Former DC Leisure group fitness manager, Lisa Taylor, has become strategic partnership manager of obesity specialist organisation MEND Central.

MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition...Do it) delivers clinically-proven health improvement programmes, supporting families with children aged two to 13 to change their behaviour, improve their diet and increase physical activity. The programmes are adminstered by local MEND-trained teams and currently operate in more than 350 UK locations.

Taylor’s role will focus on strengthening MEND’s relationships with leisure providers in the public and private sector with a view of increasing the number of programmes delivered.

She will also lead the development of a new modular healthy-lifestyle programme suitable for delivery in leisure facilities and workplaces.

Taylor’s position at DC Leisure has been filled by Sarah Leonie, who has worked for DC for seven years. Leonie was promoted to the post from her fitness manager role at Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre in Worcestershire.