TOP 10 OPERATORS
PUBLIC SECTOR
Gyms and members: Top 10 operators
SLM
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GLL
Places Leisure
200 k
Freedom
150 k
Serco
100 k
High Life
50 k
Parkwood
Halo
YMCA
Fusion
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■ YMCA and High Life Highland have the lowest average number of members per gym (<1,000). ■ Freedom Leisure charges the highest average monthly membership fee: it is the only operator to charge on average over £40 a month, although Parkwood Leisure comes next at just under £40 a month. ■ High Life Highland charges the lowest average membership fee, at around £25 a month. ■ Compared to 2023, average monthly fees are +5.3% at GLL; +9.3% at SLM/Everyone Active; and +4.3% at Freedom Leisure.
■ SLM (Everyone Active) has the largest fitness membership base in the public sector, with over 450,000 members. It also has the highest average number of members per gym (around 2,600). ■ GLL – the UK’s #1 public sector operator by number of gyms – has the second largest fitness membership base, with around 320,000 fitness members across 195 gyms. ■ Places Leisure has the third largest member base, with around 150,000 members. ■ High Life Highland and Halo Leisure each have fewer than 25,000 fitness members.
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On page 120, Everyone Active’s Duncan Jefford talks about the operator’s efforts to increase yield, while on page 111, Peter Bundey explains how GLL has “always believed in a Robin Hood approach: that if people can afford to pay, they should, enabling GLL to subsidise others who can’t”.
Average members & membership fees per gym: Top 10 operators
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2750
2500
Places Leisure
SLM
2250
2000
GLL
Serco
1750
Parkwood
1500
Fusion
Freedom
1250
YMCA
1000
High Life
Halo
750
500
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