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Re-Opening Plan Update
Re-Opening Plan Update.
About this update from Gym Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 6012S\n Gym Group PLC (The)\n 10 July 2020\n \n \n \n \n 10 July 2020\n \n \n The Gym Group plc\n \n \n Re-Opening Plan Update\n \n \n The Gym Group plc (\"the Company\" or \"TGG\"), the fast growing, no contract, nationwide operator of 179 low cost gyms, announces that it will be re-opening its gyms in England starting on 25 July 2020. The details of the plan set out below follow the UK Government's announcement on 9 July 2020 confirming the Covid-secure operating framework for providers of grass roots sports and gym/leisure facilities.\n \n \n Phased Re-opening\n \n \n · \n 1601 sites across England to open 25 July 2020\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n 13 sites in Scotland and 3 in Wales to follow as soon as possible after relevant local restrictions are lifted\n \n \n \n \n \n · \n Gyms will initially operate 6am-10pm on weekdays and 8am-8pm on weekends2, enabling establishment of the new operating protocols within fully staffed hours. We will trial 24/7 in a small number of sites over the next few weeks and expect to return to 24/7 more widely within the next few months\n \n \n Measures taken to ensure our gyms will be Covid-secure \n \n \n · \n In line with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport framework for operating gyms and leisure facilities safely, and after a review by Sheffield Hallam University's Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, we have put in place our #safewithus operating protocol. This will ensure our gyms are operating in a Covid-secure way for the safety of members and staff, focused on six core principles:\n \n \n \n \n \n 1. SHIELD - Avoiding infected people visiting the gym\n \n \n · \n Reinforcing Government guidelines to colleagues and members with symptoms to stay at home\n \n \n · \n Temperature checks for all colleagues at the start of each shift\n \n \n · \n Providing options for members to continue to freeze their membership for free\n \n \n \n \n \n 2. PREVENT - Reducing the risk of infection from contact on surfaces\n \n \n · \n Contactless entry to be available in all gyms at re-opening\n \n \n · \n Promoting hand-washing and providing hand sanitiser throughout the gym\n \n \n · \n Rigorous cleaning and disinfection regimes, including use of electrostatic sanitisation spray equipment\n \n \n · \n Provision of cleaning materials...