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18th January 2015

In Impulse Leisure, Sport England

Boost to facilities at Lancing Manor

Work has commenced at Impulse Leisure Lancing Manor on a project to create a new Wellbeing Studio and Community Meeting Room, plus a new larger café. The leisure centre in West Sussex has received a £35,330 grant from Sport England towards to £93,000 project. The money is part of £10 million of National Lottery funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities fund. A grant of £18,000 has also been awarded by The Veolia Environmental Trust through the...

18th January 2015

In ReferAll

Refer-all wins second tender with Wandsworth Council

Refer-all, which specialises in software solutions to enhance the efficiency of exercise referrals from GPs to leisure providers, has won a second tender with Wandsworth Council. In 2012, Footsteps for Health in Wandsworth tasked Refer-all with creating a software hub to assist with the running of their service. This umbrella service commissions lifestyle services for patients via GPs using a single form to refer their patients to a central hub. The aim was to improve the...

16th January 2015

In Bigwave media, Leisure-net

Get customer experience right first time

Leisure-net Solutions and Bigwave Media are launching Insight 2015, a new series of marketing and customer insight seminars. Designed to provide attendees with the tools needed to enhance the marketing, customer experience and business decisions they make, the seminars will take place on 10th March 2015 at Orford Park in Warrington, and 11th March at K2 in Crawley. Insight 2015 is aimed at customer insight specialists and strategic marketers, as well as senior managers, decision makers and...

15th January 2015

In Leisure-net

Sports insiders graduate from Loughborough’s new MBA

Industry veterans Mark Davis, a Sussex County Cricket Club Coach, and David Monkhouse, Director of Leisure-net Solutions, have graduated from Loughborough University's inaugural International Sports Management (ISM) MBA programme. The new Loughborough ISM MBA was created in 2012 to help blend the outstanding sporting history of Loughborough University with the world-renowned management education at the School of Business and Economics. The programme, which is set to be re-launched later this year at Loughborough's new London Olympic Park...

13th January 2015

In FitPro, Lifetime Training

Level 3+ personal training course created by Lifetime Training partnership with PTA Global

Lifetime Training has partnered with PTA Global to create a Level 3+ personal training course. The new Lifetime PTA Global Maxima course combines two flagship qualifications: Lifetime’s Level 3 Personal Training Diploma and PTA’s Global Advanced certificate. The PTA Bridging Course certification, also included within the course, provides the foundation knowledge, techniques and insights to take personal trainers beyond Level 3 and provides them with the structure and techniques to take their career to this new...

12th January 2015

In Impulse Leisure

Grand opening for new look Impulse Leisure Chanctonbury

A newly refurbished Impulse Leisure Chanctonbury fully reopened last week, welcoming more than 50 guests and VIPs for to the launch night event. The leisure centre in Storrington, West Sussex, was officially reopened by Wing Commander John Bell MBE DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross). Bell is one of the very few aircrew who served in the Lancaster Bombers during the Second World War. Since work began in August, Impulse Leisure Chanctonbury has undergone a £740,000 redevelopment to ensure...

10th January 2015

In Impulse Leisure

Moving with the times at Impulse Leisure Blackshots

Impulse Leisure has listened to members’ feedback and given it’s Blackshots gym in Essex a full refurbishment, complete with new Technogym kit. The gym reopened at the beginning of this month. A GYMetrix survey carried out last year revealed members and local people wanted more cable resistance kit, more free weights and state-of-the-art fitness equipment in the Blackshots gym. With this in mind, the £510,000 refurbishment included a new, larger free weights area with more weights,...

10th January 2015

In Leisure-net

Leisure-net reveals HAFOS 2014 results

Leisure-net Solutions’ latest Health and Fitness Omnibus Survey (HAFOS) reveals cost remains one of the most significant barriers to activity. Over a third (37%) of UK consumers stated a low-cost membership of £10-£15 would entice them to join a gym, and lower cost was also the strongest encouragement factor at 60%. Reducing fees would also persuade 60% of respondents to try out their local leisure centre. As has been the case in previous years, the percentage...

8th January 2015

In Alliance Leisure, Createability

Massive redevelopment underway at Cwmbran Stadium

Work has started on an exciting redevelopment at Cwmbran Stadium. The project will see a four-court sports hall remodelled into a vertical adventure playground, a soft play centre and a cafe. A 70-station fitness suite will also be created. The work is being carried out by specialist leisure design and build company Createability, alongside development partner Alliance Leisure, which has also part-funded the project, and will ensure the co-ordination and delivery of the complete facility on...

5th January 2015

In Retention Guru

World retention experts collaborate for one-off Retention Convention

World renowned retention experts will be coming together for one-off Retention Convention right here in the UK. The one-day event is being lead by international speaker and author of the world’s largest retention study, Dr. Paul Bedford, who will explain how to develop a strategy to improve member retention. The Retention Convention, which is open to just 120 people, will take place on 14 May 2015 in Central Birmingham. “The purpose of the day will be to...