HEALTH & FITNESS
SLM secures Cotswold leisure and culture contract
Sports Leisure Management (SLM) has won the contract to run leisure and cultural ser- vices owned by Cotswold District Council. T e 10-year deal includes leisure centres at Cirencester, Chipping Campden and Bourton on the Water, plus cultural services at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester and a resource centre in Northleach. To be operated under SLM’s Everyone
Active brand, the new additions bring the number of venues managed by SLM to 81. Details:
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Xercise4less secures Tesco deal
Independent budget gym chain Xercise4Less has secured a deal with super- market giant Tesco to open a club at the Tesco Extra store in Stockton-on-Tees. T e 31,910sq ſt (2,964sq m)
club will have more than 300 exercise stations supplied by Matrix and is the first of a string of Xercise4Less clubs planned for Tesco stores. Equipment at the Stockton
club will be ‘zoned’ for diff er- ent activities such as cardio, weights, a combat zone, a large ladies only gym with a wide selection of female friendly weights, and a dedicated personal training zone. Monthly memberships will be offered
T e Durham club will be the fi rst of a number of sites at Tesco stores
from £9.99 and members will have 40 free classes to choose from each week, ranging from Boxercise and TRX to Circuits, Pilates and Zumba. An indoor cycling studio will
T e new health club at University of Exeter
Life Fitness to supply Exeter uni with new gym
Fitness equipment supplier Life Fitness and the University of Exeter have announced a new partnership for their planned fi tness centre. T e new centre, which will be located on
the Streatham campus, will off er students and the local community new cardio- vascular and strength equipment from Life Fitness. Life Fitness will provide its swipe-screen Discover consoles, Lifecycle exercise bikes nd Synrgy360XL hub as part of the new agreement.
2013 Flame Awards winners announced
T e winners of the Flame Awards have been announced during an event at the annual Flame Conference in Telford. Recognising excellence and best practice
in the health and fi tness sector, the awards are based on an independent business assessment to help benchmark facilities and the staff who work within them. T is year, winners were announced in
11 diff erent categories. Spirit Health Clubs was given the health club operator of the year award. For a full list of winners, see:
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incorporate the virtual cycling system MyRide, which allows participants to expe- rience cycling tracks from around the world. Earlier this year Xercise4Less announced
an ambitious target of opening another 100 clubs in the UK over the next three years. Details:
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UK health and fi tness sector worth £2.9bn The market value of
the
UK’s fi tness sector has been estimated at £3.92bn – an increase of 1.5 per cent from the year before. According to the 2013 State
of the Fitness Industry Report from T e Leisure Database Company (TLDC), the indus- try has experienced improved growth in the last 12 months with increases of two per cent in the number of fi tness facil- ities and a 4.5 per cent rise in the number of members. The sector is expanding
despite the economic slow- down. Since 2009, the fi tness industry has grown its market value by four per cent, the member base by 8.3 per cent and the number of fi tness facilities by 3.9 per cent. David Minton, director of TLDC, said:
T e sector has experienced improved growth in the past 12 months
“Despite another year of economic slowdown the fitness industry is continuing to stand strong with both private and public fi tness sectors.” Details:
http://lei.sr?a=6i3A4.
£14.2m health and leisure centre for West Norwood
Lambeth Council has announced a new £14.2m health and leisure centre, which will be the third complex to gain a new swimming pool in the London Borough of Lambeth. Scheduled to be completed by spring next year, Lambeth council is aiming to deliver
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three pools in the space of two years. One opened in Clapham last year while another is part of the Streatham Hub development, which will see the opening of a new ice rink, 250 homes and a supermarket in November. Details:
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