Date posted 09 May 2018
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Since starting our Junior Gym program at the end of February this year we have already gained 95 new junior members! We currently have 55 monthly paying members and 40 casual members taking part in the scheme.

The junior gym program was set up to encourage young people to exercise more often and to give them something to do with friends after school. The idea was to promote activities running within the centre for young people and with doing that, hopefully have less kids hanging around outside the centre and more of them taking part in activities within the centre and therefore staying out of trouble. Overall the scheme has had a noticeably positive effect on anti social behaviour in and around the leisure centre and has got the kids engaging more with the staff here at the Star hub.

We are currently running sessions most evenings throughout the week and at lunchtime on the weekends. The kids have the option of either paying £3.70 per session, or paying a monthly cost of £13 to have as many sessions as they want  included, plus general swimming within opening hours.