{"id":19701,"date":"2021-04-12T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/news\/ceo-message-to-members-reopening-and-the-road-ahead\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T09:57:37","slug":"ceo-message-to-members-reopening-and-the-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukactive.com\/cy\/news\/ceo-message-to-members-reopening-and-the-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO message to members: Reopening and the road ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huw Edwards, CEO, ukactive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today (12 April) is an important milestone for our members in England as many of our gyms, pools, and leisure centres are able to reopen their doors to their local communities.\u00a0Achieving this second milestone in the Prime Minister\u2019s roadmap allows our members to welcome back the millions of customers they support, and who have missed this vital part of their daily lives over the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>Our members have shown tremendous courage and resilience in the harshest of environments, having to make tough operational decisions while facing no income during this period of lockdown.\u00a0Their ability to meet this milestone and reopen their doors is something we should all be thankful for \u2013 across our communities, across government, and across our health services.<\/p>\n<p>These essential services \u2013 the engine room of activity in our country \u2013 can now begin again to support improving the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>From a ukactive perspective, we will not let up on providing our members with the support they need.\u00a0We will help navigate our members through the next few weeks and months of the roadmap, especially ensuring group exercise can return from 17 May. 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