Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT), which operates nine facilities across the city, has announced that five of its leisure centres will be receiving major gym upgrades during October and November, with over £1 million of new equipment on its way to Wyndley Leisure Centre, Fox Hollies Leisure Centre, Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Erdington Leisure Centre and Northfield Leisure Centre.
The upgrade project is jointly funded by BCLT and Serco Leisure, which operates the centres in partnership with the trust, and on behalf of Birmingham City Council.
For a timetable of when the upgrade work is scheduled to begin and end and a full list of the equipment coming to each centre, please check out the individual BCLT centre websites.
Mark Reynolds, newly appointed contract manager for Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT), said: 'We want to provide the best possible equipment and workout environment for our customers. Feedback tells us again and again that there is a greater need for more strength and resistance equipment, so we will be adding to our already extensive resistance range, while much of our cardio kit will be also upgraded. By introducing more strength and resistance kit, we will also be cutting energy consumption across our centres, reducing our annual carbon footprint.
'We want as many people as possible to benefit from more active lifestyles, so whatever your fitness level or ability, we’d love to welcome you to a BCLT centre.'
Jamie Townsend, national health and fitness manager for Serco Leisure, said: 'The health and wellbeing sector is a fast moving one, and these improvements are going to help us keep pace with what our workout customers expect from a 21st century gym.'
BCLT’s other sites are Beeches Pool & Fitness Centre, Stechford Leisure Centre, Billesley Tennis & Fitness Centre and Ladywood Leisure Centre.
