Leisure Connection Hotel and Private Management (LCHPM) - the operator of outsourced leisure facilities - has reported a 36 per cent increase in membership across the UK during the past 12 months.

The company – which is part of leisure management group Leisure Connection – currently operates 15 hotel-based facilities and has worked with Park Inn and Radisson Blu, part of the Rezidor Group, to invest more than £200,000 in provision across its sites.

Improvements carried out by LCHPM include the installation of new gym and fitness equipment, and the upgrade of swimming pool facilities.

Steve Banbury, the group's head of energy and hotels, said: "Outsourcing the management of health and leisure facilities is proving more popular and it's no surprising with these results."

Click here to read more from Leisure Connection Private Management about its membership growth.

• Meanwhile, Leisure Connection has also reported a 11.6 per cent like-for-like increase in the number of swimmers, with lesson programme participation up 5.6 per cent.

Leisure Connection head of swimming Tara Stroud said: "These figures are very encouraging and are testament to all the hard work and creativity that we apply to promoting swimming within our communities."

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More details: www.leisureconnection.co.uk