It’s been a busy first month of 2011 here at The Foundry so apologies for the lack of update.

The first big announcement is about the restructuring of our, and your, beloved business.  We are excited to announce that we have joined forces with Graeme Marsh, internationally renowned trainer and successful businessman, to found Foundry Studios Ltd.

This collaboration means our business portfolio now includes, The Foundry Personal Training Studios, The Training Shop, London Trainer Network,  DHG Corporate Outreach and our soon to be unveiled, unique bootcamp offering.  It also means Helen now has her own company credit card which could be dangerous.

Our new board of directors are:

Helen Thomas: Director of Retail
Graeme Marsh: Director of Business Development
Dave Thomas: Director of Performance

This restructuring and recent capital investment means we’ll be able to offer the same excellent services with even more professionalism. If you have any questions please contact info@foundryfit.com

COMPETITIONS
Congrats to everyone who entered our recent ‘Name the Skeleton Competition on Facebook, The winners, chosen by Nell Mead our physio are: (in reverse order)

3…Roger Evans with Cool Hand Luke
2…Radley O’Sullivan with Dr Bones
1…Jim Crick with Starvin Marvin

Thanks to all 25 entries; it was a lot  of fun. The three winners get 30min  with Nell and Jim also wins a 25% discount voucher to spend in The Training Shop. Everyone who entered will receive a voucher for £40 off a Ki-Fit Lifestyle Monitor with 12 month subscription and 10% discount off any Training Shop supplement.
And if you missed out, don’t worry, we’ll be holding competitions regularly on Facebook.

CORPORATE TALKS & HEALTH PROGRAMMES

We’ve recently given health and fitness presentations at Businesses across London.

Our clients this year have included Whistles, Weil Gotshal Manges,  RBS, UBS and Innocent Drinks later this month.

Here are some examples of popular talks which might interest you and your colleagues: “Building the Executive Athlete”,“Why Stress is making you Fat, Miserable and Sick and what you can do about it” and “Facts and Fallacies of Diet and Exercise”

Speakers are available from within the company and across the world of professional sport, medicine and fitness.

We also offer a variety of bespoke Corporate Health programmes such as for the excellent progressive company First Conferences who we’ll be discussing in a case study next month.

Contact Graeme@foundryfit.com for details

HALF PRICE MASSAGE

Due to overwhelming popular demand we have introduced another weekly HALF PRICE MASSAGE CLINIC on Wednesdays 10am-4pm.

No catches, no hidden extras, just half the normal price for deep tissue, Swedish or Sports Massage.

To book an appointment for Wednesday or our existing clinic 5-9pm on Mondays, please contact helen@foundryfit.com.

Advance booking is essential as there are very limited spaces available.

THE TRAINING SHOP

Those who have been into The Foundry recently will have noticed the reception area has changed a bit.  We have been selling a few carefully chosen product lines, such as Vibram Five Fingers, with overwhelming success for a year or so, but we are excited to announce the expansion of our retail arm.

Over the next month or so we’ll be introducing our own line of evidence based, high quality nutritional supplements, fitness accessories, strength training equipment, health and fitness books and fitness footwear.

The City of London’s first and only specialist health and fitness shop, THE TRAINING SHOP will be announced officially to the world with a champagne and special guest press launch in March.