Find great staffTM leisure opportunities 27 JUNE - 10 JULY 2017 ISSUE 713 Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk Kent theme park loses Paramount brand

London Resort Company involved but not one overarching Holdings (LRCH) – the studio leading the way. developer behind the Paramount “It doesn’t really change theme park in Kent – has anything. The branding is what announced a surprise split from will be shifting. The team, the the film studio, which was to consultants, the plans and the act as the masthead for the surveys are still working. It’s all multi-billion-pound attraction. on track from that side of things.” The £3.2bn London Paramount LRCH’s parent company, project was being lined up as Kuwaiti European Holding a major entertainment resort, Group (KEH), has invested with several rides and attractions £35m into the project so far. based on Paramount intellectual The opening date – scheduled property (IP) such as Star Trek, The for 2022 – has been pushed Godfather and Mission Impossible. back three times, with delays Those brands will no longer in securing land necessary to be used for the attraction, deliver the development. however, a LRCH spokesperson The project is still set to go ahead, though not under the Paramount banner Commenting on the confirmed that the project would company’s decision to halt the “still be going ahead” with its name changed with the BBC to use IP from Dr Who, Top Gear relationship, LRCH CEO Humphrey Percy to London Resort. Leisure Opportunities and Sherlock, as well as Aardman Animations, expressed his thanks to Paramount and added understands that LRCH is exploring new IPs to which created Wallace and Gromit. that LRCH was working closely with the local replace the Paramount brands – something that “We are in conversations with other authorities and community prior to submitting was previously a challenge with the overarching IP holders,” a spokesperson told Leisure its Development Consent Order later this year. Paramount masthead. It already has agreements Opportunities. “There will be major brands Details: http://lei.sr?a=e9o2H

Liverpool lays out LTA appoints Scott Commonwealth plans Lloyd as new CEO New facilities including the stadium being planned for Premier League football club Everton FC and a Scott Lloyd, founder of the Next Generation proposed 50-metre swimming pool gym chain, former CEO of David Lloyd are at the heart of Liverpool’s bid to Leisure and son of former professional tennis host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. player and fitness entrepreneur David Lloyd Liverpool unveiled its bid for the has been appointed as the chief executive Games promising to invest £1bn to of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). transform the city, specifically the Lloyd will replace the outgoing Michael Lloyd spent eight years as chief executive of DLL Bramley-Moore Dock waterfront Downey and will formally take up the area where the football stadium position in January 2018. He was chief adding: “After a rigorous search process, will be built. The stadium will executive of David Lloyd Leisure from 2007 involving an outstanding selection of top accommodate a temporary track to to 2015, which has a “strong focus on tennis” quality candidates from across tennis, sport host all the athletics competitions. as well as other sport and fitness activities. and business, Scott was the unanimous Continued on back cover LTA chair David Gregson said Lloyd’s choice of the LTA’s Recruitment Committee.” knowledge made him the “stand-out choice”, Details: http://lei.sr?a=U1D1l

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2 Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital Twitter: @leisureopps © CYBERTREK 2017 SPORT EIS head of sport science joins BPA Sports ministers remain in post following election Nik Diaper, the former Karen Bradley and Tracey Crouch, the head of sport science and government ministers with ultimate medicine for Paralympic responsibility to the UK sport sector, have sport at the English Institute been retained in their roles despite a post- of Sport (EIS), has joined General Election cabinet reshuffle. the British Paralympic Both Bradley and Crouch were Association (BPA). confirmed as secretary of state for culture, Diaper takes the media and sport, and sports minister organisation’s head of respectively shortly after the 8 June vote. performance role and will Staffordshire Moorlands MP Bradley report to director of sport and comfortably held her seat, increasing chef de mission Penny Briscoe. her vote share by seven per cent from In the role, Diaper will her victory at the 2015 General Election, lead the BPA’s preparations while Crouch also increased her vote share for athletes’ performance Nik Diaper spent 13 years at the English Institute of Sport to retain her Chatham and Aylesford seat. support across the next winter Details: http://lei.sr?a=o1G3K and summer Paralympic Games, and act as “I look forward to continuing to deputy chef du mission for Pyeongchang 2018. strengthen performance relationships He replaces Georgina Sharples – who with both winter and summer Paralympic joined the EIS to head up its Equestrian sports, as well as system partners, to World Class Programme – on 10 July. ensure the best prepared ParalympicsGB Diaper has attended five Paralympic team at future Paralympic Games.” Games during his time with the EIS. Briscoe said Diaper had the “skills and “I’m excited to form part of a team experience needed to strengthen the team, that is so passionate and committed to while BPA chief executive Tim Hollingsworth making the UK a world-leading Paralympic added that it was a “strong appointment”. nation on and off the field of play,” he said. Details: http://lei.sr?a=j9l2I

