press release: PSLT Ltd
Places Leisure partners with PSLT to deliver community-focused equipment re-use project
Places Leisure has successfully partnered with PSLT to complete a complex equipment extraction and re-purposing project for Blackwater Leisure Centre, supporting both an ongoing site redevelopment and a local school through the re-use of leisure equipment.
The project involved the careful extraction of fitness kit from Blackwater Leisure Centre and the coordinated transfer to a local school, bringing together three key parties, Places Leisure, PSLT, and the education provider, to ensure the work was completed efficiently, safely, and within a live operating environment.
Despite redevelopment works taking place simultaneously, the operation was delivered smoothly on the day, with PSLT overseeing the logistics, removal, and transfer of equipment with minimal disruption to the leisure centre’s ongoing activities.
Paul Lennon, General Manager at Places Leisure, commented: “While this was part of a wider company initiative, I can speak very confidently about my local experience with PSLT. The team were superb and highly professional from start to finish. Coordinating the extraction of equipment, working alongside redevelopment works, and ensuring the successful re-purposing to a local school was no small task — yet the job was completed swiftly and to an excellent standard.”
The project not only supported the site’s redevelopment programme, but also delivered tangible community benefit by enabling usable equipment to be re-purposed within a local educational setting.
Reflecting on the overall experience, Paul added: “The customer service and professionalism from PSLT was excellent throughout. Their work has helped us to support one of our local schools, providing students with gym kit to help develop their education and access to physical activity. ”
Stuart Martin, Commercial Director for PSLT said: “The team worked efficiently to deliver this project within a 24 hour period. Demonstrating excellence in all aspects of the business deliverables. As always, we are incredibly proud of all the team who were involved and thank Places Leisure for including us within this project”.
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Hafsa Arif, financial director
Rachel Palfreman, sales manager
• Places leisure,
• Everyone Active,
• 1 LIFE,
• Village hotels and
• Snap Fitness.
We launched a Customer Service Portal at the beginning of 2025, ensuring that all service can be managed in house.
We work across Europe and beyond, searching for quality partners to represent the brand worldwide..
Our aim is efficiency and a client experience that we can be proud of, we intend to expand our service department taking on newly trained engineers new vehicles and new asset based systems.
"They are a delight to work with and always go the extra mile. They always over deliver instead of over promising like a lot of our historic service providers.
I could not recommend them highly enough.”
– Sarah Roberts, head of fitness and healthy communities, PFP
– Tom Grimshaw, Rise Fitness Ibstock
– Jake Dyer, fitness manager, Hinckley Leisure Centre
