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Councils Accused of Pricing Out Free Outdoor Exercise Classes
The report, titled Banned from the Beach: the Crackdown on Outdoor Community Sport, documents how licensing schemes first aimed at commercial personal trainers in the early 2000s now also apply to small community gatherings, including a qigong class of seven people and a mother-and-baby choir.
In Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, yoga instructor Angela Brier-Stephenson stopped running her 45-minute beach class for about 10 people after Thanet council demanded £1,200 a year under its seasonal licensing scheme.
- Councils
- Accused Pricing
- Pricing Free
- Free Outdoor
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