A gym instructor who has worked at a local gym in Carlton for more than eight years is worried about its customers' wellbeing as it is due to close on May 29th. With staff at the gym being made redundant, his main concern is for the loyal customers who, for some, has been the only gym they’ve ever been to.
K.K Sports and Leisure Centre on 272 Carlton Road was bought by Oxford Business College last year in 2021. The gym has been open since 2006 and currently has five members of staff. Many customers are saddened and frustrated by the announcement of the closure with staff saying that they’re concerned about customer’s mental health once the gym closes.
"This gym is more of a community, they aren’t customers," said 30-year-old instructor Kyle Smith from Nottingham who has worked at the gym for more than eight years. There’s about 60 loyal ones who keep us afloat. I come on Sundays - my day off - just to talk to people; if I didn’t have this place, I don’t think I’d have made it through my personal struggles.”
