A new swimming pool and spa faciltiies have been officially opened at the Ramsgate Sports Centre by Steve Backley OBE.

Mr Backley described the new facilities as a way to continue 'inspiring a generation' and congratulated all of the agencies involved.

The redevelopment project has been a collaboration between Your Leisure, private sector partner Alliance Leisure and Thanet District Council.

The transformation was undertaken by ISG over a 13 month period and has created a first class centre for the community to participate in a range of sport, fitness and wellbeing activities.


Customers will be able to enjoy taking a dip in the new 25 metre swimming pool or teaching their children to swim in the smaller pool – an expanded Swim School and lesson programme will also be available.

The centre also includes the Feel Good Factory toning suite which provides an allover body workout by spending just a few minutes on each of the 12 stations. The power assisted exercise machines provide older customers and those with restricting mobility or sporting injuries the opportunity to complete a gentler resistance based workout.

Steve Davis, Managing Director at Your Leisure Kent Limited said: "Our aim is to encourage people of all ages to participate in an active and healthy lifestyle and this will only be achieved by improving both the quality of the facilities and the services provided within the publicly owned leisure venues we operate. At a time when public finance is under considerable constraint we are pleased to have been able to deliver this key corporate objective for the Council at no additional cost."

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