We may be rural but we are certainly not small!!!!
Jayne with her business awards
HISTORY
Jayne McKenzie, Manager of the Kilcoy Indoor Sport Centre and Toogoolawah Community Gym, came to Kilcoy in 1987 for a visit and never left!!!!!!
The Somerset Health Fitness and Weight Loss Centre (formerly Somerset Health Fitness and Yoga) was quite accidentally launched in 2008. At that time the owner/founder Jayne McKenzie was employed as a Disability Officer/Medical Incapacity Officer for government, a Fitness Program provider for Fernwood Ladies Fitness at Caboolture and also operating several fitness classes in Kilcoy in rented premises.
Jayne eventually built a Studio/Gym on her premises to be used for her own personal gym and fitness use, but through a chain of events, she decided to transform it into a ‘small’ fitness centre and never looked back.
Jayne left her Government position in 2009 and decided to dedicate her time to building Somerset Health and Fitness into a great fitness centre for the benefit of all the community – but this has always been challenged by the small size of the premises and tucked away location. With Jayne and her awesome team great emphasis has always been placed on ‘giving back’ to the community of Somerset. We may have been small but we certainly delivered great results.
Somerset Health Fitness and Weight Loss Centre found many challenges with limited space at the home studio and also, with rented premises in Toogoolawah, having to ‘drag’ equipment out of storage every class.
Jayne has always prided herself on totally engaging with the Somerset community from a local and ‘grass roots’ level. This meaning she is totally accountable and committed to her home base from a ‘home base’ placement. So when the tender was advertised for the Kilcoy Indoor Sport Centre and Toogoolawah Community Gym she thought ‘this is for us’.
Once she secured to commitment and dedication from Wendy and Trish, she poured everything she had from her heart and from her life journey into securing the facilities and well……… the rest is history.
Jayne was the winner of QRRRWN Small Business Award and also runner up of QRRRWN Business Women of the Year 2018.
Jayne’s business is also the first business in the whole of Queensland to complete a very strict audit and accreditation by Fitness Australia.