Do David Lloyd Do Corporate Discount?
David Lloyd offers a corporate discount in 2026 through its Corporate Wellness programme, with savings of around 10 to 30 percent for partner employers.
Quick Answer
Yes. David Lloyd Clubs runs a Corporate Wellness programme in 2026 that offers discounted memberships and joining fees to staff of partner companies. The discount typically lands in the 10 to 30 percent range and depends on the employer's size, sector, and whether they are signing a single agreement or a national one.
The most common deals are sole employer agreements (one company signs up with one club) and umbrella programmes that cover staff across multiple sites.
How the corporate scheme works
David Lloyd's Corporate Wellness team negotiates a master agreement with the employer. The employer's staff then get a discount code or referral link that local clubs honour at the point of joining. The discount is applied automatically to the monthly direct debit, and partner add ons are usually offered at family rate.
NHS Staff Benefits is one of the largest corporate partners but the same model is used for retail banks, professional services firms, large consultancies, civil service departments, and some universities.
Typical corporate discount levels
| Employer size | Typical monthly discount | Joining fee |
|---|---|---|
| Under 100 staff | 5 to 10 percent | Waived |
| 100 to 500 staff | 10 to 20 percent | Waived |
| 500 plus staff | 15 to 25 percent | Waived plus first month free |
| National framework | 20 to 30 percent | Waived plus extras |
What it includes
- Reduced monthly direct debit on Platinum, Gold, or Off Peak.
- Waived joining fee in most cases.
- Partner upgrade at family rate.
- Reduced Spa Retreat treatment rate at some clubs.
- Tax efficient salary sacrifice or payroll deduction options where the employer supports it.
How to set it up
- HR contacts David Lloyd. Use the Corporate Wellness enquiry form on davidlloyd.co.uk.
- Agreement signed. Master rate, joining fee waiver, and any extras (free PT inductions, taster events) are confirmed.
- Code distributed. Staff get the unique code or referral link from HR or the benefits portal.
- Employees join individually. The discount applies at the point of new membership only.
What employees should know
- The corporate rate is for new joiners. Existing members usually cannot retroactively apply it.
- If you leave the employer, the rate continues until the contract review, then moves to standard.
- The corporate discount cannot usually be stacked with NHS or Blue Light discounts: pick the largest single one.
FAQ
Can a small business get a corporate rate?
Yes, even SMEs of 20 to 50 staff can usually get the joining fee waived and a small monthly discount.
Is there a salary sacrifice option?
Some employers run the David Lloyd payment through payroll, which gives a small income tax saving.
How long does the agreement run?
Most corporate agreements are 12 months and renew annually unless either side gives notice.
More context on corporate deals
Corporate Wellness is the most cost effective discount route for any employer with even a small number of David Lloyd interested staff. The reason is that the chain prefers a single negotiated agreement to a string of individual requests. One HR call from a 50 person SME often unlocks better terms than five months of individual Blue Light Card negotiations.
The other quietly important benefit is the family route. Corporate scheme members can usually add a partner at the family rate, which removes the cost barrier for a working household to join together. That is why employee retention teams sometimes push corporate David Lloyd membership as a household benefit rather than an individual perk.
If you are an employee whose company has not signed up, the easiest move is to forward the Corporate Wellness enquiry form to your HR team with a short note about the benefit. The chain reaches out fast and the discount level scales with company size, so larger HR teams almost always come back with terms that beat what an individual employee could ever negotiate alone.
Practical playbook for HR teams
If you are setting up a corporate scheme for the first time, start by counting how many of your staff already use David Lloyd or have asked about it. Even a single digit number of existing members signals enough demand to justify a quick HR call, because converting those existing members to the corporate rate gives the chain an immediate win and gives your finance team an instant value story.
The next step is the master agreement. Ask the David Lloyd Corporate Wellness team for the standard terms sheet, then negotiate three levers in priority order: waived joining fee, monthly discount band, and family upgrade rate. Most agreements settle within two rounds.
Once live, the highest impact promotion of the scheme is internal. Place the discount code in the welcome pack for new starters, list it on the benefits portal, and run a short awareness email at the start of January and September when membership intent is highest. Companies that promote the scheme internally get five to ten times the take up of companies that simply sign the agreement and forget about it.
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Final word
If your employer has not yet asked, the answer is almost always yes. David Lloyd's Corporate Wellness team prefers a one HR call agreement to twenty individual negotiations, and the resulting discount is usually larger than anything you would ever negotiate on your own.