A FLINT gym is hoping to breathe life and vitality back into the North Wales high street.

Tribe Fitness Studios, which has opened on Flint’s Church Street, has said they are looking to bring life back to the local high streets by offering something different that cannot be bought online.

Ethan Brunt, founder and owner of Tribe Fitness Studios, has over 10 years’ experience in the fitness industry and is passionate about bringing more people to their local high street.

He said: “Tribe Fitness Studios will pride itself on being on the High Street as its location of choice, Tribe believes in community and derives value from social capital, building friendships, networks and strengthening the sense of local.

“The High Street will become the new centre of vitality for a community where health and fitness, wellbeing, beauty and other such experiences that cannot be bought online will trade successfully alongside each other defying the current declining state of the high street.”

Ethan hopes that, in the future, bringing this mentality of a community to as many high streets as possible draws in other like-minded entrepreneurs to help redefine the face of the local high street.

Karen Turton, a co-founder of the business, will work to with the business and utilise her skillset of empowering women and helping them find the confidence to fulfil their potential.

She said: “The vision of Tribe is to create a community within a community where everyone feels welcomed, and even helping those that worry about coming into a gym feel really positive.”

At the Church Street site, there is a functional gym downstairs, an upper floor studio for exercise classes and a coffee bar centred around nutrition and making new friends.

Karen also told the Leader about the Tribe confidence classes, which are included in the membership price, and will help any member live their best live.

She added: “We might be serious about helping people live their best life through fitness, confidence and wellbeing but we also love having fun and every month we run a Tribe Social and very soon we have our very own ‘Phoebe Buffet’ running club!”

For more information, call the gym on 01352 733315 or visit their website - www.tribe-fitness.co.uk.