Community gym refurbishment

Aim

To transform Chipping’s 25 year old community gym with modern equipment, creating an affordable, welcoming place for our rural community.

Who are we?

Chipping & District Memorial Hall is a community run charity at the heart of Chipping, providing facilities for local people, groups and organisations.

As part of the hall, we operate Chipping Community Gym a small, affordable gym that has served our rural community for around 25 years.

The hall is run for the benefit of the community, and we’re continually working to improve the facilities we can offer. Our aim is simple: to provide welcoming, affordable spaces that help bring people together and support the health and wellbeing of our village and surrounding communities

Why are we crowdfunding?

Our community gym is in desperate need of an upgrade.

Much of the equipment has been serving the community for around 25 years and has now reached the point where it needs replacing. We want to completely refresh the gym with modern, reliable equipment and create a welcoming space that can be enjoyed by people of different ages, abilities and fitness levels.

As a small community run facility, replacing an entire gym’s worth of equipment is a significant investment. That’s why we’re asking our community to help us make it happen.

Every donation, no matter how small, will take us a step closer to replacing the ageing equipment and giving the gym a much needed new lease of life.

Living in a rural area means having affordable fitness facilities close to home really matters. By supporting this project, you’ll be helping us ensure Chipping continues to have an accessible and affordable place for local people to exercise, improve their health and wellbeing, and stay active for many years to come.

Together, we can build a community gym Chipping can be proud of. 💪

How we’ll spend the money raised

The money raised through our Crowdfunder will be used to give Chipping Community Gym a complete overhaul, replacing equipment that in some cases has been serving our community for around 25 years.

We’ve carefully selected a range of equipment that will give us a much better balance of cardio, strength and resistance training, making the gym suitable for a wider range of ages, abilities and fitness levels.

Our planned new equipment and improvements include:

• Tower multi-gym / Smith machine
• Leg curl / extension machine
• Leg press
• Treadmill
• Cross trainer
• Exercise bike
• Dumbbells & rack
• Kettlebells & rack
• Barbell tree & weights
• Adjustable benches
• Exercise mats
• New gym flooring

Alongside the new equipment, the gym itself will receive a much needed refresh. The Sun Inn, Chipping has kindly pledged £300 towards decorating materials, helping us create a brighter, fresher and more welcoming environment.

Every pound raised will help us transform a tired, ageing gym into a modern, affordable community facility that Chipping and the surrounding area can enjoy for many years to come.

Whether you donate £5, £50 or more, every contribution will help us put another piece of our new community gym in place. 💪

Community impact

Chipping Community Gym is about much more than exercise equipment. It provides an affordable, local place for people to stay active in a rural community, where access to larger leisure centres and gyms often means travelling further afield.

By improving the gym, we hope to encourage more people of all ages and abilities to become active including those who may not feel comfortable in a large commercial gym, people returning to exercise, older residents and those simply looking for an affordable way to improve their fitness and wellbeing.

The gym forms part of Chipping & District Memorial Hall, a community facility used by a wide variety of local groups, clubs, activities and events. Improving the gym is part of our wider commitment to ensuring the hall continues to meet the changing needs of our community.

A modernised gym will help us attract new members, encourage existing members to use the facility more regularly and, importantly, help make physical activity more accessible right here in the village.

We want this investment to have a lasting impact  creating a welcoming, sustainable community gym that supports physical health, mental wellbeing and social connection for Chipping and the surrounding rural communities for many years to come

How you can play your part

There are four simple ways to help us reach our target, and make this project a reality.

1. Make a pledge. Don’t delay if you’re going to support us because momentum is key to our success!

2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.

3. Offer rewards. Get involved if you are a local business by donating things we can offer to our supporters. We will give you a shout out!

4. Fundraise for us. If you want to run your own fundraiser – maybe a sponsored activity or similar – use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th December 2026 at 10:00am