Dear Sir/Madam
As the Chairperson of my school's Sports Club, I am writing to explore the possibility of your fitness centre donating your old equipment to us.
Recently, it has came to our attention that your fitness centre is being renovated and some of the equipment in the centre is likely to be replaced as part of the renovation project.
Incidentally our school has planned to set up a gymnasium for teachers and students, with a view to promoting a healthy lifestyle. It would therefore be highly beneficial to us if you could donate the old equipment to us. Such donation will reduce the amount of funds required for the plan to be implemented.
The plan is important to students in that with the equipment, we can raise our students' awareness of the importance of sports to their health by organising various training programmes.
As we all know, the problem of obesity in Hong Kong is deteriorating and our school is not immune as overweight students are found in almost class.
We have high hopes that the training programmes will promote a healthy lifestyle among our students which should address the problem of obesity to a large extent. Moreover, they can strengthen their physical conditions and avoid getting sick frequently.
Most Hong Kong students, including ours, rarely exerciplanned come up with all sorts of excuses. The easy access to the equipment at the school will make it easier for them to exercise. We hope this will help them develop it as a habit.
Exercise also helps the students and indeed teachers to relieve stress at studies or work. It is well known that stress is a cause of different diseases. According a study, running triggers the release of brain chemicals called endocannabinoids (?) that create potent feelings of pleasure and alleviate stress.. Therefore, the teachers and students can use, for example, treadmills during breaks, lunch time and after school.
Apart from the benefits to the school, we believe that such donation also benefits your centre. If your centre can donate the equipment to us, we can freely help your centre advertise through talking to students that the equipment is from your centre. Having more opportunities and time to keep fit, the student are likely to be easily interested in exercise and want to know more about it.. Then,more students will want to be a gymnasium coach.. And then,they will thus go to your centre to enjoy the newest equipment for a better service. It might greatly increase the revenue of your centre.
The students may choose to become gymnasium coaches, which contributes to increasing and stabilising the supply of fitness instructors in the fitness market.
In conclusion, the fitness equipment is very significant to the establishment of our school's gymnasium. It is also beneficial to your centre in terms of possibly increasing the revenue of your centre and boosting the development of fitness and fitness-related sports..
We sincerely look forward to receiving a favourable reply from you.
Yours faithfully
Chris Wong
Chairman of the Sports Club