News - Sports Centre Throws Open Doors
University College Falmouth press release
Tremough Campus Sports Centre is encouraging people to get up and get active, as part of its New Year campaign to encourage local residents to make physical activity an essential part of their lives. Local residents are being invited to try the all new Les Mills fitness programme for free at the Tremough Campus when the Sports Centre opens its doors on Sunday 8th Feb. Classes start from 11am and includes pilates, body pump, body combat, body attack, martial arts and legs bum and tums. The first 100 participants will also receive a free gift.
Free therapeutic massage taster sessions will also be given away on the day and everyone who comes along to the sessions will be given a free lifestyle assessment. A team of fully qualified fitness staff will be on hand to offer advice, give tours of the gym and answer any questions. Parking on the day is free and refreshments will be available.
To find out more about the open day at Tremough Sports Centre call 01326 370770.
The Tremough Campus is jointly owned and managed by University College Falmouth and the University of Exeter in an arrangement that is unique in the UK. Tremough Campus Services is the company that manages the operational aspects of the Campus and comprises estates services as well as accommodation, welfare and hospitality, including conferences and events.
The multi-million-pound Tremough Campus is a Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative -of which the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth are two of the founding partners. It is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council. Set in 95 acres, and close to the waterside towns of Penryn and Falmouth, the Campus offers a lively student community. The University of Exeter now offers degrees in Biology, Cornish Studies, English, Geology, Geography, History, Law, Mining Engineering, Politics and Renewable Energy on the Campus, whilst University College Falmouth offers undergraduate degrees in Broadcasting, Contemporary Crafts, Digital Animation, English with Creative Writing, English with Media Studies, Film, Garden Design, Interior Design, Marine & Natural History Photography, Photography, Press Photography, Spatial Design, Textile and 3D Design as well as MAs in Broadcast Journalism, Design, International Journalism, Professional Writing and Television Production at the Penryn site.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.