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00:00Yeah, why don't you tell me about the importance of the gym to the community and to yourself?
00:15Right, are you really important?
00:17Yeah, yeah.
00:18Okay, so, firstly, I came here many years ago with a spinal injury.
00:22What I didn't realise I was going to get by joining this gym,
00:26is that when everybody just about from here is disabled,
00:30mental health issues, everything like that,
00:32but nobody wants them.
00:33Everybody is just there to support one another.
00:36The feeling and friendship, nobody judging you.
00:39You come in, you can do your work, you can do anything,
00:42and everybody feels the same.
00:44Absolutely broken parts of the body,
00:46the manner in which the gym is floating,
00:48there is nowhere else for a university to go.
00:51There goes time for illnesses or disablements,
00:53whatever you want to call it.
00:55It's so important to every member of this gym.
00:58We've had all sorts of issues going on in the gym,
01:01we've got floods coming through,
01:02we've got water pockets everywhere, workmen,
01:04and yet we still keep coming.
01:06I have to take two buses to get here,
01:08I still keep coming.
01:09It doesn't matter what you throw at us,
01:11every member of this gym will see you.
01:13It doesn't matter what it is.
01:15Unfortunately, this has been taken out of our hands,
01:18and it's just such a community for everybody that attends this gym.
01:24Everybody knows one another.
01:26Nobody is isolated.
01:27It's just not that vibe,
01:28and you won't get back anywhere else.
01:30It's just too in real to let this go,
01:33and it needs to be re-booked out.
01:35As to the damage, it's going to do long-term
01:39to people with mental health and disablements.
01:42And I know certainly of one person
01:44that said he comes here every one hour a week,
01:46and he's housebound,
01:48and now he says he'll never get out of that house now
01:50because he cannot come here.
01:52And that's the level of hurt
01:54that is going to affect people.
01:56Yeah, yeah, that's brilliant.