Hello All!

Come down to your new Fitness and Sports Centre in Cambourne this weekend to help us celebrate the opening of the amazing new facility, run by Everyone Active on behalf of the Cambourne Parish Council.

We will be having the following activities available to try for free:

- Trampolining
- Rollerskating
- Gymnastics
- Active Antz (a fun soft play sessions with bouncy castle and other play equipment)
- Rock Climbing
- Dance
- Group Exercise classes
- Local club workshops and classes including football, tennis and cricket
- and much more!

We will have celebrity guests on Sunday including Olympic Gymnast Beth Tweddle and England Footballer Darren Bent to help us celebrate the opening.

A hog roast and bar service mulled wine will be open on site for you to get a little festive with too!

Check out www.everyoneactive.com for more details.

Give us a call on 0845 371 3580 to chat to our freindly Front of House colleagues who can book you up on a free session today!

I hope to see you all there.

Thanks

Karl Secker
karlsecker@everyoneactive.com

Good morning all,

I apologise for the issues raised surrounding opening times/custome service. Although led to believe that this was on our website by an external company, this proved not to be the case.

With regards to booking the induction, all staff on this morning have been booking inductions all week, so I will discuss with them why they failed to do this this morning.

To clarify:

Today: 10am-8pm (although we let people in at 8.30am)
Sat / Sun: 10am-6pm for our open weekend

We had a great opening day yesterday, with Hugh Robertson MP officially opening the centre, and many of the local people instrumental to the the build and opening of the centre in attendance.

We are having a massive open weekend this weekend, with free activities including trampolining, dance sessions, group exercise taster sessions, rock climbing, local club demo's/workshops, and plenty more ffree activities or the family to try. We will be having England and Aston Villa Footballer Darren Bent, with Olympic Gymnast Beth Tweddle here on Sunday, bit giving time to talk to the local community, and Beth will also be taking a coaching workshop as well as giving a demo of gymnastic skills!

To book onto the activities call us on 0845 371 3580.

Please feel free to email me on karlsecker@everyoneactive.com if any issues such as the above arise, and I will deal with them in a prompt and effective manner.

Many thanks and hope to see you over the weekend!

Karl.

OLYMPICS MINISTER SAYS CAMBOURNE’S SPORTS CENTRE IS ‘ONE OF THE BEST IN BRITAIN’

The Government’s Minister for Sports and The Olympics was today (Thursday) full of praise for Cambourne’s sports centre after declaring the £2.36 million facility officially open.

Hugh Robertson MP said the new Everyone Active sports and leisure centre was one of the best he had seen, and congratulated Cambourne Parish Council and leading housebuilders Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes for working together effectively to provide the ‘fantastic’ public facility.

“ I spend most of my time visiting sports facilities up and down the country and I don’t think I have seen as good a new one as this for a very long time,” said the minister.

“ When we won the right to host the 2012 Olympics, we did it on the promise that we would not only lay on a great games, but also that we were going to use those games to inspire more people to play sport – and we simply couldn’t do that without local facilities like this.

“ The great lesson here is that it shows how developers can work with the local council to provide a fantastic new facility that’s right on the doorstep for local people to use.”

The new sports centre in Back Lane was funded by Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes as part of their commitment to delivering exceptional community facilities alongside thousands of high-quality homes in Cambourne.

The entire £2.36 million cost of the build was met by the housebuilders, Cambourne Parish Council provided an additional £34,000 towards internal fixtures and fittings .

The ownership is to be with Cambourne Parish Council.
Neville Stebbing, Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes’ Project Director for Cambourne, said it was thanks to great teamwork that the facility had been completed almost a year to the day since preliminary work began at the site began in November 2010.

“ This fabulous new sports centre epitomises the achievement of the team that inspired, designed, built and will manage it,” he said.
“ By working together with Cambourne Parish Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council and the people of Cambourne, we have produced something that is as close to perfection as anyone could have imagined.

“ Now I hope the spirit of the team will continue as people come together from across the community to enjoy this wonderful facility, which is here to keep everyone active in Cambourne.”

The new centre features a spacious four-court sports hall which covers an area of nearly 600 sq m, as well as a fully equipped gym and a separate dance studio. It also includes changing rooms, a meeting/reception area, full disabled access, plus 144 car parking spaces and 60 cycle parking spaces outside.

Construction of the new facility was carried out by main contractor RG Carter Thetford Ltd, and it is being managed by specialist leisure firm Sports and Leisure Management Ltd (SLM), under the ownership of Cambourne Parish Council. South Cambridgeshire District Council and Sport England were also heavily involved in the design and planning of the project.
Clayton Hudson, Chairman of Cambourne Parish Council, added: “This facility means a great deal to the people of Cambourne, and in my opinion, it is the jewel in the crown of developer-provided facilities in this community.

“ Our own MP Andrew Lansley turned the first sod when construction started in January, and I am pleased to stand here today to oversee the opening – on schedule – of this amazing centre which surpasses my own high expectations.”
Cambourne is a new settlement to the west of Cambridge which is being jointly created by Taylor Wimpey and Bovis Homes, and currently comprises about 3,200 occupied homes, with a further 100 properties under construction.
A new phase of development will see the community grow to a total of 4,250 homes, plus public open spaces and community facilities set within the 405-hectare site.