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Click here to return to news articles.Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, Launches as an IFI Site
Monday 5th June 2006
Bridges Health & Fitness club at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre is celebrating becoming an Inclusive Fitness Initiative facility.
Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre will become one of approximately 150 health and fitness suites around the country to install inclusive fitness equipment, enabling disabled and non-disabled people to train together in its Bridges Health & Fitness Club.
The site will officially launch the Inclusive Fitness Initiative gym on Wednesday 7th June at 10.30am. There will also be a tour of the fitness suite with disabled and non-disabled people using the inclusive fitness equipment at the launch.
Sport England has provided £5 million from its Lottery Sports Fund to the English Federation of Disability Sport Operating Company (EFDSOC) towards the cost of the ‘Inclusive Fitness Initiative’. Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre has received over £5,000 of this funding as well as support from South Gloucestershire Council, which has been spent on the equipment, training for staff and recruiting an ‘activator’, Jonathan Wheeler, to support customers.
The IFI continues to evolve, pushing the boundaries of inclusive fitness provision, and challenging the industry to continuously raise the bar, meeting disabled people’s rising expectations. Jonathan Wheeler said, “We are really pleased to further extend the facilities at the centre to allow even more people to get active. The best thing about this is that it integrates all people rather than separating able-bodied and people with disabilities…. they can train together.”
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