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David Lloyd handed 999-year lease for former Oasis Beach Pool

Bedford Borough Council has agreed a 999-year lease of the former Oasis Beach Pool site to David Lloyd Leisure, paving the way for a private health and racquets club, new community access agreements...

New Bedford Borough leisure operator says customer feedback about them has been “positive”

Bedford Borough’s new leisure provider said it has had “positive feedback and minimal complaints” since taking over in February. Councillor Colleen Atkins (Labour, Harpur), the...

Fusion out as council awards new leisure management contract

Bedford borough’s new leisure management contractors have been announced – Greenwich Leisure Limited will be replacing Fusion Lifestyle from February next year. The council’s executive agreed...

Company looking after Bedford leisure services refuses to comment despite being branded “dreadful”

Fusion Lifestyle is a “dreadful organisation” that has managed Bedford Borough Council’s leisure provision “extremely poorly”, a councillor has said. Councillor Graeme Coombes (Conservative, Wilshamstead...

Fusion launches online classes while their gyms remain closed

Almost ten months since they closed for the coronavirus pandemic, Fusion Lifestyle has launched streamed fitness classes for Bedfordians to stay fit at home. Fusion Lifestyle run eight publically...

Anger as Mayor hands Fusion £632,000 without council agreement

Bedford's Conservative Group Leader, Cllr Graeme Coombes has said he is "astonished" that Bedford Borough Council have agreed to give Fusion £632,000 to reopen the Borough's leisure...

Exclusive: Robinson Pool to open 30 September

After a long wait and heavy criticism over lack of communication and delays to Bedford Borough's leisure facilities reopening, it has been revealed Robinson Pool and Fitness Centre will reopen on...

“It’s been tense” talks with Fusion over Borough’s leisure centres continue

Cllr Doug McMurdo, who oversees leisure and culture across Bedford Borough says the relationship with Fusion has been "tense over time" as they seek to get the area's leisure centres...

Fusion ask taxpayers for “financial support” amid leisure centre fiasco

Bedford Borough Council say Fusion lifestyle has asked the taxpayer for "significant financial support" to help them reopen publicly owned leisure facilities across the borough. Fusion...

Con-Fusion as customers met with silence over cancelled classes

Customers who had booked classes at council leisure centres run by Fusion Lifestyle say they've been left to "work it out for themselves" after it was announced the centres wouldn't be opening along...

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