Fitness can help success in business as well as in sport, as more than 1,000 staff could find out at one of Kent’s biggest business parks.

Workers at Discovery Park, the former Pfizer site at Sandwich, can take out the strains and stresses of life at a new gym.

The park has teamed up with fitness provider BayPoint to create the facility that is available to all businesses.

BayPoint has invested £10,000 in a programme of refurbishment and equipment and plans to inject a further £100,000 in more equipment over the next six months. BayPoint already operates another complex close to Discovery Park. BayPoint has taken on two full-time fitness instructors to run the new facility, and can call on further help from the existing nearby fitness centre.

Discovery Park is home to 36 businesses and more than 1,300 staff, and there are hopes this number will increase to around 4,000 over the next few years.

Peter Morris, operations director at BayPoint, said: “Given the proximity of our main site just along from Discovery Park, we feel the presence of BayPoint as a fitness provider within the complex fits ideally with the life-work balance of Discovery Park employees. BayPoint is already establishing itself as a destination for health, fitness, sports and wellbeing in Sandwich. Our vision is for local families to entrust their health, wellbeing and leisure needs to BayPoint both at work and at leisure."

Anna Stone, project manager at Discovery Park, said: “We are delighted to be working with BayPoint to offer these new facilities to tenants and we are confident that the gym will be a huge success.

“Being able to access health facilities on site so close to their working environment will help support staff who are looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle and is part of our vision to create a community that balances business and entrepreneurship with health and wellbeing.”

BayPoint will be running a class timetable and activity schedule, alongside gym-based services such as inductions, programmes and personal training. It is also keen to launch its new Wellness brand, which specifically targets weight loss.