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Barclays Ventures private equity backs deal to acquire UK and Ireland businesses By Tom Walker


The management team of health club chain Total Fitness has acquired the group's UK and Irish businesses. The deal, for an undisclosed


sum, was backed by private equity from Barclays Ventures. Cash provided by the bank will also be made available to upgrade the chain's 24 sites as well as expand the portfolio. Founded in 1996, with its


first club in Castleknock, Dublin, the group currently operates three purpose-built clubs in Dublin and 21 across the North of England and Wales. Situated in out-of-town


locations, a typical Total Fitness club occupies up to 80,000sq ft (7,432sq m) with facilities such


leisure media sTudIo Total Fitness currently operates 24 clubs across the UK and Ireland


as swimming pools, saunas, steam rooms, gyms, studios, cafes and retail outlets. Graham Hallworth, who led


the buyout, is now executive chair of the group, having also steered Crown Paints through a 2008 management buyout.


Hallworth said: "This new


investment will now enable us to build on our strengths and grow our market share by implementing a long-term programme of strategic investment. Total Fitness has an extremely bright future ahead."


Blaydon Leisure and Primary Care Centre unveiled By Pete Hayman


Gateshead Council has unveiled a major new multi-million pound health and leisure complex on the former site of Blaydon Comprehensive School. Blaydon Leisure and Primary


Care Centre was developed by the council and NHS South of Tyne and Wear to incorporate a primary care centre and an active leisure element. Facilities that comprise the


leisure part of the development The pool at the Blaydon facility


include a 317sq m (3,412sq ft) fitness suite equipped by Technogym; a six-lane, 25m


healthcare facilities and is the first of two new-build schemes planned by Gateshead Council as part of a £36m investment in local leisure provision. The second – Heworth – is


due to be completed in late 2010. Both have been designed by S&P Architects and built by Willmott Dixon.


UK Fitness Network membership boosts fitness levels This is reflected in the online survey results


More than 80 per cent of UK Fitness Network (UKFN) members feel that their membership has helped them improve their fitness levels. This year's online member research carried


out by Proleisure shows that UK Fitness Network members continue to enjoy the wide choice of centres available to them.


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that show over 80 per cent feel that their membership has led to increased fitness levels and 65 per cent improved health benefits. This years results show that two thirds of


UKFN members are enjoying the use of more than two centres on a regular basis.


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