Coming October 2026 · Founder memberships open
Performance for life.
A health, racquets and lifestyle club arriving in Hughenden, High Wycombe. Coaching starts this October. Padel, Reformer Pilates and the sauna and hot tub follow in spring 2027, and founder members pay the same price throughout.
Founder memberships now open. Strictly limited to 50 individual and 20 family spots. Price-locked for life.
Fitness and health are not the same thing
You can be extremely fit and fundamentally unhealthy. We are experts in great health.
Magnolia Park is built for people who are done with the red-lining, the burnout and the eight-week transformation. Skill over stress, mastery over intensity, and coaching that is interested in you at eighty, not just in August.
What opens when
We are opening the coaching first, and building the rest around you.
A club this size takes more than one move to build. Rather than keep you waiting for all of it, we are opening the training in October and finishing the facilities through to spring 2027. That is exactly why the founder rate is what it is.
October 2026
Coaching starts
The training is ready first, on purpose. The full weekly timetable runs from the day we open, and the building work carries on around it.
- The full class timetableEvery class on the published grid, coached, from week one. Mornings from six, lunchtimes, and two evening slots.
- Open trainingThe training space is yours outside class times too, so your week is not limited to the sessions you booked.
- Free group sessionsRuck Club, trail running, mountain biking, open water swimming, CapoFlow and MMA Fitness. Free to members and they never use a class credit.
- The junior programmeJunior Fitness every weekday at 4:30, then Forest School, Homework Club, music practice, bushcraft and arts, and tabletop games at 5:30.
- Changing rooms and showersToilets and showers ready to go, with more built as the rest of the site develops.
- The cafeOpen and pouring coffee from day one. The full upgrade comes later, because the training floor came first.
Spring 2027
The full club
The parts that take real building. Founder members pay their founder rate throughout, and keep it once all of this has landed.
- PadelThree floodlit courts, going in on hard standing that is already there, which is what makes spring realistic.
- Reformer Pilates and Small Group PTA dedicated studio, deliberately small groups. These two are what create the Premium tier, and nothing else sits behind it.
- Sauna and hot tubThe barrel sauna, the wood fired hot tub and the terrace, looking down the valley.
- The cafe and bar, properlyA dramatic upgrade on the day one cafe: a full cafe and bar, and the work lounge the Business Club runs from.
Mastery over intensity
Most places sell you fatigue: sweat, soreness, a number to beat. We sell capability. Learning a skill is the best thing you can do for your head, your joints and your interest in still being here in twenty years. You do not quit because it is hard. You quit because it is boring.
Sustainable stimulus
Your training should respect your stress and your hormones, not add to them. We are after the most positive stimulus for the least damage, so you leave every session better than you arrived. Being smashed is not an achievement. It is usually just a sign you are burnt out.
Generational health
Health is a shared family thing, not a solo one. Our programming lets you train something serious while your children do something that actually matters to them, at the same hour, and everybody meets at the cafe afterwards.
A day here
Train early, work late, collect the kids from their favourite club.
One membership, a whole day worth having. Every slot below runs from the week we open.
6:00 am
Out on the trails before anyone is up
Ruck Club, Monday mornings, straight out of the gate onto the National Trust paths. Free to members, and it never touches a class credit. This is the bit that turns a gym into a group of people.
7:00 am
Coached, before the day starts
Strength or Functional Fitness with a coach who knows your name and what your back is doing this week. Capped at sixteen. In and out before the school run.
12:00 pm
A proper session at lunch
Midday classes every weekday, because the best hour of your working day is the one you spend away from it. Or use the open training time and do your own thing.
4:30 pm
The whole family, the same hour
Junior Fitness at 4:30, then Forest School or Homework Club or tabletop games at 5:30, which is exactly the window you need for your own class at the same time. Nobody sits in the car.
Afterwards
Coffee, and the whole valley in front of you
The cafe is open and pouring from the first week. The sauna, the hot tub and the terrace come with the spring build, and founder members will not pay a penny more when they do.
The one you cannot get anywhere else
The outdoors is the arena, and it starts at our gate.
A proper strength and conditioning setup out on the grass under a canopy, so the weather never cancels the session. Step through the gate and you are on National Trust trails, which is where the trail running, the rucking and a good deal of the point of this place lives.
