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www.healthclubmanagement.co.uk Edited by Tom Anstey. Email:
tomanstey@leisuremedia.com Health Club Awards winners announced
The third annual Health Club Awards ceremony, in partnership with Health Club Management, took place at LIW. The awards are unique, with
members rating their club on the quality of facilities, customer service and value for money. This year, 400 entries came from a mixture of small independents, public leisure centres, hotel clubs and some of the best known brands in the industry, with a total of 40,000 members voting. In the regions, entrants were
CIMSPA business review gathers pace
A business review of The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) is gathering pace, with a number of insights already being drawn from the three-month process. CIMSPA trustee David Stalker says:
“High numbers of individuals and organisations have come forward offering opinions, ideas and support for the institute. I have no doubt that should this support continue, it will flourish.” Following introductory and group
TV personality Mark Durden-Smith presented the awards
split into Budget, Mid Market and Premium categories, ensuring clubs competed with their peers. Winners included Fit4less Dundee, which took gold for Best Budget Club Scotland, and Xercise4Less, which won two golds in the budget category in North West and Yorkshire. The regional Premium categories were dominated by LivingWell, which won gold in seven of the 14 regions. Fitness4Less also enjoyed success in the national categories, with golds for Best Budget
and Best Medium Chain, while Sandwell Leisure Trust won the Best Small Chain and Everyone Active took the Best National Chain crown for the second year running. For a full list of winners, see http://lei.
sr?a=t5m8O. A full report on the awards will be available in the next issue of HCM. To find out more about the Health Club
Awards, and to sign up for 2014, please visit
www.healthcluboftheyearawards.co.uk
Xercise4Less receives £5m cash injection
Low cost gym chain Xercise4Less has received a £5m investment to support the group’s plans to grow to 100+ sites across the country. BGF, an independent
company established to help the UK’s growing businesses, will provide capital to support the group’s ambition to have the new projects established over the next five years. Xercise4Less was launched
in Yorkshire in 2006, by former rugby player turned fitness club operator Jon Wright. Wright says:“BGF’s funding will give us the
Growth plans: Xercise4Less will roll out new sites across the UK “The facilities we offer, and the price at
financial and operational facilities to continue our expansion. The Xercise4Less concept is growing because we believe that a budget gym shouldn’t offer a budget experience. Cost remains a major issue for many consumers today.
which we offer them, continue to attract a large tranche of new consumers into the market.” Existing Xercise4Less sites are predominantly
located in the north of England, but plans going forward are to roll out nationwide. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=g4j6A
David Cameron gives Instructability Big Society Award The programme offers participants the
Instructability – the programme created by spinal cord injury charity Aspire and YMCAfit to provide fitness industry training for people with disabilities – has been given a Big Society Award from the Prime Minister David Cameron.
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opportunity to gain a Level 2 gym instructor qualification and, so far, successful graduates have involved people with spinal cord injury, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, limb loss and depression. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=g2N6r
meetings, the review of CIMSPA – the professional development body for the UK’s sport and physical activity sector – will now enter the electronic consultation phase before a final revision. So far, CIMSPA has learned that the
institute must ensure it develops quality management training and that it should act as ‘a badge of quality’. The institute has also been encouraged
to empower the regions, and it’s been suggested CIMSPA should support people at the start of their career, through the provision of a career pathway. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=e4q2m
Tweddle won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics
Beth Tweddle launches kids gymnastic programme
Olympic bronze medallist and triple world gymnastics champion Beth Tweddle has launched a new gymnastics programme targeted at young children. Gym Stars is being delivered through
Total Gymnastics, an organisation Tweddle formed with fellow Olympic bronze medallist Steve Parry in 2009. It develops gymnastic academies around the country, in partnership with schools and leisure providers. Currently, 650 two- to 11-year- olds are on the academy programme. Tweddle says she wants to give every child
the chance to try gymnastics at a recreational level. Gym Stars is aimed at two- to eight- year-olds to develop basic gymnastic skills. Details:
http://lei.sr?a=e4N6r
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