{"id":332925,"date":"2025-12-05T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332925\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:39:10","slug":"chirk-leisure-centre-wins-national-leisure-centre-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332925\/","title":{"rendered":"Chirk Leisure Centre wins national \u2018Leisure Centre of the Year\u2019 award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ChirkLeisureCentre.jpg\" alt=\"Wrexham.com for people living in or visiting the Wrexham area\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chirk Leisure Centre has been crowned the \u2018Leisure Centre of the Year\u2019 at the UK Active Awards 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, operated by Freedom Leisure on behalf of Wrexham Council, was recognised at the prestigious awards for its exceptional standards, community impact and commitment to innovation in health and fitness.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t           &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t         &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The UK Active Awards ceremony, held in Birmingham, brought together leading organisations from across the sector to celebrate the people and initiatives driving progress in health, fitness and community wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>Chirk Leisure Centre was selected following a competitive judging process that included a detailed application and multiple mystery visits.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone  size-full img-responsive  wp-image-281896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chirkleisurecentew2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Horsfall Turner, Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Leisure, said: \u201cWe are incredibly proud and honoured to be recognised at the UK Active Awards 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award reflects the commitment, passion and teamwork of everyone at Chirk Leisure Centre and across Freedom Leisure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, we strive to improve lives through accessible, inclusive and inspiring leisure opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lead Member for Corporate and Customer Services at Wrexham Council, Cllr Beverley Parry-Jones said: \u201cWe are proud to work in partnership with Freedom Leisure to deliver outstanding facilities and services for our community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis achievement reflects the strength of our collaboration and our shared commitment to promoting health, wellbeing, and active lifestyles for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spotted something? Got a story? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/wrexham.com\/news\/mailto:news@wrexham.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News@Wrexham.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Get notified about <br \/>news from across North Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chirk Leisure Centre has been crowned the \u2018Leisure Centre of the Year\u2019 at the UK Active Awards 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-332925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}