Penistone Leisure Centre

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Refurbishment update

Refurbishment Update- Martin’s Video Walk Through!

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Here’s a video taken last weekend by one of our volunteers Martin!

It shows the huge progress that has been made in the recent weeks. Thank you so much to all our brilliant volunteers who have been turning out every weekend to help paint/clean/shift equipment around the centre.

As you can see from the video we are making massive progress. The whole of the sports hall is now painted, but just awaiting the panelling around the lower parts of the walls.

The corridors and side rooms are well underway with painting and skirting boards, and flooring in these areas has been going down this week. The Cardio room of the gym should be finished by the coming weekend, so we should be able to reopen that next week too.

The reception and skate store counters have now been installed (thank you to the Talbot Trusts and Better Barnsley Bond for their contributions to the cost of these) so you can really get a feel for the fantastic space we have now!

Thanks of course to EPIP and BMBC Section 106 for funding the majority of the internal restructuring/refurbishments.

Keep your eyes peeled for a further post about our re-opening and classes…

An Update on Painting the Sports Hall…

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Our brilliant supporters have managed to pull together and raise a fantastic £1447 towards the painting of the Sports Hall.

In order to have this difficult space professionally cleaned and painted we need a total of £6,300, and we need to get it done ASAP whilst we are still closed to the public, to avoid further closures or disruption down the line.

So, to be able to go ahead and complete the works, we have taken the decision to go ahead and apply for a business loan from ‘Key Fund’ (who lend to community groups and social enterprises) which will allow us to complete this area of the refurbishment.

Without the hall being painted, the refurbishment will feel incomplete, so it really is an essential spend!

Work should start on the repainting of the hall very soon! We hope to have it done by the time we re-open (current estimate is the end of the July, subject to Government guidelines).

Meanwhile, our volunteers have had a busy weekend! There has been big progress on painting the newly plastered areas of the building- the new corridor which allows centre users to bypass the main hall is looking clean and smart with its first coat of paint on! And the new false ceilings have gone in to the Kitchen, Waiting Area and Changing Spaces. A huge thanks to our funders EPIP (from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) and BMBC for the Section 106 money.

The skates are now organised and arranged onto the new custom built shelving in the skate store.

The new back room gym has had a thorough cleaning and the rubber mat flooring has been installed into the area of the gym earmarked for free weights. The rest of the floor has had multiple coats of specialist paint, and movers have been in this morning to install the gym equipment into its new home. This room is the first properly finished area of the centre and we’re incredibly proud of the team that have made it happen!

We think it looks great! What do you think?

In order to be ready to open by the end of the month, the volunteers will be working every weekend Saturday from 10am-1pm or 2-4pm and Sunday 10am-2pm. Are you able to come along and help paint or clean? It’s taken a monumental effort so far and we need many hands to make light work and get us over that finish line! Let us know if you can help…

Refurbishment Update: New Storage for NHS Equipment.

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As some of you may already know, we have taken on a contract with NHS Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. This means that the centre will be used as a venue for helping people to regain their fitness after a cardiac incident, under the care of NHS health professionals.

This was a fantastic opportunity for the Leisure Centre, as it allows us to make use of the centre during day times, when the centre is not normally busy. It will provide a much needed boost to our regular income.

We have converted the space at the far end of the hall to be useful storage cupboards which will be given over to the NHS Staff for storing the equipment that they need to use in their sessions.

The Cricket Nets have been moved to the far end of the hall too, and will be stored (winched up) above these cupboards in the green vinyl storage you can see at the top of the picture here.

The new cupboards are looking smart, but we need a volunteer (or a couple from the same household) to volunteer some time to come along and sand/paint the insides of the spaces so that they are smart and clean ready for the equipment. If anyone fancies a ‘lockdown project’ please contact us on info@penistoneleisurecentre.org.uk and we’ll arrange a time for you to come in! There are a million of these ‘little projects’ at the centre- if you are interested in volunteering your time, we would love to hear from you.

Photo Diary: The Waiting Area

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You can see here that the builders have been working hard!

This is what is going to be the waiting area (for when you are waiting for another class to finish to join the next one, or when you have collected your skates and need to sit down to pop them on before going into the hall).

Here you can see that the builders have widened the doorway which used to lead to the kitchen, party room and ladies toilets/showers.

Next, the builders have taken down the wall between the two doorways (in front of the builder in the picture to make the space large enough, and built a new stud wall to separate the new commercial kitchen from the new waiting area. There will also be a water fountain in the waiting area, so you can fill your reusable water bottles- saving you money and helping the environment!

This picture shows the new stud wall creating the kitchen, and making a good sized waiting area

You’ll access the waiting area by walking from reception through the new corridor which has been formed by knocking through the old gents loos and party room. This corridor has windows through into the hall, so you’ll be able to see what activities are going on in there too. The corridor means you will not need to walk through classes to access the gym, or activities going on in other rooms.

Reorganising the interior of PLC has been a major part of the work funded by EPIP and BMBC Section 106 funds. It should make the centre work much more efficiently for classes etc.

We can’t wait to show you all the progress… Though there’s rather a lot of cleaning to do first…

Photo Diary – The New Kitchen!

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The refurbishment work is rumbling along at Penistone Leisure Centre!

This photo shows the old kitchen space and what was the ladies toilets! The wall between the two rooms has been removed, and the old serving hatch between what was the kitchen and party room has been bricked up (on the left of the picture!)

The builder in the picture is cutting the new serving hatch window through from what will be the new commercial kitchen into the cafe area (what is currently the weights room!) The red plastic sheet will be where the door through to the cafe is.

Here is the start of the new wall, which will separate the kitchen from the new waiting area. Our next steps are to plan the kitchen layout so that the plumbers and electricians can put fittings in the right places.

We’re looking forwards to being able to provide snacks/light lunches/meals in the cafe space, but we need to know what you’d like us to serve! Look out for the cafe survey we’ll be releasing soon, to give us your opinion.

The renovations face big hold-ups now though, as our builders are struggling to source certain materials – primarily plaster and plasterboards! So if anyone has a secret stash or ‘connections’ they wish to share- we’d be ever so grateful!

We must acknowledge EPIP (East Peak Innovation Partnership) and Section 106 funding from BMBC who have funded this work. Without them, the renovation of the centre would not have been possible!

Work is progressing in other areas of the centre too, but we’ll save that for another post!