Manchester activity target achieved Jennie Price has been chief executive since 2007

Greater Manchester has Price recognised in Queen’s exceeded its target of getting one birthday honours list million people to be regularly active, which is expected to Jennie Price, the chief executive of save more than £640,000 in Sport England, has been recognised NHS costs in the first year alone. in the Queen’s birthday honours list. In 2010, sports charity Price, who has been with the grassroots GreaterSport set the target to be sports quango for a decade, was awarded met by 2017. Working in partnership, the Commander of the Most Excellent the sport and physical activity sector Order of the British Empire (CBE). across the area has now passed She was recognised alongside other the mark, with data showing that personalities from the world of sport, 1,009,180 people are regularly such as Judy Murray, two-time Olympic active, saving the NHS £647,590. gold medallist Heather Stanning (both Inactivity costs the Greater OBE) and Danny Kerry (MBE), who Manchester economy £35m. Harrison said despite the achievement there was ‘work to do’ was coach of the Great Britain women’s One initiative that has helped hockey team that won gold at Rio 2016. increase activity has been the introduction Yvonne Harrison, GreaterSport chief Price said she was “surprised” and of Greater Manchester Moving, which executive, said: “When we set this target it “extremely honoured” to be included. has enabled a broader set of partners to was one that demonstrated the ambition “It is a real recognition of Sport come together to get people exercising. of Greater Manchester. It was a goal we England’s work in recent years, and is GreaterSport, leisure operator Link4Life, could collectively work towards and one based on the efforts and achievements of local authorities and national governing which if we succeeded would save the a great staff team and set of partners with bodies of sport supported by the Association NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds. whom I am privileged to work,” she added. of Greater Manchester Authorities and “The work is not done as there The chief executive joined Sport Sport England, have been working are still too many inactive residents England in 2007 and was behind a big to reach traditionally more inactive groups. within the region but we are now grassroots sport push coinciding with There has been an emphasis on participation far healthier and active than we were.” London hosting the Olympics in 2012. for females and disabled people. Details: http://lei.sr?a=u4w2J Details: http://lei.sr?a=Y8u4X

© CYBERTREK 2017 Twitter: @leisureopps Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital 3 HEALTH & FITNESS Total Fitness members use LIW rebrands as fitness trade show new app to book classes Total Fitness has boosted its customer offering Competition in the fitness by launching a free app for its members. trade show market has Features include booking fitness ramped up as a result of classes, exercise challenges, and syncing Leisure Industry Week workout data from wearable devices (LIW) rebranding as a and tracking apps, including FitBit, pure fitness exhibition, Strava and MapMyRun. Members can while the sister company log their workouts manually or by of Professional Beauty taking an xCapture photo of the display has launched its own screen on the equipment being used. fitness-focused event. Developed by Netpulse, the app BodyPower, the has been downloaded by more than organiser of BodyPower 12,000 Total Fitness members in its Expo and owner of LIW, first month. The chain, which has a has rebranded the latter network of 17 clubs, has 94,000 members. as BP: Fitness Trade Show. Details: http://lei.sr?a=9C5F8 The show will move away from presenting BP: Fitness Trade Show, formerly LIW, will focus exclusively on fitness other elements of the leisure industry and concentrate firmly on put its stamp on the event”. However, a new growth and innovation in the health, fitness trade event launched by M Squared Media, and gym sector. Pure Gym will host its annual the sister company of the Mark Moloney- PT Conference at the event, which will take owned Trades Exhibitions, which owns place at the NEC in Birmingham on 12 and Professional Beauty and Professional Spa, 13 September. According to the organisers, will also be established early next year. the exhibition will feature 100 exhibitors, Called Fitness Industry Live, the new including personal trainer studios, boutique event is understood to have built up a health clubs, chain and independent gyms. good amount of industry support and is BodyPower managing director, Steve expected to run alongside Professional Beauty. Orton, said the organisation “really wants to Details: http://lei.sr?a=O8H6p

