Gladstone Health & Leisure

July 2009 

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FIA Golf Day
4th August
 
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This years FIA golf day takes place at Staverton Park in Northamptonshire. We look forward to meeting our clients and potential clients at the event.
 
BUCS conference
1st-4th September
 
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Now moving to September, the BUCS conference this year is being held at Keele University. As last year Gladstone will once again be exhibiting at this event, so please feel free to come to our stand.
Sporta Scotland
North Lanarkshire, 8th September
 
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At the next Sporta Scotland regional event Gladstone will be presenting so if you are a Sporta Scotland member please do come along and meet us.
State Aquatic Conference
Adelaide, Australia, 15th September
 
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This years State Aquatic Conference will take place at the Education Development Centre, Milner street, Hindmarsh on the 15th of September. Gladstone will be attending the event for the first time, so please do come along and see us. 
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Welcome to this new edition of the Gladstone Health & Leisure client newsletter.

In this edition we would like to share with you some of our new developments including recent enhancements to Connect2 to handle Free Swim registration. We also update you on Leicester City Council who are successfully deploying the latest smart technology with a new key fob, which has proved very successful with the Free Swim under 16 age group.

In July we significantly enhanced the reporting capabilities of our... Read more
 
Best Wishes,
 
Richard Grazier 
Head of Sales
Gladstone Health & Leisure
Irish Round-up  
 
Ireland mapGladstone Health & Leisure has been supplying membership management solutions to customers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland for 27 years and is part of the Gladstone plc group which has a total of 120 employees worldwide.
 
Over those years Gladstone Health and Leisure has established itself as the market leader in membership management solutions to both the public and private sectors. This wealth of experience comes in part from a dedicated 25 strong Research and Development team who are committed to offering continuous innovative technology advances. Read more
Take the pain out of Free swimming registration!
Allow users to register themselves using our latest online web portal
 
boy swimmingWith the summer holidays upon us, it's likely that you will see a substantial increase in the numbers registering for the Government's Free Swimming initiative.
 
With this in mind Gladstone has developed a unique Free Swimming web portal solution to help your business manage the growth in new traffic at your centres and the subsequent monthly reporting needs. Read more 
Looking for a smarter way to record member usage? 
Upgrade to our new Smart keyfobs

 
Smart keyfobLeicester City Council has recently introduced smart keyfobs to administer their Free Swim programme. The main advantage of this new format is that anyone who has signed up to the scheme can now carry their membership token on their keyring, where it is readily accessible for swiping into any of the 11 facilities across their estate.
 
This format also vastly increases brand visibility, as a keyfob is far more predominant than a card (which is usually kept hidden away in a wallet or purse). This gets other people talking which will ultimately increase interest and usage at the facility. Read more
University client base in Australia continues to grow
 
University of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne, Victoria, has recently chosen Gladstone Health & Leisure to serve their demanding tertiary needs, and in doing so has further increased Gladstone's growing University client base in Australia.

All of these Universities chose Gladstone as a replacement for their incumbent solution in order to gain enhanced functionality and reliability and to lower their ongoing operational support costs. One of the key requirements for Melbourne in particular was to have a management solution that could control all eight of their access points into their leisure facility so that members with different membership types and non-members could be let through or restricted as required. Read more
Support Tip of the Month 
 
customer service ladyPlus2 has an extensive online library of helpful tips, so if you do have a problem the answer could be at your finger-tips.
 
To access the Plus2 online help section all you need to do is press F1.