Facts & Figures

Club Trivia

  • Raynes Park’s boys and girls under 12’s teams won the AEGON Team Tennis Premier 2009
  • Leon Martin, Personal Trainer at the Chigwell Club is currently WUKF World Karate Champion
  • The Brooklands club is the current world record holder for the most participants in an Agua class – a staggering 115 members!
  • Anthony Sinclair, a member at the Belfast Club won the Men’s Single Championships at the National Deaf Tennis Championships in 2009
  • The Hatfield Club occupies a former Comet aircraft hangar which was once the largest aluminum structure in the world,

Family

  • David Lloyd Leisure pioneered kid’s gyms in the UK and continues to put kids at the heart of its thinking with its DL Kids offering
  • DL Kids offers over 2,000 activities per week
  • 22.9% of memberships are held by under 17 age group
  • Crèches are available in the majority of clubs
  • All activities for kids are supervised by qualified and well-trained staff
  • The Group teaches the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) National Plan for Teaching Swimming throughout all clubs
  • DL Kids activities for children have been developed alongside the key learning stages of children alongside the National Curriculum so that our child members are taking part in activities suitable for their age groups
  • The DL Kids programme changes each term and is supported by weekly activity plans focusing specifically on encouraging minor and major motor skills along with developing social skills
  • All staff working with our young members are CRB checked

General

  • Established in 1980, Europe's largest racquets, health and fitness Group
  • 78 clubs in the UK and 10 in mainland Europe
  • The Group supports Change for Climate Change through The David Lloyd Lefini Project and its nominated charity is Wellchild

Health and Fitness

  • 10,000 programmed activities every week
  • State-of-the-art gyms boasting 12,500 exercise machines
  • More swimming pools than any other UK leisure group - over 150 indoor and outdoor
  • More than 750 health and fitness experts
  • All personal trainers are on the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) at level 3 - the highest level

Health and Wellbeing

  • 70 spas across the Group; 10 Celsius wet spas and 5 Amida Spas
  • 36 Saks health and beauty salons
  • ONLY health club chain in the UK to offer the Murad range of spa treatments
  • 58 clubs in the UK and Ireland offering a range of physiotherapy, osteopathy and sports massage treatments
  • Over 125 medical and rehabilitation practitioners

People

  • Over 450,000 members; even male:female split
  • Employs 6,000 staff

Racquets

  • 700 indoor and outdoor tennis courts
  • 80 badminton and 140 squash courts
  • 400+ contracted qualified tennis professionals – all endorsed by the Lawn Tennis Association
  • 13,500 children on the Tennis All Stars programme
  • 55 of 62 tennis clubs now have Clubmark - the only national cross sports quality accreditation scheme for clubs with junior sections
  • 11 clubs have Performance Squads

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