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Open weekend with Freedom Leisure
If you fancy trying a new sport or want to improve your technique, Freedom Leisure centres in Hastings and Rother will be opening their doors to allow local people to…
BADMINTON: No Strings – but what about the lights?
HUGH SULLIVAN Badminton players who attend sessions at Summerfields Leisure centre have delivered a petition signed by over 100 of their number complaining to the centre’s management Freedom Leisure (FL)…
Swimming Against the Tide
By Paul McLaughin The Government decision to slash the funding of its Energy Bill Relief Scheme (ERBS), designed to help businesses with spiralling energy costs, is going to cause severe…
Pickleball in Bexhill
By Ben Cornwell Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports, claimed to be enjoyed by more than million players worldwide. It was first introduced in the UK around ten years…
SWIMMING: Seagulls Back in the Water
For the swimmers of the Hastings Seagull Swimming Club, and for their parents, coaches and administrators, Covid-19 conditions have changed everything. Distancing and hygiene rules at Summerfields, and at other…
Back In The Swim
Along with others around the town, Falaise Fitness and Summerfields Leisure Centres reopened to the public on Saturday following the further relaxation of lockdown restrictions. However, their reopening was in…
COMMUNITY SPORT: Sport For Life’s Sake
Martin Eglington, Active Communities Officer for Freedom Leisure, has always looked for opportunities to involve himself in sporting activity. Born and bred in Hastings, he aimed at becoming a professional…
Freedom Leisure: The Sporting Brand
Not so long ago physical activity was the assumed fundamental of human experience. Homo sapiens may have come to dominate the world by applying co-operative brain power, but the vast…