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WANTED: Quest Assessors and Mystery Shoppers
Are you enthusiastic and personable with a diverse background in the leisure industry? Do you have the knowledge and experience to offer best practice guidance to leisure centre staff?
If you’ve answered yes and are working at Contract Manager level on site or Senior Manager level at HQ, you could make an ideal Quest Assessor. If you’re a Centre Manager with at least five years management experience you could add Quest Mystery Shopping to your CV.
Rob Barker named as new Precor President as Paul Byrne Retires after 28 years with Precor
UK industry veteran and Precor Vice President – EMEA & APAC, Rob Barker, has been named as the new Precor President. The news follows the announcement that long-standing Precor President Paul Byrne will retire on 1 September 2013.
Leisure trusts use great innovation to build social cohesion and tackle inactivity
Leisure Trusts are using great innovation and effort to overcome challenges, build social cohesion and tackle inactivity across communities.
Those were the words of Simon Kirby MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary, speaking on behalf of the Rt. Hon. Maria Miller MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport at sporta’s second Parliamentary reception in the House of Commons.
Leisure-net creates a buzz with new online approach to customer experience training
Think your customers are happy with the experience you provide? Research* shows that more than half (55%) of consumers wouldn’t strongly recommend their leisure centre or health club to a friend. In a bid to help increase this figure, BEE – the industry’s leading ‘peer-to-peer’ customer experience training programme – is set to branch out by launching a unique online learning facility.
A greener future for Chanctonbury Sports & Leisure
Staying active in Storrington has just got greener thanks to the installation of state-of-the-art solar panels at the Chanctonbury Sports & Leisure centre.
The brand new Solar Voltaic System allows the centre to produce clean, renewable and sustainable energy and, in doing so, significantly lower its carbon footprint. It’s predicted the panels will produce approximately 49,200 KWh of electricity per annum – enough green energy to equal the centre’s usage.
Sport England pilots university funding scheme for Quest and NBS
As part of a new pilot scheme designed to encourage more universities and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to go for a Quest assessment, Sport England has offered four universities significant funding to put towards the Entry level award and/or a NBS (National Benchmarking Service) review in 2013.
OLDHAM COUNCIL AND OCL SIGN NEW LEISURE ESTATE CONTRACT
Oldham Council has signed a new ten-year deal to kick-start an exciting future for sports and leisure provision across the Borough.
Oldham Community Leisure (OCL) is now officially in charge of the 'Leisure Estate' of facilities until March 2023 - with an option to extend for a further five years. OCL has run local sporting facilities since it was founded back in 2002.
Precor strengthens Preva® Networked Fitness - with three new features including a mobile app
Leading fitness equipment manufacturer and supplier Precor has launched three new features to Preva®, the industry’s first open platform networked fitness solution, with more than 25 million workouts logged worldwide since its launch in 2010.
Preva Mobile, Preva Token and Workout Messages have been designed to help operators drive engagement and participation in their fitness offering, while strengthening communication with members and increasing retention.
New Oldham 10k launched by Oldham Community Leisure
Oldham Community Leisure is launching a 10k race in June this year, following on from the success of last year’s inaugural Mill Town to Moors Oldham Half Marathon.
The race will take place on Saturday 23 June, at 9.30am, starting on the High Street in Oldham town centre. The route will take the runners through the Shaw area of Oldham and back to the town centre.
Gladstone launches ‘hosted’ membership management software
Gladstone Health and Leisure has launched a ‘hosted’ membership management software package to offer operators a fully functioning, cost effective, fail proof IT system.
The system links directly to Gladstone’s main server and offers full access to its Plus2 software and associated products, such as online bookings, as well as applications like desktop computer software. It is fully managed 24/7/365 with 100% network uptime guaranteed.
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