I implore you all to write to BBC’s Watchdog and it could feature in an upcoming programme, particularly at the moment in the ‘fitness season’. Go to bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ Click on Subject “Sport, Leisure and Entertainment”, then sub category “Health clubs and leisure centres”. This is what I wrote: Virgin Active gyms partake in a very unfair practice in the membership contracts. One of their membership packages the “Diamond Membership” requires that you sign a 12 month rolling contract. Therefore if you do not cancel the membership by "the seventeenth day of the twelfth month”, then you are automatically entered into another 12 month contact. Virgin Active do not send a reminder at the end of each 12 month period. The cancellation fee is the remainder of your 12 month contact. Therefore I am in a situation where I have been a member of Virgin Active Health Club for nearly 7 years and will need to pay in excess of £700 to cancel my contract. Do watchdog feel this is fair or acceptable? I am not alone on this issue, a quick Google search brings up many forums, e.g. [i gave them a load or links]

I implore you all to write to BBC’s Watchdog and it could feature in an upcoming programme, particularly at the moment in the ‘fitness season’. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ Click on Subject “Sport, Leisure and Entertainment”, then sub category “Health clubs and leisure centres”. This is what I wrote: Virgin Active gyms partake in a very unfair practice in the membership contracts. One of their membership packages the “Diamond Membership” requires that you sign a 12 month rolling contract. Therefore if you do not cancel the membership by "the seventeenth day of the twelfth month”, then you are automatically entered into another 12 month contact. Virgin Active do not send a reminder at the end of each 12 month period. The cancellation fee is the remainder of your 12 month contact. Therefore I am in a situation where I have been a member of Virgin Active Health Club for nearly 7 years and will need to pay in excess of £700 to cancel my contract. Do watchdog feel this is fair or acceptable? I am not alone on this issue, a quick Google search brings up many forums, e.g. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/virgin-active-c158480.html http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=603247 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1863703 http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/221603-virgin-active-membership.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/63342-virgin-active-la-fitness.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/198470-virgin-active-health-club.html

I implore you all to write to BBC’s Watchdog and it could feature in an upcoming programme, particularly at the moment in the ‘fitness season’. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ Click on Subject “Sport, Leisure and Entertainment”, then sub category “Health clubs and leisure centres”. This is what I wrote: Virgin Active gyms partake in a very unfair practice in the membership contracts. One of their membership packages the “Diamond Membership” requires that you sign a 12 month rolling contract. Therefore if you do not cancel the membership by "the seventeenth day of the twelfth month”, then you are automatically entered into another 12 month contact. Virgin Active do not send a reminder at the end of each 12 month period. The cancellation fee is the remainder of your 12 month contact. Therefore I am in a situation where I have been a member of Virgin Active Health Club for nearly 7 years and will need to pay in excess of £700 to cancel my contract. Do watchdog feel this is fair or acceptable? I am not alone on this issue, a quick Google search brings up many forums, e.g. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/virgin-active-c158480.html http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=603247 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1863703 http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/221603-virgin-active-membership.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/63342-virgin-active-la-fitness.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/198470-virgin-active-health-club.html KERRY HOBROUGH at 100 Aldersgate Street, ; London, ; EC1A 4LX. but guess what - as yet she not called me back - shes on 0207 374 0091 If you want to write to Branson himself you can do so at Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group Ltd, 120 Campden Hill Road, London, W8 7AR

I implore you all to write to BBC’s Send your story to Watchdog and it could feature in an upcoming programme, particularly at the moment in the ‘fitness season’. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ Click on Subject “Sport, Leisure and Entertainment”, then sub category “Health clubs and leisure centres”. This is what I wrote: Virgin Active gyms partake in a very unfair practice in the membership contracts. One of their membership packages the “Diamond Membership” requires that you sign a 12 month rolling contract. Therefore if you do not cancel the membership by "the seventeenth day of the twelfth month”, then you are automatically entered into another 12 month contact. Virgin Active do not send a reminder at the end of each 12 month period. The cancellation fee is the remainder of your 12 month contact. Therefore I am in a situation where I have been a member of Virgin Active Health Club for nearly 7 years and will need to pay in excess of £700 to cancel my contract. Do watchdog feel this is fair or acceptable? I am not alone on this issue, a quick Google search brings up many forums, e.g. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/virgin-active-c158480.html http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=603247 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1863703 http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/221603-virgin-active-membership.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/63342-virgin-active-la-fitness.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/198470-virgin-active-health-club.html

I implore you all to write to BBC’s Send your story to Watchdog and it could feature in an upcoming programme, particularly at the moment in the ‘fitness season’. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ Click on Subject “Sport, Leisure and Entertainment”, then sub category “Health clubs and leisure centres”. This is what I wrote: Virgin Active gyms partake in a very unfair practice in the membership contracts. One of their membership packages the “Diamond Membership” requires that you sign a 12 month rolling contract. Therefore if you do not cancel the membership by "the seventeenth day of the twelfth month”, then you are automatically entered into another 12 month contact. Virgin Active do not send a reminder at the end of each 12 month period. The cancellation fee is the remainder of your 12 month contact. Therefore I am in a situation where I have been a member of Virgin Active Health Club for nearly 7 years and will need to pay in excess of £700 to cancel my contract. Do watchdog feel this is fair or acceptable? I am not alone on this issue, a quick Google search brings up many forums, e.g. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/virgin-active-c158480.html http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=603247 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1863703 http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/221603-virgin-active-membership.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/63342-virgin-active-la-fitness.html http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/gyms-health-clubs/198470-virgin-active-health-club.html