Service updates: Friday 17 July 2020

Stay Home With US

We’re still around, but we’ve moved things online. So although you may not be able to be with us in person, our fantastic Sussexsport team is working hard to keep you motivated from afar.

We have a weekly timetable of exercise classes run by some familiar faces. You'll just need a Zoom account, registered to your Sussex email address (or BSMS and IDS), to get involved. If you're signing up for a Zoom account as a University of Sussex student, please register here.

• Check out our online class timetable now.

You can also find fitness advice from our staff team, classes to watch on demand and hundreds of downloadable workouts to try out at home on our Stay Home With US webpage.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will happen to my membership?

• If you're a staff member and you pay for your membership each month by salary deduction, we will freeze your membership with immediate effect and request that payroll do not take payment. This will be reflected in your payslip from Thursday 30 April and we will unfreeze your membership when we reopen. 
• If you think you may need to freeze your membership beyond September, please get in touch so that we can see what we can do.
• If you're a staff, alumni or public member (including SEF, SussexFood and University of Sussex Co-op staff) and you pay by standing order or direct debit, please notify your bank to see if you can freeze your payments until we reopen.
• If you're a staff, alumni or public member and have paid for our annual or 3-month membership in full already, we will freeze your membership with immediate effect and extend the expiry date of your membership when we reopen.
• If you've paid for a membership in full and are a staff member or visiting researcher on a fixed term contract that is due to finish before we are able to reopen, we will refund you pro rata for the remaining time left on your membership. Please get in touch with us by email so that we can look into this for you.

When will you reopen?

We will reopen both sites on Tuesday 1 September. You can find more information on our dedicated webpage.

Please remember to check your emails, as this is the best way for us to contact you directly. If you think we may not have an email address for you, or if you would like to update us with a different email address, let us know.

We will endevour to update our webpages and social media channels regularly. If you don't already do so, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and make sure you bookmark our website.

Will you be moving some Sussexsport activities online?

Yes, we have a weekly timetable of online classes run by some of our popular Sussexsport instructors, so you can still workout with a familiar face! These are open to everyone in our campus community and we encourage you to get involved - you just need a Sussex, BSMS or IDS email to login. 

If you miss a class, don't worry. We'll be recording some of our sessions and you can watch these at a time to suit you, either on Zoom via the On Demand section of our webpages or on Facebook and YouTube, so you can workout at a convenient time for you.

Our Fitness Team are producing regular video tutorials and articles to help keep you fit and well at home, too. You can read these on our Medium page.

We've also partnered with Life Fitness, who have provided us with hundreds of online workouts that you can do at a time to suit you. Watch and download at any time. 

During this time it is so important to keep active for your physical and mental health, and we want to make sure we can help you.

For now, running, cycling and walking outside are all good ways to maintain physical activity so long as you practice social distancing. This is, of course, subject to change so please make sure you always follow the latest guidelines from the government and World Health Organisation.

The charity MIND also have some excellent advice on coronavirus and your wellbeing.