4th September 2024

Case Study: How Avanti helped Active Lifestyle Centres transform its Leisure Centre Cleaning approach to boost sustainability and unlock huge savings

Active Lifestyle Centres provides fitness and leisure services across the UK and knows the importance of rigorous leisure centre – especially post pandemic! They are acutely aware of their carbon footprint and responsibility as a business too. So their Yate Centre partnered with Avanti to seek improvements.

The collaboration with Avanti led to the implementation of innovative and more sustainable cleaning solutions across five South Gloucestershire Centres. These not only met these goals but lowered chemical usage, and also resulted in annual savings of more than £25,000. They aren’t done yet – the next focus is on toilet paper and handtowels, which offer potential for more savings and sustainability benefits.

High concentrate chemicals created cleaning efficiencies

Adam Cooper, Centre Manager at the Yate site, highlighted how Avanti’s high-concentrate chemicals enabled them to save through bulk purchasing but cut down on storage space. “We now use high-concentrate chemicals, reducing plastic waste and ensuring precise usage,” said Adam. This change also brought safety benefits: a less slippery residue minimised slip risks in the wet areas such as poolside.

Fewer cleaning chemicals reduced environmental impact

Reducing their chemical list from 50 to about 12 across their five regional sites cut down on the Group’s chemical impact to the environment. “We’ve reduced our chemical list thanks to Avanti’s concentrated products, which not only cuts costs but also reduces our environmental footprint” Adam commented.

Extraordinary savings from sustainable cleaning swaps

Avanti helped Adam unlock some pretty stunning savings overall for the five Active Lifestyle Centres – and they come from what seem such simple sustainable leisure centre cleaning swaps. “By switching to single-feed paper in our gyms, we saved around £20,000 annually, while using high-concentrate sanitisers reduced our costs from £1,160 to just £68 a year,” Adam shared. Overall, the group has saved over £25,000 annually – that’s really significant for this business, which is backed by a non-profit organisation.”

Partnership and the Prospects for Paper

Adam praised the seamless collaboration he enjoys – saying that the team is both responsive and reliable. Now, the focus is on paper – toilet paper, to be exact. It offers ways to reduce paper use, as well as introduce more recycled paper in the first place. “Our journey with Avanti continues. We’re now focusing on optimising our toilet paper usage, aiming for further savings and efficiency,” he concluded.

In the full case study we explain how this leisure centre cleaning success story unfolded and all the ways in which their five sites in total released £25k savings.