Salary Sacrifice Gym Membership

Is your workforce sweating over the cost of keeping fit?

Help support your workforce's mental and physical wellbeing with gym benefits for employees. Featuring over 3,000 participating gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, bootcamps and yoga studios across the UK, our gym benefit can help your employees to stay happier and healthier

By enabling your employees to spread the costs of annual memberships through Payroll Pay®, you can show your people that their health and wellbeing is a priority

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How Does the Gym Membership Salary Sacrifice Benefit Work?

Our Gym Membership salary sacrifice benefit allows employees to spread the cost of an annual gym membership through fixed reductions to their gross salary

Employees can choose from over 3,000 gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, bootcamps and yoga studios available through our platform, and can even select packages that include family memberships to help them maximise savings

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How Does the Gym Membership for Employees Benefit Employers?

Helps to increase productivity
Assist in reducing absenteeism caused by physical and mental fatigue
Strengthens your health and wellbeing agenda
Works to attract and retain top talent

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How Gym Salary Sacrifice Benefits Your Employees

Makes gym, leisure centre, bootcamp, and yoga studio memberships more manageable
Helps to improve fitness and physical wellbeing
Supports better mental health through increased exercise
No credit checks needed to qualify for membership

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Employee Gym Membership FAQs

How do employees save money with a corporate gym membership and salary sacrifice?

Gym salary sacrifices allow employees to join their gym while spreading annual membership costs through fixed salary reductions. By purchasing a gym membership through salary sacrifices, employees are also able to save money on tax, since the money for their gym membership will be taken from their paycheck before any National Insurance contributions are taken

Is gym membership a benefit in kind?

Yes, a salary sacrifice gym membership is typically considered a Benefit in Kind in the UK. If you have any further tax queries or concerns about what a Gym membership Benefit in Kind implies for your organisation, we suggest talking to a qualified, independent tax professional

Are gym memberships for employees tax deductible?

Vivup is not able to provide tax advice and would recommend organisations to seek their own advice. For specific questions in relation to tax, NICs and how to report this, independent tax and/or legal advice should be sought by the client

If an employee is already a member of a gym, can they still join the salary sacrifice program?

In most cases yes, but this depends on which gym they are already a member of and whether it is included in the gyms that we have on offer. Our Gym benefit portal has information on how to transfer an existing membership to the salary sacrifice programme depending on an employee’s situation

Can employees add their families to the gym membership benefit?

Employees cannot add their families mid-way through their contract. But many clubs offer discounted joint or family memberships at their joining stage. Membership options are shown in the Gym benefit portal, and will say if the club can offer multiple memberships

Does the gym membership employee benefit contain other types of health clubs?

The Gym salary sacrifice benefit includes discounted access to participating gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, golf clubs, bootcamps, and yoga and pilates studios

How many gyms and health clubs are associated with the program?

Our gym membership employee benefit currently offers discounted access to 3,800+ gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, boot camps, and yoga and pilates studios

Are the gyms and health clubs we partner with well-distributed nationwide?

There are thousands of options available across the UK. Our Gym Benefit partner, GymFlex, is the UK’s largest network of gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, bootcamps and studios, and prides themselves on offering solutions that fit any location, lifestyle, and budget

What if an employee leaves their employment before the end of their gym membership subscription?

If an employee leaves their organisation before their membership expires, the remaining balance will be deducted from their final pay, so the employee will still have access to the club until the contract end date

Savings are offered at variable rates please refer to Gymflex for further details https://www.gymflex.co.uk/index.php

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