BH Live has reached the finals at one of the UK’s biggest fitness awards. This is in recognition of its social impact and contribution to promoting physical activity, health and wellbeing in communities across the south of England.
The National Fitness Awards is an annual event which recognises excellence and achievement in gyms throughout the country.
Following its Leisure Trust Gym of the Year win last year, Littledown Centre in Bournemouth is now up for Group Exercise Gym of the Year. This is for its diverse activity programme which consists of more than 280 weekly exercise classes for all ages and abilities – especially the very young, older people, those living with health conditions and people on low income. More than 200,000 annual attendances are recorded and this is increasing each year.
BH Live Active, Corfe Mullen in Poole celebrates its first anniversary in November and is up for the Best Newcomer of the Year title. Since BH Live invested more than £1 million to transform the venue, 14,000 monthly visits to its gym, pool and activities provides tangible evidence that more people in the local area are getting active.
“A key goal and objective for us is to encourage greater participation in regular activity, says Mike Lyons, BH Live’s Director for Sport and Leisure.
“By continuously improving, partnership, investment, developing our people, expanding and providing local communities with a range of quality activities and the support they need to participate, we are seeing some fantastic outcomes. This alone gives us reason to celebrate – but to have what we are doing recognised on a national platform, and to be one of the UK’s leading providers, makes us doubly proud.”
The awards are organised by Script Events in partnership with WorkOut magazine, with support from headline sponsor ServiceSport. In each category up to seven finalists have been selected, who will now go through to the next stage of the judging process where they will be out to impress by showcasing first-hand the great work going on in their venues.
National Fitness Awards’ event director Judith Halkerston said, “All our shortlisted facilities should be really proud of their achievements in being chosen as a finalist as the calibre of entries has been amazing.”
Trophies will be handed out a glittering awards ceremony on Friday 1 December 2017 at The Athena in Leicester.
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About BH Live
BH Live is the south coast’s leading operator of leisure and event venues; a social enterprise that designs and builds engaging experiences to inspire people and enrich lives.
With 3.4 million visits a year and over £39 million turnover, the organisation is changing lives – placing it at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy.
In 2016/17 BH Live hosted more than 500 events, sold over half a million cultural, sporting and entertainment tickets. They had 2.9 million activity attendances in its leisure centres and welcomed 100,000 conference and exhibition delegates into its venues. This contributed an estimated £44 million to the local economy through business and cultural tourism. For more visit bhlive.org.uk
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About National Fitness Awards
National Fitness Awards is an annual event which recognises excellence and achievement in gyms throughout the country.
The awards are organised by Script Events in conjunction with leading fitness industry magazine Workout, with support from headline sponsor ServiceSport, and in each category up to seven finalists have been selected, who will now go through to the next stage of the judging process where they will be out to impress by showcasing first hand the great work going on in their clubs.
This stage involves a visit to each finalist by a member of the awards team who will take a look around the facilities and chat to members and staff before compiling a comprehensive report, which will then be passed on to an expert judging panel to decide the lucky winners.
Trophies will then be handed out a glittering awards ceremony on Friday December 1 at The Athena in Leicester.
About Littledown
Littledown is managed and operated by BH Live in partnership with Bournemouth Borough Council.
Set in 47 acres of parkland, Littledown has some of the finest leisure, swimming, football and gym facilities in the country.
It is ranked among the top performing leisure centres in the UK – crowned Local Authority/Leisure Trust Gym of the Year at the 2016 National Fitness Awards and accredited by quality scheme QUEST.
The centre attracts more than 1.2 million visits each year and is home to clubs including Bournemouth Swimming Academy, Swim Bournemouth, Littledown Juniors Football Club and Play Football.
It runs nearly 300 weekly fitness classes, has one of the largest gyms in the UK with personal training, an exercise referral and children’s activity programme. The BH Live Active team also works with local health authorities, trusts, education providers and organisations to encourage greater participation in physical activity.
Indoor facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool, 17-metre teaching pool, waterslides, splash pool, steam rooms, a sauna and sanarium. There is a large sports hall for events and multi-sports including trampolining, badminton, table tennis, football and gymnastics.
The centre also has on-site catering and an Ofsted registered crèche.
Outdoor facilities include leisure attraction, ALTITUDE High Ropes Adventure at Littledown Park (2017 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence), six floodlit 3G rubber crumb training pitches, grass football pitches, parkland for recreation and events, a cricket pitch and pavilion, lake, paddling pool, children’s playground, outdoor catering outlets, leisure orienteering course and parking.
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About BH Live Active, Corfe Mullen
BH Live Active, Corfe Mullen is located in East Dorset. It is a vibrant community hub with a pool, gym, group exercise studios, a Terrace Café with soft play and tennis courts.
It also runs a learn-to-swim programme for adults and children, together with an 813 Club and Kids’ Zone, to enable families to take part in physical activity together.
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