Musgrove wants more clubs in the home counties Bannatyne Group adds Bournemouth centre gets £1m upgrade Surrey club to portfolio South coast leisure operator BH Live The Bannatyne Group has added the and Bournemouth Borough Council Weybridge Health Club and Spa in Surrey have invested £1m on revamping to its portfolio for an “undisclosed sum”. Stokewood Leisure Centre. The group plans to revamp the gym floor A new floor has been built, at the club, which has 1,600 members and more than doubling the size of 38 staff. Leisure property adviser Christie the gym to 583sq m (6,275sq and Co acted on behalf of the Bannatyne ft), creating extra space for Group in concluding the deal and “is Life Fitness gym equipment. A actively seeking existing freehold and QUAD functional fitness zone leasehold health clubs” for the company. for instructors to deliver power, Properties that are a minimum of 15,000- primal, play and pulse gym-based 20,000sq ft (1,390 - 1,858sq m), with a classes has also been introduced. swimming pool and spa or the ability to It is hoped that the broader range BH Live executives and councillors celebrate gym refurbishment develop these facilities, have at least 1,500 of kit will encourage inactive people members, a minimum catchment population – especially those living with health conditions “In partnership with the council, we of 50,000 within a 15-minute drive and at least and young people – to get more active. are continuing to increase the quality of 100 car parking spaces are being sought. Customers can get a health MOT in the public facilities and meet the expectations Justin Musgrove, Bannatyne Group CEO, centre’s new health assessment zone. Blood and needs of our community; encouraging said: “The Weybridge Health Club and Spa pressure checks, body fat measurements and more people to be more active and enjoy represents a strategic purchase for the group weight reviews will help customers to create the social, health and wellbeing benefits.” as we extend our portfolio into the home their personal goals, build a personalised The new space has environmentally counties. It is just the sort of business where activity programme and track progress. friendly (LED) lighting, insulation we believe we can add value and enhance Peter Gunn, BH Live’s chief executive, said: and climate control. Original features, the customer experience with investment “The improved space and new facilities at including a stained glass window and grand and attention to operational detail.” Stokewood are fantastic and it’s very encouraging central staircase, have been retained. Details: http://lei.sr?a=V1T3x to see so many people already using them. Details: http://lei.sr?a=f5G7F

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Membership at The Gym Group has broken the 500,000 mark, according to the low-cost brand’s latest trading update for the fi rst fi ve months of the year. Total members as of 31 May 2017 stood at 507,000, up 19.6 per cent against the first half of 2016, when it was 424,000 (30 June 2016). Average membership for the first five months of 2017 was 498,000, up 18.6 per cent versus 420,000 in the six months to June 2016. Six new gyms will have opened by the end of the first half of 2017, Treharne said there was ‘substantial opportunity’ to grow increasing the total estate to 95 sites. Two of the sites at Holborn Circus 500,000. Six new gyms will have opened and Bloomsbury were bought from in the first half of the year and we are Fitness First UK in August 2016 and on track to meet our guidance, which is subject to a full refurbishment. The other towards the top end of our 15-20 range. sites are at Edinburgh Murrayfield, High “Th ere remains a substantial opportunity Wycombe, Altrincham and Rotherham. with strong fundamentals underpinning According to the update, the group has a our growth and we are confident in further 20 sites exchanged for 2017 and 2018. delivering continued profi table progress.” Profit for the full year is anticipated The company announced the trading to be in line with market expectations. update ahead of its Capital Markets Day for John Treharne, The Gym Group chief institutional investors and analysts, which #BeginWithBetter executive, said: “The group continues to occurred on 14 June. The group expects to trade strongly with membership increasing announce its interim results at the end of August. with Active IQ by nearly a fifth year-on-year to more than Details: http://lei.sr?a=S9b4R qualifications, support and DLL to purchase Harrogate club resources David Lloyd Leisure has exchanged contracts to buy premium health club The Academy in Harrogate, North The UK’s leading awarding Yorkshire, and will invest more organisation providing than £3m to refurbish facilities. first-class qualifications, Th e deal is expected to complete services and resources for at the end of July, with the 99 staff the active leisure sector remaining at the club, joining David valued by employers and Lloyd Clubs’ team of more than training providers, equipping 8,600 across the UK and Europe. individuals with the skills It will be the company’s 110th they need to succeed in their site. The Academy members will chosen career pathways. be able to use any of David Lloyd Clubs’ sites in the UK, Holland, Earlam said the site was a ‘perfect addition’ to DLL’s portfolio Belgium, Spain and Ireland, except Find out more at: the three Harbour Clubs in London. Th e Academy will also feature a café bar [email protected] Refurbishment work is expected to start in and an adults-only lounge and business autumn and will fi nish in early 2018, during hub for those looking to relax or work. which time the facility will remain open. Glenn Earlam, David Lloyd Clubs chief www.activeiq.co.uk Th e gym will form the centrepiece of the executive, said: “Th e Academy club, with its club and will feature brands such as Octane, superb range of family-friendly facilities, is Wattbike, Woodway Curve and Life Fitness. the perfect addition to our growing portfolio The facility’s four indoor and three of clubs across the UK and Europe. We have outdoor tennis courts will be refurbished, ambitious plans which we believe will make it along with the indoor swimming pool. Harrogate’s leading health and racquets clubs.” Group exercise facilities will also be upgraded. Details: http://lei.sr?a=B8s6Z

