Penistone Leisure Centre
Led by the community - For the community
Last week we enjoyed a community get together at St Saviours church in Thurlstone.
We had a great time at St Saviours Church, chatting with lots of folks about plc and finding lots of information to help the Centre liaise with some fabulous other local community groups
#communitymatters
What is 78 ?
Penistone Leisure Centre is currently working with 78 OPEN hours to the public!!!!!!
WOW! – You bet!
This is achieved by a combination of Volunteers, Trustees and Staff.
This doesn’t even include the 10 hours over the weekends that Parties are hosted here nor does it include the Skating lessons on a Sunday evening. so add another 14 hours and PLC is available to the community for 92 hours a week. That, I think you’ll agree, is pretty impressive.
Our Staff work tirelessly to keep the Centre running and smoothly as possible (Think swan swimming gracefully on a lake! and the crazy, mad little feet paddling away beneath.) And the many Volunteers who are immensely generous with their time and support everything from Groups such as PenActive and the Gym Instructors making sure people are inducted correctly and safely to use the Gym here, to simply doing of offering a little TLC to the outside areas. Not to mention then of course the Trustees who look after everything in general.
Could you spare a couple of hours a week to help out – We’ve plenty of little jobs need doing either regularly or as and when you are available.
GET INVOLVED HERE Tell us a little about yourself and what skills or expertise you can offer and we will be in touch.
Don’t forget that we have been lucky to be selected as one of our local Co-op’s Community Causes! This means that the Co-op will donate a proportion of their Community Cause Fund to us every time you shop with the Co-op and show your Members Card.
In order to help us, you’ll need to log in to your Co-op members page and select us as your chosen cause. The more people who choose us as their community cause, the larger proportion of the fund we recieve.
We plan to use this money to upgrade some of the tired equipment in the gym. SO, if you believe in access to quality sports equipment for the community at affordable prices, then please choose us!
If you are vulnerable, shielding or isolating, please don’t forget that you can access help from community volunteers via Love Thy Penistone.
Love Thy Penistone was set up in the first lockdown to allow our community to support each other at this difficult time! We still have plenty of volunteers lined up to assist if they are needed. Some of our volunteers from the Leisure Centre were involved in the set up of this project, and many more have volunteered their
So if you need some shopping, or a prescription fetching, or pairing up with someone friendly for a chat, then please do get in touch to ask for help via the website or on 01226 337400.
Or alternatively, if you would like to volunteer to help someone in our community, then please sign up here.
A time to celebrate all of our wonderful volunteers! As you know, Penistone Leisure Centre is run almost entirely by volunteers. Without whom, the leisure centre would no longer exist. We think our volunteers are pretty wonderful!
The centre was closed down in 2011 due to council cutbacks. A group of dedicated local people got together and began the task of taking over the centre and obtaining all the correct insurances/licences/contracts etc. The centre reopened for classes on Saturday 22nd September 2012, and the Gym re-opened on Monday 9th September 2013.
Since then a lot has changed! We’re now in the middle of a massive refurbishment project which will see the centre move from being a run down building that didn’t quite suit it’s purpose to a much more efficient space with access for everyone to the facilities.
The Centre has got to this stage mostly due to the hard work of local people who give their time and sometimes their money to better this place, and keep it open for the community.
The Covid-Crisis in which we find ourselves has highlighted the power of volunteering. Millions of people across the UK have given their time to look out for their neighbours and members of their community. Many of the Leisure Centre’s own volunteers have become volunteers for ‘Love Thy Penistone‘ and countless hours have been spent shopping and collecting prescriptions and generally being a friendly face/listening ear. After this difficult time, we need to take the positives that have come from it, and take them forwards…
As things slowly re-open and life goes back to normal, we are looking forwards to seeing our loyal volunteers, and would also love to welcome new volunteers to the team as we’ll be open for longer hours! Have you got skills to share?
We need a wide variety of people to steer the centre for the community! We need people to join our committee of trustees to lead the centre- particularly anyone with a strong financial background, as our current treasurer is stepping down (but staying on as a trustee).
We need many hands to make light work of the decorating/DIY needed to make the refurbished areas of the centre beautiful spaces to be in. Could you spare a few hours a week?
We need regular weekly volunteers to open the centre for sessions (once we are able to open again). Could you (wo)man reception, welcoming centre users and taking payments for gym memberships?
We’d love to hear from you.
Please email info@penistoneleisurecentre.org.uk for more information about the different volunteer roles available.