About Pendle Leisure Trust
Pendle Leisure Trust was created on 1 October 2000. It is responsible for managing and developing a wide variety of leisure related facilities and activities for the people of Pendle.
As well as providing multi-purpose centres for swimming, fitness, sports, exercise and entertainment, the Trust also has staff dedicated to providing specialist projects relating to Healthy Lifestyles, Sports Development and Arts Development.
Pendle Leisure Trust is constantly striving to make a difference to this part of East Lancashire, with new initiatives, developing partnerships and exciting cross-cutting projects. The borough has some of the most deprived wards in the UK, ensuring that the challenge of social inclusion is always at the top of the priority list.
Pendle’s population provides a rich cultural mix, with energetic communities actively involved in arts and sports activities of all kinds. It is an area of contrasts, with the remnants of the industrial mill towns and the beauty of the Pennines creating an impressive and energising landscape.
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Pendle Triathlon 2012 - Are you up for it?
Do you fancy taking on a new challenge next year? Something that will test your skills and stamina?
Why not compete in Pendle Triathlon 2012? And Pendle Leisure Trust will help you all the way.
Pendle Leisure Trust has devised an inspirational idea to motivate people into preparing and achieving a personal goal with a boot-camp style programme that will last from now right up to the event.
The date for Pendle Triathlon 2012 is Sunday, April 29th.
One of the fastest growing competitive sports in the country, contestants will take part in the three disciplines in a test of stamina, strength and determination in and around West Craven Sports Centre.
Following the official format of swimming, cycling and running, this non-transitional event will comprise of swimming 750m and cycling 22km - completing two circuits of the course which covers Salterforth, Kelbrook, Sough, Earby and Thornton-in-Craven.
The run route will be mainly off road, utilizing public footpaths and canal bridle paths to finish the 5 km course opposite West Craven Sports Centre.
If you have thought about doing a Triathlon, but haven’t known how to prepare for it, then Pendle Leisure Trust has the answer with a boot camp style programme to help you train properly.
The sessions will include swimming, cycling and running endurance training, strength training, speed training, core stability and hill sessions, to name but a few.
The course, which will be held at West Craven Sports Centre in Barnoldswick, will be run by a qualified instructor who has experience of competing in the event.
Centre Manager at West Craven Sports Centre, Paul Whittaker, said: “We have a good number of entrants each year, but we always get people who would love to compete, but are unsure of what training to do to prepare for it.
“So we have come up with a boot camp style programme to help these people train and compete under the watchful eye of one of our experienced instructors who has taken part in the event himself – and is doing so again next year.”
If you would like to enter next year’s Pendle Triathlon, you can register by following a link on the home page of the Pendle Leisure Trust website at www.pendleleisuretrust.co.uk or if you are interested in the training sessions, contact West Craven Sports Centre on 01282 666710.
Here you will find any vacancies that we currently have at Pendle Leisure Trust. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The gym at West Craven Sports centre in Barnoldswick is a much friendlier place for people with health problems. This is due to the Inclusive Fitness Initiative.
Installation of the IFI accredited equipment and extensive training of the staff has made exercising more accessible, This has had a great impact on the community.
For more information about the Inclusive Fitness Initiative please visit http://www.inclusivefitness.org/
Quest is a tool for continuous improvement, designed primarily for the management of leisure facilities and leisure development. Quest defines industry standards and good practice and encourages their ongoing development and delivery within a customer focused management framework.
For more information about Quest please visit http://www.questnbs.info
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