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Pickard to drive Macdonald Hotels’ wellness strategy Harrogate spa to offer ‘aufguss’ UK-based independent hotel group Rudding Park Spa in Macdonald Hotels & Resorts has Harrogate is the first UK appointed Keith Pickard as its new spa to offer the art of group director of spa, leisure and golf. aufguss – a sauna-based Pickard has been tasked with treatment – to its customers. overseeing the lifestyle departments of the Derived from ancient, group’s 45 hotels across the UK and Europe. native American rituals, In his new role, Pickard – who has more the art of aufguss involves a than 15 years of experience in hospitality – “sauna-meister” conducting will take charge of developing Macdonald’s a theatrical performance spa and wellness services through of infusions, dance, its Vital Health & Wellbeing Club brand. and occasionally song. The Macdonald portfolio includes Using essential oils – 21 spas, each with their own style by pouring them on the and selection of wellbeing experiences. hot coals in the sauna Details: http://lei.sr?a=a5W6d – the master creates a The ritual is meant to revive guests both mentally and physically stimulating environment within the sauna, before circulating the The treatment has become increasingly aromatic air using a towel-waving technique. popular among European spas The ritual lasts around 10 minutes and is meant and is now entering the UK for the first time. to revive guests both mentally and physically. The “There will be an art of aufguss performance spa team at Rudding Park Spa has been trained each afternoon from 1 July, so hotel and spa by art of aufguss champion Lay Pang Ong. guests will be able to experience a ten-minute Pang said: “The contact between the master and performance,” said a Rudding Park pokesperson. audience is of the utmost importance. The meister The £9.5m spa opened in May. of aufguss is not there merely to show off what he Facilities at the 45,000sq ft (4,180sq can do technically, but to provide the audience m) property include a garden with a relaxing, stimulating and refreshing sauna cabin, sun deck and an outdoor spa bath. experience both physically and mentally.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=E2e7C

The spa includes and outdoor hydrotherapy pool ESPA opens third branded Spa partners with ‘breathing guru’ UK-located spa in Bath The Landmark London has partnered with alternative The spa at Lucknam Park in Bath is practitioner Alan Dolan – relaunching next month in partnership founder of Breathing Space with skincare brand ESPA – one of – to launch a new service as only three ESPA-branded spas in the UK. part of the reopening of the The spa has added a new relaxation hotel’s spa and health club. area, and will include ESPA’s signature Dolan has created a treatments, including the Inner Calm special package for guests Massage and the Optimal Skin Health Facial. looking to “transform their It includes a 20m indoor swimming pool, lives” through improving indoor/outdoor hydrotherapy pool, outdoor their breathing techniques. plunge pool, and extensive thermal cabins, “Conscious breathing including Japanese salt, amethyst room, is a powerful and safe way aromatic steam, sauna and tepidarium. to infuse the body with “Lucknam Park is the ultimate oxygen and energy and luxurious get-away, and we’re delighted recharge one’s systems Dolan has created a package for guests looking to “change their lives” to be celebrating the launch with them,” to the maximum healing said Sue Harmsworth, ESPA founder. capacity,” said Dolan. “Breathwork can been redesigned and reconfigured as part of a “We’ve helped create the new treatment lead you to enjoy optimum health, mental strategy to improve the spa’s customer journey. menu, which includes our mindfulness and emotional clarity and experience an Specialist consultancy SMC Design was treatments, and their therapists have ever-deepening relationship with yourself.” brought in to plan the re-design, which participated in ESPA’s training. We The introduction of the new service is part includes the use of materials – such as look forward to a successful partnership.” of the relaunch of The Landmark London’s dark copper and porcelain stone tiles Lucknam Park is a 42-bedroom Palladian spa, which has undergone an extensive – deemed to have a “synergy with the mansion situated in a 500-acre private estate. redevelopment programme. Treatment rooms, architecture” of the spa’s historic surroundings. Details: http://lei.sr?a=8K6l8 spa reception and changing areas have all Details: http://lei.sr?a=e3y4G

