Breakdown of key facilities:

Healthy Restaurant:

Within my leisure centre there will be a healthy restaurant / café which provides healthy food.

There will be healthy low calorie meals readily available, alongside healthy drinks. The theory is members will be more inclined to eat healthy if its nearby and convenient, like the current situation in Romford where people get unhealthy food.

There will also be a separate menu and area of the restaurant for easy high calorie meals for members who are ‘bulking’ (gaining weight). Since it’s a separate area, it should deter peoples cravings from seeing the people eating tasty high calorie meals while they're trying to stick to a strict diet.

On the menu there will also be protein shakes with select protein powers and different recipes or flavours, to compliment the food and make sure that people are getting in their protein goals in time for the day.

The café will also provide a child's menu so members can come out of the gym, collect their child from childcare and have lunch / dinner together before going home. This may incentivise people to go to the gym after work because they have childcare sorted out for them and dinner available before going home for the day. (without having to cook 2 separate meals after a long day at work)

I expect that many people will benefit from the café and would use it all the time due to the convenience factors involved.

Therefore the café should be very profitable for the centre and alongside Childcare should be a key source of finance. Although the childcare and gym may have to be separate companies to make it possible, eg outsourcing.

Childcare and work areas:

E.g. being able to rent rooms at the centre for childcare.

There is already a nursery located at Rom Valley Way called ‘Little Explorers Day Nursery’ however this centre only facilitates children up to 5 years pre-school

Located at; My Space - Harold Hill, Lets Art It ‘provides a creative child-led platform for children aged 3-11.’ They offer holiday camps and weekend workshops where children are encouraged to create, communicate, and learn with independence (through crafts and play).

Their activities include painting, crafts, sensory play, music, cold cooking, face painting and free play.

Let's Art It! (letsartit.co.uk)

• By offering rooms to rent from a company such as ‘Lets Art It’, the best use of the facilities at the center will be employed. This would fulfill the childcare aspect and with activities for kids to do they would be distracted