Find great staffTM leisure opportunities 13 - 23 JANUARY 2017 ISSUE 701 Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk David Lloyd returns to leisure with new venture David Lloyd is returning to the Lloyd, executive chair and leisure industry with a multi- majority shareholder in David activity concept – called David Lloyd’s Adventure Parks Lloyd’s Adventure Parks. said: “I built some of the first Lloyd is planning to open 12 commercial leisure venues in venues by 2021, with business the UK and they were also some partners Holmes Investment of the largest, most profitable Properties, as he aims to centres in the country. tap into the £4bn leisure “As the market evolves, we are and entertainment sector. bringing together rare to find, Each park is expected to cost, but easy to love, new activities on average, £4-5m to set up. from climbing walls to zip wires Eleven sites near cities and large and the biggest collection of towns with good transport links trampolines in one place. I’ve are under review and planning got thirty-four years’ experience permission is being sought for in the sector, and we will be them. The first park is expected using everything we have learnt to open by the end of 2017. David Lloyd expects to open the first of the adventure parks by the end of 2017 to make our adventure parks the The sites will be three acres, best in the country.” offering zip wires, soft play, trampolining and scratch – David Lloyd Leisure, founded in Martin Helme, Holmes Investment climbing walls as well as restaurants. 1982, and along with his son, Scott Lloyd, Next Properties CEO, added: “The UK market Lloyd has a 20-year contract with Holmes Generation Clubs, set up in 1996. continues to expand by about 150 venues Investment Properties, which will fund and In 2013, TDR Capital purchased the every year and ‘David Lloyd’s Adventure build the activity centres. Lloyd has built combined group of 94 clubs for more Parks’ will be part of this growth.” two multi-million-pound businesses from than £700m to create David Lloyd Clubs. Details: http://lei.sr?a=b5a9n_O Chester Zoo breaks UK Dragons’ Den dance attendance record school established Chester Zoo welcomed more visitors during 2016 than any other UK zoo in history, with just short of 1.9 million Swing School is launching a cardio fitness people flocking to see the Cheshire workout called SwingTrain with the backing of attraction’s collection of 20,000- BBC Dragons’ Den investor Deborah Meaden. plus animals. A high in the zoo’s 85 The fitness regime has been developed SwingTrain will launch with more than 50 instructors years of existence, a total of 1,896,401 by Scott Cupit, the dance teacher and people visited the zoo last year – 12 entrepreneur who secured an investment Hour-long sessions will also be starting in per cent more than the previous of £65,000 from Meaden in return for a 20 Berlin, Germany and Canberra, Australia. record, achieved in 2015. per cent stake in his dance school business SwingTrain is a workout accompanied The zoo, which is ranked the sixth- on the BBC2 television show last year. by vintage sounds of swing, gospel, rhythm best zoo in the world on TripAdvisor, Next month, SwingTrain will and blues, and jazz. Instructors lead has had a bumper couple of years, launch with more than 50 instructors participants through a series of moves thanks to a £40m Islands Expansion. holding classes in London, Belfast, inspired by three vintage street dances: the Continued on back cover Birmingham, Bristol, Canterbury, Charleston, the lindy hop and the shag. Exeter, Manchester and Southend-on-Sea. 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The ambition is to increase Crouch told a DCMS Select Committee the number of courts that “a lot of work needs to be done” across protected against the weather all sports to make venues more accessible from 112 to 225 over the next for disabled people, but stressed that five to 10 years, with the football must “take the lead” due to the “end objective” of boosting level of resources in the game.