Attempts to save Ruddington’s dedicated health, fitness and youth centre from permanent closure appear to have failed.
As previously reported on this website The Body Centre on The Green shut its doors unexpectedly on the 8th of December 2016 after running into financial difficulties. Just a few days after this sudden closure, Ryan Charlesworth gave members and users of Project Body UK‘s facilities a glimmer of hope that the business might be saved after receiving a flood of offers to help. However it appears this has not been enough to secure the centre’s future, and he posted this notice today:-
Project Body UK was the organisation selected by Nottinghamshire County Council to take over the running of the former Young Peoples’ Centre just two years’ ago after spending cuts meant that NCC could no longer afford to fund running it themselves.
Since that time many different, local community groups began to use the building alongside the gym’s own health and fitness projects. On the 22nd of June 2016, Project Body UK re-launched the Ruddington Youth Club. However it seems the enterprise was not financially viable.
The future of the building will now be in the hands of owners Nottinghamshire County Council. So it’s likely it will be quite some time before the young people of our village once again have a place to call their own.
Rachel Charlesworth’s new Body Buddha Facebook page can be found HERE.
