Lammas Leisure Centre, Sutton, is celebrating a significant milestone after the new soft play surpassed 10,000 users after little more than three months open.

The soft play opened alongside the state-of-the-art TAGactive Arena on Monday, January 3 and has proved a popular addition to the centre, run by award-winning operator Everyone Active in partnership with Ashfield District Council.

Albie and Hugo took the soft play total above 10,000 and were awarded an Easter egg and a week’s free pass for the centre by Everyone Active.

The soft play is aimed at those aged 12 and under and features separate areas for toddlers and older children. Standing nearly eight metres high and split into four different levels, it can accommodate more than 130 children at a time.

The soft play and TAGactive Arena are part of a £22.5million investment in leisure in Ashfield, with the latter having enjoyed more than 4,000 visitors so far.

Jacob (top) was the 4,000th person to enjoy the activity and was awarded an Easter egg and a week’s free pass.

TAGactive takes place in an obstacle course arena split into zones, with players aiming to ‘tag’ illuminated beacons with wristbands to rack up points which appear on an electronic scoreboard.

The game is suitable for those aged eight and over who are more than 1.2m in height, with children and adults alike able to tackle the arena.

Lorenzo Clark, Everyone Active’s contract manager, said: “We are delighted these facilities have proved so popular with the local community and reaching our 10,000th soft play user and 4,000th TAG user after three months open is something to be hugely proud of.

“It is also a nice reward for the colleagues who have put a lot of hard work in to making it a success and we hope to build further on that in the coming months.

“We want to encourage the whole community to enjoy exercise and we have activities for all ages, interests and abilities at Lammas.”

Coun Rachel Madden, cabinet member for Health, Leisure and Wellbeing, said: “It is fantastic that residents are saying how much they are enjoying the improvements Ashfield District Council is making to our leisure centres, with such enormous user figures across them all. We are committed to bringing new and fun ways for our residents to get active and both have been a huge hit.

“Lammas has received significant investment and with its new state-of-the-art gym, improvements to the ice rink and the new TAGactive and soft play areas, there really is something for everyone at Lammas and I encourage all residents to check out what the centre has to offer.”