East Riding of Yorkshire Council has scooped an award in the prestigious Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE) Network Performance Awards 2016 – East Riding Leisure Beverley has won the Best Performing Leisure Centre Award for the fifth time.
This latest success builds on the Leisure Service having been awarded the APSE Best Service team – sports, leisure and cultural – on four occasions.
One million exercise fans are expected to take part in the world’s biggest workout on 14 January 2017, to celebrate the 100th release of Les Mills Bodypump ™.
East Riding Leisure Beverley will celebrate the release by hosting a 100-strong Bodypump class on 14 January.
East Riding Leisure Beverley has introduced the STA (Swimming Teachers’ Association) International Learn to Swim Programme throughout its swimming lessons programme, from baby and preschool swimming sessions through to platinum awards for advanced swimming and junior lifeguard courses.
The new programme will be fun and exciting, and will help children and young people progress through levels and achieve, by virtue of their success tracker and Health and Wellbeing books.
Age is no barrier to keeping fit and active – that is the message from an 80-year-old Beverley woman who has been attending her local leisure centre for over a decade and has no plans to stop now.
East Riding Leisure are celebrating this year’s National Fitness Day on Wednesday, 7 September, by offering a free gym, swim or class at any East Riding Leisure Centre.
A walking football team first launched in Beverley four months ago has proved so popular it has now been taken under the wing of a local football club.
With an estimated 5,500 people living with dementia in the East Riding today residents are being encouraged to find out more about the condition and become ‘Dementia Friends’.
East Riding Leisure Beverley will be hosting a fun-filled weekend to celebrate the Tour de Yorkshire visiting the town, between Friday 29 April and Sunday 1 May.
Older people from villages across the East Riding have taken part in a bi-annual sports competition which is designed to combat social isolation and increase fitness.