Highland Life Highland announces partnership which lets members use leisure facilities in Moray, Orkney, the Western Isles and Argyll and Bute at no extra cost
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HIGH Life Highland's Highlife members will gain free access to leisure facilities outside the region for the first time thanks to a new partnership.
The scheme, involving four other areas of Scotland, will be known as the Leisure Link Partnership.
Believed to be the first of its type in Scotland, Highlife members will now be able to access gym, public swimming and fitness classes at leisure facilities across Moray, Orkney, the Western Isles and Argyll and Bute at no extra cost.
The partnership means that when working away from home or on holiday in these areas, members can use local facilities at no extra cost as part of their existing existing membership.
Ian Murray, chairman of Community Leisure UK and High Life Highland chief executive, said: “I am delighted to see the Leisure Link Partnership come to fruition as we have been working on this project for some time with colleagues in Moray, the Western Isles, Orkney and Argyll and Bute.
"We are constantly looking for ways to widen the services offered to Highlife members and the Leisure Link Partnership is a major step forward enabling them and their family the flexibility to use their cards at one of the partnership sites, and most importantly at no extra cost.
"We are also pleased to have initiated what we understand to be the first ever multi-area reciprocal card scheme in Scotland.
"And although the initial participants in the partnership are across the north of Scotland, we are in ongoing discussions with other areas in Scotland as well as in Northern Ireland and Wales which have also adopted the Highlife model across their own culture and leisure services. So we are hopeful that the Leisure Link Partnership may soon be available not only in the Highlands and Islands but also further afield.”
Mr Murray added: “Along with the other participating areas, I am delighted to see the Leisure Link Partnership launched and look forward to seeing the scheme develop and grow as other areas see the benefits for their members and look to come on board.”
