Published Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 9:00
One year on from gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington opening Blackburn Sports and Leisure Centre, the state-of-art facility is set to celebrate its first birthday.
The leisure complex is holding a weekend of events on Saturday, 19 and Sunday 20 March, from 9am to 5pm, to mark the milestone.
As a thank-you to the community for its support, there will be a series of activities that will take place including personal training tasters, a gym challenge designed to test endurance and free Nerf Maze sessions.
In addition, gym members can bring along a friend on the day for free.
There will also be children’s entertainment, prizes, giveaways and a tombola with all proceeds being donated to East Lancashire Hospice.
Councillor Damian Talbot, Executive Member for Culture, Leisure and Young People, urged as many people as possible to attend the event especially those who had not yet visited the facility built in conjunction with Blackburn College.
“Blackburn Sports and Leisure Centre is a fantastic development and offers state-of-the-art facilities for local residents, which is exceeding all of our expectations in terms of visits from members of the public.
“It has really been welcomed and embraced by local people and I hope that they will continue to get the most out of these fantastic facilities.”
The Feilden Street centre was officially opened on Friday, March 20 by Rebecca Adlington, the multi Olympic medal winning competitive swimmer.
Since then it has gone from strength to strength and has had more than 450,000 visits in the first year and more than 2500 members.
For more information visit www.refreshbwd.com/venue/blackburn-sports-and-leisure-centre/