{"id":6479,"date":"2024-04-10T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:24:32","slug":"speaker-meeting-8th-april-2024-sarah-watts-the-ceo-and-founder-of-alliance-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/2024\/04\/10\/speaker-meeting-8th-april-2024-sarah-watts-the-ceo-and-founder-of-alliance-leisure\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Meeting 8th April 2024:\u00a0 Sarah Watts, the CEO and founder of Alliance Leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/04\/Speaker-Meeting-8th-April-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6480\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/04\/Speaker-Meeting-8th-April-2024-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/04\/Speaker-Meeting-8th-April-2024-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bristol\/files\/2024\/04\/Speaker-Meeting-8th-April-2024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>25 Years of Transforming Leisure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can all have some very set ideas about Leisure Centres, what they involve and who uses them.\u00a0 Perhaps we think that only the fit and active among us use them!\u00a0 Sarah\u2019s talk, however, gave us a much wider insight into why, as a nation, we need to view Leisure in a far more holistic way and provide Centres that cater for all age groups with their many diverse needs and abilities to keep fit and stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>The key aim being to create a much healthier and active society.\u00a0 Sarah referred to examples of where new-style Leisure Centres had become a community hub of health and wellbeing as they brought people together socially as well as actively.<\/p>\n<p>At the end Bridget thanked Sarah and said \u00a0\u201cThank you for a fascinating talk this evening. \u00a0When I saw the title of the talk I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect. \u00a0I was certainly one of those who thought of sports centres as \u201cboxes of sports\u201d but you have shown us that what is important.\u00a0 You have looked at what the community needs and what the community wants and then once that is established, how to engage the community. \u00a0Thank you again\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 25 Years of Transforming Leisure &nbsp; &nbsp; We can all have some very set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":6480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supper-meetings-read-what-our-speakers-have-to-say"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker Meeting 8th April 2024:\u00a0 Sarah Watts, the CEO and founder of Alliance Leisure | News | Blog | Events | SI Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bristol : Blog &amp; News : Speaker Meeting 8th April 2024:\u00a0 Sarah Watts, the CEO and founder of Alliance Leisure : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bristol . 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