10 Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital Twitter: @leisureopps © CYBERTREK 2017 HOTELS Leicester Tigers’ hotel development A 165-room hotel is at the centre of a £22m development being proposed by Leicester Tigers. The Premiership rugby club also plans to build conference, corporate and supporter facilities after purchasing a piece of land from the council. Spread over five floors, the hotel will include meeting rooms, conference space, a reception, and lounge and dining areas. According to Leicester Tigers chief executive Simon Cohen, the club was close to reaching The development will be built on land adjacent to the club’s stadium an agreement with a “global hotel provider” to operate the hotel, which Cohen explained that getting to the would “add an exciting dimension for fans, current stage had been a “detailed process”. partners, businesses and the city of Leicester”. “As UK rugby’s best-supported club, sport A surrounding leisure complex will continues to be a driving force in putting this city feature a fitness suite, restaurants, a sky bar on the map and the fact that we will be able to offer and retail units. Work could be completed in top-of-the-range accommodation will enhance time for the 2019/20 Premiership rugby season. the city’s strong sporting profile,” he added. Land purchased by Leicester Tigers is Local construction firm Pick Everard on the city’s Granby Hall car park site, is working on the project with the club. adjacent to the club’s Welford Road stadium. Details: http://lei.sr?a=r3l6X SHINE YOUR London war office transformation The landmark London light. building where British prime minister Winston Churchill worked during SAVE $100! the Second World War is to REGISTER BY JULY 28 be transformed into a luxury hotel and residence operated www.attendispa.comATTENDISPA.COM by Raffles; the group’s first property in the UK. Indian investment firm the Hinduja Group and Spanish construction company Obrascon Huarte 2017 Lain Desarrollo bought ISPA the building in December CONFERENCE 2014 after submitting a public bid. They have The Old War Office building is located close to 10 Downing Street & EXPO been granted planning permission to adapt the interiors to house century political and military leaders worked OCT 16 –18 125 hotel rooms, of which 40 per cent there, including David Lloyd George, Lord LAS VEGAS, NV are suites. Completion is expected by 2020. Kitchener, Herbert Asquith and T.E. Lawrence. The Grade II-listed Old War Office The British Secret Service also occupied some building in Whitehall is located close to 10 of the building’s 1,100 rooms – which are spread Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament across seven floors and two miles of corridors. and Westminster Abbey. It was designed by The first Raffles Hotel was opened Scottish architect William Young before his in 1887 in Singapore and named after death in 1900 and completed by his son, Clyde the British statesman and founder Francis, six years later. Many of the country’s of Singapore, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. most important and influential twentieth Details: http://lei.sr?a=X2J1C

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Youth-focused heritage projects to win funding Fun House attraction for London? The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has Nostalgia will play a key role appointed 17 young people from across in determining whether hit the UK as heritage ambassadors, and 90s kids show Fun House will allocate millions of pounds in lottery will be resurrected as a funding to youth-focused heritage projects. London visitor attraction, An effort to increase participation in after an IndieGoGo heritage for under-25s, the £10m Kick the fundraising campaign was Dust grant programme will help heritage launched by a team including organisations evaluate programming they former show host Pat Sharp. are currently offering to younger people. Mark Wells and Glen Funds worth between £500,000 and Middleham – who have £1m are available to projects where more than 45 years of heritage and youth organisations television production collaborate to create opportunities for 11 experience between them to 25-year-olds to engage with heritage. – are behind the project, as Pat Sharp (centre) was the host of CITV’s Fun House for 12 years Details: http://lei.sr?a=9P5Y8 well as Sharp and original show producer Scott Stone. House just seems to be one of those The team are seeking £650,000 to bring shows that people have this incredible a Fun House attraction to life, with fans affection for,” he told Leisure Opportunities. able to pre-purchase tickets as part of the Wells and the rest of the team are hoping fundraising effort. Wells, who executive that fond childhood memories of the show produced, produced and directed some will encourage pledges in a similar style to of the biggest titles on British television, the Crystal Maze live experience, another such as Top of the Pops, The BRIT Awards cult hit, which was turned into a visitor and Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night attraction last year following a successful Takeaway, alongside Middleham said the crowdfunding campaign. The experience, initial reaction “has been very strong”. which will last around two hours, has been “There’s a big amount of social media pencilled in for a launch date of early 2018. activity running alongside it. Fun Details: http://lei.sr?a=V6T0M

