake the project, which ocus on getting the most “disengaged” 16- and 17-year-olds into school or college. Tere will in-depth physical analysis, a video feedback system and a system providing feedback on strength and power outputs ar on offer at he new performance facility.


NEWSNEWS 15 minutes’ exercise ‘beneficial’


chelsea club to showcase ciclotte


London’s Chelsea Club has become the UK’s first health club to showcase Ciclotte, the world’s first designer exercise bike. Made with materials including carbon,


steel and glass fibre, Ciclotte is said to represent a new solution for the luxury fitness world: gym-standard training on a machine weighing only 120lbs. Ciclotte – which has been designed to


target ‘advanced users, dynamic fitness enthusiasts and those who appreciate the art of design’ – has been created by Milan- based Luca Schieppati and built by the Italian Lamiflex Group.


Each additional 15 minutes of daily exercise


beyond the initial 15 minutes further reduced all-cause mortality by 4 per cent and all-cancer mortality by 1 per cent. Tese benefits were applicable to all age groups and both sexes.


£31m redcar leisure plans move forward


Detailed plans for a new £31m leisure, business support and community facility in the heart of Redcar have been submitted to the local planning authority for consideration. Outline plans drawn up by S&P Architects


Institute of Sport, Sport England, TASS nd 410,000 young people into employment, with a i fs an extension to an existing venue. An integrated testing platform to provide be extra funding for apprenticeships and £50m to help people “persistently” not in education, employment or training between the ages of t 16 and 17 years old.


and Plus3 Architects were given the green light by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (RCBC) earlier this summer. Middlesbrough-based Buckler Demolition


Te initiative will aim to create jobs for the young has already started work to clear the site at Kirklea ham Str et


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sector. But it’s a contract, a two-way street: if pool as well as a dance and performance space, a fitness suite, junior gym and sports hall.


swimming pool, a training pool and a leisure y u sign up for the job, they’ll be no signing on for the dole. You have to stick with it.”


new fitness register launches in ireland


Fitness Professionals Ireland (FPI), a nationwide independent register that has been backed by the European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA), has been officially launched. Te new register for Irish exercise and


Facilities will include three pools, gym and sports hall Business space for small to medium-sized


firms and community facilities also form part of the scheme, along with public spaces. Willmott Dixon is the lead contractor.


health professionals took two years to develop and is now fully integrated with the European Register of Exercise Professionals. FPI is aiming to register around 600 professionals during its first year of operation, with its members meeting prescribed minimum standards of good practice.


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