‘Warwick Sport is making poorer students fat’ – Massive price hike means we might all get bigger

Worried gym goers fear putting on weight after gym prices increased buy nearly two thirds.

Club membership and Warwick Sport facilities increased by a whopping 60% from £55 to £88. Standard membership has also increased.

This only includes use of the pool and the opportunity to join sports clubs which cost an additional fee already. The new price is a whopping £58.

“Warwick Sport is making poorer students fat,” says voice of the people and Discreet Maths fresher, Scott Miles.

Understandably, many students are kicking off, including the Extortionate Warwick Sport movement, who have set up a campaign to demand lower prices.

The Facebook page has been picking up steam

In an open letter to SU Sports Officer Ruby Compton-Davis and Warwick Sport, the spokesperson for the movement said: “Students and staff have less disposable income than ever.

“You know this year students are paying £9000 in fees and that last year alone the staff led strikes for a fair wage highlighted the poor pay at this university.

“So, we wish to know how increasing cost and imposing an extra barrier to participation will lead to better value for money and an improving service.”

The letter gets increasingly feisty: “You promise a better, brighter, cheaper future with no practical structured methods to achieve them. You promise that throwing money at the situation will garnish results. Now to believe this, we demand answers.”

And they aren’t happy with the answers provided so far. When interviewed by the movement, a spokesperson for Warwick Sport was asked what the price increase was for.

Warwick Sport answered, confusingly: “Make more equitable and provide more provision. Better answer required/tangible reasons such as what provisions.”

Warwick Sports answers to the open letter haven’t been taken well, only infuriating students more.

The movement then asked: “Where is the £30 increase going?”

Warwick Sport answered: “To make it more equaitable and provision. Better answer required/tangible reasons such as what provisions.”

This fairly repetitive Q&A went on until it became boring, nonsensical, and lacking in productive results.

A spokesperson for the movement reacted: “The way in which Warwick Sport are repeating the same information over and over without real numbers is insulting.

“How about Warwick Sport start answering our questions directly with facts and figures and being open in the way money is being spent and allocated at Warwick Sport without just copying and pasting”.

Making Warwick Sport more equitable….unfortunately it looks like we’re just paying for more gym shubbery and plants

In response, Warwick Sport released a deluded statement that makes it sound like their prices are lower than ever.

Their spokesperson said: “Warwick Sport is trying to change attitudes of individuals towards sport and physical activity and support everybody to do more than they currently do and this means providing opportunities that appeal to all backgrounds and abilities. The evidence base is overwhelming as to the benefits of being more active, and therefore we need to be encouraging those that are currently inactive to become active.”

But they did admit: “The communication [to students] could have been better.”