Cress was appointed as WAZA chair in March Zoos should ‘shed guilt’, Attractions ambassador named says WAZA chief executive Bernard Donoghue, director The new CEO of the World Association of the Association of Leading of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has Visitor Attractions (ALVA), has said that zoos and aquariums need to been named an ambassador be more vocal about the conservation for cultural tourism as part of work they do, saying that many feel London mayor Sadiq Khan’s “guilty” over some of the perceptions Cultural Leadership Board. relating to animals in captivity. Formed of a group of With the world’s zoos and aquariums leaders from London’s premier able to reach an estimated 700 million creative organisations, the people worldwide every year, they offer an Cultural Leadership Board will unparalleled platform to raise awareness guide the mayor’s vision for over conservation and species preservation. culture in the British capital. Appointed WAZA chair in March, Donoghue, who also chairs Doug Cress wants to raise the profile of the Tourism Alliance, takes both zoos and aquariums, letting the world up the role of ambassador Donoghue (right) is also the chair of the Tourism Alliance know what they do and why they do it. for culture, alongside names “Part of the problem is zoos and such as Design Museum director Alice with some of the best museums, galleries, aquariums still feel guilty,” said Cress, Black, Museum of London director attractions, heritage sites, as well theatres, speaking to Leisure Opportunities. “They Sharon Ament and Stuart Hobley, head of performance venues, arts and artists.” feel guilty about the 20th century, carrying the Heritage Lottery Fund for London. Sadiq Khan, who was elected as mayor around this tradition of iron bars and “I am honoured to accept the mayor’s of London in May 2016, has demonstrated imprisonment and punishment. In fact if invitation to join the Cultural Leadership his commitment to London’s cultural you look at the record, they are the ones Board and to be ambassador for Cultural enterptises, doubling the amount of who have saved species from extinction Tourism,” said Donoghue, speaking to money for the city’s culture programme and who reintroduced species to the wild.” Attractions Management. “London is rightly from £4.4m in 2016/17 to £8.88m in 2017/18. Details: http://lei.sr?a=o2f7d regarded as the cultural capital of the world Details: http://lei.sr?a=6q3u7

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This delivery the opportunity explore idle. The Council is initially looking to are use of the centres better make to partner with another operator to and school holidays. weekends during these idle times: evenings, 1) Aldridge Airport Outdoor 1) Aldridge Airport courses, including high and low ropes with facilities Dry side centre and abseiling course ropes wheelchair climbing and abseiling wall, changing and classroom with associated wall, Walsall Council Walsall another in partnering with interest and develop expand to operator of outdoor pursuits the delivery two centres: its from activities TRAINING Apprenticeship reform issues need to Qualification for trampoline safety be addressed Active IQ and Right Directions have launched a Level 2 qualification for court monitors in trampoline parks to help boost safety and confidence. Developed by health and safety and quality management specialists TARA DILLON Right Directions, the training is chief executive qualification is the first of its kind for of CIMSPA the sector, with Active IQ providing regulated qualification status. Right Directions delivers Sport welcome the appointment of Anne England’s quality scheme Quest, as Milton as the new minister for well as ukactive’s Code of Practice apprentices and skills. With her and Swim England’s Learn to Swim I considerable experience in the health accreditation. It has been working Twell, left, said there was a ‘clear need’ for high safetystandards sector, I hope that she will understand the in the trampoline sector for the past valuable contribution of sport and physical two years and has developed a Trampoline will be completed in-house as ongoing activity to the wider health agenda. Park Safety Operating Plan in partnership with training. Once qualified, court monitors CIMSPA will be seeking a meeting Oxygen Freejumping. Court monitors watch will be required to attend a one-day with Ms. Milton at the earliest trampolines users, ensuring safety. refresher course every three years and opportunity to address the issues The Level 2 Trampoline Park Court Monitor renew their Emergency First Aid certificate. around apprenticeship reform, which qualification comprises three days of training Gill Twell, head of group development and frankly have been very disappointing. alongside practical scenarios and workshops Quest operations for Right Directions, said: Our sector wholeheartedly embraced and consists of five modules. 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Unfortunately, this has led move into the Chartered Institute to a lack of clarity, pace and planning, which for the Management of Sport and leads me to fear that the initial goodwill Physical Activity (CIMSPA)’s affiliate demonstrated by the sector in supporting and practitioner memberships these reforms is slowly being eroded. for exercise and fitness professionals. 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*All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications, age and location. GLL is an equal opportunities employer.

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