Business owners: Ethan Brunt and Karen Turton

Business name: Tribe Fitness Studios

Opening hours: Open seven days a week - Monday to Friday from 7am-11am and 4pm-9pm and 9am-2pm on weekends

When did you open and why?

Tribe Fitness Studios was founded and created in May 2019 by Ethan Brunt and Karen Turton. Both share a passion for bringing a new wellbeing and fitness concept to North Wales that was accessible for everyone.

Tribe prides itself on putting the community first and fitness second, and has a growing fan base of regular members who literally months ago would not have stepped foot in a gym, let alone joined a class.

Opening with a well developed app, online class booking and over 52 classes per week, Tribe Fitness Studios is going from strength to strength, and new programmes are being considered all of the time.

The ethos is simple - an affordable, high quality community space for all regardless of experience, age or fitness level!

Why did you open in this location?

We opened on Flint High Street as we both care about the fact that our high streets are slowly becoming ghost towns and we wanted to drive footfall and community back - Flint is where Ethan lives and we knew the town needed an affordable and accessible class-based gym that would appeal to all ages and confidence levels. This is our way of making sure that fitness, community and high street all work together to make a difference.

Tell us about your business/what do you do/sell?

We don't sell fitness we sell overall wellbeing, we sell a feeling of being the best that you can be. It's not about lifting the heaviest weights or doing the deepest squats it is about moving and being the best version of yourself, whatever that looks like. We sell friendship and community and we do that through providing a fitness avenue for all those people who never dreamt that a gym could be their second home.

What's your most memorable/proudest moment in business?

We have so many proud moments and we are quite literally creating memories and changing lives just by believing in community and fitness.

Our proudest moment was seeing 42 Tribe members on the dance floor at the Springfield Hotel for our first ever Christmas party, nine months ago these people did not know each other but now they share a common interest and we have a created a family of individuals that would not have found each other had we not opened.

Our second proudest moment was seeing 25 of our members compete as one team in a gruelling but fun warrior mud obstacle race in Derbyshire. Not one member of the team had ever completed anything like this and many were daunted and scared. Everyone finished, loved it and have a new memory created that would not have happened had Tribe not opened.

Have you had any strange requests/quirky suggestions or stories from customers?

No strange requests but we do love hearing all of our member stories.

Tribe Fitness Studios

11 Church Street, Flint, CH6 5AD

07534 121529 (Karen) or karen@tribe-fitness.co.uk