With the facilities now fully transitioned over to Rye Leisure Centre, popular activities such as Water Creatures swimming lessons, Splitz Academy, the gym, badminton, football, pickleball and group exercise classes have continued without interruption.
The Rye Recreation and Wellbeing Community Interest Organisation (CIO) took over the running of the sports centre on April 1, with Rye Town Council taking on a 20-year lease.
There are lots of additions in the pipeline, with Zumba and boxercise trial classes running this week. The team is also busy planning for when the centre takes back studio 2 full-time, enabling further expansion of the programme.
There will also be work commencing soon to upgrade the façade of the building (including the accessible ramp), and to repair some historic issues around the building plant. A new pool cover will be installed which complements the installation of solar panels in late 2024.
Daniel Lynn, centre director, says the installation of solar power was the first step towards making Rye Leisure Centre sustainable. "On some days the centre is already running without drawing any electricity from the grid. The new pool cover is the next step on this journey and we are committed to further reducing the centre’s energy consumption and carbon footprint in any way we can.”
Further details of the work will be released shortly.
Membership details
Have you taken out your membership yet? Pop in to see the team if you haven't! The centre offers memberships for everyone from £25 per month, or 12 months for the price of 10 if paid in full for the year.
If you were already a member on April 1, then you will have automatically transferred over to Rye Leisure Centre so you don't need to do anything. Your direct debit also automatically transferred over, and is being collected by direct debit collection company, DFC on the centre’s behalf.
