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Chris Evans and BBC Radio 2 Sporting Challenges

This week at Hillingdon Sports & Leisure Complex Chris Evans and Jonny Saunders (from BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show) competed in their series of sporting challenges. This week they dipped their toes into the world of swimming, with Olympic silver medal winner Sharron Davies MBE as their...

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Swimfit Launch with Olympic swimmers Mark Foster and Sarah Price

Hillingdon Sports & Leisure Complex will be launching the latest Swimfit programme with Olympic swimmers Mark Foster and Sarah Price on Wednesday 4 August. Visitors are welcome to come along and watch, and regular swimmers will be invited to join in the first Swimfit sessions which will be run...

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Freedom Leisure's Holiday Academy’s at 3 Leisure Centres

From mini-beasts to tower building, face painting to short tennis, the fun doesn't stop at Olympos Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath and East Grinstead this summer.

With the school holidays just around the corner, ensuring that the kids are kept entertained and happy is at the top of every parents...

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New Chief Executive for Aquaterra Leisure

Aquaterra Leisure are delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Cardy, who took up the post of Chief Executive of Aquaterra Leisure on 1st. June 2010.

Peter is a highly experienced and influential leader in the charitable and not-for-profit sector, who has been the CEO of seven successful...

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19 young Crawley athletes receive GLL Sport Foundation funding

Chris Scott and Seb Rodger receiving their GLL Sports Foundation Awards for athletics.

The recent Sussex Parallel Youth Games, held at Olympos Burgess Hill, were also the setting for the presentation of this year's GLL Sport Foundation Awards. These financial and training grants for...

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Jubilee Hall Trust sponsors Youth Club Fitness Centre

One of London's oldest youth clubs has opened a new fitness centre thanks to support from Jubilee Hall Trust.

Alford House, founded in 1884 to promote the well-being, training and recreation of the young people of Lambeth, raised £50,000 from the Big Lottery to build a new fitness centre at its...

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100 public ping pong tables installed across London

Following London Mayor, Boris Johnson's announcement at the Beijing Olympics that 'ping pong was coming home in 2012', there will be 100 public ping pong tables installed across London for one month this summer.

Sited in landmarks, squares, shopping centres, airports, parks and train stations,...

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Capital Radio’s Help a London Child sponsors Sport in The City

The UK Fitness Network has secured £20,000 of sponsorship from Capital Radio's Help a London Child to deliver over 300 hours of free sport for young people over the summer holidays.

The scheme has been financially backed by Chelsea FC and will see a wide variety of sports taster sessions...

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Redbridge Sports & Leisure receive £100,000 further funding for sports hall

Redbridge Sports and Leisure is delighted to announce further funding towards its next phase of development to build a new Olympic-standard sports hall.

The local leisure Trust have been awarded a total of over £100,000 from the Landfill Communities Fund, the Foundation for Sport and the Arts...

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Olympos Burgess Hill to host the Sussex Parallel Youth Games

Freedom Leisure is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the fifth Sussex Parallel Youth Games, the largest multi-sport competitive event for young disabled people in Sussex, at Olympos Burgess Hill on Wednesday 9th June 2010.

The 2010 Games are set to be the biggest to date and will...

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Vision launches online bookings for Leisure Centres

Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure has launched online bookings for three of its leisure centres, Fullwell Cross Leisure Centre, Fairlop Waters Golf and Wanstead Leisure Centre.

Customers will be able to book and pay for squash and badminton courts, fitness classes and golf online, and have...

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New health and fitness suite at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

Following a £1million investment by GLL, working in partnership with the London Development Agency (LDA), the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre now boasts a state-of-the art health and fitness suite.

Part of a planned, on-going programme of improvements totalling £20 million over the last...

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