- Cardio equipment, racks and functional kit built for real training
- Covered and sheltered, open at the sides to the fresh air
- Trail running and rucking straight onto the National Trust paths
- Open outside class times, not just when a session is booked
Everything inside
Not a budget gym. Not a studio that does one thing.
The training floor
An open gym with room to actually lift, and studio space for the group timetable. Yours outside class times too, not just for the sessions you booked.
The outdoors arena
Covered outdoor training that the weather cannot cancel, opening straight onto National Trust trails. Strength, conditioning, rucking and trail running.
The free groups
Ruck Club, trail running, mountain biking, open water swimming, CapoFlow and MMA Fitness. Free to members, and they never use a class credit.
The whole family
Junior Fitness every weekday at 4:30, then Forest School, Homework Club, music practice, bushcraft and arts, and tabletop games while the adults train.
Racquets and recoverySpring 2027
Three floodlit padel courts with Ace Padel. Then the barrel sauna, the wood fired hot tub and the terrace.
The third spaceSpring 2027
The cafe is open from day one and gets a dramatic upgrade later: a full cafe and bar, and the work lounge the Business Club runs from.
Launch founder tiers
Seventy people get in at the founder rate.
Fifty individual spots and twenty family spots, priced for the people who back the club before it is finished. You pay the founder rate while we build, and you keep it once everything has landed.
Founded by James Griffiths, Steve Backshall's coach for 20 years, and the team behind Wild Training: voted Best Gym in Buckinghamshire and Best Independent Gym in the UK.
Individual Founder
£100per month
Price-locked for lifePrice-locked for the life of your membership. Only 50 will ever exist.
Only 50 spaces. Once they are gone, they are gone.
- 12 classes a month, every class we run
- Open training outside class times
- Every group session free, and they never use a class credit
- Your rate never rises, however much the club grows
Want more? Upgrade to 16 classes a month for £128.
Family Founder
£250per month
Price-locked for lifeTwo adults, two children, one price. Locked for the life of your membership.
Only 20 spaces. Once they are gone, they are gone.
- Covers 2 adults and 2 children
- 12 classes a month for every member
- The full junior programme, from Junior Fitness to Forest School
- Teenagers can train in the adult classes alongside you
- Every group session free for the whole family
Additional children £50 a month each.
What price-locked for life actually means
Your rate never rises
Not when padel opens. Not when the Reformer studio opens. Not when the cafe and bar are finished. You pay what you joined at.
For the life of your membership
It holds for as long as your membership stays active. If you cancel and rejoin later, you rejoin at the going rate, because the founder rate belongs to the membership rather than to the person.
And it follows you into Premium
When Reformer Pilates and Small Group PT open in spring 2027, founders are offered an equally discounted Premium rate. It is above £100, and it is still a founder price.
Coming after the founders sell out
Adult
£129per month
The membership, once the founder spots have gone.
- 12 classes a month, every class we run
- Open training outside class times
- Every group session free, and they never use a class credit
Junior
£59per month
For the juniors.
- 12 junior sessions a month
- Junior Fitness every weekday, plus Forest School, Homework Club, music practice, bushcraft and arts, and tabletop games
- Runs alongside the adult evening classes, so the whole family trains together
Premium, from spring 2027
When the Reformer studio opens there will be a Premium tier, and it covers exactly two things: Reformer Pilates and Small Group PT. Both run in deliberately small groups, which is why they sit apart. Everything else the club does stays Standard, and always will. Founder members will be offered an equally discounted Premium rate when it opens.
Prefer to pay as you go?
Standard class pack
Ten classes, no membership needed.
£14010 classes
Premium class pack
Ten classes including the Premium disciplines, from spring 2027.
£19410 classes
Every Magnolia Park membership has no minimum term and a simple one month notice period. We would rather build a community on value than on contracts.
The setting
Next to a National Trust park, not bolted onto a ring road.
Magnolia Park sits in real grounds in Hughenden, just north of High Wycombe, with National Trust land on the doorstep and an easy run from Penn, Tylers Green, Hazlemere, Holmer Green and Naphill. Green, private and quietly beautiful, and a great deal closer than the drive you are doing now.
Founder memberships open
Seventy people get in first.
Fifty individual spots at £100 a month, twenty family spots at £250, price-locked for the life of your membership. Registering your interest is free and commits you to nothing.
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