WHAT’S YOUR REASON?
SUCCESS STARTS WITH FINDING YOUR REASON
Knowing why you want to start leading a healthier lifestyle is the first step to achieving your goals.
Our reason for doing what we do, is to provide our communities with quality facilities, services and opportunities to lead a healthier, active lifestyle.
We all start somewhere – so find your reason and join the Abbeycroft community!
Read some of the stories from our members about their reasons to get active and stay active.
We Are Abbeycroft – we make a difference
When choosing Abbeycroft, not only are you investing in your own health, but you’re helping to support your local community too.
This really makes a difference!
As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we reinvest our profits back into the business to help provide quality facilities and opportunities for the whole community to lead healthier, active lives.
We’re here to serve everyone, whatever your age, gender or physical capability. Whether you are looking to be more active, make friends, enjoy fun, family time or community programmes, our aim is to support you to improve or maintain your overall health and wellbeing.
As well as managing 13 excellent leisure facilities on behalf of West Suffolk and Babergh District Council, we work tirelessly with our health partners to deliver a range of programmes and initiatives to inspire healthier, active lifestyles for the community, such as:-
- Fit and Fed
- Exercise on Referral
- Family Park Cooking
- Active Mums
- Just Play (SEND) sessions
- Move More Outdoors

Suffolk school plants a very special tree in their Healing Wood
Pupils from Howard Community Academy in Bury St Edmunds recently planted a very special Silver Birch tree in their Healing Wood which they received, as one of only four trees gifted to Suffolk, from...
58,500 meals provided to help tackle inequalities
Abbeycroft Leisure, together with partners, has delivered a staggering 58,500 meals since July 2020, to support families and individuals in financial hardship, tackle food poverty, isolation and...
New leisure centre set to be delivered in first phase of Western Way
West Suffolk councillors will discuss the delivery of a £40 million replacement for Bury St Edmunds leisure centre as part of the first phase of the £75 million Western Way initiative. Responding to...
Leisure centres in Sudbury and Hadleigh join the Warm Spaces initiative
Abbeycroft Leisure has joined the Suffolk-wide initiative to offer free warm spaces to local residents. The not-for-profit social enterprise is offering free drop-in sessions every day of the week...
Social Enterprise Day 2022
(Image above - Big Sport Group at Bury St Edmunds Leisure Centre) Today (17 November) is #SocialEnterpriseDay - a day to celebrate and raise the profile of social enterprise around the world. Social...
National award for innovative Hub helping improve residents’ lives
A community building which is helping improve education, health and participation, benefitting the lives of West Suffolk residents, has won a national award. The Mildenhall Hub, which had its...