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Young blind people in east London are calling for greater access to leisure centres. 

The Royal Society for the Blind (RSB) has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of blind people’s need to exercise and keep fit.  

Our Sports and Fitness reporter Nishat Khan has the story. 

We hear more in this report by Nishat Khan.  

In Tower Hamlets, there are roughly 370 young people with a disability and 25% are blind.  

RSB’s Joy _____ , who is herself blind, is campaigning across the capital to have gyms put facilities in place to enable blind users. 

She told Tweenz FM News that the challenges blind people face at fitness centres include equipment strewn on floors; no access ramps and unsafe dressing rooms and showers. 

I visited eight east end gyms and found that only two had facilities in place to support the blind. One of them was the Fitness First Leyton.  

Gym Manager said …. 

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Gym enthusiast, 20 year-old Riyaz has been blind since birth. 

I spoke with him about the challenges he faces at his local gym, among other matters.

INSERT CLIP: Interview with Riyaz 

To find out more about the RBS’s campaign visit our website TweenzFM. Net our join the conversation now in our live snapchat feed  to share in the discussion. 

Improvements Made:

As we were making our radio newscast, I found that some of the script did not fit or flow properly within the newscast therefore improvements and amendments were made.