A huge thanks to North Tyneside for approving our application for opening a community gym aimed towards underprivileged BAME community. We have been working closely with North Tyneside council to help assess, design and plan our new community gym.
We’ll now be working with North Tyneside Council to plan our implementation of the new gym, and help us assess outcomes to measure the success. We are hoping the gym will be of great use for the women in the BAME community and also aim to help promote health and wellbeing.
We want to leverage the positivity towards fitness and build up an overall health programme within the centre utilising the capabilities of a community gym. This will allow self-service access to the gym and provide further facilities to adapt to run instructor lead fitness sessions.
Since the gym will be managed by the centre, we can empower the community to bring change to how they want to stay active and stay fit – without pressure of costs, contracts, and exclusivity. We will have the means to actively listen to the community on how to tailor fitness programmes to their needs – a unique service within North Tyneside.
Furthermore, we aim to open this facility to the wider community at a later stage, with the hopes of increasing fitness levels across North Tyneside and also tackling any division between different communities.
We’ve worked with North Tyneside Council and Technogym to help produce some designs on how our gym can look like.
