TAMESIDE Wellness Centre in Denton is celebrating its fifth anniversary.
The launch in March 2020 was the realisation of a three-year vision for Active Tameside to create a state-of-the-art health and wellbeing hub with a rooftop gym, exercise space and sensory garden – understood to be one of the first of its kind in the community leisure sector at the time.
To celebrate the anniversary, Active Tameside is offering £5 bowling sessions and a five per cent discount on food, along with other activities designed to highlight the centre’s facilities on the weekend of March 1 and 2.
Since its opening, the centre has hosted 9,710 group exercise classes with more than 210,000 participants, while 298,000 people have had swimming lessons, and 66,700 children have taken part in school swimming sessions.
Tameside Wellness Centre area manager Aidan Gilmore (pictured), said: “It was our vision to go above and beyond a traditional leisure centre and create a space where people can exercise, relax and achieve wellbeing – somewhere they can leave behind the stresses of everyday life.
“Five years have flown by, and we’re delighted with the way the centre has had such a positive impact on so many lives.”
One highlight of the five years is the centre’s role in helping local man Paul Barraclough win a Member Achievement Award at the National Fitness Awards in 2023.
Father-of-five Paul, 56, from Denton, was 23 stone and taking 20 tablets a day to treat several health conditions including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, gout and depression.
Paul credited the centre for helping him to lose an incredible 11 stone by going to the gym there up to four times a week, which reduced his medication to just two tablets a day.