All our libraries are taking part in The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge - a great initiative designed to encourage a love of reading in young people. 📚 To find out more, visit: https://brnw.ch/21wLuEh
GLL
Wellness and Fitness Services
GLL makes community services and spaces better for everyone.
About us
GLL is an independent charitable, social enterprise making community spaces and services better for everyone. We operate over 230 leisure centres and swimming pools, 50 libraries and world-class sporting venues such as Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Lee Valley VeloPark and Copper Box Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – all run under the ‘Better’ brand. We also run numerous children's centres, recreation grounds, spas, ice rinks and events spaces making us the UK’s largest leisure provider. We partner with many local authorities to make leisure, fitness and library services accessible and affordable to the whole community. We’re as committed to investing in our people as we are in the communities in which we work and offer real career and personal development opportunities at whatever level you join us. Everyone from our leisure centre staff to our business support and leadership roles have access to dedicated career paths and accredited training. We’re passionate about our social ethos – which run through everything we do. We aim to enable people to achieve more, be that through the work we do with charities such as The Prince’s Trust to our GLL Sports Foundation which supports and funds the athletes and coaches of tomorrow.
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http://www.gll.org
External link for GLL
- Industry
- Wellness and Fitness Services
- Company size
- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1993
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Primary
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Nationwide , GB
Employees at GLL
Updates
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We're delighted that we've achieved nine finalists across four categories at this year's ukactive awards and could not be more proud of Better's programmes and people who are playing their part in strengthening the wider UK leisure sector. Getting more people active in our clubs and centres up and down the country is a huge endorsement of the great health partnership work with our local authority clients across the UK. To find out more, visit: https://lnkd.in/e28qUr5q
The Finalists for the 2024 ukactive Awards have been announced! A huge congratulations to all those that made the shortlist up against an array of exceptionally high-quality entries. We are thrilled to invite you all to the ICC in Birmingham on October 3rd to dine, dance, celebrate, and find out who will take home one of the industry’s most coveted prizes! Tickets available soon. Read the press release and see who the finalists are: https://lnkd.in/egB9vfDy #ukactiveAwards
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We celebrated the start of summer last weekend, welcoming 100k visitors to 240 of our leisure centres and 120 libraries, in probably the largest activity of its kind to take place in the UK. Our national Open Weekend included scores of free activities suitable for all ages, ranging from racquet sports and football to exercise classes, mindfulness and yoga. Most popular were water-based activities, with an incredible 40,000 swimmers taking up the opportunity to have a free dip in one of our pools over the two days. More than 5,000 families with young children also enjoyed time together in our soft play areas and play parks.
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We're #hiring! We're looking for two Marketing Programme Owners to join our Partnership and Local Marketing team. You'll act as a marketing facilitator among our partnerships, collaborating to influence and drive connected brand awareness and partnership marketing activity based on audience insights and financial performance. For more information, or to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/eC4NpQt9
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It’s #CoopsDay, a day to celebrate how co-operatives offer an altogether different way to do business. As a co-op ourselves, we’re committed to providing inclusive ways for everyone to improve their physical, social and mental wellbeing, all while supporting the local community.
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It's #NetZeroWeek! 'Respecting the Planet' is at the centre of our corporate strategy. Across the country we are going greener, from energy-saving technologies to solar arrays, we're committed to making our facilities and communities across the UK more sustainable. Here's a snapshot of our progress so far and our future commitments...
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It was wonderful to celebrate #LibrariesChangeLives at our BR1 Library Late event. So many partners came together to put on this spectacular community event. #BR1Lates #LibraryLate the NTEZ legacy lives on! Better Bromley Libraries Start Up Bromley GLL Charlotte Ryan Amy Lamé Chandra Sharma
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Libraries are more than just a place to find the next great read, they are spaces for people to meet, socialise, create, innovate, develop, grow and discover - they are libraries of everything. We visited our libraries to hear what they mean to the community and the positive impact they have. Here is what we heard... #LibrariesChangeLives
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Today, more than ever, there is a need to focus on improving the health and wellbeing of the nation, with significant long-term consequences if we fail to deliver. Our Customer and Communities Director, Joseph Rham speaks to TheMJ about how we're working to create healthier communities: https://lnkd.in/dmGB447E
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National Aquatics Manager & Worker Board Member at GLL, Board Member at Active Essex. Experienced Aquatics Leisure Professional and Senior Leader
As our GLL teachers and managers get out in to local primary schools promoting #DrowningPreventionWeek and sharing the Water Safety Code, myself and Nicola Charnock have been in Belfast seeing water safety themed swimming lessons and sharing a hard hitting #DPW message from Royal Life Saving Society UK - RLSS UK with our General Managers. Not only do we take our responsibility for Drowning Prevention in our pools incredibly seriously, we also want to get the message out in to our local communities. Can you share a drowning Prevention message this week and help educate those around you and potentially prevent a tragedy? 🎥🎥⬇️⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eh4fNJrv 🎥🎥⬆️⬆️
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